Local Arts

The first time Driftwood Theatre School instructor Melina Cassidy studied Shake-speare was in Grade 7 - a difficult and harrowing experience.

Two local artists who have pushed boundaries in digital art opened their exhibition at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre this week. Sechelt writer and digital artist Michael T.

When the artists who participated in October's big Art Crawl met last weekend for a wrap up party in the timbered studio of artists Joanne and Andrew Dunkerton, they were exhausted but happy with their Crawl experience. From Oct.

The remarkable Canadian-Armenian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian and pianist Serouj Kradjian are the featured artists at the next Coast Recital Society (CRS) concert, this Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2:30 p.m. at the Raven's Cry Theatre.

Two Coast musicians, Joel Fafard and Janet Panic, have recently been nominated in this year's Cana-dian Folk Music Awards.

Walter Price has a thing about park benches. Every time he sits on his favourite bench to eat his sandwich, something happens to him - something provocative.

When award-winning classical guitarist Michael Partington performs at St. Hilda's Church on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2:30 p.m., he will be using a crafted guitar made with care on the Sunshine Coast by luthier Martin Blackwell.

Paintings by Frank Proctor will be exhibited at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) from Nov. 3 to 14 with a reception with the Proctor family at the Gibsons Legion on Nov. 5 from 2 to 4 p.m.

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Sechelt artist Shawn Hunt has been recognized by the B.C. AchievementFoundation with a BC Creative Achievement Award for First Nations' Art. The recipients were announced on Oct. 21.