Local Arts

A reading by award-winning Ottawa writer and scholar Heather Menzies is the second in the Spring Reading Series of the SC Arts Council Saturday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in the Doris Crowston Gallery of the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre.

This weekend the Festival of Wind Music brings a variety of brass and woodwinds to the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. Tonight, (March 18), Anagram and the Creek Big Band perform. On Saturday it's the Jazz Group of Seven and the Suncoast Concert Band.

It's time to shake off the winter blues and dust off your dancing shoes as the Pender Harbour Blues Society presents Russell Earl Marsland in a special performance at the community hall on Saturday, March 26 at 9 p.m.

Musician and sound designer Steve Wright shows me a children's drawing of a caterpillar under a round, happy sun. When I look closely, I see it is a piece of music, although it is not written in a musical staff.

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.