| Wednesday, July 6, 2022 | | | Indigenous Welcome - Queen's Park Bandshell - 6:30pm
Welcome by Brody Halfe of the Qayqayt First Nation
Poetry in the Park - Queen's Park Bandshell - 6:40pm - 8pm
Presented by Royal City Literary Arts Society
Featuring New Westminster Poet Laureate Elliot Slinn and New Westminster Poet Laureate Emerita Candice James
Casual Coding - Centennial Lodge - 7pm-8:30pm
Join New Media Gallery and the Arts Council of New Westminster for a night of creating sociable, generative art. Sit down, have a beverage, talk, learn coding and watch generative art being created displayed and projected throughout the room as it is created. Your art will be created using the collaborative program P5Live. You can jam on beginner, intermediate and pro sketches to make live generative artwork. All levels of experience and participation are welcome whether you want to focus on coding or socialize with a creative bunch of people and watch art being created. Bring your own laptop or contact (education@newmediagallery.ca) to borrow one from our limited supply.
Fee: Admission Free, Drink prices vary
Instructor: Mimi Xia
Sponsored by Another Beer Co
Get tickets here: casual-coding-qpaf.eventbrite.com
Sherida Charles Exhibition - The Gallery at Queen's Park - 6pm-8pm
Join us for an exhibition by New Westminster artist Sherida Charles.
More details acnw.ca/galleryexhibit |
| Thursday, July 7, 2022 – 7:00 pm | Keith MacLachlan Quartet |  | The Keith MacLachlan Quartet presents a lively book of jazz standards from the bebop, post-bop and cool jazz eras. The group's material appeals to casual listeners and serious connoisseurs alike. Led by New Westminster based drummer MacLachlan, who has been playing jazz for 4 decades, the group features well known Vancouver based saxophonist Ben Lockwood, emerging talent Emilio Suarez on upright bass and seasoned player Tim Wyatt on keyboards. These musicians have played together in various working environments over the past 5 years but have recently coalesced in this configuration to present favorites from MacLachlan's book of standards with a few originals from other band members added to the mix. |
| Friday, July 8, 2022 – 7:00 pm | Royal City Swing | | Community Dance with Royal City Swing, featuring a live band |
| Saturday, July 9, 2022 | Children's Arts Festival
| | Queen's Park Farm - 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Kids—bring your imagination, your creative juices, and your squirt guns! Experience the messy joy of collaborative large scale painting with brooms and sponges. Build your own bridge to cross a lava field with found treasures! Play with clay with real potters, weave with fuzzy yarn, build colourful suncatchers in a real glass artist's display. Create crazy critters and cardboard cars—and more! A unique artistic buffet for kids both young and old. |
| Saturday, July 9, 2022 – 2:00 pm | William Chernoff Jazz Trio |  | William Chernoff is a Canadian jazz bassist who presents all-original music. Based in New Westminster, BC, Will has played both upright and electric bass since 2010. He currently performs in a trio with Francis Henson on guitar and Carson Tworow on drums. |
| Saturday, July 9, 2022 – 4:00 pm | Burnaby Summer Theatre |  | Join us as we head off to Camp Winding Woods, a place where talking polar bears wander the forests and making friends is the most important thing. For Ralph, it is the hardest. When he meets Cecelia, they are entirely different and do not get along. It is through their adventures at camp and meeting the mythical talking polar bear, that they learn to embrace their differences and find their way back to camp.
The 2022 Burnaby Summer Theatre returns again this year, with a new troupe of emerging performing artists. This time they’ll be exploring and celebrating our diverse community through Polar Opposites, an original theatre production for youth! Follow Emily, Janavi, Jesse and Muleba across Burnaby and Metro Vancouver in this touring theatre show.
The Burnaby Summer Theatre is an annual professional development program for emerging artists between 16 to 30 years old, created by the Burnaby Arts Council. This program has been partnering with local universities for 30+ years to create a space where theatre artists can devise, produce, direct, and act in an original story for young audiences. Over three months, they will create, perform, and workshop their production from concept to stage. This program is made possible through the Canada Summer Jobs program, which creates employment opportunities for Canadian youth as they step into their careers. |
| Saturday, July 9, 2022 – 7:00 pm | Gina Williams |  | Gina Williams is an award winning multi genre performing artist. The pianist, singer, songwriter, composer, and television actress continues to perform nationally and internationally - sharing her gifts worldwide. |
| Sunday, July 10, 2022 | Children's Arts Festival
| | Queen's Park Farm - 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Kids—bring your imagination, your creative juices, and your squirt guns! Experience the messy joy of collaborative large scale painting with brooms and sponges. Build your own bridge to cross a lava field with found treasures! Play with clay with real potters, weave with fuzzy yarn, build colourful suncatchers in a real glass artist's display. Create crazy critters and cardboard cars—and more! A unique artistic buffet for kids both young and old. |
| Sunday, July 10, 2022 – 2:00 pm | Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira |  | Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira are a dynamic fiddle and cello duo. Fusing traditional and contemporary influences, they create powerfully uplifting and soulful music, weaving a rhythmically driving and textured sound. They bring life and fire into original tunes and songs, alongside high-energy Celtic repertoire and lively stepdancing. |
| Sunday, July 10, 2022 – 4:00 pm | Purpose Society Music Showcase |  | On behalf of Purpose Secondary School we will be presenting three ensembles. Firstly, The Purpose Independent Secondary School Band features a crew of talented high school students performing a variety of rock and alternative songs on guitars, drums, bass guitars and vocals. Expect a lively and loud set.
Secondly, The Greenhorn Community Band is travelling in from Britannia Centre to perform a set of your jazz favourites.
Thirdly,
Q. What is better than a banjo?
A. Multiple banjos
Multiple banjos is exactly what the Royal Canadian Banjo Orchestra delivers as five string banjos join mandolin banjos and a jumbo sized bass banjo to provide their audience with a glorious ringing which will stay in their ears long after the concert finishes. |
| Sunday, July 10, 2022 – 7:00 pm | Pointed Sticks |  | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada punk/power pop band founded in August of 1978. Originally called Ernie Dick and the Pointed Sticks with original members Nick Jones (vocals), Bill Napier-Hemy (guitar and vocals), Ian Tiles (drums and vocals, and Tony Bardach (bass and vocals), later joined by Gord Nicholl (keyboards and engineering). Other members at various times included Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery (drums), Robert Bruce (drums), Jon Fereira (sax), Scott Watson (bass), Colin Griffiths (guitar), Chuck Biscuits (drums). Disbanded in May 1981, reforming in 2006, initially for 3 gigs in Japan. They will be headlining the Queen’s Park Arts Festival on July 10th, 2022.
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