Organized by Overgrow the System in collaboration with the One Straw Society, the Sea to Seed tour comes to Roberts Creek. A group of musicians are out touring the Gulf Islands by sail boat, celebrating local food sustainability through hosting local food feasts and musical events. The dinner and show will take place at the Roberts Creek Hall on Saturday, May 20. The dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. and the show at 9:30 p.m. During the dinner there will also be an auction.
The head organizer from Overgrow the System, Syd Woodward, managed to book a great act for the tour, Rising Appalachia. This duo has a following on the Coast. Dustin Thomas, The Tailor, and PIEA will also perform in this local food feast and musical celebration of the organic farming movement. More information and tickets at: www.onestraw.ca/events.
Celebrate
Two celebrations coming up this weekend: On Saturday, May 20 Pender Harbour holds May Day festivities. Come celebrate with a pancake breakfast, parade, games, vendors, food and fun from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Madeira Park.
Also on Saturday, May 20, George and Charlotte Gibson Day features a historical walking tour of Gibson’s Landing with Dale Peterson. It starts at the Visitor Info Centre at 10 a.m. and ends at the Museum where cake, tea and coffee will be served. Stop by the museum and have a browse: Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives, 716 Winn Rd. Phone 604-886-8232 for information.
Story Story Lie
Vancouver’s hit game show, Story Story Lie, makes its Sunshine Coast debut on Sunday, May 21. Producer and host Jo Dworschak is thrilled to be bringing the show to Persephone Brewery (1053 Stewart Rd. in Gibsons) at 7 p.m. With the help of local Toastmaster Johanna Rzepa, this show will feature talented storytellers: performer Caitlin Hicks, theatre star Pat Adrien Dorval and stand-up comedian Dylan Rhymer in a laughter-filled show. Story Story Lie is a live, interactive storytelling game show that invites the audience to separate fact from fiction. Performers from all backgrounds share intimate, hilarious, often embarrassing stories that seem too odd to be true. The catch? One story is a lie, and it’s the audience’s job to figure out which. At the last show Dylan Rhymer blew the crowd away with his story of accidentally burning his friend’s house down to the ground, all because of an old ski boot. Tickets are by donation at the door.
Anagram
The Anagram Quartet (Graham Ord, sax, flute and vocals, Anna Lumiere, keys and vocals, Chris Jordan-Knox, bass, John Rule, drums) perform at the Gumboot Café, Roberts Creek, from 7 to 10 p.m. on May 20 and at Persephone, Gibsons, from 2 to 4 p.m. on May 21. They are joined by special guest Vitamin K (Karen Graves, horns, flute and vocals) and will be playing jazz and funk tunes – everything from Freddie Hubbard to Jaco Pastorius, with originals and some standards.
Prairie Spirit
Author Anthea Penne writes that Doug Smith has self-published a memoir of his childhood years on the prairie. Prairie Spirit is a delightful look at a mostly unfamiliar way of life in 1940s and 50s Saskatchewan. This book was work-shopped in Penne’s writing group, Halfmoon Writers Workshop, over a year ago, and she is happy with the result. The book launch will be at the Sechelt Library on Thursday, May 25 at 7 p.m. All are welcome. Phone the library at 604-885-3260 for more or email: [email protected]
Open House
Coastmasters Toast-masters is the newest of the clubs on the Coast. It will host an open house, Just Desserts, with some sweet tooth offerings on Thursday, May 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the Gibsons Chamber of Commerce office in Sunnycrest Mall. Come as a guest and see what Toastmasters is all about.
Office Hours
Three more performances of the super comedy production from Driftwood Players are coming up this weekend. Friday night, May 19, includes dinner and theatre at Pender Harbour Music School. Saturday, the cast is at the Sechelt Seniors Activity Centre at 7:30 p.m. and the play closes with dinner theatre at Leo’s in Gibsons on Friday, May 26 at 6 p.m. Check for tickets online at share-there.com or at ticket outlets.
O Canada
Celebrate Canada with A Cappella Strait and Choralations Children’s Choir who offer two performances of O Canada: 150 Years to Sing About. The concerts are on Friday, May 26 at 7 p.m. at St. John’s United Church in Davis Bay or Saturday, May 27 at 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Gibsons. They will include Stan Roger’s Make and Break Harbour, a version of Bruce Cockburn’s All the Diamonds and some Acadian and French Quebec folk songs. Canadian native songs are well represented along with choral composers Stephen Chatman and Brian Tate. Tickets are $15, students or seniors $12, children under 12 free. Tickets can be purchased at the door or at Sechelt Visitor Centre and Laedeli Gifts, Gibsons.
Coffee House
The Artesia Coffee House will be presenting their last coffee house of the season on Friday, May 26 at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt. They welcome back Cam Peters, a great young guitarist, singer/songwriter, after a year of music studies in the Okanagan. The show features guest artists Lea Kirstein and Reenie Perkovic of Citizen Jane before they return to the East Coast after a year of teaching fiddle players in our community. Poet Brian Palmu will read from his new book, Sunset Mathematics. To close the evening Susan Ssun of Halfmoon Bay sings from her latest CD, Singing for the Birds. Joining her will be Gordon Cole of Some x 6 band on guitar and Pamela Messner and Karen Davis on vocals. Doors open at 7 p.m.; showtime at 8 p.m. with tickets $10 at the door. Artesia will be back again next year on the last Friday of the month from January to May.
Art Wraps
The District of Sechelt is looking for artists residing on the Sunshine Coast to create original wrap designs to be reproduced and applied to four BC Hydro utility boxes in Sechelt. Artists may be selected for one or more utility boxes. Artists will be paid a $500 honorarium for each approved utility box design. Installation costs will be paid by the District of Sechelt and the BC Hydro Beautification Program. Deadline for applying is Monday, May 29 by 4:30 p.m. A detailed list of guidelines with photos is available from Siobhan Smith, arts, culture and communications coor-dinator at [email protected] or 604-740-8476.
Keep me posted
Please continue to send me your arts announcements, but note that they will run in the newspaper one day to one week ahead only. My deadline is Tuesday at noon for next Friday’s paper. Email [email protected] or phone 604-886-4692.
