This is the final weekend for Music in the Landing celebrating its seventh year as a free, live, outdoor music series sponsored by the Town of Gibsons.
Tonight (Aug. 28) from 7 to 8 p.m. in the gazebo at the end of the wharf you can hear the Duttons. Fans can get close and comfortable to hear this large group of pickin' and singin' folk and even get to sing along.
Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. get ready for another large collection of talent as Soupbean Katie & the Cornpones wake up your day. Saturday afternoon the series presents its annual Youth Showcase from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Winegarden Waterfront Park celebrating many of our talented emerging young artists. In the evening from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Winegarden Park will be the venue for the final concert for the summer. Bring a blanket as the nights are cooling off and enjoy the solo voice and finger picking guitar of Joe Stanton followed by the Lowry Olafson Trio with Susann Richter and a new voice to the coast, Jacques Legere.
On Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the sundial stage next to the Sunday Market, The Rod Millican Trio with Barry Taylor on drums and Chris Jordan-Knox, bass, will end this year's season.
Starlight Films
The Sunshine Coast Film Society invites everybody to pack up beach blankets and lawn chairs and head to Winegarden Park in Gibsons on Saturday, Sept. 5 to enjoy an evening of family movies screened in the great outdoors.
Once again, Beachcombers episodes will be shown, and actor Jackson Davies (who played Constable Constable) will be in attendance to introduce them. Animated shorts from the National Film Board will also be screened. This is a free event. There will be a draw for lawn prizes, and popcorn will be sold. It starts at dusk (approx. 8:30 p.m.) It is recommended that everyone bring warm clothes and a flashlight. If the weather does not cooperate, the alternate rain date is Saturday, Sept. 12. For further details see www.scfs.ca.
Container Art
If you're heading to the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) this year look for the work of Roberts Creek design artist, Robert Studer, who has been selected to show at a new exhibition called Container Art Exhibit, a unique multi-disciplinary art venue/gallery housed in six-metre shipping containers which will occupy Spirit Plaza at the PNE Fair.
Studer is one of eight artists selected to create art installations in the containers. The exhibition, running from Aug. 22 to Sept. 7 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., is an open-themed, new urban, adaptive art exhibit. Container Art has held venues throughout Europe and the Middle East, and it makes its Canadian debut at the PNE.
Film to London
Sechelt artist Ricardo Scipio's film, Finder of Lost Children, which premiered at the Hollywood Black Film Festival in June has since been shown in Canada at two festivals in Toronto. He is happy to announce that the film will now be screening at the Black Film Makers Festival in London this November the culmination of a big dream for Scipio.
