Local Arts

The Coast Shakespeare production of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream continues for two more performances this weekend — at 7 p.m. on July 12 and 13.

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.

A record-breaking number of artists are featured in the newly-opened Present Tense exhibition at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery.

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.

What is a slow food cycle? imagine a fully family-friendly, bike-based, farm, cidery and distillery tour!

symbionts of capitalist ruin and Strength & Fragility remain on display at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre until Aug. 18

The Sunshine Coast’s resident theatre company plans to put newly minted strategies into practice through a series of pop-up public performances.

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.

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.

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.