Local Arts

Popular Vancouver band The Kitchen will travel up the Sea to Sky Highway this weekend and bring their unique musical stylings with them. "This will be our first ride up to Squamish," said band front man Joshua Hundert.

Theatre buffs will want to mark their calendars for Unity 1918, a Governor-General-Award-winning play coming to the Eagle Eye Theatre for three days only, April 25 to 28.

Black Swade will be rocking out for massive crowds at the Whistler Telus Ski and Snowboard Festival, the annual celebration of music, arts, sports and culture occurring this year from April 13 to 22.

Few forms of artistic media have the power to reach across cultures, languages, and even time itself to influence millions of people in the language of our daily lives. Film has such power.

Ryan Leech knows how to balance work and play - by combining them. And the trials bike rider will impart his wisdom during an exciting demonstration at Garibaldi Highlands Elementary School Tuesday (April 10).

Mozart's The Magic Flute gets a unique and local twist, April 17 at the Garibaldi Highlands Elementary School, when the Vancouver Opera Touring Company performs the classic opera as a First Nations story geared towards youths and families.

Award winning hip-hop group Swollen Members plays the Ocean Port this month, and the show promises to thrill fans with a preview of an as yet unreleased album.

Squamish music students will get a chance to show their talents in the Howe Sound Music Festival at St. John's Anglican Church next month. Produced by Howe Sound Performing Arts Association, the festival takes place from April 10 and 15.

Do you have powerful footage of an epic mountain adventure woven into a gripping storyline? The 2007 Squamish Mountain Festival (SQUMF) wants to hear from you.

A new television show aims to explore some of beautiful British Columbia's picturesque wilderness areas, including Squamish's own Garibaldi Provincial Park.