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Editor: Gloria Loree Copy Editor: Judy Phillips Publisher: North Shore Arts Commission Layout Gloria Loree Contributing Writers: Ben D 'Andrea, Sarah Chilvers, Fif Fernandes, Rachelle Geneau, Lianne Payne, Colin Smith and John Sobol. Printing: LGM Graphics Distribution: Lianne Payne ARTS A L I V E Contents: ARTS C O M M U N I T Y the North Shore Arts Commission honours the four FANS Award finalists. DANCE twenty-five years of teaching and still going strong, Anna Wyman...6 V I S U A L ARTS outside and in, sculpture from eight North Shore artists...8 HEALTH one woman's view of the healing power of the arts...9 A r t s Alive is published six times yearly by the North Shore Arts Commission and is distributed to Arts Council members and the North Shore and Vancouver communities free of charge. Funding: Arts Alive gratefully acknowledges continued financial assistance from the City of North Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver and the District ofWest Vancouver. The North and West Vancouver Community Arts Councils additionally acknowledge the assistance of the Government of British Columbia through the Ministry ofTourism and the Ministry Responsible for Culture. A r t s Alive: 148 East 2nd St, North VancouverWL IC3 Phone: 984-9S37 Fax:984-3563 e-mail: aalive@wimsey.com Editorial deadline:August I Advertising deadline: August 12 for the September/October issue Submissions and letters to the editor are welcome. LITERARY from evil to India...two new novels in review...10 CALENDAR your guide to arts on the North Shore...12 MUSIC it's long overdue: a girls choir on the North Shore...14 PUPPETRY marionette making and staging a puppet show.. .15 TELEVISION Arts Alive catches NS talent at the Banff Television Festival... 17 PEOPLE FILE North Shore talent exposed... 18 THEATRE a quality line-up Presentation House Productions is applauding... 19 Cover Marina Papais and Rick H a r r y ( X w a Lack Tun) hold The Healer, a glass and w o o d sculpture they w e r e c o m m i s s i o n e d t o create f o r the F A N S A w a r d Night (see s t o r y on page 4). Photo: Cindy Goodman, N o r t h Shore N e w s . THEATRE an unsolved murder from the 1920s...21 SHOWING AROUND TOWN... 22 RANT is art being over taken by commercial materialism?...23