20 - Wednesday, April 25, 1990 - North Shore News

North Shore arts discussed

NORTH SHORE eesidents will have an opportunity to give input into their community’s cultural development tomorrow evening at the North Shore Art Commission’s Annual State of the Arts Forum. The two-hour free event will deal with such topics as the municipal government’s role in

Play fest under way

THE NORTH Shore Festival of Plays gets under way on Monday, April 23 at Presentation House.

Six local theatre groups are competing for entry into this year’s provincial finals held June 4-9 in Chilliwack.

The competition begins with West Vancouver Little Theatre’s presentation of What I Did Last Summer, a two-act comedy set ina summer cottage on the shore of Lake Erie during the summer of 1945.

On April 24 Deep Cove Stage Society will stage an original one- act comedy by Debra Drayton, The Greening of David Browne. On the same day the North Van- couver Community Players pres- ents Fugue for Female Voice, a one-act drama (the group is also presenting Garage Sale on April 28).

First Impressions Theatre’s entry to this year’s festival is Rites of Spring, an original two-act modern tragedy by Peter O'Rourke. The Howe Sound Drama Club is pres- enting The Glass Menagerie.

On Friday, April 27 Far Off Broadway Theatre brings Clap- trap, a two-act farce to the stage. The final performance, April 28, is Garage Sale.

Competition adjudicator for the 1990 festival is University of Vic- toria professor and theatre director John Krich.

Krich has worked with Theatre B.C. as a zone festival adjudicator and workshop instructor.

The public is invited to attend the festival. For reservations phone 986-1351.

Artists hold benefit

THE ARTISTS’ Response Team, featuring local Holly Arntzen, is hosting a benefit panel and dance for their tour, Wild Salmon/Clean Water: Fish For Our Future Fri- day, April 27 at the Sheraton Landmark Hotel.

The evening, which includes various speakers and entertainers, kicks off the Response Team’s tour, which is designed to take music and a message about B.C.'s oceans, fish and culture to com- munities on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland during the month of May.

The purpose of the event is to taise funds and awareness about West Coast Fishery and the threat of the Vision 2000 plan, the GATT Free Trade deal, driftnet fishing and so on.

Tickets are $10. Proceeds will go to the Wild Salmon and Clean Water Tour. The event is spon- sored by the United Allied Fish- ermen and Workers Union.

Schoel jazz bands play

HANDSWORTH SECONDARY School is holding a ‘‘Juzt Jazz"’ Concert on Monday, April 23.

The event features the school’s junior and senior award-winning bands. A special attraction will be the return of some of the great Handworth Grands, who will play

cultura! development and the ef- fect of changing demographics on the arts,

The one-year-old Arts Commis- sion wiil deliver a report on its past and present activities, and local

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performers and speakers such as arts critic/writer Max Wyman, cultural consultant Wendy Newman, Doug Jardine, Arts Commission chair Judy Dennis and MLA Lyall Hansen will discuss the local arts scene.

From 1 to 4 p.m. a workshop entitled ‘‘Activating the Arts’*

welcomes planners, artists and arts groups to work together on cultur- al development.

Carolyn Lair, Arts Commission developinent officer, said when it comes to team work, arts organizations can learn a lesson from sports groups. -

“Sports groups know how to work as a team — that’s something the aris have had a problem with. We cas: learn a lesson from them abou! organization and how to

work together towards a common goal.**

Lair added that cultural devel- opment on the North Shore is “very progressive’’ and will con- tinue to be a role model for other communities.

The Annual State of the Arts Forum begins at 7 p.m. in Capilano College’s south cafeteria. For more information phone 980- 3559.

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