arts alive Editor: Nona Beiks Copy Editor: Leslie Ann Wootton Contributing Writers: Robin Braun, Belinda Bruce, Sarah Ellis, Bill Jeffries, Jennifer Nesselrod, Andrea Noble, Shelley Harrison Rae, Peggy Stortz Design & Layout: Agent 5 Design / Blurb Media Arts Alive Magazine 335 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, V7M 2G3 phone: 604.984.9537 / fax: 604.980.3565 email: artsalive@telus.net Arts and Culture Commission of North Vancouver phone: 604.980.3559 e m a i l : nsarts@telus.net Advertising Representative: Joy Cowie 604.980.9537 Printing: Ultratech Printing Ltd. Editorial Deadline: April 3 for May | June 2006 issue. Advertising & Calendar deadline: April 7 for the May | June 2006 issue. Story ideas and letters to the editor are welcome. Cover image: Orchard Row by Dene Croft Arts Alive is published by the Arts and Culture Commission of North Vancouver / S ^ \ ET ^#J7 T l l e A r t s a n c l C u l u , r e CONTENTS 4 Creative Spaces: by Belinda Bruce Gary Eder 15 Writer-in-Residence Aislinn Hunter IN THE N E I G H B O U R H O O D Citroen Every p r o c e s s starts w i t h an idea By Andrea Noble Arts Symposium Finds a Brand New Home by Peggy Stortz 16 Film and Photography Connect at Presentation House Gallery IN THE GALLERY Gallery Beat by Andrea Noble 17 The Spirit of Kay Meek Lives On in West Vancouver Peggy Stortz 7 DANCE! 77 Minutes of Raucous, High-Energy Tap and Hip-Hop 18 YOUTH IN ART If You're Between 15 and 24 Years Old - Step Into The Artists Den By Robin Braun THEATRE Gillian Barber Directs Children of Eden Theatre West Van Moves Into the Kay Meek Studio Theatre with a Canadian C o m e d y by Playwright Norm Foster ARTISTS FOR KIDS TRUST explore...Gymnasium Comrr (ACCNV) the North of is North dedicated Vancouver to enhancing quality of life for the w h o l e Shore community the arts thriving b o t h as an industry through and as a recreation. The Arts a n d Culture Commission of North Vancouver is jointly f u n d e d by the City of North Vancouver and the Districtof North Vancouver. It is an arms-length body created to serve as an advisory board to municipal government dealing with local cultural issues and servicing the arts/ cultural needs of the community. Please visit our ebsite for r info:' SPOTLIGHT Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight with the ElderCollege Theatre C o m p a n y By Jennifer Nesselroad 19 The Little Paper That Could By Shelley Kean nitliv arts.c 10 A World of Words at North Shore Writers Festival ARTISTS IN OUR MISTS The Watts: Dynamic Duo By Belinda Bruce 20 ADVERTISING RATES RATES outside be inside be inside fc full page 2/3 page 112 page 1/3 page l /4 page 1 /6 page B/Card $1000 $700 $575 $650 $500 $400 $350 $200 $150 $125 D E S I G N FEE full page 2/3 page 1/2 page 1/3 page 1 /4 page 1/6 page B/Card $100 $75 $50 $40 $35 $35 $35 By Sarah Ellis 22 King of Bop makes debut appearance in Cap Jazz Series By Jennifer Nesselroad 12 CALENDAR Your Guide to the Arts on the North Shore and Beyond 14 North Shore Light Opera Stages Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado By Shelley Harrison Rae 23 Strings Extravaganza! Mélange Breaks Out with More New Music By Bill Jeffries March I April 3