Local Arts

- CelticFest Vancouver, featuring more than 70 free and ticketed events at various indoor and outdoor venues, and the St. Patrick's Day Parade, in downtown Vancouver, March 10-18. Full schedule, artist line-up and tickets: www.celticfestvancouver.

Musician adds the guzheng to her repertoire of instruments

- Familia. Directors: Alberto Herskovits and Mikael Wistrom (Sweden, 2010).Tuesday, March 13 at 7: 30 p.m.

North Van's Craig Northey riding shotgun on tour

- John Carter. Directed by Andrew Stanton. Starring Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins. Rating: 6 (out of 10) TO the uninitiated, John Carter could be mistaken for the most recent Disney creation.

Diana Panton's To Brazil With Love pays tribute to the radical modernist Brazilian music which developed in Rio de Janeiro in the '50s and '60s.

This winter, The Whistler Sabbatical Project, set out to find people who were willing to unplug from their lives for a month to experience an all-expenses-paid, trip-of-a-lifetime to Whistler. Thousands said yes. One won.

THERE are three questions hikers and pilgrims ask each other when walking the 1,600 kilometre Santiago de Compostela, or Camino, pilgrimage trail.

It's minus 18?Celsius and I have to be careful handling the gun - any moisture on my finger and it will freeze to the metal trigger. Five grapefruit-sized targets sit 50 snow-flurried metres away.

GALLERIES Artemis Gallery: 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Info: 778-233-9805 or artemisgallery.ca. Noegenesis: New paintings by Shelley Fearnley will be on display until March 10.