Local Arts

A small cottage with a spectacular view once stood on Beach Avenue in Roberts Creek. It belonged to the family of education consultant Gillian Kydd ever since her childhood; her parents bought it in 1953.

The play, A Bed Full of Foreigners, performed by Peninsula Players, was a very funny hit when it appeared at dinner theatre in Sechelt so much so that it's returning to the stage this month.

Sunshine Coast resident Gordon Halloran, creator of the uniquely Canadian art form Paintings Below Zero, challenges Coast residents to get up and dance at the unveiling of the monumental installation, Ice Gate, commissioned for the 2010 Olympic Winte

The Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival chalked up another successful series of workshops and exhibits last week with a healthy pre-registration of 255 students close to last year's record attendance.

This is the final weekend for Music in the Landing celebrating its seventh year as a free, live, outdoor music series sponsored by the Town of Gibsons. Tonight (Aug. 28) from 7 to 8 p.m. in the gazebo at the end of the wharf you can hear the Duttons.

The Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival has always been a class act. In its five years of making music, founder and host Lise Aylmer has kept it on track.

The Sunshine Coast Dance Society (SCDS) is pleased to announce Brianna Stark as the recipient of the society's sixth annual dance residency.

Creek Daze takes place in Roberts Creek on Saturday with the Higgledy Piggledy parade starting at 11 a.m., music and activities at the pier all day and a dance at night with the band Workshop.

The 27th annual Festival of the Written Arts must have set a record for standing ovations.

If you pass the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in early September and it hums, beeps or rattles at you, don't be alarmed. Stop in to see and hear an ambitious project, Laboratorio, from a trio of Coast artists.