Local Arts

The Driftwood Theatre School is quickly becoming the "go to" favourite for local productions looking for young actors on the Sunshine Coast.

Laurie Verchomin was only 22 when she met jazz piano legend Bill Evans while she was waitressing at a gig in Edmonton, her home in 1979. He was 49, cocaine addicted, twice married and a musical genius that could make jazz fans weep.

This is a happy story. Three artists - good friends - met over a glass of wine one day to explore a possible theme for their collaborative show at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery.

The Sunshine Coast Dance Society (SCDS) presents Gail Lotenberg, artistic director for LINK Dance in Vancouver, as the recipient of the eighth annual SCDS residency program.

The Sunshine Coast Summer Choir wound up its season Tuesday, Aug. 30, with a concert at St. Hilda's Church in Sechelt with a rendition of the Requiem of French, 19th century composer Gabriel Fauré.

Remember the Drew Camp Band that won the Battle of the Bands two years ago? Drew often performs with his musician father, Roger Camp, who is mounting a benefit for St. Mary's Hospital on his beachfront property in Roberts Creek.

The popularity of the seventh annual Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival was easy to gauge in May when tickets for the August event went on sale. They sold out immediately.

On Wednesday evenings, about 35 singers from across the Coast have been coming together at St. Hilda's Anglican Church to work on the Fauré Requiem directed by Sara Douglas with David Millard at the piano.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council presents two exhibitions of photographs during the month of Sept-ember -Marina Craw-ford's still life in Vancouver and Mario Traina's Naturally in Infra-red.

Award winning Sechelt entrepreneur and author Cathrine Ann, whose compelling memoir Beautiful Buttons describes her triumph over a troubled and shocking past, has been slated to participate in the 2011 Brisbane Writers Festival.