Local Arts

Chilean-Canadian guitarist Oscar Lopez — a two-time-Juno award winner — will perform in Sechelt later this month, headlining a benefit concert for the Ruby Slipper Black Boot Fund.

The creatures depicted in artist Marianne Hansen’s debut solo exhibition Birds of Prey may be high flyers — majestic, strong, sagacious — but Hansen applies her skill with wire armatures and mixed fibres to keep her flock tethered t

Works by more than 140 member artists are displayed for a month-long period.

Slow Sundays in the Creek concerts take place in the heart of the Creek, behind the community library.

The Sechelt Summer Music Series — underwritten by the District of Sechelt — has concentrated its focus on a single headliner each Saturday at the Hackett Park amphitheatre.

Twelfth Night appears at the Rockwood Pavilion in Sechelt over six 7 p.m. performances on July 4, 5, 10, and 11 — and two 2 p.m. matinees on July 6 and 12.

Murder in a Small Town will be a high-calibre presence at this year’s Leo awards after the locally shot TV series earned nine nominations for the annual honours.

The Megaron choristers will perform at St. John’s United Church on Monday, June 30 at 1 p.m. Admission by donation.

Boismier — who works for the TV and movie animation industry under his sobriquet Tooninator, by engineering the characters for new productions — opened his home-based gallery to Art Crawl visitors for the first time last fall.

“What draws me to everything I paint is usually some kind of sunrise or sunset,” said Taylor, “and pressing the colours a little bit forward.”