Local Arts

Valerie Mason-John knows a thing or two about black history. She has one of her own.

In early February, John Down is on his way to Italy.

Award-winning singer-songwriter Lynn Miles played to a packed house at the Sanctuary at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Gibsons on Jan. 31.

Based on Garrard Conley’s best selling memoir of the same name, Boy Erased tells the story of Jared (Lucas Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor, who is outed to his parents (Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe).

Gibsons artist Jon Izen happily puts yet another sold sticker on one of the 100 small paint-on-wood art pieces he and artist Zac Harding have created for an exhibit at the Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek. At the Feb.

Art Beat

Patricia Burnett

The District of Sechelt has put out a call for an artist to create “eye-catching and colourful enhancements” to crosswalks at two downtown intersections. In a Request for Expressions of Interest (REIO) posted Jan.

Festival of the Performing Arts

The celebrated quartet Ensemble Made In Canada, seen here rehearsing still in street clothes just prior to their performance, played to a full house at Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt on Jan. 26.