Local Arts

There aren’t many homes in Roberts Creek featuring brick-clad exteriors, but then again, this is not your average dwelling. It’s housing a family of designers and is consequently full of thoughtful, creative and simple surprises.

Dance, Piano & Voice is at Waldorf Ballet Studio Oct. 20 to 22

Elizabeth Elwood’s Body and Soul hits the Gibsons stage

A rapturous tribute to Joni Mitchell, the 10-time Grammy Award-winning folk singer-songwriter who once described her regular sojourns on the Sunshine Coast as her “heartbeat,” filled the Raven’s Cry Theatre in Sechelt two times last weekend.

Also, Pirates of Penzance coming to Davis Bay in the spring

A Mysterious Attraction on display at GPAG until Oct. 29

'Every single one of us, to varying degrees, is a victim of our childhood' writes Sechelt author Liz Long. 'And it’s those beliefs and coping mechanisms and triggers that we drag into our adult life that leads us to the places in Victimtown.'

Kristian Braathen is a 25-year veteran of the professional music world. The trio he founded in 2008 is planning a concert at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons on Oct. 21, with Miles Black on piano and Steve Holy playing acoustic bass.  

A decades-long musical friendship will reverberate at the Raven’s Cry Theatre on Oct. 15 as Frances Heinsheimer Wainwright marks 20 years as artistic director of the Coast Recital Society, also, GPAG receives grant and concert for climate justice coming up.

From 1985 to 2000, Laurali Rose Wright published nine novels set in Sechelt that feature RCMP staff sergeant Karl Alberg. Alberg’s romantic interest, Cassandra Mitchell, is a bibliophile and librarian. Wright’s subsequent books revolved around a new protagonist but were also set on the Sunshine Coast.