The Pender Harbour Jazz Festival makes mellow music this weekend, Sept. 19 to 21. Lots of free events are on offer in downtown Madeira Park, at the Sunshine Coast Resort and John Henry’s Marina. Check out the Garden Bay Pub and other local restaurants for events at those venues. Saturday and Sunday’s Jazzapaloozas are an all-afternoon variety of jazz, Latin, swing, you-name-it for $25. See www.phjazz.ca for more details.
Art and Spirit
Art and Spirit is a public dialogue on spirituality and the creative process with a panel of Sunshine Coast artists: Paul Gibson, Ed Hill, Gigi Hoeller, Suzy Naylor and Ray Niebergall. Bishop Melissa Skelton, Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster, will moderate at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church in Sechelt, this Saturday, Sept. 20, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free admission. All are welcome.
Restless Fables
Restless Fables, an exhibition by artist Meghan Hildebrand, opens at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) on Sept. 19 and runs to Oct. 13.
“Masks came about as a way to combine place, memory and sense of self,” Hildebrand said. “My childhood in the Yukon was rich with art and storytelling. In particular, the indigenous art effected me with its stylized representations of nature and animals in dreamlike compositions.”
In the Eve Smart Gallery at GPAG, This Small Migration exhibits a series of paintings by artist Suzy Arbor inspired by her commute from the Coast to Vancouver.
Opening reception is this Saturday, Sept. 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. For further information contact Michael Aze at 604-885-0531 or at email [email protected].
Dirty Wars
The SC Film Society presents Dirty Wars, an American documentary by director Rick Rowley at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons on Monday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m.
Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill stumbles upon a U.S. night raid gone badly wrong in a remote corner of Afghanistan. His investigation leads him to unravel the secret manoeuvres of the shadowy and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) as he is drawn into the world of covert operations.
Admission is $5 members, $9 single event and annual membership, $20.
Poetry launch
Over the years local writer Dorothy Stott has always written poetry and had it published in various contest anthologies. In the last four years she has published three chapbooks and finally, decided to put together a collection, Dripping Bird Songs. The Gibsons and District Public Library is the venue for her book launch next Wednesday, Sept. 24 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Let the library know if you would like to attend at 604-886-2130. Goodies, tea and coffee will be served.
Book launch
Lynne Pettinger will present a reading from her first book Dance in My Shoes at Swish, the clothing shop in Lower Gibsons, on Thursday, Sept. 25 at 6:30 p.m.
The author grew up in a good Catholic family in eastern Canada, but her career path took her to a House Mom role for 250 exotic dancers in Las Vegas.
Nicaragua
Tella Sametz and Mohammed Asgari will be speaking about Nicaragua at a presentation at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt on Thursday, Sept. 25 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The couple built a house in Nicaragua and hope to show others why that location attracts them. Admission is by donation and all funds go to a Nicaraguan family that the couple is tying to support. There will also be a raffle for one of Sametz’s giclee prints. All are welcome.
Correction
Elizabeth Currie Buono currently sings with the professional Vancouver Chamber Choir (VCC), not the Vancouver Bach Choir as stated in the article about Choralations Choir in the Sept. 5 Coast Reporter. The vocalist did sing with the Vancouver Bach Choir while at university in 2008. The VCC will be on tour this fall, but performing The Messiah at the Orpheum in Vancouver on Dec. 12.
Keep me posted
Send your notice of arts events by Tuesday at 5 p.m. for Friday’s newspaper to [email protected] or phone 604-886-4692.
