Local Arts

2020VISION marks the 17th annual Sechelt Arts Festival, a popular Sunshine Coast fall event that has grown from an outdoor two-day event in the park to a two-week tapestry of arts and cultural events at various Sechelt venues.

Free brochure-maps are available now across the Sunshine Coast for the 2020 Art Crawl, set to go on the weekend of Oct. 23-25, with health-safety protocols in place.

This was supposed to be the year that drummer Dan Brubeck toured the world with two of his brothers in a jazz combo celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of their musical giant of a father, Dave Brubeck.

This is what constitutes a full house during the pandemic at the Heritage Playhouse for a safely distanced reading on Sept. 27 of Sunshine Coast writer David King’s play, How Things Have Changed.

“Baba was no Mary Poppins, who was young and flew through the air with an umbrella as a parachute. Baba was our grandmother – like it or lump it! Definitely not a choice I would have made for a nanny.

You won’t soon forget a visit to the Macgee Cloth Textile Mill in Roberts Creek where you can watch – and hear – Sunshine Coast artisan Pam Magee at her unusual work. Sundays at The Mill, from 1 to 4 p.m.

When local author and artist Ruth Rodgers inquired about renting the Coopers Green Hall in Halfmoon Bay for the launch of her new work of historical fiction, Those Who Stay, she was dismayed to be told that the maximum occupancy in these days of phys

The number of vendors was just half of that in previous years at Wood Expo 2020, due both to the limited attendance required by COVID-19 protocols and a change of venue from Sechelt’s Seaside Centre to the smaller Rockwood Lodge.

We might never know quite what to make of the new exhibition at Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG), but we will know, before the show ends Oct. 4, what artist Matthew Talbot-Kelly makes of it. To call his concept unusual is an understatement.

Works by Sunshine Coast painters Brian Romer and Suzy Naylor are the subject of a new exhibition at Gibsons Public Market in a show that runs until Oct. 25 (which will include the Art Crawl, Oct 23-25).