Local Arts

SPOTLIGHT ON Listen To Your Mother WHAT IS IT? Listen To Your Mother is a live staged reading event giving local writers a chance to share their stories of motherhood, MC’d by the popular children’s entertainers Bobs and Lolo (a.k.a.

Outstanding music by some of the best in the business is featured in a special Mother’s Day concert by the New Westminster Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra will be on stage at the Massey Theatre at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 8.

Where others saw debris, she saw art. Work by Kathleen Forsythe will be on display at the Gallery at Queen’s Park from May 4 to 29. HighPower: Unfolding Beauty from Destruction opens May 4 with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

Music lovers, don’t miss out on the next evening in the Music at Queens concert series. The West Coast Symphony is coming to town next weekend for a Saturday night concert at Queens Avenue United Church, 529 Queens Ave.

ONGOING To Saturday, April 23 Tea and Sympathy, a Vagabond Players production of the classic coming-of-age drama, at the Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen’s Park, with Thursday through Saturday shows at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

Lit lovers, look no further than the New Westminster Public Library to satisfy your word nerd cravings this month. The library is hosting a number of upcoming special events that will appeal to the word lover in everyone.

Celina Martin appears in The Other Kingdom, premiering April 22 on Family Channel

SAVE THE DATE May 14: Vancouver Symphony Tiny Tots WHAT’S UP Shine-Time Music Olympics is the next concert in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Tiny Tots concert series at Anvil Centre Theatre, 777 Columbia St.

SPOTLIGHT ON Arthur Ellis Awards WHAT’S UP? The official reveal of the Arthur Ellis Awards 2016 shortlist WHEN? Thursday, April 21, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Burnaby Public Library’s Bob Prittie (Metrotown) branch, 6100 Willingdon Ave.