Local Arts

Fibreworks Studio and Gallery near Madeira Park opens their fifth season of exhibitions and workshops this Friday (April 6) with a show, Positive Fall-Out, new work by Wendy Browne, a mixed media, collage and fibre artist.

Expect to see some gorgeous evening gowns at graduation this year if the recent Chatelech Secondary School fundraising Fashion Show presented on March 29 is anything to go by.

It was a long time coming - and much hard work - but four members of the Halfmoon Bay Writers' Workshop were proud to present their collection of stories, Halfmoon Rising, at a book launch March 27 in Wilson Creek.

Now in their 16th year of performing, Pearl Django continues to be one of North America's most respected and busiest hot club style groups. They'll bring their show to the Pender Harbour School of Music on April 14 at 8 p.m.

A Chatelech Secondary School grad is about to showcase her first full line of clothing geared toward the active mom-to-be during Kwantlen Polytechnic University's The Show at the River Rock Theatre in Richmond on April 3.

Nominees for the 28th annual BC Book Prizes were announced recently. Two Pender Harbour authors and one Roberts Creek illustrator were among the chosen few.

The Coast's longest running festival, now in its 39th year, opens on April 2. The participants are rehearsing their music, the adjudicators have been selected - all that's needed is an audience.

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.

A powerful documentary film is set to screen next week in Sechelt aimed at ending sexism in the media.

Brilliantly gifted pianist Sara Buechner returns to Pender Harbour to dazzle and enchant. The Pender Harbour Music Society and the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival Committee are co-presenting the concert this Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m.