Local Arts

This year's Spring Into Dance will take place April 7 and 8 at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. Shows are at 8 p.m. on Friday and 2 and 8 on Saturday. Spring Into Dance aims to promote and celebrate contemporary dance on the Sunshine Coast.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council presents two local artists at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Gallery.

The male figure stands in a classical pose, much as a god might have been depicted by a Renaissance artist. Think Hercules. The muscles are defined, taut.

Rose-Ellen Nichols sings the Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at Vancouver's Chan Centre March 31 and April 1. She's with the Van-couver Symphony then, but she heads the bill April 9 at Gibsons' Heritage Playhouse.

It's official. The Sunshine Coast Music Society (SCMS) has been reinstated.Canada Revenue Agency's Charities Directorate includes the Society, which can now issue income tax receipts for gifts received.

A 27-member choir of young people is set to represent the province of B.C. at a special Canada Day celebration in Ottawa this year.If all fundraising efforts go well, Choralations Choir of School District No.

From Celtic harps to gospel choirs, audiences have enjoyed all types of music at St John's United Church in Davis Bay over the past 15 years.

Truly Wigglebottoms and Nutty Nothing are two gentle, fun-loving souls who interact playfully with children and adults alike. With their endearing charm and old-fashioned slapstick comedy, they make everyone feel gifted by the encounter.

There is hope everywhere on this planet, filmmaker Velcrow Ripper told the TV audience at last Monday's Genie Awards in Toronto.

Everybody loves John. He's a bit of a back porch philosopher still suffering the effects of a divorce. He's the kind of guy who likes his dates to submit resumes so he doesn't have to do so much guess work.