Local Arts

Tatiana Bobko’s artistic philosophy is simple: everything is beautiful, everyone is creative, everything has potential and everything can be used to create art.

A water diviner who fears water. A preacher who won’t preach. A community of worshippers without a leader. Their respective struggles culminate in tragedy in The Diviners. The play, by Jim Leonard, is onstage Nov. 10 to 18 at the Laura C.

A New Westminster author is presenting his debut novel with a special event at Renaissance Books on Nov. 15. Patrik Sampler will be on hand from 7 to 9 p.m. for a reading, discussion and open mic as he launches his first novel, The Ocean Container.

Orchestra returns with movie music concert on Nov. 5

Seven top Canadian works are in the running for the fourth annual Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry.

An acclaimed harpist is returning home to New Westminster for the next Music at Queens concert. The concert series continues Saturday, Nov. 18 with a performance by Deborah Nyack, a.k.a. Harp Angel.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is back by popular demand at the Michael J. Fox Theatre

ON NOW To Saturday, Oct. 21 Inhabited Lives, an exhibition of work by Shannon Harvey, at the Amelia Douglas Gallery, fourth floor north, Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave. Info: www.tinyurl.com/AmeliaDouglasNW To Saturday, Oct.

A Canadian comedy star is on his way to New Westminster. John Beuhler is set to perform at Lafflines Comedy Club on Friday, Nov. 3 in a live taping.

A contemporary work by an award-winning Canadian playwright is onstage at Douglas College in November. Jordan Tannahill’s Concord Floral is on at the Douglas College Studio Theatre from Nov. 3 to 10.