Local Arts

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.

Deep in the woods around Wilson Creek, the five-man Sunshine Coast band Brothers in Farms is preparing to launch their new album in a series of concerts they’re calling the Local Love All Coast Album Tour.

Avant-garde art meets early-60s guitar-rock in Vancouver rock ’n’ roll duo Kitty and The Rooster. It’s like painter Rene Magritte teamed up with Talking Heads to do an homage to The Ventures.

Six members of the Landing Artists collective (landingartists.com) are currently showing works at the Gibsons Public Market, both upstairs in the Coastal Room and in the main floor space.

High Beam Dreams in Gibsons is slowly reopening as a concert venue with many pandemic-safety protocols in place.

Langdale writer Marilyn Browning has learned a couple of things in becoming a children’s book author. The first is to look through one’s old writing on occasion to see what still works.

Larkin Miller as Puck and Salma Atoui as Titania (left) and Annabelle Stremlaw as Moth in scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed last weekend at Gibsons Heritage Farm on Henry Road.

The EDGES painters’ group is holding a one-day art sale in member Judy McLarty’s spacious Roberts Creek garden on Sunday, Aug. 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. “Diverse styles. Original art by six local artists of the Edges group.

The Imagination Network

While we’re all in semi-isolation, June Meyer likes to work on what her husband Ralph calls her She-Shed in their West Sechelt backyard garden.