Local Arts

Renowned Sunshine Coast poet John Pass has been short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for his latest book, crawlspace (Harbour Publishing).

Gibsons resident Raymond Eagle's first camera was a box-style Brownie. That was 35 years ago and he has been taking pictures ever since as a serious amateur photographer using Kodak, Pentax and finally, a digital camera.

The Coast Recital Society (CRS) presents the brilliant Canadian pianist André Laplante in the final concert of the CRS concert season, this Sunday, March 18, at 2:30 p.m. with a pre-concert chat at 1:30 p.m. at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

In Canada, we tend to take things like personal safety for granted. Headlines in the news remind us that other parts of the world are not easy places to live and travel, especially for young women.

Where else but on the Coast can you enjoy a garage sale and a concert at the same time? This Saturday, March 10, the Sunshine Coast Community Orchestra holds its annual fundraiser, The Huge Garage Sale. Doors open at 10 a.m.

When you visit the Sechelt Seniors Activity Centre these days, you might overhear chuckles, thumps and lively piano music coming from the stage area. You are hearing a local version of vintage entertainment - the grand tradition of vaudeville.

Gertrude Pacific's Sandy Hook studio is surrounded by the trees of the Sechelt Heritage Forest, a stand of nature that Pacific, along with other residents, has worked to preserve since she and her husband moved there in 1993.

Faces of the Coast is a group of individuals and organizations coming togethertotakeaction and raise awareness about discrimination and hate on the Sunshine Coast.

When Steve Giltrow discovered jazz, that's the only music he wanted to play. He'd taken classical guitar lessons since the age of seven and played pop music for a while, but decided that jazz has richer harmonies.

The stars shone brightly during the Sunshine Coast Music Society's Festival of Strings at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons last weekend - and most were local stars.