Local Arts

The third annual Halloween Happy Cat Haven benefit dance is at the Gibsons Legion Hall on Saturday, Oct. 30, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with the classic rock music of The Ranters, cash prizes for costumes, raffles and more.

The sweet voice of soprano Suzie LeBlanc and the collaborative piano artistry of Robert Kortgaard launched this season's Pender Harbour Music Society concert series in Madeira Park last Sunday to its usual high standard.

"You are on the threshold of a wonderful magical dream, but it is a dream not without bitterness," says the narrator in a play to open Tuesday, Nov. 2, and to be performed by a cast of Canada World Youth (CWY) visitors.

Sunshine Coast Arts Council is happy to announce that Ourselves & Others, a portrait exhibit by the Life and Limn painting group, opens in the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre on Nov. 3.

The inaugural Art Crawl Oct. 23 and 24 was officially pronounced a success by the Coast Cultural Alliance. Visitors travelled between 74 artist studios, Langdale to Powell River, browsing and shopping for local art and crafts.

Jarimba will be featured at a music and dance party that comes to the Roberts Creek Hall on Saturday, Oct. 23.

George Bowering, Canada's first poet laureate, will read in Sechelt on Oct. 30.

The plans are elaborate and full of fun details. Coast artists are getting ready: painting their studios, displaying their work, planning to stick close to home this weekend, Oct. 23 and 24.

Filmmaker Erik Paulsson will host the Coast premiere of his latest documentary, The Edge of the World: BC's Early Years, this Sunday in Gibsons.

In the play A Bed Full of Foreigners, the French hotel is not in tip top condition: the radiator clunks, the clock is slow, and Karak the porter likes to sip a beer on the job, much to the dismay of manager Heinz.