Local Arts

The eighth annual Showcase of the Performing Arts (SOPA) - a fundraiser for the Heritage Playhouse and a way to promote local performing arts - runs the first three weeks of July. Tonight, July 3, lovable Joe Stanton performs solo. Tickets are $15.

Prediction: Grace River, the first novel by Roberts Creek author Rebecca Hendry, will be the hot new book in B.C. this year - helped along by her forthcoming appearance at the Festival of the Written Arts in Sechelt this August.

The Doucetrio, a fresh group of young, enthusiastic people, will appear at the Gumboot Café on Saturday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m. Local artists, Stramash, will open the night.

It's a sight you don't often see.

Lux Aeterna (eternal light) was one of many songs about light sung in the outdoors by the 20-member A Cappella Strait choir at Willow Farm June 21 on the longest day of the year.

Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light), a summer solstice choral concert, will be performed outside at Willow Farm in Sechelt on Sunday, June 21.

The word in Dougall Park last Saturday was that the 14th annual Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival's main event was the best one ever.

Dream Girls and Boys was the second in a series of year-end recitals from the Coast Academy of Dance (CAD) presented at the Chatelech Secondary School Theatre last weekend.

Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival breaks loose this weekend. See five great acts at a ticketed event in Dougall Park on Saturday from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m.

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.