Local Arts

We have in our midst a fibre artist to take note of.

It was hot inside the small building on South Fletcher last week, home to the annual Gibsons School of the Arts (GSA) summer art classes - so hot the acrylic paint was drying too quickly.

Amazing was the word of the week at the 13th annual Coast School of Celtic Music (CSCM) held at Roberts Creek July 8 to 12. "It was amazing.

Ceramics on the Edge 5 is on display at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt (corner of Trail and Medusa) from now until Aug.

Last Saturday, July 13, Sunshine Coast residents were treated to some exceptional music at Summer Sizzle at the Roberts Creek Hall.

Tim Bowling and Ther-esa Shea, former residents of Gibsons, return to the Sunshine Coast to read from their new books in an event sponsored by the Gibsons Live Poets Society and publishers Nightwood Editions and Brindle & Glass.

This month, Jasmyn Evered, who recently turned 11, was chosen as one of only six others around her age to compete against 23 other countries with Team Canada this December in Poland.

Contemporary photographer Elaine Hunter of Halfmoon Bay is not precisely sure why her career has rocketed lately.

The future looks promising for the three graduating dancers from the pre-professional program offered by Coast Academy of Dance (CAD).

Earlier this spring local singer/songwriter Charlotte Wrinch was announced as the winner of the March 2013 Best Folk Song by Akademia, a music industry promotional company based in Beverly Hills, California, for her songThe String.