Local Arts

Vancouver-based touring artist Geoff Berner dished out some of his “klezmer punk” compositions from the outdoor stage at Roberts Creek Legion on Sept.

Two new exhibitions sharing the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Arts Centre in Sechelt are a feast for the eyes – and ears.

The Heritage Playhouse is reopening with three events in the coming weeks following a six-month shutdown due to the pandemic. Audience numbers will be limited and seats will be assigned with safe distancing in mind. B.C.

The Sunshine Coast play-reading series Off the Page is heading into its fourth season with plans to mount more COVID-safe local theatre productions, and also to expand into the Lower Mainland this fall.

Following its annual two-week summer closure, the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt reopened this week with two new and unique exhibitions at the Doris Crowston Gallery.

On April 1, 2020, poet Jane Covernton began writing a poem a day for Poetry Month and taking photos to illustrate them as she “walked around alone in the world.

Shari Ulrich says she has lost count of how many times she’s performed on the Sunshine Coast over the nearly 50 years she’s lived in B.C.

Sunshine Coast-based director Dianne Whelan has won the $25,000 (US) Audience Award to help complete her film, 500 Days in the Wild: Hiking the Great Trail , at the Doclands Documentary Film Festival in California.

A new set of exhibitions at Gibsons Public Art Gallery brings together three local artists working in three widely varying modes of portraiture – contemporary digital art, traditional, and the wholly unexpected.