Flights of Fancy is a spring concert with A Cappella Strait and Choralations Children’s Choir, directed by Janice Brunson. It’s on this Friday at 8 p.m. at St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church in Gibsons and again at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 24, at St. John’s United Church in Davis Bay.
Tickets are adults $15; students/seniors $12; children under 12 free. Find them at Gaia’s Fair Trade in Gibsons and Sechelt Visitor Centre or contact Elizabeth Scott at 604-885-6275.
Spring Soiree
This Friday night, May 23, attend A Spring Soiree at St. John’s United Church.
The Sunshine Coast Canadian Federation of University Women presents a stimulating evening with speaker Betty Baxter, musical entertainment including Arbutus Sounds Chorus, instrumentalists and refreshments. Funds raised support bursaries for mature women. Find more information at www.cfuwsc.org.
Tickets are $20, available at Gaia’s Fair Trade in Gibsons and Sechelt Visitor Centre. Contact Mary Beth Knechtel at 604-885-4646 for more details.
Reflections
The Reflections Ladies Ensemble Springtime Serenade performs this Saturday, May 24, at 7 p.m. at Living Faith Lutheran Church in Davis Bay in a benefit for the local food bank.
Special guests are Definitely Diva, Reg and Lynne, Edmund Arceo and two of Paula Seward’s piano students who received honours at the Music Festival.
Tickets are $15, available at Swish in Gibsons, Sechelt Visitor Centre, EarthFair in Madeira Park or at the door. Call Ann at 604-886-4768 for more information.
Stories from the heart
Stories from and to the Heart (a Creative in the Creek presentation) takes to the stage this Sunday, May 25, from 2 to 5 p.m., hosted by Laurie Verchomin. Admission is by donation at the Creek Gallery (behind the Gumboot Restaurant in Roberts Creek).
It’s an outstanding opportunity to hear and support neighbours and friends as they speak from the heart about life as lived on the Coast, then and now. The line-up: Truths Spoken (Métis) - Ted and Gayle MacDonald, fiddle and dance. Gerry Hills - Truths Told (shíshálh First Nation): Val Joe Bourne, Aaron Joe. Truths Heard (Settlers): Nancy Denham, John Denham. For details, contact David Roche at 604-740-0465.
Heroic
The Coast Symphony Orchestra performs at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 25, in a program titled Heroic Music by and for Heroes at Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt. Hear heroic favourites: Beethoven’s Symphony No.5, Brahms Academic Overtures, John Williams’ Summon the Heroes. Tickets are at Laedeli, Gaia’s Fair Trade and Strait Music. Contact Janice Pentland-Smith at 604-885-3989 for more details.
Art talk
The Gibsons Public Art Gallery announces a joint talk, Passionate Vision: Reflections, Memories and Dreams, by current exhibiting artists Bob Evermon and Barry Wainwright.
Evermon engages in a free-flowing conversation about art, printmaking and the creative process. Wainwright speaks about his art and the subject of dreams and symbols, which have dominated his work for more than 30 years. Both are printmakers and former professors of art. That’s on Sunday, May 25, at the gallery from 2 to 4 p.m. For information contact Michael Aze at 604-886-0531 or email: [email protected].
Coffeehouse
Artesia Coffeehouse will present the last coffeehouse of the season next Friday, May 31, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.
This month’s performers include the Bad to the Bow senior ensemble with leader Chelsea Sleep; vocalist Robyn Edgar with Ken Johnson on piano; the choral group JavaJazz with Jane Metcalfe, Laurie Frissell, Bev Nielsen, Joy Germaine, Jan Gillis, Karen Edgar; and closing the evening, the fun-loving doo-wop tunes of Sh-boom with Ken Gustafson, Colin Mailey, Mike Weber and Wayne Slingerland.
Tickets are $10 at the door which opens at 7, show at 8 p.m.
Come early to get a good seat, watch a slideshow of 10 years of coffee house performers, take in the current exhibition in the gallery and enjoy Treats by Trish with friends.
Thank you to all the fans and family who continue to support live music on the Sunshine Coast. There will be a full schedule of music and festivals this summer to enjoy.
Tuesday deadline
Let me know of your arts events at [email protected] or phone 604-886-4692. My deadline is Tuesday at 5 for the following Friday’s newspaper. Art Beat covers events one week to one day ahead only.
