Local Arts

Inside MJ Milne's 'Secrets of the Italian Villa'

Award-winning speaker and local author of The Grateful Jar Project, Krystin Clark turned existential unease into a moving experience. The feelings she recognized are universal.

Robin Atchison says 'Well I Had Time' is just one observation about life on the Coast.

Carol Schlosar’s collection of portraits, crow studies, and inscribed handbags remains on display at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre until April 17.

 The latest volume in a series of books featuring B.C. artists is the first to be wholly dedicated to a specific geographic region. Artists of British Columbia: Volume 5, published last month, features 26 painters and sculptors, all from the Sunshine Coast.

An upstart artists’ collective — including a member from Savary Island — has resolved to illustrate collaboration over division by modelling community-building through creativity. 

And, the free film series presented by the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre continues in April with a short documentary titled Collective Agency. 

The pictorial bestiary on display at The Kube gallery in Gibsons does more than transport its backwoods subjects into the urban world of their human spectators.

One of the region’s most vibrant annual exhibitions provides visions of Sunshine Coast youth through the work of more than 100 emerging artists.

The Dissociates appears over eight performances: 7:30 p.m. on March 27 (a pay-what-you-can preview), 28, 29 and April 3, 4 and 5 plus matinee shows at 2 p.m. on March 30 and April 6.