Local Arts

If you want to see some truly imaginative and skilled painting by everyone from local professionals to novice kids, check out the rockfish display at Gibsons Public Market.

A group art show featuring a multi-faceted homage to The Beachcombers TV show has opened at a new gallery in Gibsons.

Secrets in the Shadows (Ronsdale Press) is a novel by Coast writer Heige S. Boehm that tells the story of two enthusiastic Hitler youth, Michael and his friend Wolfie, as they grow up in Nazi Germany.

The District of Sechelt has partnered with FortisBC, Encorp Return It, and Fresh Air Cinema to present two classic Steven Spielberg films for a two-night drive-in movie experience on a Hackett Park baseball diamond next week.

It might look like a sparse audience but it was a sellout at Sechelt’s Rockwood Pavilion for an Aug. 15 concert by Brother in Farms, as part of their local tour launching the new album, Possibilities.

Just before the pandemic hit B.C. in the spring, students at the Coast Academy of Dance in Sechelt were able to take the classical ballet exams in the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance syllabus.

The trio of Sunshine Coast artists calling themselves The Mix – along with a new guest artist – will be back at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt this weekend (Friday, Aug. 14 through Sunday, Aug. 16) for the second consecutive year.

The Summer Music Series, the Saturday concerts by mostly local musicians usually set on the lawn outside the Sechelt Library, would have been too difficult to manage safely this year.

The songs of Neil Diamond serenaded the south side of Gambier Island as Commotion on the Ocean visited three different harbours on Saturday, Aug. 1.

Local author Anne Carr’s book, Beyond Tribalism: Reflections on Belonging, will probably be shelved in the Memoirs section in bookstores or libraries, but it’s not your usual linear memoir.