Sechelt artist Shawn Hunt has been recognized by the B.C. AchievementFoundation with a BC Creative Achievement Award for First Nations' Art. The recipients were announced on Oct. 21. The five juried award recipients will receive $5,000 and the seal of the BC Creative Achievement Award. A presentation ceremony will be held on Nov. 25 in Vancouverto honour all the 2011 award recipients. Heiltsuk artist Hunt is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in redcedar, sterling silver, paint, glass, water and fire. By engaging the contemporary context with art forms rooted in rich, historicaltraditions, Hunt tells his stories and challenges his audience. Heapprenticed with his father, J. Bradley Hunt, and also received his BFA at University of British Columbia and a studio art diploma from Capilano College (University). His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design in NewYork, the McCord Museum in Montreal, the Royal Ontario Museum inToronto, as well as the Bill Reid Gallery and Museum of Anthropologyin Vancouver.
This weekend
At 8 p.m. tonight check out the Artesia Coffeehouse at the Arts Centre, Sechelt, to hear vocal ensembles from the Pender Harbour Choir including the SASSPenders. Tickets are $10 at the door. See www.suncoastarts.com for more about coffeehouses and other events.
Nikki Weber's Mellowtones perform at the Sechelt Seniors Centre on Saturday, Oct. 29, and Weber's youth group, the Now Generation, are at the Heritage Playhouse on Sunday, Oct. 30.
At Kinsmen's Hall on Saturday, enjoy a scotch whisky tasting and kitchen ceilidh. Doors open at 7 p.m. Reserve tickets at 604-989-3858.
Art in public
The last in a series of talks, The Art of Seeing, takes place on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. at the Seaside Centre when guest Lori Phillips will speak on art in public spaces. Tickets are at the door for $8 or $5 for students and seniors.
Brewing Evil
Author Carol Gardarsson will be meeting the public and signing books in her Brewing Evil series at Woods Showcase, Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons, on Saturday, Oct. 29, from 1 to 4 p.m. Stop by and read tales from a master storyteller.
Halloween
Be undead. Go on the Gibsons annual Zombie Walk by meeting at Sunnycrest Mall at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29. (Did you catch the public Thriller dance last weekend?)
Halloween Howl takes place at the Pender Harbour Community Hall on Saturday evening. Check www.penderharbourbluesfestival.com for ticket availability.
There's a Monster Ball at the Roberts Creek Hall with bands and a light show. Tickets are at Lucy's, MELOmania and Chemistry.
For something different, try the second annual Halloween Pumpkin Spiral at deer crossing, the art farm, in Langdale. Wear a costume, bring a pumpkin. It runs Oct. 29 and 30. Call 604-886-0975 for more.
Digital delights
The Art Centre's Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt presents computer and digital art by local artists Bodhi Drope and Michael T. Hertz in a show running from Nov. 2 through 29. The artists' reception is on Wednesday, Nov. 2, from 7 to 9 p.m. and all are invited.
Drope, a well-known artist in sculpture, printmaking, photography and computer art, is co-author of Paddling the Sunshine Coast. He recently presented a proposal to the Gibsons Public Arts Advisory Commission for a sculpture for the new RCMP building. His show focuses on images from his personal photo library manipulated with PhotoShop: Microcosms of Planet Earth, an exploration of the mandala form using nature photography; Birding Encounters, an expression of his life-long love of birds; and Landscapes of the Soul, a mystical garden reflecting insights into the human drama.
Hertz is a writer with a great love for 3D and digital computer art. His work concentrates on his illustrated novel, Spaghetti Western, using three-dimensional software and PhotoShop. Part of his work includes a detailed description on how illustrations were developed using software programs Poser 8 and Vue 6. Examples of Drope's work can be found at www.sunshinecoastartists.org/Bodhi_Drope.htm, and of Michael Hertz's work at http://charterbooks.net/8.html.
$100
One Hundred Dollars and the Sumner Brothers will give a live music show at the Gumboot Café on Saturday, Nov. 5, with doors opening at 8:30 p.m. These two-time Polaris long-listers from Toronto of the psychedelic country persuasion make a rare appearance in Roberts Creek. Suggested donation for the show is $10.
Chapman-Smith Concert
The award winning Joanna Chapman-Smith is coming to the Sunshine Coast as part of her fall tour. She'll play in Roberts Creek on Nov. 5. The songs on her second album,Contraries, mark her as a unique voice in the singer-songwriter scene, and spring from a global vagabond sensibility. Understandable, when you find out she has a love of European folk tradition and her family roots stretch from Italy to New Zealand. Her third album, entitled Love Me Deeply, is due for release in 2012. The show starts at 7 p.m.(with workshops at 4:30 p.m. in vocals, accordion and banjo) at Rolling Earth Farm Retreat on Day Road. See: [email protected] for more information. Show is $15 and one workshop is $20 (or $5 off if you are also attending the show.)
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.
