Local Arts

It's billed as a night of "urban tales of love and conflict." Douglas College students are presenting Subsequent Conversations, a night of one-act plays, running from Oct. 31 to Nov. 7 in the studio theatre at Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave.

The New Westminster Symphony Orchestra celebrates the beginning of its 100th year on Sunday, Nov. 2 with a concert of "exhilarating" music.

Artists, have you signed up to take part in the Arts Council of New Westminster's album art project? The arts council is calling for submissions for its FAKE album cover exhibition, which will take over the community art space at the Anvil Centre fro

ON NOW To October 25 Murder By the Book, presented by the Vagabond Players at Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen's Park, with shows Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2 p.m., $15 regular, $13 seniors/students, with $10 previews on Oct.

Do you love historical fiction? Turn out to Renaissance Books on Wednesday, Oct. 15 to catch a reading by two local writers. Ruth Kozak and Eileen Kernaghan will be on hand to read from their new novels at 7 p.m.

It began three years ago as an environmental film festival - and though New West Doc Fest has since broadened its horizons, it's not forgetting its roots. The annual festival returns to Landmark Cinemas at New West station Oct. 22, 23 and 24.

Whatever your taste in music, you can indulge it right here at home. Jazz, rockabilly, country and boogie woogie piano are among the musical offerings at Heritage Grill this month.

Poets and poetry lovers are invited to gather on Sunday afternoons in New West. The Poetic Justice reading series runs regularly on Sunday afternoons at the Heritage Grill, with readings by featured poets and open mike sessions.

All things war-themed have been on the collective artistic mind of New Westminster lately, it seems, what with the unveiling of the new Wait For Me Daddy sculpture downtown and all the events associated with it.

Watch Cassius Khan' s fingers dance across the surface of the tabla, his head and body in full motion, and you get an immediate sense of what music means for him.