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A chance to celebrate arts culture

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.

New exhibit offers alternate light

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.

GPAG goddess show

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.

Fibre Festival dissolves

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.

Ballerina served the Coast

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.

Kallisto returns

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

New course for music creators and entrepreneurs

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.

Two storytellers: Cries and Murmurs

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.

A hot jazz fest warm-up

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.

Inspiring a cornucopia of creativity

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.