Local Arts and Culture

Marina Endicott's new novel takes a view of a morally dubious event that really happened. How would you feel if a relative of yours went on a trip and took a child? How would the child feel? Endicott will be in conversation with Jacqueline Baker during a special STARFest event on Friday.

No Woman Without. Period. is wrapping up its third annual month-long menstrual hygiene product drive this weekend with an outstanding total of 75,000 individual items collected at an estimated retail value of nearly $20,000.

Writer-director Michael Winterbottom hits the nail on the head with his new film Greed, featuring Steve Coogan as a billionaire business mogul whose every success in business is matched by a contrasting failure in his personality.

It's been much overlooked until now. Black history in Alberta is put in focus with a series of information panels put on extended display in the permanent exhibit space at the Musée Héritage Museum.

Disappearance at Clifton Hill is not a tourism ad for Niagara Falls, where the movie is set. A kidnapping is witnessed by a young girl who grows up broken because of it. Solving the crime might just be her salvation, but there's a lot of strings to tie together to do it in writer/director Albert Shin's masterful film.

Jumoke Verissimo brings poetic language and sensibility to her acclaimed début novel, a beautiful and sad story of Nigerian trauma and the unlikely friendship between two people who have secrets that are too painful to share. She will be joined by host Lisa Martin in a STARFest presentation on Saturday to mark Black History Month.

Have you wondered what happened to the importance of neighbours in our all-too-connected world? An event coming to the library on Thursday aims to help people reconnect with their communities.