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Lights up! Historically, triumphal arches and gateways were often decorated with veils, flags, and banners. The Centennial Theatre building is following this tradition, but with a difference. These theatre curtains are not made of velvet: they are made of coloured light, swirling around the northwest corner of the building in tubes of neon. "It's essentially a gestural abstract line drawing in coloured light," says Alfred Engerer. "The wind becomes the sea becomes the land becomes the veil." Engerer is one of three Toronto glass artists who make up SWON - Skunk Works Outlaw Neon, winners of the competition for this highly visible public art project. It involves the creation and installation of more than sixty specially-blown tubes of varying lengths, shapes, colours, and diameters. Blowing the glass in the sweltering heat of a Toronto summer was particularly grueling work. You can see the results when the lights of The Veil go on for the first time, on November 4. c December 4-16 "affordable, collectable & giftable art" by North Shore artists & artisans in a variety of mediums Doing the numbers The City and District of North Vancouver drew up their first cultural plan in 1989. It's now being updated, with a view to helping the artistic and cultural communities continue to thrive. This time researchers have looked more closely at the economic role that the arts play in North Vancouver. Among their preliminary findings: * an estimated 4,900 North Vancouver residents work in the so-called "cultural industries," including 905 in the movie business, 640 in written media (the production and sale of books and magazines as well as writing them), and 560 in stage performance, which includes advertising and sales as well as costume and set design: * some 92,500 patrons and performers passed through Centennial Theatre between fall, 1999 and summer, 2000; * most popular of the approximately 110 festivals put on during 2000 was the Caribbean Days Festival, which drew25,000 visitors. Whoops ... at the Ferry Building Gallery 1414 Argyle A v e n u e West Vancouver (at A m b l e s i d e Landing) gallery hours: show opens with 'SNEAK PREVIEW" & Reception at 6pm Tuesday, Dec 4 & continues 11am-5pm daily T: (604) 925-7290 caption on page 5, violinist Ryan Karchut was inadvertently re-named Ryan Karchuk. We apologize for any embarrassment this might have caused. Ryan has a number of recitals in New York in the coming months, and an orchestral performance at Carnegie Hall in December. A further howler occurred on page 8: the building that is now Presentation House was the City of North Vancouver's city hall, not the District's. The Gift Horse Gallery ad also fell victim to the gremlins. Again, we apologize for the errors. November | December Editorial gremlins worked overtime on the September/October issue. In the