Local Arts

Ann Nicholson's 16-panel Chilcotin War series raises the art of story telling to a new level as she fuses her native South African and bold Canadian symbolism to retell this little known chapter of B.C. history in vibrant oil on canvas.

Lee Roberts from Goldmoss Gallery assured me that I would never be able to see every event at the brilliantly creative Roberts Creek Arts Festival (RCAF) held last weekend May 17 to 19. He was absolutely right.

Today's Coast Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is simply the best ever, remarked CSO librarian Terry Andrews. He would be so thrilled, said Ann Kershaw, Tom Kershaw's widow. Kershaw (d.

Anyone expecting to see a few bedspreads on show at the arena of the Gibsons and Area Community Centre last weekend would have been in for a surprise.

Graduating Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design (NSCAD) student Torrance Beamish [a graduate of Elphinstone Secondary School] was named the winner of the 2013 Starfish Student Art Awards at the Starfish Gala on Thursday, May 2.

The Harbour Gallery in Madeira Park reports that Chloe Christie, a former student of Pender Harbour Secondary School was the recipient of both the 2011 and 2012 Ada Priest Memorial bursaries.

In 1973 Pender Harbour musician Les Fowler led the earliest incarnation of the Pender Harbour Community Choir.

Coming to Sechelt, Wood Dreams and Lightning and the 'insanely unexpected beauty' of three virtuosos: Michael Waters' acoustic chill guitar, Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos, playing the profound flute style of the centuries-old Shakuhatchi tradition and Allannah

After a brilliant academic career in music in which professor Lois Choksy wrote six non-fiction texts, she retired and turned her imagination to another genre, fiction.

The Young People's Art Show, Elementary Schools, is a must see in the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt. Almost 500 pieces of art hung with 1,556 tacks took six volunteers 10 hours to put on the gallery walls.