Local Arts

A new date has been announced for a poetry workshop with New West's poet laureate. Alan Hill will lead the workshop, Exploring the Poetry of Place, on Saturday, April 13 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Anvil Centre.

This month's Last Mondays at the Movies screening takes a journey into black history in the U.S. Save the date for I Am Not Your Negro , which screens on Monday, Feb. 25 at the Massey Theatre.

Burnaby's Gentlemen of Fortune Chorus is once again offering its Valentine's Day quartet fundraiser, and they'll travel anywhere in the Lower Mainland

This new food-venture specializes in plant-based soups and hot chocolate, served in edible bowls

Evelyn Sangster Benson is the next featured author in the Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Tellers of Short Tales series.

Ever wondered how an artist works? 100 Braid Street Studios is giving people a chance to meet local artists in their studios during its First Saturday Open Art Studios events. The next one is coming up this Saturday, Feb. 2, from noon to 5 p.m.

If you haven’t yet experienced the Reclaim exhibition at New Media Gallery, you have one last chance to do so. The current exhibition has been held over until Feb. 3, so hurry down this weekend to check it out.

Janice Bannister knows what it’s like to struggle to be heard in the world of stand-up comedy. She worked her way through the club system as a comic, being turned away at doors because there was “already another woman on stage.

ON NOW To Saturday, Feb. 9 Unity of Spirits: Surprising Screens, in the Community Art Space, third floor, Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St.

The orchestra is dedicating its March 3 concert to the memory of Tony Antonias, longtime arts promoter and supporter of the symphony, who died Jan. 25.