Local Arts

Indie rock rules - or, to put it another way - independent 21st century original rock music written by local songwriters and performed on Saturday night in a venue other than a garage is alive on the Sunshine Coast. I know because I've been there.

Kick-off your Valentine's Day plans a little early this year by kicking up some fun with Dr. Fun and the Painkillers. Dr.

The B.C. Culture Days Task Force is pleased to announce that it has engaged the Alliance for Arts and Culture, through the Society to Bridge Arts and Community, to co-ordinate the 2011 B.C. Culture Days.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council is pleased to announce Alternate Light, an exhibition of work by Kristjana Gunnars. After years of commuting between the Sunshine Coast and Edmonton, Gunnars was able to make the Coast her permanent home.

An exhibition of work, Cheering the Goddess, ceramics by Katie Janyk, opens this week with an artist's reception on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery. In the Harbour View Room, until Feb.

A successful fibre arts festival that put Gibsons on the map for fabric artists everywhere will not continue in 2011. At the annual general meeting of the Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival (GLFAF) Society Jan.

Lois Smith, a former prima ballerina in the prestigious National Ballet of Canada, passed away at her Port Stalashen home last Saturday at the age of 81.

Join the Kallisto Trio as they return to Sechelt to explore the myth of the Greek figure, Kallisto, through words and music.

The business end of making music can be confusing. However, the myriad rights, revenue streams, deals, contracts, royalties, funding sources and role players, when properly understood, can make a music creator's life much easier.

Many on the Coast know him as a theatre performer, an African dance instructor and a children's storyteller, but Jean-Pierre Makosso of Gibsons has another aspect to his creativity -a writer.