Gibsons Public Market presents a timely screening of the Oscar-nominated film Chasing Ice at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 27. The 75-minute documentary follows National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to document a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. The morning screening is meant to enable viewers to catch the film and get up to the early afternoon Climate Strike gathering at Persephone Brewing. Admission is $10 to $12 for the film.
Art Walk
Culture Days is an event held since 2010 in communities across the country on the last Friday of September. On the Sunshine Coast, it’s celebrated with a professionally guided Public Art Walking Tour that “will cover Sechelt’s newest murals, sculptures, and a hidden waterfront gem.” The hour-long walk starts at 11 a.m. at the Sechelt Public Library. And it’s free.
Comedy on the Coast
If you’re up for some laughs, they will be found in mass quantities at Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt on Saturday, Sept. 28, with Comedy on the Coast, featuring professional comics Dan Quinn, Erica Sigurdson, and Dave Nystrom. All the better, the show is a benefit for the Sechelt Hospital Foundation. It’s adults-only, with doors at 6:30 p.m. and show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 from brownpapertickets.com.
Shades of Gray
One of Canada’s most accomplished writer-composers, John MacLachlan Gray lives in Sandy Hook and generally keeps a low profile, but he’s stepping out for a reading at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt on Saturday, Sept. 28. The creator of award-winning musicals Billy Bishop Goes to War, Rock and Roll and many more, Gray has for many years also been writing crime fiction. The reading is at 7:30 p.m. at the Arts Centre on Medusa Street, admission by donation.
Flamenco roots
Are the origins of flamenco to be found in the dance traditions of India? That question is a theme explored by La Carmelita Dance Company’s production of NRITYA, to be performed Saturday, Sept. 28, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. “This original dance and music production follows a first generation Indo-Canadian woman’s discovery of flamenco and how her newfound passion ties her to her Indian roots,” the company said in a release. “Mesmerizing, intimate and original.” Tickets $22 in advance from Eventbrite.ca, $25 at the door.
bro-ken
A unique exhibit opens at FibreWorks Studio and Gallery in Madeira Park on Saturday, Sept. 28. In the show titled bro-ken, artists Catherine Nicholls and Elizabeth Harris ask us to “imagine a work that lasts for centuries: it ages, it cracks, it may be broken and repaired but the maker’s vision remains. Imagine what we create now being used, breaking, being mended and repaired.” There’s an opening reception 2 to 4 p.m. at the yurt complex at 12887 Sunshine Coast Highway.
STRUT
Iron Moon Burlesque is putting on its cheeky show STRUT at the shíshálh Nation Hall in Sechelt on Saturday, Sept. 28. One of the guest performers will be “the Sunshine Coast’s only Queen of Scream, Irene Orallo,” the producers say. It runs from 9 to 11 p.m. $20.
At the pubs
• On Friday, Sept. 27, Vancouver party-funk band The Maneuver plays the Roberts Creek Legion at 9 p.m.
• On Saturday at 9:30 p.m. at the RC Legion, Halfmoon Bay’s Simon Paradis and Farm Team hold a release-party performance of his new CD, Grooves and Ruts. See feature story on page 33.
• On Sunday, Sept. 29, the 101 Brewhouse in Gibsons offers “a fun night of incredible improvisational music with the best talents on the Coast,” with the band Tetrahedron. It starts at 8 p.m. No cover.
Colette
The Sunshine Coast Film Society presents Colette, “a delightful and provocative biopic, starring Keira Knightley as the celebrated French writer and gay icon, Gabrielle Colette. Dominic West stars as her first husband Willie (Henry Gauthier-Villars), a Parisian publisher and notorious libertine.” Quite the early-20th-century couple. But there’s much more to the story than flings and affairs, as Colette fights to legitimize her artistic identity. Thursday, Oct. 3, at 2 p.m., at Raven’s Cry Theatre, Sechelt and Monday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m., at Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons.
Heads up
Vancouver-based psychedelic country soul rockers Real Ponchos will be bringing their new album Sunshine to the Sunshine Coast with a gig at High Beam Dreams in Gibsons on Saturday, Oct. 5.
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.
