Local Arts

Nancy Cottingham Powell, co-ordinator of the inaugural Sechelt Family Arts Festival held last weekend, is happy with the results. After a year of planning and plotting, the fun-filled two days went off without a hitch. "I'm very pleased.

The performance that marked the end of the Sunshine Coast Dance Society's inaugural dance residency program at the Heritage Playhouse was a hot one.

Former folk singer Cathy Miller is doing what she loves best. She's passionate about quilting, a hobby she discovered when the director of a Quilts Canada conference asked her to help with composing music for a short presentation.

At first glance, with a 16-year difference in their ages, Christina Fitchett and Tara MacLeod seem unlikely friends. However, a love of highland dance and proficiency in the art mean the two spend a lot of time together.

A change of date for the annual Hackett Park Craft Fair has left organizers a tad worried about attendance this year.

The gravel-voiced logger poet from Gibsons, Peter Trower, has taken up a new career. The 73-year-old hearkens back to his younger days, in the early 1980s, when he once sang with a band.

Several Sunshine Coast artists are taking part in the Harmony Arts Festival in West Vancouver July 30 to Aug. 8.

One of the dancing Denham sisters returns to the Coast to perform a solo that will appear in an original show, INK, at the Heritage Playhouse on July 31.

Zoey Ennenberg is a young artist with a big future. At age 24, she's working her way through various mediums - she started with acrylics, moved into photography in a big way and has since discovered watercolour.

There was humour in both the original, short plays that opened at the Heritage Playhouse last Saturday night - the kind of humour that makes you want to weep. Good, honest chuckles followed by dark, sardonic insights.