Local Arts

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.

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

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.

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.

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.