Local Arts

A Sunshine Coast author, educator and activist will this weekend premiere an original one-woman interactive theatre performance at the Nanaimo Fringe Festival. Danika Dinsmore is the author of eight young adult novels and four books of poetry.

The Roberts Creek mandala, an annual community art project begun 28 years ago by Robert Marion and Erica Snowlake, was in peril of fading this summer.

Free outdoor concerts in Gibsons, Sechelt and Roberts Creek run all summer long — rain or shine.

Just 10 days after inhabitants of Christenson Village gathered for a garden party to wind up a Coast-wide research project on aging, a bus bursting with exuberant residents from the uptown Gibsons care facility travelled to the town’s public ar

Teryl Mullock’s ‘Transformed by Water’ on until Aug. 17

The shortlist of finalists in the third annual Sunshine Coast Book Awards for BC Authors was released this week, with winners in the juried competition set to be announced later this month at a festival that will also unite local artists and writers.

A trio of weekend performance series continues all summer long, in Sechelt, Roberts Creek and Sechelt.

The largest single award announced for the Sunshine Coast, $125,000 went to the Gibsons Public Art Gallery.  

A book released last month exploring the history of the extinct Coast Salish Woolly Dog — whose wool-like hair was a longtime mainstay of Coast Salish weaving traditions — is simultaneously a real-life mystery story and a new approach to the literature of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous storytellers.

One of the Sunshine Coast's most versatile artists has released a new album of music shaped by the bossa nova beats of renowned Brazilian-born virtuoso Celso Machado.