Local Arts

Although it opens with a song and a dance, The Playground, put on by a group of Canada World Youth (CWY) students, is an intense play.

A blaze of pink, a strident aquamarine, wildly clashing purples and reds: the artistic journey of Paula O'Brien is strewn with colour.

The Rakish Angles, four Coast musicians, charmed a crowd at last September's Pender Harbour Jazz Festival with their entirely instrumental compositions and some gypsy jazz.

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.