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Art Beat: Free lantern-making workshop

In anticipation of the Gibsons Shorelight Lantern Festival at Winegarden Park on July 27, the Town of Gibsons and local businesses are sponsoring a free, all-ages, lantern-making workshop on Saturday, July 20 between 1 and 5 p.m. at Sunnycrest Mall.
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Musician James Bowers will be performing off grid in surround sound at the end of Roberts Creek pier every Sunday starting at 8 p.m. from July 21 to Aug. 25.

In anticipation of the Gibsons Shorelight Lantern Festival at Winegarden Park on July 27, the Town of Gibsons and local businesses are sponsoring a free, all-ages, lantern-making workshop on Saturday, July 20 between 1 and 5 p.m. at Sunnycrest Mall. All materials will be provided. A shout-out to the Town, Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons Building Supplies, Seaweeds Health Food store, and London Drugs for helping to make this possible.

Choices, choices

If you’re looking for an evening’s entertainment on Friday, July 19, you have some choices to make. Among the options, High Beam Dreams in Gibsons presents the highly touted The Fugitives at 7:30 p.m., preceded at 4 p.m. by an optional gourmet barbecue dinner and spoken-word performance by Paul Newcombe. Tickets are available at Laedeli, Blackberry Shop, MELOmania, Strait Music and online at www.share-there.com.

At the Heritage Play-house in Gibsons at 8 p.m., the international flamenco music and dance ensemble Fin de Fiesta Flamenco presents Sempiterno, a story of the flamenco art form and its power to lure ambitious performers away from their home countries to Spain. Tickets at Laedeli Gifts in Sunnycrest Mall or online at eventbrite.ca.

Benevolent bash

On Saturday, July 20, it’s the eighth annual Peanut Butter Jam Food Bank Benefit, this year being held at Henderson Beach (at the west end of Beach Avenue in Roberts Creek), starting at 1 p.m. You can catch an afternoon of live classic rock and originals by a few different bands, including Slightly Twisted and special guests. Cash donations and peanut butter will be gratefully accepted for the food bank.

James on the jetty

Virtuoso electric guitarist James Bowers is once again performing a string of summer Sunday Sunset Serenades at the end of the pier in Roberts Creek, starting July 21. Featuring original instrumental tunes and some covers (he’s a big Jeff Beck fan), “the music ranges from chill to high energy – but is never harsh or loud,” Bowers says. Every Sunday until Aug. 25, at 8 p.m., weather permitting. Free, “but donations are gratefully accepted to cover costs.”

Music from the Bamboo Forest

The Coast’s Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos, multi-instrumentalist and master of the shakuhachi (end-blown bamboo flute), accompanied by taiko drummer Nori Akagi, will perform new arrangements of traditional Japanese folk songs and their original compositions on Sunday, July 21, from 6:20 to 7:30 p.m. at Davis Bay Hall, 5123 Davis Bay Rd. Tickets are $15, available at eventbrite.ca.

So much music!

Thursday nights at The Old Boot Eatery in Sechelt, singer-songwriter Joe Stanton, thankfully, is still doing a regular gig, six years on. Joe’s country/folk- and blues-flavoured originals and covers are always worth a listen.

Noizzjazz – that is, Bill Clark, Anna Lumiere, Giorgio Magnanensi, Graham Ord, Ron Samworth, Paul Steenhuis and Barry Taylor – performs at the Gumboot Café on Friday, July 19, starting at 7:30 p.m.

At the Old Boot on Saturday, July 20, it’s the Blue Line Duo, from 6 to 9 p.m. The duo is then doing some afternoon sets on Sunday at the 101 Brewhouse in Gibsons, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday night, The Sofa Kings will get you up off the couch at the Gibsons Legion, 8 p.m.

Slow Sundays in the Creek has a line-up this weekend that includes Loose Endings, Foolish Man and the rock harmonies of Pyro and the Maniacs. From noon to 3:30 p.m. at the gazebo behind the library in Roberts Creek.

The music is also free and good at Music in the Landing in Gibsons all weekend, and early Saturday afternoons at the Sechelt Summer Music Series on the stage by the library.

Travel sketching

Teaching how to use pocket-sized equipment in a fuss-free process, watercolour artist Hiroshi Shimazaki is offering another set of one-day travel-sketching workshops at Gibsons Public Art Gallery. “Attendance at an earlier workshop is desirable but not mandatory, especially for those who have landscape watercolour sketching experience.” Saturdays August 3, 10 or 24, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a lunch break. Call GPAG for further information and to register

Submissions

If you have an event you’d like considered for Art Beat, please let us know by 11 a.m. Tuesday at arts@coastreporter.net. Space is limited. Also check Coast Reporter’s Coast Community Calendar for more music and events.