Arts & Life

The pull of spring feels like a kite on a string. The colours and warmth dance and run together, pell mell, and fill us with a pure and simple joy.

Here we go again. My my, how can audiences resist? The Kelly Road Secondary School Drama department is one of the city's most storied high school theatre programs in the district.

Rise up, gather round, rock this place to the ground. Get your gunters in a row with your gliebens and glautens and globens. There's a stage show coming, and it's one for the ages.

Museums house the antiquities and artifacts from days of old, but the facilities are always challenged to modernize.

The Prince George Cantata Singers delivered their 50th anniversary celebratory concert last Sunday to a sold-out audience at the Prince George Playhouse. And what a masterful performance it was.

One of the hottest documentaries on Netflix right now is the true-crime film Abducted In Plain Sight, the story of a man who manipulated a whole family into a submissive position in order to steal one of their children for his pedophilic fantasies.

He is known from coast to coast for his acerbic wit and wry humour on the topics of the day. Rex Murphy has one of Canada's most distinctive voices of commentary, both for its folksy Newfoundland tone and its typically Canadian flexibility.

Choir's log, star date 05042019. A local chorus seems to have become entangled in themes of science fiction and action adventure. The only way to move through this nebula is sing their way out.

The paint-off was fierce and it was close. In the end Makyla Hendrickson prevailed and now awaits the promised showdown between herself and superhero artist Andy Poon on stage at Northern FanCon this coming weekend.

The city's newest arts association is about to have its first exhibition. The participants have, in large part, held their own solo shows or been involved in group displays in the past.