Local Arts

Sunshine Coast Arts Council

Heritage Playhouse

Coast Cultural Alliance

Heritage Playhouse Productions is offering a tonic for the autumn blahs with another night of comedy at the Playhouse on Saturday Nov. 3. Local comedian Toby Hargrave is hosting the show with special guest Jacob Samuel and headliner Ivan Decker.

John Pass, the unofficial Poet Laureate of the Sunshine Coast, will have a new book entitled This Was the River coming out in the spring, and he promises a preview of it when he reads at the Arts Centre on Nov. 3.

Composer and director Ken Johnson, left, thanks the cast of Eutierria, performed at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden as the finale of the 2018 Sechelt Arts Festival.

The sold-out Art of Healing event for the Sechelt Hospital Foundation culminated in a gala on Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Sunshine Coast Golf and Country Club in Roberts Creek.

The haunting hordes won’t be at your doors until next Wednesday, the 31st, but this weekend will be costume party time.

It might have been the night before the 2018 Art Crawl, but Gibsons Public Market was already crawling with fans of locally made garments and accessories by Sunshine Coast artists. It was the second annual Wear From Here celebration on Oct.

Baritone Philippe Sly and pianist Michael McMahon return to the Coast Recital Society this Sunday afternoon, Oct. 28, with an afternoon of music by Franz Schubert. The concert at the Ravens’ Cry Theatre begins at 2:30 p.m.