Local Arts

Design is what compels jewellery artisan Véron-ique Williams - plus a restless, artistic nature that always wants to create something new.

Sechelt author Andrew Scott is launching his landmark work The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia in Sechelt and Madeira Park next week. The launch in Sechelt is on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m.

"Dame Evelyn rocks," wrote one enthusiastic critic about Evelyn Glennie, the brilliant percussionist.

A group of women, local business owners who are part of the Gibsons Landing Business Association (GLBA), surround a metre-long painted salmon hanging in the Gift of the Eagle Gallery and ponder the image.

From Sept. 13 to 19, four Tibetan Buddhist monks will make a traditional sacred sand mandala on the Sunshine Coast. The monks are from Gaden Jangste monastery in a Tibetan refugee area in southern India.

Brianna Stark's one woman show, Inside I, The Butterfly Effect, at the Heritage Playhouse last Saturday (Sept. 5) was dynamic if a little raw around the edges.

You never know who will show up to the Youth Showcase, say the two experienced organizers of the summer Music in the Landing concert series. They seem fine with this spontaneity - perhaps because they are both musicians themselves.

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