Local Arts

The following students were winners of scholarships and awards at the two-night Hi Lites concerts as part of the Thompson Arts Festival, by category: Speech Vale Scholarship - Cayenne Derksen and Natalie Pegus Business and Professional Women's Schola

For music enthusiasts, this must be the most wonderful time of the year - a series of five concerts over the next nine days. The action gets underway tonight, says R.D.

The halls of R.D. Parker Collegiate will be bustling this weekend as the school plays host to the first-ever Manitoba Northern Schools One-Act Play Festival.

The school year might be drawing to a close, but there's lots going on with R.D. Parker Collegiate's band department.

The use of technology in high school is not limited to students texting and listening to iPods. In Todd Harwood's physical education classes, it's letting him know which students are loafing. It's Wednesday morning at R.D.

Forty-two students from Thompson dance studio Dare 2 Dance traveled to Winnipeg in March to compete in the 5-6-7-8 Showtime Dance Competition, and many came home with trophies and invitations to compete in the Dance World Cup.

Hardrock miners. That's Thompson, a town where many of the underground miners at Vale hail from Newfoundland and Labrador. The Rock. It's the same story in Fort McMurray's oil sands and was until recently in Yellowknife's gold mines.

Rashomon combines murder mystery with samurai

One of Thompson's newest wintertime traditions, the fourth-annual - well, fourth in this century - Beer & Skits night was held Feb. 25 at the Juniper Centre.

The City of Thompson's annual fall and winter concert series for 2010-11 wraps up March 12 with the Manitoba Theatre Centre (MTC) making their annual Thompson visit as part of their regional tour, this time with the comedy Wingfield On Ice.