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Celebrating 15 years

The Sunshine Coast Dance Society (SCDS) is celebrating its 15th anniversary as a charitable organization, and what better way to celebrate than with a Celebration of Dance. The SCDS presents the Celebration of Dance Nov.

Author renovates heaven

We haven't heard as much these days from noted B.C. author Andreas Schroeder since he left Arthur Black's CBC radio show, where he spent 12 years reporting on ingenious frauds, swindles and scams, all of them told with Schroeder's storytelling flair.

On top of the world music

For more than 30 years, guitarist and percussionist Celso Machado has performed on stages all over the world, from his original home in Brazil to festivals closer to his current home in Gibsons.

World tour comes to Gibsons

The Tetrahedron Outdoor Club is once again bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to the Sunshine Coast.

Young artists recognized

Young artists and their families gathered at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt last Saturday to be awarded certificates andvouchers forart supplies from Opus for their winning work.

Yin and yang: two plays

Driftwood Players are to be congratulated for challenging themselves with their selection of two one-act dramas for their fall production.

Juno nominee to play Pender

Marc Atkinson is one of Canada's finest Juno-nominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians. Atkinson comes to Pender Harbour on Saturday, Nov. 15, for a concert presented by the Pender Harbour Music Society. Showtime is 8 p.m.

Dinner theatre offers Neil Simon hit

Families. Aren't they special? It's the family of poor Mel - all of his siblings - who show up in his crummy New York apartment to help their brother when he is depressed. They talk a lot, they reminisce, they knit, they eat, or they shed a tear.

Illustrator nominated for top award

The 2008 Governor General's Literary Awards, one of the most prestigious in Canada, announced its selection of finalists last week.

Magician almost loses his head at Stage Fright

John Kaplan is a professional illusionist, as we are calling magicians these days. Last Sunday, on stage at Chatelech school gym, he demonstrated slicing a head of lettuce cleanly in half between the shiny blades of a guillotine.