Local Arts

Coast Phoenix Singers are delighted that Coast resident Michael Grice has agreed to be their new music director.

The co-conspirators who will bring you Random Acts of Art this Saturday are both creative individuals.

Fibre artist Yvonne Stowell takes walks daily near her Madeira Park business, FibreWorks Studio and Gallery.

The Sunshine Coast Film Society presents Starlight Film Night to launch the new 2012/13 film season this Sunday, Sept. 2, at Winegarden Waterfront Park in Gibsons. Music starts at 7 p.m. and movies at dusk (about 8:30 p.m.

Local indie rock band Sinmobile's first CD, a six song EP recorded at Strait Sound in Roberts Creek, is fast-paced, hungry, let-it-all-out-on-the-dance-floor music.

If you lived on the Coast in the late 1990s you might remember sitting in a farmer's field in Sechelt listening to a huge country music festival that drew many fans to hear the likes of the Rankin Family and other favourites.

On Saturday, Sept. 8, Oscar Lopez is playing the Rockwood Pavilion as a trio. What he's not telling us is who the other two are.

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.