Local Arts

Are you a secret singer-in-the-shower just longing to share your talents with the world? A budding storyteller wishing you could bring your message to the microphone? Here’s your chance.

Vitaly Beckman brings An Evening of Wonders to the stage at the River Rock Show Theatre on Wednesday, June 5

Love film? Check out the work of New Westminster Secondary School students in an upcoming event at Massey Theatre. The N Dub Film Club is holding a screening event on Monday, May 27 on the big screen at Massey Theatre.

Poets of New Westminster, take note. New Westminster’s poet laureate, Alan Hill, is spearheading a new poetry anthology in partnership with the city’s arts services department – and they’re looking for work.

Allan Morgan's I Walked the Line is onstage at the Anvil Centre Theatre in New West from May 24 to 27

Century House theatre group is presenting Sunshine Place, onstage May 24 and 25

If there’s a young person in your house who loves theatre, be sure to save the date for this one. The Stage Musical Theatre Academy is offering up its second annual StageFest, a celebration of young people in performing arts.

Is there a teen in your house who needs to be onstage? Royal City Musical Theatre is once again offering its Musical Theatre Summer Academy for performers aged 12 to 18. The academy will run July 8 to 13 at Massey Theatre.

What do writers like to read? The Royal City Literary Arts Society is exploring that question in its ongoing reading series In Their Words – in which writers present the work of one of their favourite authors.

OK, New West, a weighty decision rests in your hands: Which movies should the City of New Westminster show this summer? The city is once again making plans for open air cinema on Friday evenings in July – including a first-ever adult-only night, with