With Mother’s Day coming up on Sunday, May 12, three local artists have put together a celebratory theatrical presentation, Mother Love. The first of two performances – in separate venues – is on Friday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Pender Harbour School of Music. Caitlin Hicks, Gordon Halloran, and Anna Lumiere honour mothers, with Hicks performing a variety of motherly characters from her many works. Halloran and Lumiere will pay homage to their mothers with piano and vocals. The second performance will be Friday, May 10, in Gibsons, at High Beam Dreams at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $22, $20 for students and seniors, available at the usual outlets and online at www.share-there.com.
Alt Mother Goose
This weekend is your last chance to get to the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons to catch the very fun Driftwood Theatre School production, Mother Goose is Eaten by Werewolves. There is just one more evening show, Friday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m., and matinées at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5. Tickets are $15 adults, $10 youth, from Blackberry Shop, Giggle n’ Bloom, Strait Music, Laedeli Gifts, and www.share-there.com.
Favourites
Vancouver-based abstract painter Lisa Ochowycz’s latest collection of her subtly layered atmospheric landscapes, A Few of My Favourite Things, will be on view at The Kube in Gibsons starting Friday, May 3. The opening reception is that evening, from 6 to 9 p.m., with a wine bar and snacks. Ochowycz’s show runs until May 31.
La Bilingual Butterfly
The Sunshine Coast women’s treble choir Inspirito Vocal Ensemble presents two performances this weekend of its spring concert, La Bilingual Butterfly. Under the direction of Sarona Mynhardt, the program celebrates “love, reflection and joy on the garden path, from African and South American rhythms to contemporary choral and folk music.” Shows on Saturday, May 4, at 2:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 5, at 6 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church, 711 Park Road, Gibsons, Tickets $15, available at 778-888-4957 or 604-790-9657, or on the Inspirito Vocal Ensemble website.
Paint Night
Andrea Mueller, a Whistler-based artist and graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, offers an opportunity to learn a few painting skills and have some relaxed fun. She supplies everything you’ll need, including a canvas. The evening is for those aged 15 years and up. It’s at the Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek, Saturday, May 4, from 7 to 9 p.m., but you’re asked to be there by 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $55, available from Mueller’s website: andrealikesart.com
Off the couch
The Sofa Kings – Darren Cassidy, Scott Reinson, Dave Hurtubise, and Mitch Lazer – hope to get you off the couch for their dance-rock gig at the Gibsons Legion on Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m. $5 members, $10 non-members.
Rockfish art
Get creative and paint a rockfish (a plywood cut-out, actually) to help celebrate local marine wildlife and World Oceans Day coming up next month. The Nicholas Sonntag Marine Education Centre at Gibsons Public Market is holding a month-long awareness and fundraising community art event you can be part of. Rockfish is a broad name for several varieties of fish, including Pacific snapper, some of which live in our Salish Sea waters. In partnership with Deer Crossing the Art Farm, there will be a rockfish decorating party from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the market on Saturday, May 4. A $25 donation gets you a plywood rockfish, decorating supplies, plus a family day pass to the public aquarium. You have until May 21 to decorate your fish. On May 23, they all go on display for two weeks, culminating in the World Ocean Day Festival June 7 to 9, when the fish will be auctioned off to help benefit the marine education centre.
Submissions
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