Local Arts

Royal City Musical Theatre's Cabaret picks up a slew of nominations for the annual musical theatre awards

Here’s a unique evening out for music lovers. The Gallery at Queen’s Park is continuing its gallery sessions concerts on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 6:30 p.m., with a performance by La Modestine.

To Sunday, Jan. 13 Picturing Arctic Modernity – North Baffin Drawings from 1964, at Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Info: www.burnabyartgallery.ca or 604-297-4422. To Sunday, Jan.

Youth for a Change and the Arts Council of New Westminster are inviting artists to submit work for consideration for the upcoming fourth annual Art of Queer show.

Are you a writer, a wannabe writer or just a lover of words? Whatever the case, the Royal City Literary Arts Society has some offerings of interest for the new year. The society is hosting a Tellers of Short Tales session tonight (Thursday, Jan.

If you’re in Queensborough, be sure to stop by the Queensborough Community Centre for a new show by New West Artists. The group is holding Art Squared in the atrium until Feb. 16. You can stop in Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

A choir that tours in support of vulnerable African women and children is coming to New Westminster. The Watoto Children’s Choir is on tour in support of its new album, We Will Go, with a six-month cross-country Canadian journey.

A piece of “spontaneous theatre” that brings an audience member to the heart of the action is onstage at the Anvil Centre at the end of the month. Blind Date , part of the Arts Club on Tour series, is on Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m.

New Westminster choirs and singers are being invited to add their voices to the Big Sing. The Big Sing Metro Vancouver is presented by the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival and the Canadian Music Centre during this year’s festival.

Way Off-Broadway Wednesdays is back. The fringe performance series returns to the backroom at the Heritage Grill for a new year of shows, starting Jan. 16. Launching the 2019 season is Princest, billed as a “millennial fairytale farce.