Local Arts

Royal City artist among those at annual blues event

The Uptown Unplugged busking series got 'em dancing in the streets this past weekend.

Are you a new writer looking to share your voice? An established author seeking a new audience? Whatever your background as a writer, you're invited to take part in the Royal City Literary Arts Society's new open mike short story nights.

For Candice James, the idea began as a way of creating a memory for her granddaughter.

If you're looking for entertainment for a summer afternoon, you don't have to wander any farther than the outdoor stage at Westminster Centre.

It's the Group of Seven, Royal City style. New Westminster's Van Dop Gallery is hosting a special exhibition featuring a group of artists it's dubbed the New West 7 - seven well-known artists who live and work in the city.

No need to go to Nashville - all the queens of country are coming right here to New Westminster. Bonnie Kilroe's Country Queens takes to the stage at the Massey Theatre on Friday, Aug. 30.

Everyone talks about the weather - except Les Linfoot. He paints about it. Linfoot's new exhibition, Everyone Talks About the Weather... is opening at the Amelia Douglas Gallery at Douglas College on Aug. 8. "I don't really make landscape paintings.

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.

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.