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Art Beat: Elves Club Telethon airs Saturday

The Elves Club Telethon features a variety of Sunshine Coast talent every December, and contributions can help make a lot of difference to many families on Christmas Day.
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The Elves Club Telethon features a variety of Sunshine Coast talent every December, and contributions can help make a lot of difference to many families on Christmas Day. There will be no live audience this year, but the show will go on with pre-recorded acts. As always, donations are easily made by phone. It starts at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 12, on channel 10 or 610 on Eastlink Community TV. 

Young artists 
This is the last weekend to see a wide selection of artworks by young local artists at the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt. On display are works submitted for the 2020 Young Artists Awards, in four age categories. You can also see submissions and winners of this year’s Banner Project. A committee selects the 20 finalists, whose designs are then projected, traced and hand-painted onto a six-foot length of fabric by volunteer artists. The banners will hang from February to November in Sechelt’s Civic Square. 

Book signing, 2020 style 
Local author Marion Crook, who writes under the name Emma Dakin, has published her second in a planned series of crime novels based in the U.K. She has created an engaging female sleuth, always reluctantly dragged into murder investigations, although she does find that the presence of certain handsome police detective lightens the load. (You can read a review in last week’s Coast Reporter, or in the paper online.) The author will be signing her books, physically distanced, in the vestibule at Gibsons Public Library on Saturday, Dec. 12 from 2 to 4 p.m. 

Comfort and Joy 
Off the Page is putting on its final production of the year with a reading of Sunshine Coast playwright David King’s seasonal comedy Comfort and Joy, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 13. The title is a bit of a double-entendre, as the well-to-do comfort of character Gini’s family is undone by a Christmas dinner guest, her new boyfriend’s mother, Joy. It will be performed live onstage at Presentation House Theatre in North Vancouver, but this is an online-only performance, with no audience in the house except for author King, who will be there along with the cast to chat with viewers after the show. Ticket information at sidedooraccess.com. 

Due to the pandemic, all listed live events are subject to change. Check ahead. Space is limited in Art Beat but please let us know about your events at arts@coastreporter.net