Local Arts

Please refer to our article titled "Pandemic disrupts several local arts events" for what’s open, what’s on, and what’s not in arts and entertainment in the coming days.

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DJ Neil Cooke-Dallin leads the unique five-piece Victoria-based band Astrocolor through another number at a Feb. 29 concert at Roberts Creek Hall.

Festival of the Performing Arts

Director Kim Kerr Fenton, front left, and producer Jennie Biltek, along with the cast of the Vagina Monologues acknowledge the Heritage Theatre audience’s applause following the first of two performances of the play March 7.

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At least someone on the Sunshine Coast has had a taste of summer. Local blues-roots singer-songwriter and guitarist Joël Fafard is just back from a two-week solo tour in the seasonal warmth of New Zealand.

The headlining jazz, folk and doo-wop quartet Sh-Boom pleased a standing-room-only crowd at the Artesia Coffee House at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre on Feb. 28. From the left, new member Ron Leclerc, Colin Mailey, Mike Weber and Boyd Norman.

Bong Joon Ho’s wildly successful film Parasite has been wowing audiences around the world and winning many major awards at the Golden Globes, BAFTA, SAG, Academy Awards and other ceremonies.