Local Arts

Saturday, July 27 PechaKucha New West, Westminster Pier Park, 7 to 11 p.m., free. Bring blankets, chairs and friends to hear 10 presenters speak on the festival law. River Market tenants Re-Up BBQ and Longtail Kitchen will prepare food at 7 p.m.

It's Shakespeare as the Bard himself would have enjoyed it - outdoors, under the sun, in a family-friendly atmosphere. New Westminster's Shadows and Dreams Theatre Company is once again bringing Shakespeare to life at the Queen's Park bandshell.

Royal city teens take to the stage in teen production of hamlet - with a gender twist

Art lovers will be able to enjoy a collection of landscape, figurative and abstract works in the next exhibition at the Arts Council of New Westminster Gallery.

Nothing says summer quite like outdoor music - and the Royal City Concert Band has been treating local audiences to plenty of that. The band is wrapping up a series of free summer performances in celebration of its 25th anniversary season.

She's known as "The Sidewalk Cellist," and she's bringing classical music to the streets of New Westminster this weekend. Clara Shandler is in the lineup for this weekend's Uptown Unplugged summer busking series.

Has it really been a year already? Yes, I'm back at my desk in the Record newsroom after a year's maternity leave, and I'm jumping back into arts coverage once again.

Nothing says summer quite like outdoor music - and the Royal City Concert Band has been treating local audiences to plenty of that. The band is wrapping up a series of free summer performances in celebration of its 25th anniversary season.

Friday, June 28 Ukrainian perogy supper, Holy Eucharist Church Hall, 501 Fourth Ave., 5 to 8 p.m. Perogy sales from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info: 604-526-0988 or 604-522-7711.

UNTIL SATURDAY, JUNE 29 New West Arts Council presents, Hold On To the Good, an exhibition of local artist Kim Soo Goodtrack's work at the Arts Council Gallery, from 1 to 5 .m. daily, except Mondays. Info, www.artscouncil ofnewwest.org.