Local Arts

Though a few of Saturday's clouds sprinkled rain, the 13th annual Pender Harbour Jazz Festival still attracted a big audience to many outdoor events. The popular choice seemed to be mellow jazz classics, the smooth music of years gone by.

The Green Team of Gibsons United Church believes that one person can make a difference. On Oct. 2 and 3 they will hold their second annual Environmental Film Festival showing films that focus on thinking globally and acting locally.

The fourth annual New Moon Festival,a celebration of Asian arts and culture, will be held Saturday,Sept. 26 from 1 p.m. to dusk at Dougall Park in Gibsons.

Music by Haydn, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the composers on the program when the Tantalus String Quartet perform at Willow Farm, Sunday afternoon Sept. 20 at 2:30 p.m.

Design is what compels jewellery artisan Véron-ique Williams - plus a restless, artistic nature that always wants to create something new.

Sechelt author Andrew Scott is launching his landmark work The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia in Sechelt and Madeira Park next week. The launch in Sechelt is on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m.

"Dame Evelyn rocks," wrote one enthusiastic critic about Evelyn Glennie, the brilliant percussionist.

A group of women, local business owners who are part of the Gibsons Landing Business Association (GLBA), surround a metre-long painted salmon hanging in the Gift of the Eagle Gallery and ponder the image.

From Sept. 13 to 19, four Tibetan Buddhist monks will make a traditional sacred sand mandala on the Sunshine Coast. The monks are from Gaden Jangste monastery in a Tibetan refugee area in southern India.

Brianna Stark's one woman show, Inside I, The Butterfly Effect, at the Heritage Playhouse last Saturday (Sept. 5) was dynamic if a little raw around the edges.