Local Arts

This May marks ten years and counting for one of the Coast's most social art groups. Thursday's Artists, who meet every week at St.

A very special 10th annual Chatelech Scholarship Showcase is planned for Thursday, May 18, at 7 p.m. at the Chatelech Secondary Theatre.

When the Canadian film and television industry Leo Awards unfold this weekend in Vancouver, a Sunshine Coast screenwriter, Jilena Cori, will attend the glamorous ceremony.

On May 5, the Elphinstone Secondary School senior band performed at the Whistler Music Festival, receiving great accolades from the adjudicators there. The festival featured bands, choirs and jazz bands from schools in B.C.

Naomi's Road is an opera written specially for Vancouver Opera in the schools. It is taken from Naomi's Road, the book for young readers by Joy Kogawa.

Help! Pirates have hijacked this year's musical production from the students of Chatelech Secondary and will be appearing nightly on the Chat theatre stage from May 11 to 13.

The Reel Youth Film Festival, on tour to communities in B.C. including Sechelt and Gibsons, offers a rare glimpse into the unknown - the minds of teenagers. Apparently, it can be a scary place full of bullies and bulimia.

They're hot, they're new (their first show was in 2004), and they've already been nominated for Best Band by the prestigious Washington Blues Society's Best of the Blues Awards.

Roll up! They're coming soon - it's Clowns for one night only at St. John's United Church in Davis Bay on Tuesday, May 16.

The S.C. Arts Council presents multi-media artist Solveigh Bremer Harrison with her exhibition entitled Estuary. Concurrently, Saanichton photographer Ger Cawdell exhibits Salmon Corpses.