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Underground Live Music at Guilt & Co
Arts & Culture
Catch a Show at The ACT Arts Centre
Thirty live shows a year in a 486-seat suburban theatre that makes a proper night out cost less than you'd spend on regret.
Arts & Culture
Thirty live shows a year in a 486-seat suburban theatre that makes a proper night out cost less than you'd spend on regret.
The ACT is Maple Ridge's solution to the 'nothing to do in the suburbs' problem, and it is a very good solution. The building near Memorial Peace Park holds a 486-seat theatre, an intimate studio space, and a free art gallery under one tidy roof, which is either excellent planning or a very good accident. The ACT Presents season runs around 30 shows a year: touring musicians, theatre, the occasional name that makes you say 'oh, they're still touring.' And the prices are the kind that make a real night out feel almost responsible, which is its own form of romantic. Wander the gallery before the show, grab your seats, and congratulate yourselves on discovering Maple Ridge's surprisingly decent cultural life.
