Local Arts

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.

If you managed to get a ticket for their sold-out Mendelssohn Tribute concert last season, you got to watch their new artistic director and conductor in action. Edette Gagné celebrated her first season with the Coast Symphony Orchestra in fine style.

For some it was a return visit. Deer Crossing, the farm near Langdale, held its second annual open house, Return, last weekend and revealed itself once more to be raw nature lightly touched by artists.

When Linda Norris was thinking about writing a fundraising play to be performed at Gibsons United Church, she knew she could draw on material from her own back yard.

Nine galleries in Gibsons Landing are hosting an Art Stroll in the Landing to celebrate the range of visual art on show within walking distance in the picturesque harbour area.