Royal City children will have the opportunity to catch a unique production being put on this summer by the Burnaby Arts Council's summer theatre program.
This year's production, Selera and The Temple of Zoom!, will be showing at the New Westminster Public Library on Aug. 9 at 10: 30 a.m.
Students from Studio 58's theatre program will be putting on the children's show, which features Selera, the "girl who can run faster than anything," who sets out on a journey to the Temple of Zoom on the Island of Gorlinga to find a cure for her mother, who has been poisoned by a spider.
The production, directed by Sean McQuillan, is free. Other show times in the Lower Mainland include:
Every Thursday until Aug. 11, urnaby Village Museum, at noon, 1 .m. and 2 p.m.
July 19, Bill Copeland Community Centre, 10: 30 a.m.
July 19, Nanaimo Park in Vancouver, 2: 30 p.m.
July 25, Sunset Day Camp, Vancouver 1 p.m.
July 26, Cameron Rec Centre, Burnaby, 11: 30 a.m.
July 26, Willingdon Heights Community Centre, Burnaby, 2 p.m. ? Aug. 3, Ron McLean Park, 2 p.m.
A TRIBUTE TO TEA
It's time to brew up a pot or two and enjoy some poetry in the process.
World Poetry New Westminster is putting on A Tribute To Tea - a gathering of selected poets presenting pieces on the theme of tea - tomorrow, Saturday, July 16, from 2: 30 to 3 p.m. at the Great Wall Tea Company at the River Market.
The event is free. Contact 604526-4729 or see www.worldpoetry.ca for more information.
