FibreWorks Gallery and Studio in the yurts at Madeira Park is celebrating spring with the opening of their sixth season that features the work of Jennifer Love in a show titled Cuttings.
This exhibition opens this Saturday, March 30 and you have an opportunity to meet the artist from 2 to 4 p.m. It continues through to April 28.
Fibreworks is also busy with workshop scheduling, including the Els van Baarle batik master class and Mary Bentley's four-shaft weaving classes that have space available in the second session (May 11 and 12).
More information is available at www.fibreworksgallery.com. It's open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment at 12887 Sunshine Coast Highway in Madeira Park.
Meet the authors
This Saturday, March 30, from 1 to 3 p.m., Woods Showcase in Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons, will feature three Roberts Creek writers: Jane Covernton with her fiction, poetry and healing herb book, Micheal D. Mann, who recently published I am a Man Who Cries, and writer, performer and raconteur David Roche, author of The Church of 80% Sincerity. Stop by to meet the authors and browse their books.
Looking at art
A collective art show of Mental Health and Addictions' clients and staff,Looking Inward and Looking Outward,seeks to connect people with the community through art and help to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and addictions.An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, April 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Doris Crowston Gallery of the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.
Youth art show
Response was huge for The Young Makers Art Show currently on at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery. With more than 200 works of art by young people aged two to 18, it is a show sure to entertain, inform, connect and inspire. The show runs until April 15 at the GPAG. See www.gibsonspublicartgallery.ca for more details.
New album
This Is How We Go, Skye Wallace's brand new album, is set to release. Anchor Guitars in Vancouver will see the official launch on March 23, and Wallace returns home to Roberts Creek to unleash her new work on the Coast next Friday, April 5, at 9 p.m. at the Gumboot Café.
Mine show
Artist Francine Desjardins will be part of a group art show at the Britannia Mine Museum titled Above and Below Surface. The opening reception is next Friday, April 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. and the exhibit runs through Monday, April 29, during museum hours (daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Admission is free for members or included with regular admission. Britannia Mine Museum is at 20131 Forbes Way, Britannia Beach, just south of Squamish.
Cartea tour
Drummer Barry Taylor is on tour with Gibsons vocalist Deanna Cartea and he reports that the tour has been going great and they have been performing in Toronto. Besides the Deanna Cartea band performance last Friday, the band Delhi 2 Dublin with Sunshine Coaster Sara Fitzpatrick was also playing the same evening - the sets overlapped at different venues - plus the Mindil Beach Market guys were in town the following Tuesday.
"Thought that was/is pretty cool," Taylor said. "Three Coaster connections within one week, playing music in a far away city."
Hammond home
Mezzo soprano Patricia Hammond's marathon of 100 concerts during the course of three months in the Lower Mainland has come to an end. Her huge tour with an accompanist, Doug Balfour, involved singing at care homes as far away as Hope, Chilliwack, Agassiz and Richmond.
Before the Gibsons-born Hammond flew back to London, England, she also performed a few impromptu recitals with pianist Ken Dalgleish, one at Shorncliffe in Sechelt and the other at Christenson Village in Gibsons on the same day -an energetic accomplishment from a delightful singer.
Tuesday deadline
Let me know about your arts event by 5 p.m. Tuesday for Friday's paper. Email [email protected] or call 604-886-4692. Keep it brief, please.
