This weekend join musical chameleon Steve Wright who is also known as Steve Weave as he performs a rare solo acoustic show of songs made up in the moment and based on audience participation. He is well known on the Coast as the musical force behind the Rainforest Circus and the local Sound studio. This interactive, fun evening of music takes place at Ty’s Fine Foods on Trail Avenue in Sechelt on Saturday, Jan. 30. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 available only at the door and are expected to sell out, so arrive early for limited seating.
Hill’s Busted
Local Authors Month continues at Molly’s Lane Market. This Sunday, Jan. 31, Ed Hill reads from his autobiographical book Busted, an interesting ride covering his career as a member of the RCMP. Join him in Gibsons Landing at 1:30 p.m. for an entertaining read and a cup of tea while you enjoy this Sunday afternoon event.
Piano heroine
A talented local young pianist, Nadia Liva Behji, is a candidate in the CBC Piano Hero Contest. Nadia is a student of local pianist Luci Herder and has been a performer and award winner in the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts in recent years. Click here to vote for her (last chance is this Friday, Jan. 29) and to hear her play.
This weekend
Gibsons Public Art Gallery presents Baroque and Blue, Saturday, Jan. 30 from 2 to 4 p.m., with music from Sarah Harding, Kelly Smit, Tim Enns and their guest Charlotte Wrinch. Phone 604-886-0531 for information. Admission is by donation at the door.
Also this weekend, back by popular demand, the Blue Line Trio will be playing some wicked tunes on Jan. 31 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Lighthouse Pub in Sechelt.
This Friday night, the Artesia Coffee House takes over the Arts Centre in Sechelt with Joe Denham, Sh-boom and the Jazz Group of Seven. Doors open at 7 p.m., music at 8.
This changes everything
The Green Film Series brings This Changes Everything to Sechelt at the Raven’s Cry on Sunday, Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller of the same name, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. There will be discussion after the film, and a short overview of the Paris Climate Conference agreement by guest Kathy Hartman of the BC Teachers Federation. Admission is by donation at the door (suggested $10). See www.greenfilms.ca and reserve your seat on Eventbrite.
Author returns
Richard Van Camp returns to the Sunshine Coast to serve as writer-in-residence in School District No. 46 from February 1 to 5. Van Camp, a member of the Dogrib (Tlicho) Nation of Fort Smith, NWT is an acclaimed storyteller and author of books for babies, children and adults, graphic novels and comics. He will be sharing stories in a public event at the Sunshine Coast Art Centre in Sechelt on Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. All are welcome. Admission is by donation.
Reading series
Leading Caribbean writer Lorna Goodison, who now lives on the west coast of B.C., will read in Sechelt on Saturday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre (Medusa and Trail). Her realistic portrayals of the downtrodden, the struggles of women and the resilience of the Jamaican spirit open a window onto a world that few of us will ever know. Issues of race, colour, home and exile infuse her work with dramatic tension, while a musical richness of language and explosive use of dialect lend a dramatic edge to her literary readings.
Goodison is the author of 12 volumes of poetry; Oracabessa (2013) is the most recent. She has also written three collections of short fiction.
She is the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2008 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Jamaican national Order of Distinction. She has taught at the universities of Toronto and Michigan, and is also a talented painter. Admission is by donation. The event is sponsored by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council with the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Noon deadline
Send your notice of arts events by Tuesday at noon for Friday’s newspaper to [email protected] or phone 604-886-4692. Art Beat covers events one day to one week ahead.
