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Young fantasy author has big plans

Young fantasy author has big plans

Simon Cameron
Art Beat: Extreme athletes transition to activism

Art Beat: Extreme athletes transition to activism

The 2018 film The Radicals follows four snowboarders and surfers who become eco-activists and supporters of Indigenous rights.
Students tested in classical ballet

Students tested in classical ballet

The Coast Academy of Dance (CAD) recently entered students from Grade 1 through to Advanced 2 for examinations in Imperial Classical Ballet, a faculty of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) based in London, England.
Youth art show worth a shout out

Youth art show worth a shout out

Appropriately for March break, Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) is staging Shout Out!, the Young People’s Art Show for the next few weeks, exhibiting creative works produced by children and youth from around the Sunshine Coast.
Painting group demonstrates value of mutual support

Painting group demonstrates value of mutual support

Painters might mostly work alone, but in groups like Edges, they don’t always work in isolation.
Top keyboard artistry in next CRS concert

Top keyboard artistry in next CRS concert

The Coast Recital Society closes its 2018-19 concert season on Saturday afternoon, March 23 with a recital by the brilliant pianist Yevgeny Sudbin. The concert at the Raven’s Cry Theatre begins at 2:30 p.m.
Art council unfurls ‘boulevard of banners’

Art council unfurls ‘boulevard of banners’

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council has launched a new series of banners along Dolphin Street, between Inlet and Trail. The banners represent the work of Sunshine Coast artists and features, in this second year of the program, eight different artists.
Art Beat: Putting the cool back into the Cold War

Art Beat: Putting the cool back into the Cold War

B.C.’s Devon More is once again touring her multimedia musical storytelling extravaganza Berlin Waltz, and she brings the unique show to the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons on Saturday, March 23.
Author’s new book recalls city’s heady 1970s alt-food movement

Author’s new book recalls city’s heady 1970s alt-food movement

Imagine being a young person learning a new job in a small, ramshackle canning factory and, while you’re there alone with another equally inexperienced worker, the jam-making boiler starts unexpectedly spewing its content.
Musician dedicates album to fallen family, friends

Musician dedicates album to fallen family, friends

For Sechelt artist David Christensen, music was all he could offer following the untimely death of yet another friend.