Will it be music or comedy for you on Saturday night (Sept. 22)?
Mandolinist Andrew Collins is a five-time Juno winner and has picked up seven Canadian Folk Music Awards. The man can play! He has co-founded Canadian bands, like the Creaking Tree String Quartet and Foggy Hogtown Boys. Collins brings his Trio and their acoustic/roots tunes to the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons from 8 to 10pm as part of the CD-release tour for their new double album, Tongue and Groove. $20 advance (at https://andrewcollinsmusic.net), $25 at the door.
Or, sit back for two-and-a-half hours of laughs (from 7:30 to 10pm, doors open 6:30) at the 7th Annual Comedy on the Coast at Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt. The show features three seasoned comedians: Dann Quinn, Darcy Michael, and Debra DiGiovanni.
The fundraiser benefits Sechelt Hospital Foundation, specifically pediatric care. The total raised by the previous six events is a very impressive $192,000. Those monies have helped build a birthing room in the Sechelt Hospital and a hearing booth at the Gibsons Medical Clinic. While it does benefit kids, it’ll be grown-up humour and is billed as an adult venue, so you have to be 19 years or older to attend. Tickets are $50. Call 604-989-2010 or go online to www.brownpapertickets.com.
Lauded documentary
You have two opportunities over the next few days to catch the film Faces Places, winner of 34 awards, including two at Cannes. Legendary director Agnès Varda, 89, teams up with photographer JR, 30, in a documentary odd-couple road movie set in southern France and celebrating life and art. The warmth they share is funny, genuine, and infectious. Saturday, Sept. 22 at 2pm at Raven’s Cry Theatre, Sechelt. Sunshine Coast Film Society members $5; non-members $9. Members can buy online at the society’s website. Doors 1:30. Second screening Monday, Sept. 24 at 7:30pm at Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. Doors at 7.
Greek Night
The food starts at 5:30pm, featuring Greek souvlaki, then at 7 it’s live music and dance with Yannis Sahamis & Olga Chnara. It’s happening at High Beam Dreams, 350 Glassford Rd, Gibsons. Tickets $20 for adults, $15 for kids accompanied by 19+, available at Laedeli, Strait Music, MELOmania, Olga’s HairStories.
Live Music
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Joe Stanton plays Saturday night (Sept. 22) starting at 6:30pm at the Back Eddy Resort & Marina, 16660 Backeddy Rd, Egmont.
Off the Page
Enjoy a play, “read by local actors before a live audience with no costumes or stage sets but with theatrical skill,” as writer Jan DeGrass described Off the Page last week. The play will be Relax, Gilgamesh, by David King, in which the author adapts the Legend of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian king who abdicated his throne in the city state of Uruk in order to become a god.
Much of the action takes place in a seaside tavern owned by Siduri, the Goddess of Wisdom and Beer, who helps Gilgamesh come to terms with being human. Featured readers: Wanda Nowicki, Steve Schwabl, Dave Hurtubise, Boyd Norman. Sunday Sept. 23, at 1pm at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons Admission is by donation.
Floral Dialogues & Painting with Fibre
Running until Oct. 14, the Sunshine Coast Arts Council presents the work of oil painter, Jennifer Goodwin, Floral Dialogues; and weaver, Eugenia Stephenson, Painting with Fibre. The exhibition is at the Doris Crowston Gallery, in the SC Arts Centre, Trail & Medusa in Sechelt.
The Opening Reception for the two artists is Sunday, Sept. 23, from 2-4pm. On Sunday, Sept. 30 at 1:30pm, Eugenia Stephenson will hold a weaving demonstration.
Classical Guitar Recital
Renowned and award-winning guitarists Trevor Cooper and Henry Reitan perform flamenco and classical Spanish stylings at St. Barthlomew’s Anglican Church Sunday, Sept. 23 at 2:30pm. Tickets $20 at the door.
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