* Scheduling for all events listed in Art Beat is subject to change due to current health concerns.*
The rarified world of high-end art is a place of eye-watering prices, where works can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars. The film The Price of Everything looks at this puzzling phenomenon. The 2018 documentary by Nathaniel Kahn “isn’t a rant against money culture,” as one critic noted, but “a freewheeling meditation on what art is” and “the value of beauty.” It screens at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt on Sunday, March 15 at 10:30 a.m.
Parasite
This might be your last chance to see a local big-screen presentation of Parasite, the Oscar-winner for best picture, best director and best original screenplay, plus winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes. The South Korean smash is on at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17. Doors at 7. Sunshine Coast Film Society members get first dibs on tickets and seats. $5 to $9.
Fafard
Local blues and roots master Joël Fafard performs his acoustic show at the Heritage Playhouse on Saturday, March 14, before setting off on the European leg of his 2020 tour. Doors at 7:30 p.m., show at 8. $20 advance tickets at local outlets and www.share-there.com, $25 at the door.
Shout Out
The Gibsons Public Art Gallery’s annual youth-art show is on now, with an opening reception on Saturday, March 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. Young artists up to age 18 sent in one or two works. “There is no judgment or jury: every applicant who submits is assured of having at least one piece of art included.” There are always some promising pieces at these shows. It runs until April 5.
Thread
A solo exhibition by Iranian-born Vancouver artist Mehran Modarres-Sadeghi opens this week at the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, showcasing two of her projects. Ma Miaeem va Miravim (We Come and Go) uses a Grade 1 Dick and Jane book to explore the globalization of English, and the “third space” of hybrid languages like Persian-English. The second part of the show, Thread, is described as “is a series of sculptures made from everyday objects wrapped in black string,” another take by Modarres-Sadeghi on cross-culturalization. There’s an opening reception on Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m.
50 years of art
Coast Raven Design Studios on the highway in Davis Bay is marking 50 years of producing Indigenous art in B.C., first in North Vancouver, then here on the Coast. Founder Richard de la Mare has teamed up with carver Artie George for nearly 40 of those years. They’re celebrating with a one-day sale and savings of 10 to 40 per cent off, Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Funny future
The season’s final reading-performance by the Off the Page is Sunday, March 15 at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons, starting at 1 p.m. The featured work is award-winning local playwright David King’s How Things Have Changed, set in Gibsons a few years in the future. It’s not sci-fi, but it is timeless comedy, generated by the play’s three characters. King will be on hand to chat with the audience afterwards. Admission by donation.
Saturday night stand-up
Painter, former policeman and hilarious, occasional auctioneer Ed Hill performs his comedy show at the 101 Brewhouse on Saturday, March 14. Other talented comedians will also be featured. The brew will cost you, but the show is free, courtesy of Ed Hill and Mixed Nuts Productions, 8 p.m.
More weekend music
• The Friday dinner music at the Roberts Creek Legion on March 13 will be provided by Jim Taylor as part of a Burger and Beverage fundraiser for local Scouts to help send two delegates and their leaders to a summer Jamborette in Belgium. $25 for adults, $12 for kids; 5 p.m. start.
• The Pender Harbour School of Music Coffee House on Friday, March 13 features musicians David Jones, Michelle Morand and Lori Carmichael, plus the Lynn Urquhart Band, with Lynn on vocals and keyboards, guitarist Sacha Fassaert, drummer Michael Munro and bassist Gordie Birtch, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $10.
• The Millar-Bowie Band – “three lively sexagenarians with a common delusion that starting a rock band would be a fine way to spend their golden years” – plays Gibsons Public Market from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 14.
• Tapworks in Gibsons is putting on a St. Paddy’s Bash on Saturday, March 14 with music starting at 2:30 p.m. with Grant Olsen, followed by Nick Farrer, then DJ Cronneloctopus. Salt & Swine will be on site with an Irish Pub menu from lunchtime to 5 p.m.
• Mud Bay, formerly the Mud Bay Blues Band, is in at the Roberts Creek Legion on Saturday, March 14. These guys know a lick or two, with more than four decades of playing together before audiences all over Western Canada. They hit the stage at 8:30 p.m. $8 members, $15 guests.
• Soulful songsmith Simon Paradis hosts The Sunday Jam Session on March 15 at the Pender Harbour Golf Club restaurant, 2 to 6 p.m., admission by donation.
Submissions
If there’s an event you’d like considered for Art Beat, please let us know by 11 a.m. Tuesday at [email protected]. Space is limited and, regrettably, we can’t list everything. Also check Coast Reporter’s Coast Community Calendar for more music and events.
