Local Arts

Naomi's Road is an opera written specially for Vancouver Opera in the schools. It is taken from Naomi's Road, the book for young readers by Joy Kogawa.

Help! Pirates have hijacked this year's musical production from the students of Chatelech Secondary and will be appearing nightly on the Chat theatre stage from May 11 to 13.

The Reel Youth Film Festival, on tour to communities in B.C. including Sechelt and Gibsons, offers a rare glimpse into the unknown - the minds of teenagers. Apparently, it can be a scary place full of bullies and bulimia.

They're hot, they're new (their first show was in 2004), and they've already been nominated for Best Band by the prestigious Washington Blues Society's Best of the Blues Awards.

Roll up! They're coming soon - it's Clowns for one night only at St. John's United Church in Davis Bay on Tuesday, May 16.

The S.C. Arts Council presents multi-media artist Solveigh Bremer Harrison with her exhibition entitled Estuary. Concurrently, Saanichton photographer Ger Cawdell exhibits Salmon Corpses.

It takes a certain kind of courage to introduce yourself to a stranger by saying, "Hi, I'm Victoria Maxwell. I was diagnosed with rapid cycling, mixed-state bi-polar disorder with mild temporal lobe epilepsy.

At 8 p.m. on Friday, April 28, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt, authors Patrick Friesen and Eve Joseph will read from their work. Friesen writes poetry, drama, scripts, songs and text for dance and music.

A Grade 11 Chatelech student has been awarded a scholarship from the Gibsons School of the Arts that will allow her to attend one of five workshops taught by professional artists and offered in Gibsons this summer.

A conversation with Beryl Bass seems to typify the values behind the 33rd annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts opening in Sechelt this week.