The Roberts Creek Arts Festival takes place around the Creek Hall on Saturday and Sunday. See also feature story for more, and see www.robertscreekartsfestival.com for a schedule of performers and events.
The Spring Poetry Festival returns to the Creek Gallery (behind the Gumboot Restaurant) on Sunday, May 17 at 1 p.m. with a new selection of poets and music. Admission is by donation.
Reading
Writer Bernadette Calonego is hosting a book reading at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt, this Friday, May 15, at 8 p.m. from her latest book Under Dark Waters, a thriller that takes place partly on the Sunshine Coast.
R & B
On Saturday, May 16 come out for a rockin’ rhythm and blues good time with the band Dave’s Not Here! Members are $5 and guests are $10 at Gibsons Legion.
Small Guitar
David King invites you to an event on Saturday, May 16 at 8 p.m. at the Arts Building in Lower Gibsons. It’s a solo show that he wrote and will be performing titled Small Guitar (Celebration of a Life in an Alternate Universe) — a monologue with music. It’s being premiered here before taking it to Vancouver and Toronto. Admission is $10 at the door.
Photography show
Celebrate a show of about a dozen local photographers this Friday, until 7 p.m. and Saturday, May 16 from noon to 4 p.m. at Sunnycrest Mall in Gibsons. All are invited to come and have a look.
Pender author
Pender Harbour author Ray Phillips launches his new book, The Royal Fjord: Memories of Jervis Inlet ($22.95, Harbour Publishing), with two events on the Sunshine Coast. The EarthFair Store hosts the Pender Harbour book launch at the School of Music in Madeira Park on Wednesday, May 20 from 4 to 6 p.m. Talewind Books is sponsoring the Sechelt event at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre (5714 Medusa Street) on Monday, May 25 from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Both events are free and open to the public and will feature readings by the author, refreshments and a book signing. Ray Phillips is a former logger, school boat operator and fisherman. His mother was a member of the Klein family — the namesake of the community of Kleindale on the Sunshine Coast and the subject of his first book, The Little Green Valley: The Kleindale Story (Harbour Publishing, 2011.)
Caitlin Hicks
It was a great turnout at the Gibsons Public Library last Saturday for a presentation by Ben Nuttall-Smith. The next writerly event is on Wednesday, May 20 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. when author and playwright Caitlin Hicks presents Writing Explorations, about her experiences of writing and getting published. Participants who want to give a five minutes reading from their own work can email Hicks to register (see www.caitlinhicks.com). Afterwards, anyone who wants will retire to the Blackfish Pub (back room) for a discussion on how to create community for all writers involved in publishing on the Sunshine Coast.
Exceptional Alice
Alice in Wonderland, the first big production from the Driftwood Theatre School, was a winner. While there were certainly some exceptional scene-stealers, every child did their best to make the fanciful tale come alive. See www.driftwoodplayers.ca for more.
Contest winner
The results are in, and one of the winners of the Askew’s Foods’ Word on the Lake Writing Contest in Salmon Arm is one of the Coast’s own writers. In the category of non-fiction, Cathy MacLean from Gibsons placed first.
