Local Arts

'For a small rural community, there is a lot of really strong support': Sunshine Coast Pride Society formalized and is gearing up for June's Pride Month. Events include a full-scale parade and community celebration on June 2.

A freshly restored way of seeing the geography of the shíshálh Nation’s swiya (homeland) is emerging from three years of research and collaboration. 

For Studies in Sentience, Vancouver-based artists Biliana Velkova and Sunshine Frère rejoined Gibsons multi-disciplinarian Erika Mashig in a reprise of earlier, alliterative collaborations.

Festivities include the quinquennial tradition of a Creeker group photograph

A Cappella Strait choir and the Choralations Children’s Choir are celebrating momentous anniversaries this month: 40 years of singing together for the A Cappella Strait choristers and 34 years for the young voices of Choralations.

Over the past five months, 'Murder in a Small Town' has been a part of local life as the L.R. Wright adaptation filmed all around the southern Coast.

Original creations by Sunshine Coast resident Carolina Franzen (also known by her professional sobriquet aC Hömmken) reveal new dimensions within the German-born artist’s nuanced worldview.

Six teenaged filmmakers from Elphinstone Secondary School were the sole Sunshine Coast team to compete in the Run N Gun 48-hour Film Competition that began on May 10.

A multidisciplinary concert and distribution of over 60 scholarships and awards before a capacity audience on May 11 brought the golden anniversary of the Sunshine Coast’s longest-running festival to a resounding conclusion.

The capricious nature of reality — and our hunger to tie it down through symbols and images — are portrayed in two new exhibitions unveiled at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery last week.