Local Arts

A long lost historical gem will make a public appearance tonight (Nov. 16) that will bring many residents back to a time when wilderness adventures were literally at our doorstep.

Get ready for some infectious beats as the Squamish Electronic Music Festival takes over nearly every music venue in town. Epiphany Events presents the first annual festival dedicated to the genre, and local organizer Marnie Green has gone all out.

Squamish youth will be dancing with the stars when the Vancouver production Dancers Dancing comes to town. The Nov. 10 performance will feature five professional dancers skipping away from their companies to tour across the province.

Audiences won't be spoonfed opera at the upcoming production Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.

It'll be a howlin' good time for partygoers of all ages Saturday (Oct. 26) as two Halloween events appeal to the young and not-so-young.

The spoken word was a-brewing at the Squamish Public Library's ninth annual Books and Beer fundraiser held at the Howe Sound Inn and Brew Pub on Saturday night (Oct. 13).

No one can accuse Matt Jackson of not being thorough. In 1997, the freelance journalist decided to pull up roots and hit the highway in what amounted to a four-year road trip to see as much of Canada as possible.

Take one quick look around the streets of town and it's not hard to see why the Squamish Public Library needed to add more baby and kid's groups to its programming over the past few years. And they are about to add even more on Monday (Oct.

Things are about to get a little more zany in Squamish this holiday season - at least if Teira Andreeff has anything to say about it.

In his exhibition of portraits showing this month at the public library's Foyer Gallery, Joe Tompai treats us to images of the people working the Sea to Sky Highway.