Local Arts

Artists are preparing for a bi-annual swarm of visitors to Pender Harbour during this year's Art Wave, April 22 to 24. The Easter weekend will open the season and the participating artists are preparing in their various ways.

Tutti is the title of two special performances of the Sunshine Coast Community Orchestra with the Suncoast Concert Band (directed by François Koh) and guests A Cappella Strait and Choralations Choir.

Angus Stuart's tour of Testament of A Naked Man: Good News According to Mark will make a timely stop at St. Hilda's By the Sea Anglican Church at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 18 just in time for Easter.

Coast to Coast, an earthquake and tsunami relief fundraiser for Japan will be held at Roberts Creek community hall from noon to 4 p.m. this Sunday, April 10.

DsDanse is a troupe of youthful dancers with enough energy to power upthe house lights during their performances. See for yourself on April 15 and 16 when DsDanse performs at the Heritage Playhouse in a show called Connexions.

Paul Clancy is sitting on a bench in front of four, flat-screen TVs at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) on the first day of his show, Point/ Counterpoint, doing what we all like to do occasionally - staring at moving images.

Hot Latin jazz at its best, Raphael Geronimo's Rumba Calzada will move even the stillest of feet with their wicked rhythms and sexy beat. A huge hit of the 2009 Pender Harbour Jazz Festival, the group returns tomorrow night (April 16) with an 8 p.m.

How lucky Sunshine Coast audiences are! The Coast Recital Society brought world-famous tenor Richard Margison to the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt March 17.

Come hootenanny this Saturday at the Arts Building and the S.C. Museum in Gibsons from 5 to 8 p.m.

The classic story of Romeo and Juliet will get a new twist when Caravan World Rhythms presents the Karen Flamenco Dance Company in Romeo and Juliet on Saturday, April 9, at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.