Local Arts

March 2 at RNFF: The great annual lunar New Year migration

On the map: American filmmaker's blog posting on Thompson and Vale picked up by The Huffington Post in major social media coup for NDP Churchill riding NDP

Ben X and Tricks of a Woman are on the bill

Reel North Film Festival continued their monthly documentary nights Feb. 2 in the Basement Bijou of the Thompson Public Library wit the 101-minute documentary, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, released in May 2009 by Walt Disney Pictures.

Meanwhile, Crystal Shawanda, an aboriginal country singer, who grew up on the Wikwemikong First Nation in Northern Ontario, offers the fourth City of Thompson Concert Series show Feb. 25

Inseparable making movie music, estranged personally, fascinating Hollywood story at RNFF at 7 p.m. tonight in the Basement Bijou of the Thompson Public Library

The Class and Nowhere Boy are on the bill

Punjabi world music folk singer Kiran Ahluwalia here Jan. 25

An innovative gardening program at Mel Johnson School in Wabowden is the subject of an award-winning film screening at Reel North Film Festival's first documentary night of 2011 Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Basement Bijou Room of Thompson Public Library.

The Thompson Festival of the Arts will once again be holding vocal, choral, speech, piano/strings and visual arts performance sessions from March through April. Registration closes Feb. 11.