Local Arts

Coast youth who want to advance their love of music are invited to apply for a new funding opportunity.

Arrowhead presents a hip hop fundraiser tonight (Friday) at Roberts Creek Hall at 8:30 p.m. featuring The Ground Breakers from Vancouver who perform the Boom Bap sound.

Cogent introductions, and repositioning for vocal effect helped. Above all, scintillating singing made Sunday, Nov. 1, at Sechelt's Raven's Cry Theatre a most memorable afternoon.

Giving a psychic reading to a Sunday morning audience at the cinema may seem like an unusual way to launch a book. But then Gibsons' Natasha Rosewood is not your usual author.

Popular storyteller Ivan Coyote returns to the Coast on Saturday, Nov. 7, for a day of reading and workshops.

It's hard to imagine a cast and crew more excited by a play. Driftwood Players brings a contemporary production, The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, to the Heritage Playhouse opening Nov.

In an evening of lyrical prose and contemporary poetry, three authors launched their latest works in Sechelt last Oct. 10.

Last seen on Halloween 2008, it is rumoured that Arturo Toscanini (1867-1967) will once again conduct the Coast Symphony Orchestra Association's Halloween Concert. This concert, a week before Halloween, will really get people in the Halloween spirit.

As Sunshine Coast Idol organizer Peter Beauchamp said last week to Idol host Chelsea Crawford as he handed her the microphone, "It's all yours, Chelsea. Here we go again." Idol 2 officially got underway Oct.

Despite the rain, a small crowd gathered outside Sechelt's municipal building last Saturday to unveil two new artworks commissioned especially for the Civic Square garden.