Local Arts

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.

Fibre Works Gallery, near Madeira Park, is pleased to present a new show, Sharing Riches of my Soul, an exhibition by Anna Hergert of Saskatchewan, opening Aug. 6 and running until Sept. 18.

Whether you are waving, crawling or strolling, the concept of inviting the public to journey through an area's art studios and galleries has become a popular way to see what's on offer from local artisans.

This Saturday, July 30, Rock'n Art Gallery is hosting a live carving and charity event featuring two master carvers from Zimbabwe, Patrick Sephani and Passmore Mupindiko. The event starts at 10 a.m. at Rock'n Art Gallery, 127 Clark Rd. in Gibsons.

Portal/Portage is a multi-media collaboration of four artist friends that will go on show at the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt Aug. 3.

Mark Leiren-Young (winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour) and TJ Dawe (the Lord of the Fringe) team up for the first time to create an all-new show about the problems Kermit never dreamed of when he sang about the challenges of being gr