Local Arts

Raven's Cry Theatre will be the first independent theatre in North America to screen live, via satellite and in high definition, productions from the Metropolitan Opera's current season.

Twelve women artists from all parts of the Coast are now at work on an unusual project - painting female torsos cast in cement in support of breast cancer awareness.

The annual January carnival/salsa fundraising dance for the Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival, now in its ninth year, is being held Saturday, Jan. 20, at Roberts Creek Hall.

Daniel Bolshoy is committed to bringing classical guitar to the attention of audiences everywhere. He is regularly praised for his friendly and informative spoken introductions and progressive programming of solo and chamber music.

The 20th anniversary of the Friends of the Gallery show (FOG) opened at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt this week with the work of 80 participants, one from each artist, that tend toward the colourful and exceptional, with just a smattering

Pianist Sara Davis Buechner is at home at the keyboard whether in the musical company of classical composers such as Bach, Mozart and Chopin or their contemporary American counterparts, Stephen Foster, Rudolf Friml and George Gershwin.

The 20th anniversary of the first Friends of the Gallery (FOG) exhibition takes place this month. 1987 was the first year of the FOG at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt. Soon after it became an annual exhibition.

Driftwood Players are looking for a few players for their upcoming spring production. An open audition call has been set for Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 6 to 7) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Heritage Playhouse.

As one young and very shy musician said as she appeared on stage at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre on Dec. 29 in the first ever open mic night of the Artesia Coffee House: "Everyone here is doing what they love.

Budding artists received their awards last Sunday at a ceremony at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt presided over by Linda Williams of the SC Arts Council, Carol McKee who organized the 17th annual Sechelt banner project and Mayor Cam Reid.