Local Arts

Sunshine Coast painter EA (Elizabeth) Evans never realized she had any special aptitude for art until one day when she was 19 years old and just out of high school. Evans had drawn some cartoon characters to amuse two children she was babysitting.

When Mark was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Pat and Mark ignored it – until they couldn’t. One of the challenges with Parkinson’s is losing the ability to speak clearly.

The home-grown circus Satio opens the biggest-ever, 15-day 2018 Sechelt Arts Festival, with performances Friday Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. and Sunday Oct. 7 at 2 p.m., at the shíshálh Nation Longhouse.

Satio will kick-off the 15-day 2018 Sechelt Arts Festival, and the 15th anniversary of the festival with a fantastical all ages nouveau cirque performance directed by Gerardo Avila.

“I was a ‘red-diaper’ baby,” explains Dr. Michael Klein (Sunshine Coaster since 2003) in his highly entertaining memoir Dissident Doctor: Catching Babies and Challenging the Medical Status Quo (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018).

The Heritage Playhouse was home to a large satisfied audience on Sunday for Relax, Gilgamesh by David King (pictured), the first play reading in the second season of Off the Page.

Coast Cultural Alliance board member Linda Williams rallied artists, gallery and venue owners in a launch gathering at Strait Coffee in Wilson Creek on Sept. 21, as they prepare for this year’s Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Oct. 19 to 21.

It’s just a painting, one that shows almost nothing. But, oh my, what it reveals. The painting is the centrepiece in Art, a play about three middle-aged male friends in present-day Paris.

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” That’s the opening line of George Orwell’s 1984.

Authors PJ Reece and Patricia Hetherington faced off before a full house of about 30 participants in an interactive public talk called Fact and Fiction: A Literary Duel at the Gibsons Library Sept. 19.