Local Arts

High on a hill in Garden Bay sits the home of MW Books, a new publishing house on the B.C. landscape that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's stories.

The Pender Harbour Music Society presents Zapato Negro this Sunday, Dec. 2 in a 2 p.m. show at the School of Music in Madeira Park. This global blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz is perfect for a winter afternoon.

Two unconventional Sunshine Coast artists from two completely different backgrounds, generations and artistic approaches are making marks in the art world. Heather Passmore is a young Vancouver artist raised on the Sun-shine Coast.

Creative in the Creek presents a hilarious Roberts Creek Christmas themed evening, The Winter of Our Heart's Content, next Thursday, Dec. 6 at the Gumboot Café starting at 6:30 p.m.

The Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild celebrated their 25th anniversary at the Fibres Plus show and sale at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt last weekend.

Winter Harp celebrates its 19th year on tour at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt this Saturday, Nov. 24, at 2:30 p.m. This year's guest is Kim Robertson, considered one of the world's leading Celtic harpists.

Cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and pianist Martin Helmchen, two of the most sought-after soloists and chamber musicians of the younger generation, are the headline soloists for the next Coast Recital Society (CRS) concert, this Sunday, Nov.

The Knights of Columbus are at it again. For the second year in a row they are producing a radio play for the whole family from the 1940s about love, wonder and hope. This year, it's Miracle on 34th Street.

The eighth annual Sechelt Arts Festival broke all kinds of moulds, firstly by becoming a 12-day event jam-packed with every kind of art for every kind of audience imaginable.

The Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild is excited to invite the community to its 25th anniversary fibres plus Christmas sale this weekend at the Seaside Centre in Sechelt. The sale runs this Friday, Nov. 16, from 4 to 7 p.m.