Local Arts

Little Mosque on the Prairie is coming to the Coast. Producer Michael Snook will be bringing the hit CBC comedy to Sechelt March 28 to April 2.

Allison Crowe has a big, big voice. Last Saturday evening, the Canadian songstress held a near capacity crowd at the Heritage Playhouse in thrall during a powerful performance that included original compositions as well as popular covers.

Ulrich Schaffer is a poet, a photographer and a philosopher.

There was a good reason why soprano Elizabeth Currie was teamed up with the Choralations Children's Choir in a pleasing double feature concert presented by the Sunshine Coast Music Society at St. Hilda's last Friday.

Nick and Juanita - Livin' in my Dreams plays with the effects of love (or its absence) on Juanita, a woman who is trying to reconcile her fugitive brain and her adorably naïve heart, and Nick, a man seemingly lacking in both.

The Coast Contemporary Dancers got the jump on dance season with their annual Spring Into Dance recital at the Heritage Playhouse last weekend.

CBC's 2008 Canada Reads competition nominee, Thomas Wharton, prize winning author of Icefields, will launch the Sunshine Coast Arts Council's spring reading series March 14 at 8 p.m.

Original illustrations of many Canadian children's books will be on display at the Doris Crowston Art Gallery in the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre March 12 to April 6.

Celebrate spring's arrival with musician Allison Crowe and special guest, Skye Wallace, at Gibsons Heritage Playhouse on Saturday, March 15, at 8 p.m.

A new book, The Church of 80% Sincerity (Perigee-Penguin) by David Roche of Roberts Creek is a quick read, but a lengthy ponder.