Local Arts

NOTE: This post was updated July 19 with new information. Art and great beer? Yes, please. New Westminster’s favourite local brewery has announced the details of a new community arts program that will support the work of local artists.

Boris Bilic was 16 years old when he first started appearing in the Record's arts pages. Now he's landed the lead role in two feature films.

A recent Simon Fraser University graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts program is one of 15 finalists in the 2018 RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

There is plenty to see and eat and do at The Columbia strEAT Food Truck Festival, including artisanal crafts and goods.

Romeo and Juliet is one of the bard’s most famous plays and this summer, it’ll have its debut on the bandshell stage at Queen’s Park.

The TD Uptown Live! Street Party is centred around great music, but that isn’t the only fun to be had. The festival, which takes place on Saturday, July 21 from noon to 9 p.m., is at Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue.

Get to know the New Westminster artist behind Realpolitik, the exhibit showing at the Gallery at Queen’s Park until July 29. This Sunday, the gallery presents an artist talk with Tony Durke as part of the Inter/action: Artist Learning Series.

As if she didn’t have enough going on running the Massey and Anvil theatres, Jessica Schneider has a new role to fill – president of the board of the British Columbia Alliance for Arts and Culture.

Things are getting wild at the Museum of Vancouver, and it’s thanks in part to a New Westminster resident.

A New Westminster resident is exploring the dark side of humanity in her role in The Dance Teacher, a Vancouver production put on by Tomo Suru Players. Meagan Eastwood is playing hard hitting Detective Mori, according to producer Theryl Grundy.