Local Arts

When Sechelt resident John Robertson retired from teaching, he sat in the garden and began writing and writing. "I couldn't stop," he recalls, and some of his stories about the war years were published in The Legion Magazine.

The 30th annual Festival of the Written Arts (FOWA) last weekend had a celebratory feel to it, rejoicing in three decades of the most popular literary festival in Canada.

Coming up Sept. 1 and 2 on the grounds of the Pender Harbour Golf Club, grab your cowboy hat for the Highway 101 Country and Rock Music Festival.

The patio to the Pender Harbour Music School and Performance Centre was enclosed giving the small concert venue more sheltered space. The audience for the opening night of the eighth annual Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival, Aug.

Synchronicity is about being connected, said the organizers of the third annual Synchronicity Festival, Aug. 25 and 26, in a park near Gibsons.

The Hackett Park Summer Arts and Crafts Fair runs this Saturday, Aug. 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Hackett Park, in Sechelt.

Thirteen venues in Lower Gibsons opened their doors to visitors last week, Aug. 9 to 12, for the annual Art Stroll in the Landing.

On Monday, Aug. 13, veteran Juno award-winning singer, songwriter Shari Ulrich graces the stage at Gibsons Heritage Playhouse. In some ways, for Ulrich, this is a homecoming.

When a record 32 local artists gather in the garden of the Victorian-style mansion in Roberts Creek known as Linwood House this Sunday afternoon, they will be offering part proceeds from their sales to a humanitarian, non-profit organization.

The Hackett Park summer arts and crafts fair turns 25 this year. The fair runs Saturday, Aug. 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in Hackett Park in Sechelt.