Local Arts

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It was about 1954 when a pert teenager wearing kiss curls and a summer dress posed on a major Winnipeg hotel's nightclub stage for a promotional photo.

New Democratic party candidate Bill Forst will be moving on to a new stage in his life following this election campaign, literally.

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness t