Local Arts

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.

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.