Local Arts

Mary Swan, whose début novel, The Boys in the Trees, is on the Scotiabank Giller Prize short list, will make her Coast début at 8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 24, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.

Award-winning folk music legend Penny Lang, Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts vocal award recipient Edmund Arceo and accomplished mezzo soprano Celia Howard perform their favourite songs in a fundraising concert for the Abbeyfield House

Gibsons artist Cindy Riach has a way with water. Most of her oil paintings to be shown on Oct. 18 at the Westwind Gallery are of local, easily recognizable settings, many of them capturing reflections or a view from the water.

The Gibsons United Green Team pulled off a successful inaugural Environmental Film Festival. On Friday, Oct. 3, viewers packed the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse to watch the amazing movie FLOW: For the Love of Water, just released a few weeks ago.

Cover, a contemporary dark comedy by Gibsons playwright David King, premieres today (Oct. 3) at the Presentation House Theatre in North Vancouver, performed by Sea Theatre.

A dazzling new section to her artist's studio bringing its total size up to 2,800 square feet, a client list of nearly 1,000 and sandwich service for 600 people: it's all in a lifetime's work for Garden Bay artist Motoko.

A few new venues, a new group of organizers, and old, familiar magic surrounded the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival this year as it celebrated its 12th annual event.

Guitarist Tony Wilson is returning to the Sunshine Coast with two shows next week. The first is a return of "Hammer and nails and possibly electric drill" on Friday, Oct. 3, 8 p.m. at the Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek.

The Sunshine Coast Music Society likes to feature home-grown operatic talent during their concert season.

In a press release last week, Tourism, Culture and the Arts Minister Bill Bennett announced that more than 270 artists and cultural organizations in B.C. have been awarded more than $7 million in arts grants, through the B.C. Arts Council.