Local Arts

The annual Friends of the Gallery (FOG) unjuried show at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt is always full of surprises. Each artist may submit only one work.

Five Alarm Funk is back and in full, frenzied force. The band performs at the annual Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival January fundraiser at Roberts Creek Hall on Saturday, Jan. 23, with doors opening at 9 p.m.

The Wheat in the Barley, a Vancouver/White Rock based band, will be making the Sunshine Coast their second home during the month of January.

This year's annual Show-case of the Arts put on by senior fine arts and performing arts students of Chatelech Secondary School will be presented a little earlier in the year than usual, on Thursday, Jan. 21, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

The Sunshine Coast Music Society presents the Anagram Quartet at Heritage Playhouse on Friday, Jan. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in a concert presentation and CD launch.

Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome will present a double reading at Wheatberries Bakery and Bistro in Gibsons on Friday, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m. Canada Council for the Arts is sponsoring this reading that is free to attend.

Music in the Landing swings into the weekend tonight (Friday) in the Gazebo at the end of the wharf in Gibsonsfrom 7 to 8 p.m. with Anagram, the jazz duo of Anna Lumiere, keyboard,and Graham Ord, sax/flute with special guest John Rule on drums.

Seven and seven could be lucky for the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG). The volunteer run organization is in its seventh year and has consistently produced at least seven local artist exhibitions each year. (Last year they squeezed in eight.

A sold out show in support of Rose Schwarz at the Roberts Creek Hall on Dec. 19 was a complete success in every way.

I first heard a story from Wax Boats, the debut collection of Gibsons' writer Sarah Roberts, read aloud many years ago during a writing workshop conducted by local author Andreas Schroeder.