Local Arts

The Sechelt Arts Festival kicked off this year with the circus Satio, which played to sold-out audiences Friday Oct. 5 and Sunday Oct. 7 at the shíshálh Nation Longhouse. Here, an ensemble of Satio fools takes a bow.

For the fifth year Powell River artists load up their art and travel south to the Lower Sunshine Coast to join approximately 165 studios in the eighth annual Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Oct. 19 to 21.

Musicians Dave Roughley and Donna Leigh-Newsom, two members of the band Odd Duck, entertained visitors to Gibsons Public Market with cover tunes and originals on Saturday, Oct. 6.

Heritage Playhouse Productions kicked off its first of four Comedy Club events with a sold out show. Headliner Charles Demers, special guest Harris Anderson and host Toby Hargrave (pictured) presented a fast-paced evening of laughter.

Sunshine Coast Arts Council

Sechelt Arts Festival

What a weekend for music on the Sunshine Coast! Home-grown, electro-groove singer-songwriter Kaeli McArter and band Tyger are just one of the class acts featured in the Sechelt Arts Festival’s Coasters Covering Coasters event this year, running one n

“I paint B.C. ‘wow’ moments simply because they are healing for my soul,” Sunshine Coast artist Ed Hill writes in a note accompanying his submission to the Art of Healing, the Sechelt Hospital Foundation’s upcoming exhibit and fundraising event.

The Arts Council will launch its Author Readings Series for the fall with a reading by Ted Chamberlin on Oct. 13. Well known to Coast readers, J.

The Coast Academy of Dance and Performing Arts is happy to announce the success of their senior students: Jessica Schweighardt, Bronte Hansen and Alyssa Rive.