Local Arts

Artist Natalie Grambow of Roberts Creek has had a passion for textiles for a very long time. Her interest has taken her all over the world: she's learned techniques in India, Nepal and China and has studied the art of batik in Thailand and Indonesia.

It would not be an overstatement to describe Glenda Rae's voice as one of the great instruments in global popular music. Her gift is singular and doesn't suffer for lack of commercial exposure.

No longer will Roberts Creek resident Jane David-son leave her house in the early morning darkness and commute to her job in Vancouver, only to return in the darkness. "Commuting is a weird life," she said.

It was a good year for the Driftwood Players.

David Gogo warmed up the winter in 2004 and he's set to do it again. On Saturday, Feb. 10, David Gogo reappears at Roberts Creek Hall for another sizzling session of delta blues in a fundraiser for Dakota Ridge Winter Recreation Society.

The first reading of the Suns-hine Coast Arts Council's spring series will be held at the Arts Centre in Sechelt on Friday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. Admission is free, courtesy of Canada Council.

What will the Sunshine Coast arts, culture and heritage scene look like in the year 2017? In the next couple of months the community will have an opportunity to discuss and answer that question.

Outside the Raven's Cry Theatre last Sunday all was dark and gloomy. Inside, all was golden. Sara Davis Buechner, pianist, was giving a concert for the Coast Recital Society's full house of classical music fans.

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.