Local Arts

What do a retired vertebrate palaeontologist, a woodworker, a special needs teaching assistant, a full-time musician, a retired French teacher and a graphic artist have in common? This isn't a set up for a bad joke - it is the magical world of Stars

Suncoast Singers are starting rehearsals for their next concerts, set for May 27 and 29. They will be performing excerpts from The Creation by Haydn and a varied assortment of pieces that celebrate our wonderful world.

The annual pre jazz festival concert that highlights the January Coast concert scene brings Soulstream back to the Coast on Jan. 21.

Walking into the Friends of the Gallery (FOG) show at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre is like opening a gift package - you just never know what you'll find.

Coast music lovers will get the chance to hear Celso Machado and Jou Tou, a world-renowned percussionist together on stage and help out the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse in the process. This fundraising concert event is set for Saturday, Jan. 21 at 8 p.

The concert, Love and Hope, this Saturday, Jan. 14, at 4 p.m. at St. Hilda's Anglican Church in Sechelt, has been organized quickly for an urgent cause.

Jane Richardson, an artist, retired teacher and lover of art books, ran the Leighdon Studio Gallery on 3rd Avenue in Vancouver.

The Sunshine Coast Film Society's latest season is off to a great start - high atop Mount Everest. The year's film series opens on Monday, Jan.

The Pender Harbour School of Music welcomes The Sojourners to Madeira Park on Sunday, Jan. 15, at 2 p.m. The trio offers gospel music with echoes of doo wop, country and the blues woven together.

A special celebration of Coast dance featuring a spectacular array of choreographers, dancers and musicians performing all new work inspired by the sounds of jazz takes place this Saturday, Nov. 26, at 2 and 7 p.m.