Local Arts

SHAWN Williamson, co-founder of Brightlight Pictures, is working on a low-budget period piece based on a video game about the love and wrath of a half-human, half-vampire.

YOU don't need to have a big budget to enjoy good art and a book featuring an artist's works is a wonderful treat to find under the Christmas tree. - Artists of British Columbia, Volume 3, published by Leighdon Studio Gallery, 110 pages, $19.95.

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- We Bought a Zoo. Written and directed by Cameron Crow. Starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Ford and Elle Fanning.

EMPIRE ESPLANADE 6 New Year's Eve (PG) - Fri 4: 05, 6: 50, 10: 10; Sat 4: 05, 6: 50; Sun-Thur 10: 10 p.m. Young Adult (PG) - Fri, Mon-Thur 1: 10, 4: 15, 7: 30, 9: 50; Sat 1: 10, 4: 15, 7: 30; Sun 4: 15, 7: 30, 9: 50 p.m.

Blackbird Theatre presents Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1985 Venables St., Vancouver, Dec. 27-Jan. 21. For tickets and more information visit www.thecultch.com.

DIRECTOR David Gordon Green first emerged on the scene with his critically acclaimed story about an interracial group of kids, George Washington, which earned him a Best First Film Award from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Discovery Award a

Prince, Rogers Arena, Dec. 16.

I can't help but hum a few bars from Irving Berlin's White Christmas during my stay at Rowena's Inn by the River.

EMPIRE ESPLANADE 6 New Year's Eve (PG) - Fri 6: 40, 9: 40; Sat-Tue 12: 35, 3: 50, 6: 40, 9: 40; Wed 1: 05, 4: 05, 6: 50, 10: 10 p.m.