Local Arts

After an exciting spring, including a run in The Fox Seeds Competition and a tour of B.C., Mindil Beach Markets are home on the Sunshine Coast for a pair of performances this weekend.

Dancer Emilie Bland, who studies in the pre professional program offered through the schools and the Coast Academy of Dance (CAD), has passed her associate degree at the age of 17 to become a qualified teacher.

She's known simply as Grandma and she's been serving the women of the Downtown Eastside for many years now, on the streets of Vancouver and on the Sunshine Coast through the retreat space offered by Linwood House Ministries (LHM).

One of the fun things about the Festival of the Written Arts (FOWA) is that with its incredible popularity - almost 9,000 visitors this year for 21 events - you might be sitting at Rockwood Pavilion next to notables such as Margaret Trudeau (an invit

Although the Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival wrapped up its annual show last year, there is still a significant quilt and fibre fest series of events being held in Gibsons and Pender Harbour during August.

Deer Crossing the Art Farm is pleased to announce the expansion of the annual Synchronicity Festival. On Aug.

Harbour Publishing found out this week that two of its cookbooks have been short-listed for the 2011 Canadian Culinary Book Awards.

Music in the Landing presents a special event on Sunday, Aug. 7, in Wine-garden Waterfront Park.

There is more than one way to see a work of art, according to some members of the Sunshine Coast's White Cane Club.

Two African artists lean over their carving tools in the hot summer sun. From a fragment of stone, one man fashions the slim figure of a woman with stylized limbs, typical of a Zimbabwean sculpture.