Local Arts

The District of Sechelt, in partnership with the Sunshine Coast Arts Council, will be presenting its eighth annual Sechelt Festival of the Arts at a new time of year and in a new format. Between Oct.

Local performer P. Adrien Dorval tore through many characters brilliantly on stage at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons last weekend in Eric Bogosian's vicious comedy Wake Up and Smell the Coffee.

The Gibsons Heritage Playhouse is the place to be March 18 to 20 for the fifth annual B.C. Ferries Festival of Wind Music. Presented by the Sunshine Coast Music Society, the Friday and Saturday concerts at 7:30 p.m.

Entertainer Graham Walker invites you and the kids to a Silly Sock Hop with The Barn Cats, Kaia Nielsen and Sandy Buck with her puppets, this Sunday, March 13, at 3 p.m. at The Arts Building on South Fletcher Road in Gibsons.

Three Chatelech students are enjoying new iPads and yet another video contest win with their submission How Well Do You Know Me?. Their video was awarded first prize in the My Privacy and Me national video competition.

The five guys who make up the band Mindil Beach Markets now live in Victoria and tour all over. But they still exude a Sunshine Coast vibe.

The Registered Music Teachers Association is presenting The Joe Trio in a music workshop on Saturday at 6 p.m. at St. Hilda's Church in Sechelt.

Sechelt photographer Ricardo Scipio loves the beauty of women. In his latest creative endeavour, he captures the nude womanly form in The Goddess Project, a full colour, hard cover, limited edition book of collected photos.

Eighteen films, all made by those under the age of 19, were shown at the Roberts Creek Hall last week in the annual Reel Youth Film Festival - a joint presentation from the festival and Black Cat Cinema.

The goddess, the mother of all civilization, lived for a few hours last weekend on stage at the Heritage Playhouse.