The Hackett Park Summer Arts and Crafts Fair runs this Saturday, Aug. 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Hackett Park, in Sechelt.
This year's fair features more than 70 quality artists and crafters, live entertainment from Joe Stanton, Katie and the Cornpones, Knotty Dotters and the Pinsonnault Trio, food concessions and children's activities. Suggested donation for this fundraising event presented by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council is $3 adults, $2 for seniors. Children under 12 are free with an adult.
This weekend
There's no time for sitting on the beach this weekend!
Visit Creek Daze in Roberts Creek (www.robertscreekcommunity.ca), the Festival of the Written Arts in Sechelt (www.writersfestival.ca) or the Power of Paint exhibition in Sechelt (www.elevenequalartists.com). The Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival's concerts, also on stage this weekend, are entirely sold out.
Circus Camp?
The Driftwood Theatre School's Circus Camp runs this week, Aug 20 to 24, with Tracy Lloyd (Lumpy the Clown) and Pan Willson (Upper Realms stilt walker), and offers youngsters aged eight to 16 a chance to clown around and then some! The week-long camp covers a wide range of circus skills including clowning, stilt-walking, acro-stilts and acrobatics. Classes run Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Bart's Hall in Gibsons; they cost $199 for the week. Contact registrar Sandi McGinnis at 604-886-0143 or [email protected].
Mozart's Requiem
Summer Choir will be presenting Mozart's Requiem next Tuesday evening, August 21, at 7 p.m. at St. Hilda's Church in Sechelt. Admission is by donation at the door. This performance is dedicated to the memory of Bill Bourns, who recently passed away. He was the teacher, mentor and friend of Summer Choir's co-directors Sara Douglas and David Millard. Through the many students and choral groups he worked with on the Sunshine Coast, as well as in North Vancouver and Abbotsford, Bourns' musical legacy will continue.
Children's art
Teacher Mattieinvites children five years and older,plus adults of any age, to come to the Gibsons Public Art Gallery Aug. 22 to 24 from 10 a.m. to noon for artexploration.Materials are supplied. Three-dayattendance is $30 per family, $10 per person. Drop-ins are permitted on any of the three days, Wednesday, Thursday and/or Friday.Contact Gibsons Public Art Gallery at 604-886-0531 or [email protected] tosign up.
Four artists
Four seasoned Pender Harbour artists will be "coming up for air" Aug. 23 to Sept. 24 during an exhibition in Port Coquitlam of new and recent artworks.
In their show Coming Up for Air, Rocks, Trees and H2O, Pender Harbour residents Wendy Simmonds, June Malaka, Pat Jobb and Frances Sevier interpret and celebrate the four elements of nature, reflecting their love for the environment in which they live.
"We are continually in awe of the range of ways in which the natural world reveals itself from calm and gentle tide changes and the rustle of leaves in a slight breeze to the violence of storms and fires, or the ruggedness of our rocky foundation," said the artists in their artistic statement for the show.
The exhibition runs daily and is presented in Port Coquitlam by the Leigh Square Community Arts Village. Visitors are invited to an opening reception, with the artists in attendance, on Saturday, Aug. 25, starting at 2 p.m.
Workshop coming
Registration is taking place now for the cedar hat weaving workshop with Jessica Casey next weekend, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26, at the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives in Gibsons.
The $250 registration fee includes all materials.
"With every beat of my heart, my fingers dance with the cedar and stir memories almost lost," Casey said. "Grandmothers and aunts whisper their knowledge to my soul - encouraging, nourishing, nurturing, to make me and my basket whole. For their weaving is in me. With every warp and weft, they tell me so."
Casey is a self-taught weaver of Coast Salish and Portuguese decent, born and raised in Egmont. Participants will learn the skills of cedar weaving and complete a traditional cedar hat to take home. No experience is necessary. To pre-register, contact the museum at 604-886-8232.
Tuesday deadline
Send notice of your arts events to [email protected] or phone 604-886-4692 by Tuesday at 5 p.m. for Friday's newspaper. Let me know who, what, where, when, why and ticket info briefly. Because of the volume of submissions, Art Beat covers events one day to one week ahead only.
