Local Arts

Andrea Villanueva, a Grade 12 student at Chatelech Secondary School and a dancer with Sechelt’s Coast Academy of Dance and Performing Arts, was selected to attend last month’s Liberate Artists workshops after appearing in the Star Talent dance competition in Burnaby this spring. Connor Dixon, a Grade 11 student at Elphinstone Secondary and a performer with the Gibsons Dance Centre, earned his way during another Star Talent contest in Langley. 

The second-annual Art and Words Festival launches this weekend, Creek Daze is Sunday and Sechelt and Gibsons music series continue

‘If most grunge is nihilistic…then we could be described as existential grunge’

Coast artists united for worldwide puzzle

The Roberts Creek mandala — now in the 26th year of a community tradition sustained by designer Robert Marion — held a final painting day on July 29.

Inventory of Gibsons heritage sites, written arts project among Heritage BC grants

Just try to keep up with the Coast arts maven and her many projects and events

Gibsons, Sechelt and Roberts Creek are rocking while the Landing Artists gear up for a show at the Botanical Gardens.

Mystical Musicals runs in two shows on July 28 and 29. Tickets for performances at the Heritage Playhouse and a July 29 livestream broadcast are available at synergyatplay.ca.

Deep Connections: Daughter, Father, Hopkins Landing opened on July 12, featuring mixed media works by Burnaby-based artist Tannis Hopkins and her father, Don Hopkins. Don, who died in 2012, was a grandson of Hopkins Landing founders George Henderson Hopkins and Isa (Ward) Hopkins.