Local Arts

New $23,000 grant speeds up photo digitization project What: Whistler Museum Fund-raiser Where: Dubh Linn Gate, featuring the Bowen Boys When: Thursday, June 20 They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, but what are 400,000 pictures worth? A

Annual art fund-raiser includes mixed media, live auction What: ARTrageous When: July 6, 7 p.m.

Seattle’s L’il Puddin’ offers up organic-folk acoustic notes Who: L’il Puddin’ Where: Boot Pub When: June 17 organic, adj. Without the use of artificial fertilizers pudding: any sweet food made with sugar, eggs; a dessert.

WSSF’s short film winner lands distribution deal The butt doesn’t stop here.

Mimosa, Chin, swing lessons part of the musical calendar You can never have enough jazz. And that’s what’s on offer in the three-day Jazz and Blues Festival, which starts today (June 14).

While last weekend’s sunny weather brought out bikers, hikers and even windsurfers, a small group of enthusiasts on the shore of Alta Lake were engaged in an entirely different outdoor pursuit: painting.

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Megan Fanning Trio revives jazz standards Who: Megan Fanning Trio What: Whistler Jazz and Blues Festival Where: Cinnamon Bear Bar, June 15, 3 p.m. Where: Village Square, June 16, 4 p.m.

Hosting the B.C. Festival of the Arts in your community is a bit like having a creative bomb dropped and detonated on Main Street.

Peter Chrzanowski screens The Good Life to sold out theatre Independent filmmaker Peter Chrzanowski, whose short film The Good Life was recently screened at Vancouver’s Crazy 8s festival, has returned to working on his two-year project about lif