Local Arts

Vocalist Kate Hammett-Vaughan and guitarist Bill Coon appear with the Coast's own Definitely Diva and Chelsea Crawford at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons this Saturday at 7 p.m. On Sunday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m.

Anagram, a quartet featuring the Coast's duo of Anna Lumiere and Graham Ord, are obviously seasoned music professionals. Yet their stage act seems fresh and new perhaps because they appear to enjoy live performance so much.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a fun musical including singing, dancing and general exuberance. A cast of 15 Drama 9 students at Chatelech Secondary School will perform it next week, Thursday and Friday, Feb.

Twenty-five years ago, a group of Sunshine Coast artists got together in Roberts Creek to draw the nude model, a practice which has been a standard part of artistic training for centuries.

In Search of Lost Colour, a film about natural dyes around the world, screens tonight (Jan. 29) at 7 p.m. at the Arts Building in Gibsons.

Sarah Loverock is feeling the golden glow.

Watoto means "The Children" in Swahili, and these children are on a mission that will take them on a journey from the west to the east coast of Canada in 2010.

Wheat in the Barley performs at Heritage Play-house on Saturday at 8 p.m. along with Bad to the Bow, the young Coast String Fiddlers, and local musician Gary McGuire. The band's new CD, Can't Draw the Curtain, has something for everyone.

It's a dance performance involving anywhere from 40 to 70 people of all ages and abilities.

The street level building on South Fletcher Road by the Gibsons Public Library has always been associated with the arts. It was once the tiny library for the Town and it usually hosts the Gibsons School of the Arts (GSA) in the summer.