Come and see young budding talent and wild design that turns fashion upside down using recycled materials on Saturday, April 16 at 3 p.m. It features the fashion savvy of an Elphinstone student, Annika Cleland-Hura. This fashion statement is open to all and located at the new WOW Art Cafe in Sunnycrest Mall, Gibsons. You can read more about Annika on nothingshortofchic.blogspot.ca, and the event has the fine costume expertise of Sandy Buck from Deer Crossing, the Art Farm along with other Coast designers.
Walk-on Dead
The Walk-on Dead return to the Roberts Creek Legion 219 on Saturday, April 16 – an improvisational rock band interpreting the Americana tradition via The Dead, Neil Young, Dylan and beyond. Be prepared for grooves, jams, and sonic psychedelia as they visit their home away from home. Be prepared to dance! Legion members $6, guests $12, at the door. Music starts about 9:30 p.m.
This Weekend
An exciting new performance, Becoming, by the DSdanse Youth Company and special guest dancers Danielle Gardner and Cassidy Rainer takes place tonight and Saturday at the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse. Tickets at www.share-there.com
The Rogue Arts Festival with Sing You Sinners and Staggers and Jaggs holds their fundraiser on Saturday night at the Roberts Creek Hall. Tickets at MELOmania.
Blues Concert
Brandon Isaak plays the blues as though his soul is rooted south of Memphis. His fine musicianship and powerful song-writing abilities have been honed through collaboration with greats such as Jim Byrnes, Jeff Healey and Joe Louis Walker, and he is now internationally recognized as Canada’s emerging blues superstar. He performs at the Pender Harbour School of Music in Madeira Park this Sunday, April 17 at 2 p.m. Tickets for $25 are at outlets and online at www.penderharbourmusic.ca/concertseries
Play to Sechelt
Blithe Spirit, the Noel Coward play from Driftwood Players that is earning rave reviews, moves to the Sechelt Seniors Activity Centre this weekend at 7:30 p.m. on April 15 and 16 and 3 p.m. on April 17. Tickets are $20 at various outlets and online at www.driftwoodplayers.ca
Poetry month
This year’s theme for National Poetry Month is “the road,” a sense of journey. Poets Heidi Greco and Marion Quednau who came of age in the sixties’ era of wanderlust, know all about hitting the road. Defying expectations of the status quo, the open road instructed and defined them; they wanted to bear witness to a wider world. “You took your chances and made mistakes,” Quednau says, “in the pursuit of love, and art, all the risky business of being human. But things considered failings at home were transformed in our travels; the road was all about redemption.” Greco and Quednau will share poems to move you on Thursday, April 21, 6:30 p.m. at the Gibsons Public Library. Register for this free event with Heather Evans-Cullen at 886-2130. Readings are sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council.
Creek Event
Creative in the Creek is always a good time. Catch it again on Thursday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gumboot Café, Roberts Creek. Hosted by Kym Chi and David Roche, this month it features Jill Shatford’s irresistibly exciting interactive music, Ian Hunt’s excerpts from his upcoming book The Journey Om, improv from the Gumboot’s own Paul Cowlie & Jess Stephens-Whale and more – a feast of community creativity from your friends and neighbours. Donations at the door, please.
Garden Help Wanted
Help bring the colour back to the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre garden. On Saturday, April 16 join Arts Council volunteers, members of the District of Sechelt Parks department and other gardening enthusiasts as they work to clean up and bring the beautiful garden at the Arts Centre back to life. Come any time after 9a.m. to 5714 Medusa St. Be sure to bring gardening gloves, and any small gardening tools you may have and dress to play in the dirt. You can sign up ahead of time by calling the Arts Centre at 604-885-5412 or just show up.
Diamond Show
Nearly Neil (Bobby Bruce) was a big hit at his home base on Gambier Island for a Spring Dance, performing the music of Neil Diamond. From his first song through his two sets and into the late hours of the night the dance floor was packed. You can catch Nearly Neil at the Lighthouse Pub in Sechelt on Friday, April 22. Tickets are $10. Better get there early.
Indie Finalist
Moving Beyond Duality by Dorothy I. Riddle of Gibsons has been named Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist in the category of Body, Mind and Spirit. This book, that has collected outstanding praise from both readers and reviewers, exposes our damaging, dualistic habits of “us” versus “them” and provides strategies for re-wiring how we engage with the world, both human and nonhuman. Kirkus Indie (reviews) states: “Whether readers agree or disagree with her arguments, there’s no dispute over the book’s strengths as a work of scholarship. It’s fully grounded in both theory and observation, drawing on a wide range of published research, and its fully developed, coherent arguments are likely to find even skeptics in agreement with some elements. Overall, readers will acknowledge that this is a timely contribution to the national discussion of privilege, prejudice, and making the world a better place.”
Submissions by May 1
On Thursday, June 23, Plenitude magazine and Sunshine Coast Pride will present the second annual Read Out Loud, an evening of queer literature. Last year they had the opportunity to feature some local talent, and would like to do this again. LGBTQ writers of the Sunshine Coast are invited to submit a sample of poetry (maximum three poems) or prose (maximum 2,000 words – excerpts are fine) to [email protected]. Submit by May 1. The featured readers this year are Michael V. Smith, author of My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp, 2015), and other novels and books of poetry, and Nicola Harwood, whose debut memoir, Flight Instructions for the Commitment Impaired, tells the heart-breaking yet hilarious story of her experience foster-parenting a transgender teenager in 1990s San Francisco.
Noon Deadline
Send your notice of arts events by Tuesday at noon for Friday’s newspaper to [email protected] or phone 604-886-4692. Please include a contact person’s phone number or email.
