Arrowhead presents a hip hop fundraiser tonight (Friday) at Roberts Creek Hall at 8:30 p.m. featuring The Ground Breakers from Vancouver who perform the Boom Bap sound. Guest performers include Jake Money & Chi Nois Blanc as well as Bound2B, DJs Babie Paul & DJ Leaf as well a "B" Boy Tommy. Tickets are $18, available at WindSong Gallery, MELOmania, Hair Reflections and Gaia's Fair Trade. Tickets are $20 at the door. Photo ID is required.
Theatre or funk
You can get down dancing with God Made Me Funky at the Roberts Creek Hall on Saturday night or attend the theatre to see The Drawer Boy, a Driftwood Players production, that opens this weekend at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons.
Fibre art
Surfacing is an exhibition of contemporary fibre art by Wendy Browne of Salmon Arm to be shown at the FibreWorks Gallery in Pender Harbour.
The artist explains that the idea of Surfacing was a way to get through some rough patches, smooth things over, learn, come to the surface, texturize. And to work on images that are not always meant to just please these are meant to be thought provoking and to stimulate. Everyone is invited to the opening reception, Saturday, Nov. 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. at FibreWorks Gallery, on the highway between Madeira Park and Garden Bay. See www.gunboatbaylodge.com/fibreworks.html or phone 604-883-2380.
Coast history
Following the Sechelt Archives website event two weeks ago, everyone interested in Sunshine Coast history is invited to the inaugural meeting of the Sechelt History Club on Sunday, Nov. 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Community Meeting Room in the Sechelt Library/Municipal building.
Sechelt banners
The theme for the Sechelt banner project 2010 is "I Dream About" Submission deadline is Nov. 8, and the exhibition will be at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in conjunction with the Young Artists Awards Show, Nov. 25 to Dec. 20.
Students aged five through 15 are asked to submit a design on 4.25 in. by 11 in. paper. The call for entry goes out to all the elementary schools on the Coast. All the entries are put on exhibit; a committee of adults choose 19 designs to be transformed into banners. On the last day of the exhibition, the 19 students whose designs were selected for the upcoming year's banners are presented with a certificate and a T-shirt emblazoned with their design.
The designs are projected and traced onto two-metre banners. Volunteer artists carefully match the paint colours and render each design by hand, being faithful to the young artist's designs. The completed banners will be hung from light posts on Cowrie and Wharf streets for the summer months.
Carnival concert
Carnival Era, the Coast's newest band: Chelsea Craw-ford, Ross Hastings, Spencer Watts and Chris Mortensen perform on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Augusta Grill in Sechelt (beside the golf course).
Bands do battle
Pack Ratt Louie's Battle of the Bands concluded round two Wednesday, Nov. 4 with Starslide, Drew Camp Band, Sinmobile, Jump Back Jack and Bone-machine competing.
On Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. The People, Slicktones, Copper Stills, Boab and Get Away Van do battle to begin round three.
Spanish film
The S.C. Film Society brings a Spanish film to audiences at the Roberts Creek Hall on Monday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m.
Set in a remote Castilian village in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Spirit of the Beehive is one of the most haunting and beautiful stories of childhood in movie history. Six-year-old Ana (Ana Torrent) is an emotional orphan of the conflict. Her father spends his time beekeeping, her mother writing letters to an imaginary lover. When Ana sees Frankenstein, she becomes transfixed by the monster and the terrible beauty he represents. Season members $5, single event $8. Doors open at 7 p.m. Film Society screenings will return to Gibsons after this week's event in Roberts Creek.
Fiddlers
The Coast String Fiddlers launched their fundraising drive for the Aberdeen International Youth Music Festival with a successful family dance and ceilidh at Harmony Hall in Gibsons on Oct. 24. The audience danced to the music of the fiddlers and enjoyed participating in traditional country dances. More family dances will be held at Harmony Hall as the fiddlers fundraise their way to Aberdeen, Scotland.
Pacific Madrone
Ann Willsie's Pacific Madrone exhibition at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) continues to Nov. 23. The gallery thanks Alison Sawyer Law Office for its support. The 2010 memberships to support the GPAG are now available. Pick up your 2010 Calendar of Exhibitions and the annual report. Winter hours are now in effect: noon to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays.
Acoustic jam
The Garden Bay Pub announces a new event for musicians on the Sunshine Coast. Beginning Nov. 14, the pub will have an acoustic jam every Saturday night from 8 to 11 p.m. They welcome musicians of all calibres and players of acoustic instruments to join the host, Greg of the Slow and White Band. Musicians will explore the classics and new material, and maybe make some things up as they go along. For more information, call 604-865-0688 or the pub at 604-883-2674.
Walker art
The latest show at One 0 One Office Supply in Sechelt features the art of Florence Walker. She attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has studied with well-known B.C. artists. She has been painting and writing for over 20 years. For this show Walker has provided a selection of water colours, studies in mixed media and a number of acrylics. Covering abstract, symbolic and representational, this collection generates an agreeable tension.
Please send notice of arts events to [email protected] or phone 604-886-4692 by Tuesday at 6 p.m. for Friday's paper.
