Film buffs, don’t miss out on the next Last Mondays at the Movies showing at Massey Theatre.
The Arts Council of New Westminster’s film series continues on Monday, Oct. 30 with a screening of A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies’ biographical drama about American poet Emily Dickinson.
It stars Cynthia Nixon as Emily, with Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine as her sister and father.
Last Mondays at the Movies screenings start at 7:30 p.m. at the Massey, 735 Eighth Ave. Tickets are $9, or $8 for seniors and students. They’re available in advance at www.ticketsnw.ca or at the door (cash only).
Check out www.artscouncilnewwest.org for details.
LOCAL SINGER ONSTAGE
A New Westminster singer is part of the world premiere of a new chamber opera.
TomoeArts is staging Kayoi Komachi/Komachi Visited, Oct. 26 to 28 at The Cultch. It’s described as a “noh chamber opera,” combining noh, a Japanese 14th-century theatre art, with Western classical music.
Mezzo-soprano Melanie Adams, a New Westminster singer and voice teacher, is part of the ensemble for the production. She appears as The Counsellor, an advisor to the two lovers, Komachi and Fukakusa, whose story is at the heart of the production.
Adams is well-known as both a soloist and ensemble performer (she’s a member of musica intima and Vancouver Cantata Singers) and has worked with a wide range of musical and theatrical organizations – Erato Ensemble, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony and Vancouver Pro Musica, to name just a few.
For this new production, she’ll be joined onstage by tenor Joseph Bulman, bass-baritone Peter Monaghan and noh actors Muraoka Kiyomi and Kashiwazaki Mayuko.
Starring as the two lovers are Vancouver soprano Heather Pawsey as Komachi and Japanese performer Yamai Tsunao as Fukakusa.
See www.tomoearts.org for more on the production. Tickets start at $20, available through www.thecultch.com.
NEW WEST ARTISTS
Art lovers, be sure to check out the next show by New West Artists.
The group is hosting its new show, Black & White, at the Network Hub at River Market from Oct. 20 to Nov. 20. An opening reception is set for this Friday, Oct. 20 from 7 to 10 p.m., with light refreshments.
The show features the work of Petra Bachronová Zatloukalová, David Bachron, Hanna-Barbara Berwid, Julie Epp, Alyx Essers, Mary Rosamond Hall, Stella Huang, Kevin Jordan, Janet Kvammen, Lavana La Brey, MAC, Peri-Laine Nilan, Dale Nicol, David Peto, Carol Rose, Julia Schoennagel, Christine Tokevich, Betteanne Wilson and Elena Zhukova.
Network Hub is upstairs at River Market, 810 Quayside Dr. For details about the show, email [email protected].
FILMMAKERS WIN
Two New Westminster residents have a chance to produce pilot episodes for new web series, thanks to STORYHIVE.
STORYHIVE, funded by Telus, provides funding for web series, digital shorts, animation and music videos, who have the chance to win grants through a pitch and voting process. Local residents Michael Mueller and Krista Gibbard are part of teams that have received $10,000 grants to produce web series pilots.
Mueller is the project lead and director for Harebrained, a show that follows a group of pampered trust fund kids as they fight to win their money back from a string of bad business ideas.
Gibbard is the producer and production designer for Diaries of Badass Chicks, which follows the victories and mishaps of a female dirt bike rider in the world of motocross.
The two shows are among 30 finalists from B.C. and Alberta, and the pilots will be available in March. Teams now move on to compete for a $50,000 grant that will let them bring their full web series to life.
Check out www.storyhive.com for info about the shows. Voting will begin online in February 2018.
POP-UP HOME
A new public art project exploring the idea of home is popping up in Sapperton.
Pop-Up Home, created by artist Annie Briard, is being unveiled on Oct. 28 at 3 p.m. at the Brewery District, 290 East Columbia St. The official opening event runs from 3 to 5 p.m., and everyone is welcome.
The installation uses portable video projectors to project images of temporary homes around the city, sourced through social media calls and then photographed.
A press release notes that the work seeks to engage with discussions about our relationship to our environment, land ownership, and varied conceptions of shelter.
“As an avid backpacker and traveler with a home base in a difficult housing market, the theme ‘pop-up’ home resonates with me in many ways,” Briard said in the release. “I think of renters for whom ‘home’ is invariably temporary; of those leaving home in search of a safer land; of new homes being erected onto existing homelands. I think of portable homes popped up in the hopes of experiencing new ways of inhabiting this world, if momentarily, while others are erected out of necessity.”
The project was funded in part by the Government of Canada, in partnership with Wesgroup, and commissioned by the New Westminster Museum and Archives and New Westminster arts services.
CHRISTMAS TALES
A New Westminster author’s work is included in a new book of Christmas stories.
Local author Margo Prentice has a piece included in Christmas With Hot Apple Cider: Stories From the Season of Giving and Receiving. Prentice was one of 55 writers from across the country to make the cut after a rigorous competition.
The anthology includes true stories, short fiction and poetry, all surrounding the season of Christmas.
Check out www.hotappleciderbooks.comfor more details.
REMEMBERING WOODSTOCK
If you remember Woodstock with fondness - or you just wish you did - you’ll want to save the date for this one.
Remembering Woodstock, with Completely Creedence – a Tribute to the Music of CCR, and Supernatural – A Santana Experience, is onstage at the Massey Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 10.
Tickets are $42.50 and on sale at www.ticketsnw.ca or 604-521-5050.
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