Local Arts

It's here again - the Gibsons Jazz Festival January fundraiser - a hot, hot warm-up with the winter salsa dance. This year festival organizers are bringing back a past favourite, Rumba Calzada, on Sat-urday, Jan. 22, at 9 p.m. at Roberts Creek Hall.

Visions of Home, a partnership project between the Gibsons Public Art Gallery and Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast, has inspired a vibrant and diverse show of nearly 50 artworks.

The Jordao Photo-Graphic Studio Gallery is gearing up for an exciting weekend of boot-stompin' dancing and an exhilarating year of collaborations with local event producers. The gallery, located at #2 - 626 Shaw Rd.

Variety Tent 47 of B.C. announced that it will conduct a province-wide search for talented vocalists leading up to the annual Show of Hearts telethon. The 2011 Telethon will be held Feb.

Come to vintage film night at the Arts Building on South Fletcher in Gibsons, tonight (Jan. 14) at 7 p.m. to see the classic Three Stooges film, The Brideless Groom, from 1947. All ages are welcome for admission of $2.

He's happiest when he's by the ocean, either visiting the south Pacific paradise of Palau or watching the otters play outside his own oceanfront home in Sechelt.

Award-winning instrumentalist Joel Fafard sings the blues on his latest CD release of Cluck Old Hen and will share those songs at the Pender Harbour School of Music on Sunday, Jan. 16, at 2 p.m.

Grace Sigurdson, or as she is known by her artist's name, Inga, is happy about the outcome of her recent work, an acrylic on canvas painting in her signature seashell shape.

Driftwood Theatre School kicks off 2011 with an exciting expansion of new classes in a new home.

The annual Friends of the Gallery (FOG) art show opened this week at the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt and runs until Jan. 30.