Local Arts

The Kube gallery in Gibsons held its inaugural Mini Makers Market on April 13.

‘At a time when artists are struggling with receiving pittance from streaming services, they need live music venues more than ever’: After High Beam Dreams shared that it may need to cease live concerts, neighbours started volunteering their support – and it grew from there.

More than two years after artist Gabriele Beyer's Osoyoos home was burglarized and her entire inventory of hand-painted ties was stolen, some of the ties showed up at a Gibsons thrift store.

A research project exploring the vitality of senior life on the Sunshine Coast is using three-dimensional art to root meaningful conversations. 

The grand reveal of the student-created mosaic at school library

Songwriter Steve Wright plans multi-month tour on the Coast

Stories from Skins and Skirts features collaborations by Eleanor Hannon and Elizabeth Dancoes, and Jane Kenyon and Jude Neale. Each artist-and-poet pair has maintained a mutually inspiring friendship for years.

The newly opened show at The Kube gallery in Gibsons is the result of intersections between artists with links to the Sunshine Coast.

Time and Shadows, which played at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons on March 23, was a full-length performance developed by Gerardo Avila and Steven Schwabl. Schwabl is a professional actor who first worked with Avila in 2018 when Avila — a career clown, mime and magician with a master’s degree in Hispanic and Italian studies — organized the Satio Circus. 

The longest-running festival on the Sunshine Coast will observe its 50th anniversary this month. The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts was founded in 1973 by the Gibsons Kiwanis Club and organized its first adjudicated performances for young artists in 1974.