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The Amazing Race Canada to feature the Sunshine Coast next week

The Amazing Race Canada to feature the Sunshine Coast next week

The Sunshine Coast is set to be featured in a new season of The Amazing Race Canada, currently the country’s most popular television program and a widely watched summer reality series.
GPAG community unites for wide-ranging Present Tense spectacle

GPAG community unites for wide-ranging Present Tense spectacle

A record-breaking number of artists are featured in the newly-opened Present Tense exhibition at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery.
Art Beat: Secondary school student filmmakers earn top prize

Art Beat: Secondary school student filmmakers earn top prize

Among the 2,000 registered contestants in Vancouver’s Run ‘n’ Gun 48-hour film competition, the solitary team from the Sunshine Coast netted the prize for Best Youth Film during a gala screening at the Orpheum Theatre on July 29.
Coast Life: Grab your bike and join in on the second annual local food tour

Coast Life: Grab your bike and join in on the second annual local food tour

What is a slow food cycle? imagine a fully family-friendly, bike-based, farm, cidery and distillery tour!
Now at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre: symbionts of capitalist ruin and Strength & Fragility

Now at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre: symbionts of capitalist ruin and Strength & Fragility

symbionts of capitalist ruin and Strength & Fragility remain on display at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre until Aug. 18
Driftwood Players pop up with Story Theatre this summer

Driftwood Players pop up with Story Theatre this summer

The Sunshine Coast’s resident theatre company plans to put newly minted strategies into practice through a series of pop-up public performances.
Sunshine Coast student filmmakers spin web of thrills, chills

Sunshine Coast student filmmakers spin web of thrills, chills

A film festival fuelled by students from School District 46’s ProjectSPIDER distance learning program presented strikingly original cinematic visions during an exclusive screening event on June 21.
Art Beat: Before the parade passes by – what's happening for Canada Day?

Art Beat: Before the parade passes by – what's happening for Canada Day?

Canada’s 157th birthday falls on Monday, July 1. In Sechelt, the day begins with pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. on Cowrie Street, courtesy of the Lions Club. The Sunshine Coast Orchestra performs at 9:30 a.m.
Thriving Turbofest melds rock, laughs on the Sunshine Coast next week

Thriving Turbofest melds rock, laughs on the Sunshine Coast next week

An underground music and comedy festival with roots in the Norwegian rock scene has resurfaced on the Sunshine Coast, with an expanded lineup coming to Gibsons and Roberts Creek venues in late June. 
Emerging writers find voices in Coast anthology

Emerging writers find voices in Coast anthology

Coastal Voices anthology featuring students released