Local Arts

As the audience crowded the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt for the popular Pecha Kucha evening last Friday, Sunshine Coast Arts Council director Linda Williams took the opportunity to present the Gillian Lowndes Award to Steve Wright.

More than one actor has been inspired by the community's Heritage Playhouse theatre that sits at the highway and North Road in Gibsons. Playwright David King is among its fans, and he doesn't want to see it sit in darkness during the summer months.

If you're looking for some post-Olympic activities to get you into spring, head to the Roberts Creek Legion this Saturday, March 1, for Walk-on Dead, an improvisational rock band interpreting the Americana tradition via The Dead, Neil Young, Dylan an

Gibsons writer Marion Quednau recalls the year Canadian booksellers were threatened with bombings should they sell the novel The Satanic Verses. People were afraid.

Most musicians would like to move to Toronto to make it big in the flourishing music scene. Not Matt Watson. He wanted to leave Toronto. Badly.

B.C. singer-songwriter Kaeli McArter will premiere her music video Get Lost at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt on March 1. The premier is at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:30.

Preparations are in full swing for the 2014 Gibsons Public Art Gallery's (GPAG) very popular young people's art show, Words of Art.

The influence of the late Nelson Mandela was felt all over Africa, said performer Jean Pierre Makosso. Makosso was born the year after Mandela was arrested in 1964 and grew up with the story.

The exceptional Fine Arts String Quartet returns to the Coast Recital Society (CRS) this Sunday afternoon, Feb. 16. The concert at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt begins at 2:30 p.m.

The School of Music coffeehouse runs on the second Friday of the month in Madeira Park and has been entertaining successfully for two years now.