Local Arts

With 122 participating galleries and studios involving over 300 artists, this year's Sunshine Coast Art Crawl from Oct. 18 to 20 promises to be a dynamic, sensory overload weekend.

Do not miss the opportunity to bid on selected works from the personal collection of Gordon Adaskin, this Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Doris Crowston Gallery, in the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt. The auction starts at 4 p.m.

On Sept. 23, 1963, 50 years ago, a small cinema opened in Gibsons. According to the Coast News of that week, a bagpiper played at the opening, owner R.L.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre will be hosting its second Pecha Kucha night Thursday, Oct. 10, with organizer Anna Banana as MC and artist Paul Clancy handling the technical details.

British comedians James Brown and Jamesy Evans are performingtheir award-winning production of2 for Teaat the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse on Oct. 10 and 11 at 7:30 p.m.

At last weekend's Pender Harbour Jazz Festival, musician Karen Graves dedicated a song to her friend, the late jazz pianist Les Fowler. It was a tune she had written with pianist Miles Black. "Music in your smile," she sang.

Coast Recital Society (CRS) opens its 2013/14 concert season with a recital by the brilliant young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, this Saturday, Sept. 28, at 2:30 p.m. at Raven's Cry Theatre.

No one was more pleasantly surprised than organizers of the 17th annual Pender Harbour Jazz Festival when Saturday blossomed under a blue sky.

Roy Forbes, formerly known as Bim, is a true Canadian troubadour. The Pender Harbour Music Society is thrilled that he will open the 2013/14 concert series with a solo performance on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. at the School of Music.

B.C.'s Culture Days celebration this weekend offers two events on the Coast: Gibsons Recycling Depot offers a Trash to Treasure upcycling workshop in Gibsons this Saturday, Sept. 28, from 1 to 3 p.m.