Vancouver-based “blues evangelist” Harpdog Brown brings his Uptown Blues Band to High Beam Dreams in Gibsons Friday, Nov. 1, as part of his For Love & Money Tour. “Blues has a healing power. It’s a beautiful celebration of our perfectly flawed lives,” says Brown. Doors at 7 p.m. Tickets $30 advance from sellers on the Coast and Eventbrite.com, $35 at the door.
Goodnight Desdemona
Lovesick and double-crossed, literature professor Constance Ledbelly takes a dream-like journey and encounters characters from Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet, who with wit and wisdom help her find the strength to win in the end. The Driftwood Players are midway through their three-weekend run of this exuberant tale, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. Friday Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinee Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. Tickets $15-$25.
Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis
In late 2018, essayist, environmentalist and Governor General Award-winning poet Jan Zwicky and author, translator and poet Robert Bringhurst together published the book Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis. At the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt on Saturday, Nov. 2, the pair will read from their book, which, “passionately pleads the cause of ‘the wild,’ threatened with destruction as a result of human depredation and arrogance.” A previous news release from the organizers inadvertently misstated the event’s timing. In fact, the doors open at 7 p.m., reading is at 7:30. Admission is by donation.
Our bad
The story on Christopher Norman Chocolates in the Oct. 25 edition of Coast Reporter misspelled master chocolatier and painter John Down’s name throughout the article. It has been corrected in the online version of the story. We sincerely regret the error.
Wildlife art
An exhibit of works by Sunshine Coast painter Karen Webb has opened at Gibsons Public Market. “The main focus of my paintings is local West Coast beach wildlife, from starfish to herons to seals,” says Webb. The show runs until Nov. 22.
Roots rangers
It sounds like the premise for a TV movie, but it’s real. Three national parks wardens from Banff who also happen to be musically talented, formed a folk/roots band in 2009, have recorded two albums and still hit the road together. The Wardens’ latest tour brings them to the Gumboot Café for a gig with the Billy Hillpicker Band on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Doors at 7 p.m. Tickets $12.
At the pubs
Singer-songwriter Charlotte Wrinch brings originals and covers, from folk to rock, to Tapworks in Gibsons on Saturday, Nov. 2 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
The Steve Hinton Band takes the stage at Gibsons Legion Saturday night at 8 p.m.
Famously faux
The Sunshine Coast Film Society’s final screening of the Oscar-nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me is on at Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 3:30 p.m. It’s a take on the career spinout of celebrated author Lee Israel, who starts making up “biographies” without letting on that they’re fiction. Stars Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.
Heads up
The unique entity that is Deer Crossing the Art Farm in West Howe Sound is marking its tenth anniversary this year. As part of the celebration, the society will debut its short-film, Submerged-The Rainforest Circus Tour. “Produced by Joah Lui, the film tells the story of the community engagement process, including collaboration with First Nations Knowledge Carriers, involved in the creation of their 2019 Rainforest Circus: Submerged.” Friday, Nov. 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kube Studios, in Gibsons.
Submissions
If there’s an event you’d like considered for Art Beat, please let us know by 11 a.m. Tuesday at [email protected]. Space is limited and, regrettably, we can’t list everything. Also check Coast Reporter’s Coast Community Calendar for more music and events.
