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ARTS EVENTS
Compiled by Layne Christensen

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for non-profit and community arts
groups. Please fax a press release for your
community event to 985-2104. The News
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West Vanccuver Ferry Building:
Kitchen Part I, U1 and Il, pho-
tographs and mixed-media works
by Kelly McCrea on the theme of
the home and kitchens, runs to
May 14, May 16-28: visual artist
Patricia Ann Hardy and fabric
artist. Noreen Ostrikoff. The
gallery invites artists’ submissions
for Harmony Arts Festival’s group
show, Aug. 7-13. Deadline is May
27. Info: 925-3605.
West Vancouver Cultural
Services has planned a day trip to
the Pilchuk Glass School and the
Lake Union studio of glass blower
Dale Chihuly May 17. Cost is $66.
To register, call 926-3266.
Presentation Heuse Gallery:
Death and the Family, to June 11,
features photographic works by
’ Gisele Amantea, Marian Penner
Bancroft, Wyn Geleynse, Paula
_Levine, Téby MacLennan, Ross
McElwee, Lani Maestro, Dennis
Oppenheim, Larry Sultan, and Bill
Viola. Info: 986-1351. Pacific
Cinematheque and the gallery pre-

A spirited

. “Well, we're good old boys; we
come from the North Shore;
drinkers and carousers, the likes
you've never seen; and this night,
by God, we drank till there was no
more, from the Troller to the Raven
with all stops in between...”

— The Crawl, Spirit of the West

WITH THEIR 1986 release
Tripping up the Stairs, Spirit
of the West took listeners on a
pub crawl. This weekend
they'll try something a little
more highbrow.

By Layne Christensen
’ Community Reporter

The folksy rockers will join the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
(VSO). in concert at the Orpheum
this Friday and Saturday, May 12
_ and 13, at 8:30 p.m.

The group, conceived in '83 as a
Celtic-influenced folk trio, ‘has its
roots on the North Shore. Today,
co-founders and North Van resi-
dents John Mann and Geoffrey
Kelly (original band member J.
Knutson has left to pursue his own
project) have rounded out their

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WEST VAN artists Barry Shelton and Monica Shelten show mixed
media and acryllc works at Seymour Art Gallery through June 4.

sent the films Time Indefinite and
Blue May 12. Info: 688-3456.
Seymour Art Gallery: Silences
and Mysticisms an exhibition of
paintings by Monica Shelton and
Barry Shelton, runs to June 4.
Artists’ reception; May 10, 7-9
p.m. Informal discussion: May 24,
7:30 p.m. Nora Blanck presents an
illustrated talk on color, May 17,
7:30-8:30 p.m. Admission by
donation. Info: 924-1378.

West Vancouver Silk Purse Arts
Centre: Sharon Christien’s mixed
media works on display till May
14. Sentinel’s senior visual arts
students exhibit works May 16-28.
Info: 922-1110

West Vancouver Museum and
Archives: The Sporting life:
Summer Recreation in West

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costumes and equipment from
West Van’s early years, runs to
Sept, 30. Costume historian Kerri
Ward leads a slide presentation
May 17, 7:30 p.m. Info: 926-9254,
Leo Marshall = Curriculum
Centre: Artist Celia Rabinovitch
lectures on Surrealism and the
Sacred: Power, Eras and the
Occult in Modern Art, May 16,
7:30 p.m. Info: 525-4025.

North Vancouver City Hall:
Raphael MacLouchlin's graphite
and watercolors, to May 17.
North Vancouver District Hall:
Artwork by Squamish Nations
artists Darren Yeltin anc! Xu-Lack-
Tun on display till June 1.

West Vancouver Memorial
Library: Imagined Reality, water-

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SPIRIT OF the West puts a classical spin on folksy rock when It
teams with the VSO for two concerts this weekend.

sound with the addition of Vince
Ditrich, Hugh McMillan and Linda
McRae.

The band, which spent last sum-
mer touring with The Tragically
Hip, has composed several new

‘works for the VSO project. All

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compositions have been scored for
full orchestra. The performances
will be recorded and filmed for a
future album and TV special.

Tickets for both performances
are available through Ticketmaster
at 280-3311.

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