Local Arts

Literary and visual artists are joining forces for a new exhibition at the Anvil Centre Community Art Space.

“You’re not an ingénue. You’re never going to be an ingénue.” Those words, spoken by a casting director during callbacks for the Kinky Boots musical in Toronto, imprinted themselves on Madeleine Suddaby’s mind.

Janice Bannister doesn’t want people to hear the name “LitFest New West” and assume that the festival is for someone else. Someone, well, literary.

ON NOW To Sunday, March 19 Remembering Ingeborg Raymer: Work from the Malaspina Printshop Archive, a Burnaby Art Gallery off-site exhibition at the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) branch of Burnaby Public Library, 6100 Willingdon Ave. Info: www.

Massey Theatre is working to help give local youth a chance to take part in the arts. The theatre is partnering with local artists and companies to offer a variety of low-cost arts workshops for youth.

Beauty meets function in work by ceramic artist Hitomi McKenzie. The New Westminster artist has a new show, Communication of Beauty and Function, opening March 24 at the Atrium Gallery at Place des Arts.

Before he was the Leonardo da Vinci who changed the world, he was just a child – and a child whose fate was in question.

Two artists with ties to 100 Braid Street Studios are taking part in the Luminescence II exhibition opening this weekend at Deer Lake Gallery.

Stories, tales and poems will help a king find wisdom in an upcoming presentation at River Market.