It's time to rock and roll. Local musician Paul Leahy will be performing live with his band Polly at The Columbia Theatre this Friday, Feb.
22, along with other local bands The Beladeans, The Trespassers and Big Top.
Doors and bar open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m.
Tickets are available online at www.thecolum bia.ca, for $19.50 each, including taxes and fees.
The Columbia Theatre is located at 530 Columbia St.
LOCAL SISTERS PLAY EVIL STEP-SISTERS
Real-life sisters, Sarah and Laura Lilley, are playing the roles of the evil step-sisters in the Douglas Ballet Academy's production of Cinderella this weekend.
The New-Westminster-based Lilley sisters are part of a cast of more than 60 dancers ranging in age from five to early 20s.
The family-friendly show runs Friday, Feb. 21 at 7: 30 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 22, at 2 and 7: 30 p.m. at the Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam.
Tickets will be available at the door, or reserve by calling the Douglas Ballet Academy at 604-420-0204.
POETRY NIGHT OUT HONOURS HISTORY
To celebrate, World Poetry New Westminster is hosting the next World Poetry Night Out with a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. by Roger Blenman and a focus on distinguished black Acadian poet George Elliott Clarke by Franci Louann.
Hosts will be Mickey Bickerstaff and Ariadne Sawyer.
The event will be held from 6: 30 to 8: 30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at the New Westminster Public Library, at 716 6th Ave. with refreshments, free raffle and an open mike section.
For more information, call 604-526-4719, or visit www.worldpoetry.ca.
POLOS FEATURED AT NEW WEST EXHIBIT
A local artist is being featured in a month-long exhibition in New Westminster.
Burnaby's Donna Polos is showing her watercolour-painted paper, cotton and canvas in an exhibition called Seasoned Fibres.
The show runs March 5 to 30 at the Arts Council of New Westminster gallery in Queen's Park.
An opening reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on March 10, and the art can be viewed Tuesdays through Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, call 604-5253244.
Have any New Westminster arts items for our Lively City column? Contact Marelle Reid with all the details by email at [email protected], by fax at 604-444-3460, or by mail at The Record, 201A - 3430 Brighton Ave., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 3H4.
For the arts calendar, go to www.royalcityrecord.com.
