Local Arts

It takes a certain kind of courage to introduce yourself to a stranger by saying, "Hi, I'm Victoria Maxwell. I was diagnosed with rapid cycling, mixed-state bi-polar disorder with mild temporal lobe epilepsy.

At 8 p.m. on Friday, April 28, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt, authors Patrick Friesen and Eve Joseph will read from their work. Friesen writes poetry, drama, scripts, songs and text for dance and music.

A Grade 11 Chatelech student has been awarded a scholarship from the Gibsons School of the Arts that will allow her to attend one of five workshops taught by professional artists and offered in Gibsons this summer.

A conversation with Beryl Bass seems to typify the values behind the 33rd annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts opening in Sechelt this week.

On Friday, April 21 at Cedar Grove Elementary School at 7 p.m.

The fifth annual Spring Into Dance show featuring the Coast Contemporary Dancers at the Heritage Playhouse last weekend was lacking some of its usual magic this year.

When a performer's career is about to rocket launch, the audience seems to sense it. The appearance of mezzo-soprano Rose-Ellen Nichols had that effect.

The Seacoast Chamber Players will give their annual concert on Good Friday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. in St. Hilda's Anglican church in Sechelt. They will perform works by two composers: Mozart, born 250 years ago in 1756, and Pergolesi, born 1710.

A Celebration of Light opens at the Harbour Gallery in Madeira Park this week, April 8 to 24, as a showcase for two local artists who paint together and learn from one another: June Malaka and Helen Broadfoot.

This is a book whose time has come. Sticks and Wheels is a guide to accessible travel on the Sunshine Coast researched and written by mobility challenged author Ellen Frank of Gibsons.