Local Arts

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.

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.