Local Arts

Did Aunt Ethel talk your ear off at this year’s Christmas dinner? A chance to tell the world what you really think happens at the Speakers’ Corner at this year’s First Night activities in Village Square.

Who: Solid Earth Band Where: The Boot Pub When: Dec. 31 Douglas Kerr writes Solid Earth songs from as far away as the beaches in Thailand.

Preschool Picassos and budding Yo-Yo Mas get ready. Classes based on the internationally renowned Princeton University Music Together program are coming to Whistler, along with "discover art" programs.

Jane Mortifee, Margo, Jim Byrnes, Angela Kelman and LessisMore What: Peerless Music Spring Adult Contemporary Series Where: Maurice Young Millennium Place When: Feb.

In Whistler What : The adele-campbell Fine Art Gallery Where : Lobby level, Delta Whistler Resort This gallery represents many outstanding British Columbia artists, featuring the most comprehensive collection of Whistler landscapes and soapstone scul

"Ring, happy bells, across the snow: the year is going, let him go," — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam And ring they will, with the First Night event organized by the Resort Municipality of Whistler and Mo Ideas Management.

Who: Crash When: Dec. 21 and 22, 8 p.m. Where: Maurice Young Millennium Place Things are getting fundamentally, instrumentally jazzy in Whistler this season.

Two firemen from the New York City Fire Department will be spending Christmas in Whistler and attending mass at Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church this year.

FRIDAY, DEC.