Local Arts

Need a book for the beach? A CD for the road trip? Here are two selections for summer that you'll enjoy as much as I did. Sechelt author Patricia V.

The Knabe concert grand piano, now at the Heritage Playhouse, has been thoroughly welcomed into its new home. At a two hour plus concert last week, organized by Sue Milne, a wide range of performers gave the full house a stellar show.

Six Sunshine Coast artists who have painted together in the studioand en plein air will be showing their contrasting visions of the Coastin an exhibition which opens this weekend at the Gibsons Public ArtGallery (GPAG).

Caravan World Rhythms presents Juno-award winner Kiran Ahluwalia, who returns to the Sunshine Coast after a three-year absence to perform in concert on Thursday, Aug. 6, at 8 p.m. at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council is pleased to announce the Summer Invitational: Friends from Home 1.

Deer Crossing the Art Farm presents its second annual open house, Return, next weekend. The open house, set for Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 8 and 9, runs from noon to 6 p.m. both days and is a family-friendly event.

If you want to visit artist Todd Clark's studio in rural Gibsons, you may have to go eye-to-eye with an emu. The big birds play in a paddock near his rustic studio and like to engage guests in staring matches.

Commotion by the Ocean is an outdoor music concert held on Gambier Island every summer as a benefit to fund community projects. The concert on Sat-urday, Aug.

The CD launch concert of Halfmoon Bay vocalist Trudi Diening, One With You, got off to a late start on Saturday night, July 18. A full house waited patiently in the sweltering heat of St.

Editor's note: In the coming weeks Coast Reporter in conjunction with the Festival of the Written Arts (FOWA), will present brief previews of some of the authors appearing at this year's festival.