Local Arts

Prepare to be amazed next week at the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse. Internationally acclaimed illusionist Vitaly Beckman presents Sensation of Magic with two shows on June 3 and 4.

Two Pender Harbour artists will celebrate and explore nature through their exhibition Songs of the Earth II, at the Harbour Gallery in Madeira Park, May 28 to June 7.

Travel around the world in music and images with your Coast Symphony Orchestra.

The Bad to the Bow youth fiddlers, members of the Coast String Fiddlers, are hosting a youth fiddle workshop this weekend and their second annual family dance and concert. The concert is Sunday at 7 p.m.

A miniature bird cage hangs in the window of silversmith Tessa Rand's Gibsons studio.

The Westwind Gallery in Gibsons should be exploding with colour very soon when artist Elizabeth Evans holds her show of new acrylics, opening May 14, called Colour and Motion. Evans loves colour, reds and oranges primarily.

The Arts Council spring reading series concludes with prairie novelist Sandra Birdsell in Sechelt on Friday, May 20.

The man behind Attack of Danger Bay, the international longboarding race held the May long weekend in Pender Harbour, is featured in a new documentary film premiering tonight (May 13) in Vancouver.

The Pender Harbour Jazz Festivalhas launched a new annual sponsorship program called Kool Kats.

Sunshine Coast book publisher Harbour Pub-lishing was recognized for publishing the best 2010 book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content at the 27th Annual Lieutenant Governor's Gala in West Vancouver on April 21.