You and your family are invited to an evening of Masquerade and Revelry this Saturday, June 7, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. for a family friendly party fundraiser at the Roberts Creek Hall.
It’s a fundraiser for the Art Farm’s Synchronicity Festival and it will include circus acts, shadow puppets and carnival treats. Katherine Denham will be performing trapeze and other fun and creative acrobatic partnering work with her friend Keely. Play and enjoy the live music, masks, costumes and performances. Then the fun continues after 9 p.m. for those aged 19-plus. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for kids at the door.
Live Love Dance
The Coast Academy of Dance year-end show, Live Love Dance, takes place at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8, at the Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt.
Tickets are $22 for adults, $17 seniors and youth, available at the Coast Academy of Dance office, Lucky’s Smokehouse and Pretty Natty Duds in Sechelt.
Drawing the head
The Sunshine Coast Arts Council presents Drawing the Human Head with artist Heather Spears. Course runs from Monday to Thursday, June 9 to 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.
Call 604-885-5412 for information and registration.
Concert
Russell deCarle, founding member, lead vocalist and bassist of iconic Canadian country roots band Prairie Oyster, performs at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons on Wednesday night, June 11.
The 8 p.m. concert will feature Steve Briggs on guitar and Denis Keldie on accordion. Tickets are $20, available at Gaia’s Fair Trade, Laedeli, Sechelt Visitor Centre or at the door. See www.heritageplayhouse.com for more information or call 604-886-8998.
Farewell and hello
Coast Phoenix Choir recently held a farewell concert for their director Michael Grice. Grice became director of the choir after Bill Bourns’ death in July 2012.
In January 2013 Coast Phoenix Singers amalgamated with Suncoast Singers of Sechelt to form Suncoast Phoenix Community Choir. In addition to his current role as music director of both Suncoast Phoenix and Choral Connections in Coquitlam, Grice has recently been conducting the Creek Big Band, as well as playing saxophone in the Suncoast Concert Band — all this after his retirement from a career as music educator and secondary school administrator, then as director of education for Vancouver Opera.
Now Grice and his partner Étienne Champagne are moving to a house they recently purchased near Quebec City. He will most definitely be missed.
Sara Douglas has agreed to be the new choir musical director next fall. She is one of School District No. 46’s dedicated music specialist teachers and is a gifted soprano soloist, a former student of Bourns. Coast choristers have enjoyed Douglas’ summer choir for the past two years, which she directs along with her long-time friend David Millard. This year in August the summer choir will be performing the Dvorak Mass in D Major and Vivaldi’s Credo.
Sea Salt wins
Sea Salt: Recipes from the West Coast Galley by British Columbia-based authors Lorna Malone, Alison Malone Eathorne and Hilary Malone (Harbour Publishing; $29.95) has won third place in the 2014 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards’ competition for the world’s best fish and seafood book.
The results were announced at the first Beijing Cookbook Fair May 20 to 21, which Hilary Malone attended to accept the award.
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards had named Sea Salt Canada’s best fish and seafood book in late 2013, making it eligible for this worldwide honour. Sea Salt is the collaborative project of the Malone family, who have been exploring Canada’s West Coast together aboard their sailboat, Aeriel, for more than 20 years. Gorgeously illustrated with fresh photography from the Coast’s Christina Symons, the recipes feature ingredients from many of the one-of-a-kind farmers’ markets and local food and drink artisans.
Show added
Murder at the Reach has been a huge hit with performances at Pebbles Restaurant sold out, as has the June 13 show at Leo’s.
Tickets are available for the Madeira Park Hall show on June 14 by calling 604-740-2077, or online at driftwood players.ca
And due to the clamour for tickets, a lunch time show has been added for Sunday, June 15, at 1:30 p.m. at Leo’s in Gibsons. Call 604-886-9414 for tickets.
