Local Arts

The new Wheel Gallery at Molly's Lane in Gibsons holds its inaugural opening tonight (July 22) at 6 p.m. with art, entertainment and refreshments.

Paris's Moulin Rouge (translation: Red Mill) is a cabaret, one of the world's most famous with its trademark lighted windmill, built in 1889 on the Boulevard de Clichy, close to the artsy Montmartre area.

Energy and stage presence is the way the audience described David Woodhead's group of musicians, Confabulation, who stormed across the Heritage Playhouse stage on July 13 as part of the fundraising Showcase of the Performing Arts (SOPA).

The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts is pleased to announce the addition of a free community event to the festival line-up featuring Sunshine Coast resident Jerry Thompson.

Music on the Rock at Willow Farm returns this Sunday, July 17 at 3 p.m. with Caffe della Gamba, Renaissance and Baroque music performed by the viola da gamba consort featuring Sarah Tippett and Genevieve MacKay.

In 2004, the acrobatic French couple of Delphine Lechifflart and Franck Rabilier embarked on a lifelong dream.

The Ceramics on the Edge 3 show opened at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt on June 29.

To the sound of smashing glass, Sunshine Coast poet Joe Denham has broken into a new genre.

The Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) welcomes Coast artist Megan Dulcie Dill and her new show entitled New Work/Salmon Cycles from July 14 to Aug. 15. You can meet the artist at the opening reception this Saturday, July 16, from 2 to 4 p.m.

June 29 and 30 at Sechelt's St. Hilda's were a glorious prelude to Canada's 144th birthday. Michael Ingham, Anglican diocesan bishop of New Westminster, was here June 29 for the organ dedication as St. Hilda's celebrates its 75th anniversary.