Arts

Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, 1 June 2010 (CBNS) — Her recent book unexpectedly atop British Columbia’s bestseller list, painter Carol Evans is pleased that the book’s success is making a wider audience aware of the beauty of the Pacific shoreline she calls home.

Cast and crew. From left to right - Back row: Kate Digby (dancer), Javad Mohammad Zarabian (composer), Erika Batdorf (director). Front row: Matthew Romantini (actor), Iris Turcott (editor), Marya Lowry (voice trainer and actress), Shohreh Haghiri (singer), Elisa Iannacone (production), Sarah Mersereau (stage manager). Not pictured: Meegwun Fairbrother (actor and musician). Toronto, Ontario, 19 May 2010 (CBNS) — “Cease idly repeating the traditions of the past,” proclaimed the 19th-century Persian poet Tahirih. That’s exactly what the collaborators in Erika Batdorf’s new play about the poet had to do while developing the production.

Beth McKenty (centre) at the 2008 Exhibition.Iqaluit, Nunavut, 16 April 2009 (CBNS) — Beth McKenty moved to Iqaluit in 1999 to fulfill a pledge, made 45 years earlier, to devote part of her life to reducing youth suicide.

Within two weeks of arriving she had begun a project to help children build self-esteem by exploring their creativity. The Arctic Youth Art Initiative has since grown to involve hundreds of children.

Community outreach volunteers from Concordia University Television lead a workshop in professional video productionMontreal, Quebec, 1 October 2008 (CBNS) — On the weekend of September 19-21, a diverse group of young adults gathered at the Montreal Bahá’í Centre and the House of Friendship – a community centre that is owned by the Mennonites and that has several local groups working out of it – for a “skills-share” conference aimed at contributing to the transformation of their physical, emotional and spiritual environment.

Mr. Paul Lample addressing a plenary session of this years' ABS conferenceSan Diego, California (CBNS)- Scholarly pursuits should be governed by a humble posture of learning. According to Mr. Paul Lample, this describes the activities of local Bahá’í communities throughout the world as they strive to make intellectual, moral and spiritual education more and more systematic.