Local Arts

When the royal couple, William and Kate, tour Canada this week there's at least one Coast artist, Arlene Littler, who has already enjoyed a satisfying royal connection. The lengthy career of the Gibsons' artist is still evolving.

For the second year in its award program, the Coast Cultural Alliance (CCA) presented a Music for Youth Endowment Grant of $500 to a youth aged 13 to 19, residing on the Sunshine Coast, to assist that student in furthering musical goals.

Some 120 years ago, under the patronage of the czar of Russia, two of the most profound influences on classical ballet, the choreographer Marius Petipa and the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, came together to create the epic ballet The Sleeping Be

The Sunshine Coast School ofCelticMusic is running its youth Trad Band from July 2 to 8 at Robert Creek Elementary School.

Music in the Landing, now in its ninth season, brings live music to outdoor locations in Gibsons. The program is sponsored by the Town of Gibsons and presents localtalented professional and emerging musicians of all ages and styles.

The District of Sechelt is inviting local artists to participate in the Sechelt Festival of the Art's Juried Art Show Oct. 18 to 23 and Art Acquisition Award in which an artwork will be purchased for Sechelt's public art collection.

Where are they now, those young musicians who grew up on the Coast? Have they continued with their music? The Sunshine Coast Music Society invited many former students, home for the summer, whose youth was spent with such groups as the Coast String F

One of Canada's most respected poets strode confidently to the podium Monday night, June 20, to launch his latest collection of poems, crawlspace, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.

Pender Harbour's best selling book of 2010, Women of Pender Harbour: Their Voices, Their History, is now an award winner, too.

The jurors for the annual Ceramics on the Edge 3, Celia and Keith Rice-Jones of Burnaby, have made their selections for the forthcoming show at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre opening June 29.