THE Boys have grown up.

The a cappella quartet Me and
the Boys began singing while stu-
dents at Windsor Secondary, and
rose to local acclaim as runners-up
in the North Shore Youth Contest
a few vears back.

Now in their mid-20s, brothers
Adam and Alex Kozak and good
buddies Austin Gangur and Shawn
Davids have forged ahead with solo
careers.

Adam is a semi-professional
opera singer, Alex a Coquidam
high-school teacher, Shawn a stu-
dent in UBC's education depart-
ment and Austin a waiter and free-
fance musician.

Bur the tour friends stili find
time to harmonize.

In February they competed in a
radio station-sponsored sing-off at
a Burnaby shopping mall, with
their rendition of O Canada beat-
ing out 609 other entrics to tie for
first place.

In March they placed fourth in
the Paciiic Northwest a cappella
championships in Olympia,
Washington.

Later in the month the quartet
woke up listeners with an carly-
morning rendition of Da Do Ron
Rou on a popular morning radio
show. And next Friday at noon,
they'll be centre court at GM Place
to sing O Canada before the
Grizzlies meet the Portland
Traililazers. Then Adam Kozak

will step forward for an encore
performance — a solo renditian of
Star-Spangled Banner.

So you want ro be in pictures...
Vancouver International Film
Festival is holding a competition to
select artwork for the ’98 festival

season.

The competition is epen to all
B.C. visual artists, including pho-
tographers and graphic artists.

Artists should nos fect restricted
to the usual motifs, says the festi-
val’s Nick Tattersall. That means
avoid the cliché: film canisters,
cameras, celluloid strips.

“The idea is to capture the
imaginaiion,” says Tattersall.

“It’s about evoking an emation-
al or intellectual response to an
image. You don'r nced to beat
them over the head with the mes-

ME and the Boys are (left to
right) Adam Kozak, Austin
Gangur, Alex Kozak and Shawn
Davids. The quartet will per-
form an a cappella rendition of
O Canada at the April 11
Grizzlies game.

sage ‘this is a film festival.’ People _
know.”

The winning image will be
used as the exclusive graphic to
represent the 17th annual
Vancouver International Film
Festival which will run from Sept.
"Eto Oct. 1.

The artist can expect to have his
or her image plastered on the
cover of 30,000 program guides,

250,000 mini-guides, several thou-
sand posters, numerous bus shel-
ters and media kits distributed
around the world.

That's a potential audience of
hundreds of thousands of people,
says Tattersall. The prize is a
$2,000 contract to provide the fes-
tival with camera-ready artwork.

The deadline tor entries ts
Friday, May 29, 3 p.m. siarp.

Artists are invited to call the
festival office at 685-0260 for
more details.

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