Local Arts

'No' by Deirdre Hofer remains on display at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt until Oct. 5. 

If you turn off the Sunshine Coast Highway near Middlepoint and wind your way down a driveway into the forest, past a garden patch, over a bridge and past a rustic cottage, you will find a designer home, nestled in trees but with a gorgeous south-west view to the ocean and the Vancouver Island mountains far beyond. It’s the dream home of Koen Drugmand and the late Din Ruttelynck, both European-trained architects and both with a love of the natural wildness of the Coast.

Supporters of the Driftwood Theatre School apparated outside the Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt last week to promote a new season of acting classes offered by the non-profit organization.

Watch party returns to scene of crime: Murder in a Small Town is filmed and set on the Sunshine Coast

‘They draw people in, they gather them together and they help us tell stories’

Andrea Hooge’s Tiny Rooms is on at The Kube until Sep. 30

An enticing aroma of cedar permeates the air as carver Derek Georgeson enters his gallery workspace in ch’atlich (Sechelt). Past the double doors bearing a metal blackfish design, which he created digitally and had fabricated elsewhere, he holds up his latest work-in-progress: a red cedar wall panel with a stylized eagle facing a bear.

Under the coordination of library staffer Nancy Relova, the Gibsons Public Library welcomed dozens of community members to its third-annual Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday, Sept. 7.

Musical artists Andrew Bate and Matthew Lovegrove performed an hour-long set of meditative melodies on Sept. 1 during an open-air concert in the Oxygen Trail Forest on the slopes of Mount Elphinstone.

Stories of the Estuary is to coincide with autumn equinox, Sept. 21