Local Arts

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.

The Joe Trio is not your average piano trio. They don't want to be neatly categorized, but instead strive for diversity, versatility and more than a little humour and unpredictability.

Caravan World Rhythms and the Sunshine Coast Jazz & Entertainment Society are thrilled to present the return of Atlantic Canada's The Idlers on Saturday, March 5, at the Roberts Creek Hall. Newfoundland-based Idlers (www.idlers.

Kristjana Gunnars of Halfmoon Bay has been a student of the arts most of her life. She spent 30 years as a writer of poetry and fiction. Born in Iceland, she has translated literary works, and she has taught creative writing in university.

You have only one more week to visit the exhibition by artist Katie Janyk at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery. Cheering the Goddess closes Feb. 28 at 4 p.m.

Sweet Cascadia is throwing a party, and they're inviting the whole community. The Gibsons- and Roberts Creek-based group, known to many as a "bioregional band," is holding a community dance party on Feb.

The Company B Jazz Band hits the stage on Sunday, Feb. 20, at 2 p.m. at the School of Music in what promises to be a great afternoon of entertainment.