Local Arts

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.

Show Me the Music, this year's Coast Academy of Dance (CAD) recital at the Raven's Cry Theatre, was long (over three hours), fast-paced, colourful and demonstrated some extraordinary talents.

Coast poet John Pass's new collection of poems, crawlspace, has just been released from Harbour Publishing, and all are invited to the launch on Monday, June 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Arts Centre in Sechelt.

Dance Works Academy held its year-end recitals last weekend in four shows that had to make parents and teachers proud. The junior student show was full of little girl snowflakes, dancing tree spirits and little boy hip hop dancers.

The Pender Harbour Music Society season comes to a close Saturday, June 18 with Tiller's Folly at the Music School. Tiller's Folly, are the Pacific Northwest's internationally travelled, virtuosic ambassadors of song.

Last weekend's Pender Harbour Blues Festival drew full houses to every event. "We're a success," said organizer Marilyn MacLeod, with only slight surprise. Like other volunteers and directors, she worked all weekend and was loving it.

The Sunshine Coast Music Society is delighted to introduce an annual Homecoming Weekend to showcase young musicians returning from their off-Coast studies next Friday, June 17, and Sunday, June 19, at Gibsons' Heritage Playhouse. At 7:30 p.m.