Local Arts

My Name Was January has earned itself another award. The short documentary film was made in tribute to January Lapuz, who was killed in her New Westminster home in 2012.

Yes, this Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day, or as some have dubbed it, the “Celebration of Questionable Irish Heritage.” Like many other alcohol-related “holidays,” St.

Menopause the Musical is coming to the Massey Theatre stage on Thursday, April 25

ON NOW To Sunday, March 24 Cloud Art: Paper Marbling by Candace Thayer-Coe, a Burnaby Art Gallery off-site exhibition at the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) branch of Burnaby Public Library, 6100 Willingdon Ave. Info: www.burnabyartgallery.ca .

A New Westminster performer is featured in the upcoming Vancouver International Burlesque Festival. The festival runs from Wednesday, April 3 to Saturday, April 6.

New Westminster groups are among those benefiting from money from the B.C. Arts Council.

The Vagabond Players are sinking their teeth into a dark comedy in April. The theatre company is presenting Detroit, by Lisa D’Amour, onstage at the Bernie Legge Theatre in Queen’s Park from April 6 to 27.

Is there a young performer in your house who’s just meant to be onstage? The Vagabond Players are launching a new youth theatre program this spring, and 11- to 13-year-olds are invited to sign up now.

The background is coming to the foreground in a unique performance at Massey Theatre next week. Fight With a Stick Performance is presenting A Vista, onstage at the Massey from March 20 to 22.

A group billed as the “fresh face of Canadian a cappella” is coming to Burnaby – and a New Westminster quintet will be opening for them. Countermeasure will be onstage Saturday, March 16 at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 1600 Delta Ave.