Arts News

Saturday, June 22 is a day of celebration in Port Moody. Start by cheering on the Centennial Parade at 11am, then make your way to Rocky Point Park for the All Nations Festival.

Watch Freedom of the City recipient David Driscoll reflect on his ten years as Mayor of the City of Port Moody.

For this week's Art at Council we present an oil on canvas by Nancy Mann and is called Crater Lake Oregon.

Port Moody’s local artist cooperative, the Blackberry Artist’s Society, has some exciting digital news: you can now sign up for their free E-Newsletter directly from their website. Sign up to receive E-Newsletters as often as you like.

Port Moody’s Centennial is all about celebrating our past, present and future.

Tonight’s Art at Council is a mixed media painting called You’re My Angel and is Paola Cervante’s most recent painting.

Culture Days is committed to reaching the goal of having all Canadians in every community declaring “I Love Culture” and making culture a daily habit. As a leading national voice for the active and engaged cultural life of all Canadians, Culture Days provides support, tools and resources to a wide variety of artists and cultural organizations to help them unite the country through engagement in culture. As an arts or cultural organization, community group, artist, municipality, library, school, citizen, or business.

James Kemp is the current ceramic artist in residence at the Port Moody Arts Centre where he has completed pieces for his first solo exhibition.

This is my first chance to communicate with many of you so I thought I should let you know who I am and share some of my hopes and dreams for the Port Moody Arts Center (PMAC).

There are 3 to 4 upcoming spaces in a centrally located building located near Rocky Point in Port Moody, for art related businesses or artist studios. 1,800 square feet, with kitchen, two washrooms, and a small darkroom for photographers, with additional parking. Prices vary according to needs.

Chris Wong of Flair Woodworks cribbage board is this weeks Art at Council feature piece.

Port Moody teen, Megan Edmunds, has been named the City's Centennial Youth Poet Laureate. Mayor Mike Clay made the announcement at yesterday evening's Council Meeting and presented the talented young poet with a $500 cash prize. "This evening's historical highlight relates to our 2013 Centennial celebrations and is history in the making," said Mayor Clay. "I am very pleased to be announcing the City of Port Moody's Centennial Youth Poet Laureate, who is our first-ever poet laureate of any age."

In April 1946 Council passed a blaw to provide for daylight savings.

The Port Moody Station Museum would like to invite everyone to participate in their 13th annual Easter Extravaganza.

The Spring 2013 edition of our Focus Newsletter mark's Al Sholund's last article.

The March 12 Art at Council was a trailer from Rebelle (War Witch), which was nominated for an Oscar in the Foreign Language Film category.

The City of Port Moody, City of the Arts, invites Central Coast Salish First Nations artists to submit their qualifications for an opportunity to design, fabricate and install an original public art work for the City.

The Port Moody Arts Centre is proud to unveil their new Children’s Gallery. The Children’s Gallery will host four exhibitions each year, showcasing the artwork of local School District 43 school students.

Did you know that there was once a curfew in Port Moody?

The Port Moody Arts Centre Society is proud to present the Wearable Art Awards competition, which has been encouraging local, Canadian and international artists of all mediums to submit evocative, imaginative, and thought provoking creations for the human body since 2002

Performances: Saturday February 16, 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) and Sunday February 17, 6:30pm (doors 5:30pm) in the Galleria, Port Moody City Hall, 100 Newport Drive. Tickets are still available! Call 604.931.2008 x0, or purchase tickets at the door. $25 Adults | Save 10% when you purchase 6 or more adult tickets at once | $10 Youth (14 & under).

Mandara Lebovitz, Project & Communications Coordinator for ArtsConnect is calling on all artists and performers to check out details for this year's ArtWalk and special edition PechaKuchaNight. The deadline to apply for both events is February 20th.

After 40 years as the longest-consecutive-serving sergeant-at-arms of a B.C. legion, Leo Braniff has retired.

The Port Moody Heritage Society is releasing its masterpiece history of Port Moody entitled “Tracks in Time: Port Moody’s First 100 Years”

The Blackberry Artist's Society is looking for new members to join the only artist cooperative gift shop in the Tri Cities. They have shelf space and wall space, offer a monthly Featured Artist spot plus display space elsewhere in Port Moody, and require only that you share in the running of the organization through a shift once or twice a month in the shop (Note: members cover more shifts during the Christmas Marketplace) plus volunteering with exec jobs, marketing, scheduling, display and so on. And do come visit us in the gift shop to see for yourself (and pick up a membership application pack).

You may recognize tonight’s Art at Council. You may have seen it on a much larger scale, as a vinyl wrap, on one of the City’s four waste collection vehicles

See 14 box cars arrive in Port Moody decked out with hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights when the CP Holiday Train rolls into Port Moody

The December 11, 2012 Art at Council comes to us from the Christmas Marketplace exhibit currently on display at the Port Moody Arts Centre. The four pieces represent just some of the wide selection of artwork available.

This piece titled “Arabian Horse” is by local artist Cathy Rycroft. It is an acrylic painting on wood, and it reflects the artist’s hyper-realistic painting style, which has made her one of the most sought after artists in the BC equestrian crowd.

It’s almost time to stuff your stockings and put presents under the tree. Appeal to the history buff in your household with the Port Moody Station Museum’s first full colour book! Tracks in Time: Port Moody’s First 100 Years provides a fascinating look at the images and stories from Port Moody during 1880-1980. This full colour book filled with fantastic photos gives a dynamic account of your city’s history. Tracks in Time: Port Moody’s First 100 Years pre-sales are now available in hard cover at the Port Moody Station Museum for $40.