Local Arts

After a pandemic hiatus, the Youth Indigenous Festival is back on Aug. 19 at Hackett Park

More than 600 volunteer painters contributed to the circular design on pavement near the mouth of Roberts Creek.

40th annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts is under way

Also, here's what's on for the summer music series

The 7th annual Rogue Fest will take place from Aug. 19 to 21 at the family-run Clarke Farm in Wilson Creek. 

Artists Reave Dennison's Under Six Tons and Laara Cerman's Codex Pacificus are on at Gibsons Public Art Gallery to Aug. 21

The Sechelt Summer Music Series continues with two performances on Saturday, Aug. 6, at the outdoor stage in Hackett Park. The lineup begins at noon with Susana Williams, whose musical career began in Caracas, Venezuela, at the age of 13.

The Lego city painstakingly constructed by Madeira Park resident Chriistine Nash over six years includes Vancouver City Hall, a spaceport, and a Volkswagen Beetle dangling from a bridge (a shoutout to UBC engineering students). It will all be demolished in September.

Ḵung Jaadee, whose heritage includes X̱aayda (Haida),  xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations, will recount Sḵwx̱wú7mesh legends popularized by Mohawk author and performer E. Pauline Johnson during an all-ages event at the library on Saturday, Aug. 6. 

The inaugural Art and Words Festival will take place at Mission Point House in Davis Bay Aug. 11 to 14. The event is a project of the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society, which was founded last year.