Local Arts

Last weekend, the annual Pender Harbour Jazz Festival enjoyed its tenth anniversary employing many of the same stalwart volunteers as 10 years ago and with only a few changes to a popular format: new venues and new weather.

A festival that will bring the Coast's Asian community together and will offer dance, drums, fabric dyeing, shadow puppet show, readings and martial arts demonstrations for the public to enjoy, takes place in Dougall Park in Gibsons this Saturday, Se

When Louise Lefebvre turned 50 years old, she decided to fulfill a lifetime goal.

The creative mind is at work in the studio of Langdale artist Lee Croy.

Auditions for St. Bart's Players' Tiny Tim Grows Up, a full-length play scheduled for Dec. 21 to 23 at St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church in Gibsons, are set for Sunday, Sept. 10, at 1 p.m. and Sunday Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. in the parish hall.

It's always a good time on Gambier Island. Last weekend's ninth annual art show was no exception. This year, it included a chance to socialize at a fundraising Bavarian barbecue with entertainment from musicians Bobby Bruce, Tom Terrell and Randeesh.

One of this summer's most successful and acclaimed Fringe Festival performers, Jem Rolls is coming back to the Coast on Sept. 29, and he's gut wrenchingly hilarious! Jem Rolls (that's his real name) is a performance poet.

The late artist Mel Kero loved to paint in the outdoors, finding his artistic inspiration in the forests and inlets around Sechelt. He and his wife Eva first began visiting the Coast in the 1960s, where they had a small boat moored at Porpoise Bay.

Most of the workshop participants who studied everything from lace knitting to rustic furniture construction at last week's seventh annual Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival agreed on one thing -it was the calibre of instructors that made the course

Back by popular demand is David Hickey's Crystal Bowl concert, to be held Friday, Sept. 1 and Saturday, Sept. 2 at St. Hilda's Anglican Church in Sechelt.