Local Arts

Orion Byrd seems pretty impressed with his artwork, and so is mom Kallie George, at a kids art event at Sunnycrest Mall in Gibsons on Feb. 8.

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