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David Mackay, playwright/actor/director, launches his latest play. Big Slioes to Fill, at Studio 16, March 2 9 - A p r i l 20 (Tix: 731-5229). Mackay. winner o f Best Playwright at the 1984 North Shore Arts Festival, has numerous theatre credits which include All Fall Down with the Arts C l u b and Fall of the House of Usher with Pink Ink. The person Mackay would like to credit is Z i m . his drama teacher at Windsor Secondary School in North Vancouver. "I would like to thank Z i m for giving me an empty stage every day o f the week and allowing me to perform." Z i m , now retired after teaching drama at Windsor for 21 years, inspired many students over the years to pursue a career in theatre, About Mackay he says, " H e was one of the most talented in comedy--he's a comic genius." Zim and Mackay are pictured above at Windsor Secondary School, with Z i m demonstrating his method acting instructions lor comics. Photos: Michelle Porter Five North Shore residents are winners of Genie Awards (presented by the Canadian F i l m Industry) for 1995. Pictured above (1-r) are Kelly Cole, Jacqueline Cristianini, Dean Giammarco and Paul Sharpe of Sharpe Sound. Cole, Giammarco. Michael M c G e e (not shown) and Sharpe all won the Genie Award for Achievement in Overall Sound for Magic in the Water. Lions Bay's Tom Burstyn won Achievement in Cinematography for the same film. Photo: N o r t h Shore N e w s , Terry Heather Lane (left) and Mary Blaze are the two North Shore art students attending the Emily Carr College of Art who received grants lor 1995 from the West Vancouver Visual Arts Society. Lane is now in her fourth year at the college and Blaze is finishing her third. The two are pictured above with examples of their work. For more information on these scholarships, contact the Emily Carr administration offices or Society president Norma Sorensen, 993 Sinclair St., West Vancouver. Peters F A N S A N E W W A Y T O I N V E S T IN A R T I S T S AND THEIR WORK...