Local Arts

John Gould, a writer, teacher and editor from Victoria, will give the next reading in the Sunshine Coast Arts Council fall series Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m.

The music of The Rakish Angles is difficult to define. Is it jazz? Is it roots? Is it folk? "You can call us by a really general description," said Angles' fiddler Serena Eades.

Don't miss two great performances tonight (Friday) and Saturday at the Sechelt Festival of the Arts. Tonight's main stage showcase focuses on art and environment.

The second film in this fall's Green Film Series, In Transition: From oil dependence to local resilience, will be shown on Monday, Oct. 24, at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons.

On Saturday, Oct. 29, local author and poet Jonathan Appleseed will host an evening of ceremony and storytelling at the Sunshine Coast Art Centre. The focus of the event is creation and evolution across cultures and through history.

Ghosts, goblins, witches, warlocks mark Saturday, Oct. 29, on your calendar for the third annual Halloween Howl presented by the Pender Harbour Blues Society.

Opera season opens this Saturday, Oct. 15, with Donizetti's Anna Bolena from the NY Metropolitan Opera, live in HD by satellite, at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt. Anna Netrebko stars as the ill-fated queen. The show starts at 9:55 a.m.

Because of the generosity of the event sponsorIndustrial - Alliance Pacific and local sponsorJohn McKenzie, everyone attending the Oct.

Oct. 21 to 23 will bring a full weekend of arts and entertainment to the Coast.

Next weekend, studios and galleries from Mellon Glass near Langdale to Rare Earth Pottery at Lund beyond Powell River will open their doors to hundreds of visitors in the second annual Art Crawl, Oct. 21 to 23.