Local Arts

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.

The show of artwork from the late Gordon Adaskin and other Canadian artists represents the biggest donation of work in the history of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council, according to council chair Bruce Milne.

The Sunshine CoastThreshold Choiris hosting the annual West Coast Threshold Retreat this year at the Botanical Gardens in West Sechelt.

It's a magical world that is so close to us, yet we cannot see it from our homes.

The Roberts Creek Little Legion is putting on a fundraiser this Saturday, Sept. 21. The Reggae Harvest Moon Festival will feature live music by The Hoolicans followed by DJ Gregory. Michael Lacoste will open with a reggae solo for the gig.

They loom large in the high-ceilinged studio of artist Geoffrey Smedley on Gambier Island - four metaphorical machines, created in a nearby workshop by Smedley's own hand.

An upcoming show brings together an exciting performance featuring members of the Fitzgerald family from Ontario.

Last year when Wendy Crumpler from the Arts Building and Coralie Swaney from The Landing Gallery launched an interesting project, Random Acts of Art, the response was overwhelmingly positive.

There is an excellent line up of classes at the Arts Building in Gibsons for the fall season including Bronwen Payerle's 10-week Painting Canada art class for children and youth, a photography composition course with Shel Neufeld, and clown and impro

If you see musician Brett Wildeman bicycling on the highway this weekend, give him a friendly wave.