Editor: Associate Marian llona Judy Dodd Beiks Phillips Editor: C o p y Editor: Publisher: North Shore Arts Commission Contributing Leanne Maureen Writers: Campbell, Carole Badgley, Chinnery, Galbraith, S.Anderson S.Anderson Ltd. yearly Rachelle Trad Ann Ann Curtis, Peggy Vol Mason, Mary Mary Printing Stortz, Layout: Printing: Contact & Mailing six times Contents: PROFILE T o n y Grove: art and function in wood....4 A r t s A l i v e is published by the North and is distributed and Shore Arts to Arts Council and Commission members Vancouver charge. the North Shore communities Funding: A r t s A l i v e gratefully financial free of acknowledges from and the the continued assistance Vancouver of North VISUAL ARTS Images o f war and conflict at Presentation House Gallery....5 City of North District Vancouver. VISUAL ARTS Arts Alive 148 East 2nd St, North Magazine: V7L IC3 Vancouver, (604) (604) T h e Power Girls on view....6 Phone: Fax: e-mail: 984-9537 984-3563 FILM N o r t h Vancouver production recognized....8 aalive@wimsey.com 980-3559 N o r t h Shore Arts Commission. e-mail: Editorial Advertising & Calendar deadline: nsarts@istar.ca March 19 15 issue. to the LITERATURE Artistry made o f clay: a new book explores great local talent.... 10 deadline:April 1999 for the Mayljune Story ideas and letters are CALENDAR Your guide to the arts on the N o r t h Shore and beyond.... 12 editor welcome. THEATRE Uncle Randy celebrates five years o f musical theatre achievements.... 14 THEATRE T h e 25th annual Festival of Plays gears up on the N o r t h Shore.... 16 MUSIC N o r t h Shore Light O p e r a makes another hit w i t h A F u n n y Happened on the Way to the Forum....,17 Thing Win tickets!....18 OPPORTUNITIES Judy Dennis Emerging Artist Training Fund.... 19 Cover Boy © Destroying Piano,Wales, Griffiths!Magnum Dark image : ARTS C O M M I S S I O N V i s i o n to V i c t o r y symposium a success....20 N e w arts commissioners get down to work....22 1961. Photos Odyssey Philip Jones from the exhibition