Local Arts

It was about 1954 when a pert teenager wearing kiss curls and a summer dress posed on a major Winnipeg hotel's nightclub stage for a promotional photo.

New Democratic party candidate Bill Forst will be moving on to a new stage in his life following this election campaign, literally.

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness t

On Saturday, Oct. 25, the Lamont Cranston Quartet (LCQ) is bringing an evening of music and laughter to the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse in a concert called Songs You Know By Heart.

Suzie LeBlanc's voice has been called "dulcet, clear and free." Her songbook ranges from 17th century Baroque opera to folk tunes reflecting her Acadian-Canadian heritage.

Terry Barker's latest book, Last Chance This Life: A Hundred Letters, reveals a profoundly caring and thoughtful side of Barker that his public rarely sees. "I feel as if I'm running naked through a room full of strangers," the author said.

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.