Local Arts

Two of Canada's beloved performers - one at the keyboard, one at the microphone - promise to captivate the audience at the Coast Recital Society's (CRS) 2006 gala concert on Feb. 25 at Sechelt's Raven's Cry Theatre at 7:30 p.m.

Greta Grunow Guzek is one of the Coast's best-known artists. Her work is colourful and dynamic; her paintings of local scenery are instantly recognizable whether they depict the marina at Gibsons or a cottage by the sea.

Rainforest Bear, painted by artist Gloria Masse,is on its way to Vancouver.After the success of last year's orca project in which brightly painted fibreglass orcas were auctioned by charitable organizations to raise funds, the B.C.

Back on the Coast by popular demand, Marcus Mosely and Gail Suderman, with their new quartet Soulworks, perform at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 19, at Chatelech Theatre. Mosely and Suderman are well known for the wonderful workshops they facilitate.

When Canadian icon and folk singer Connie Kaldor appears in Pender Harbour Feb. 26, it will be her first visit to the community. If she follows the same pattern as other performers, she won't want to leave.

In a foreword to the book Illuminated Verses, photographer Ricardo Scipio describes his decade of fashion photography in New York, Toronto and Miami.

This is us: Africa speaking to Africa and to the world. So begins an original show, African Voices, opening at Heritage Playhouse on Feb. 17 in celebration of Black History Month, written and directed by Gibsons' performer Jean Pierre Makosso.

The 12-member, Vancouver-based choir, musica intima, will make their Coast Recital Society debut at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

Welcome to the 500-channel universe. Television is hungry for new material, and documentary film-makers with something to say can jumpstart their career using equipment that is simpler, lighter and less expensive than ever before.

Many musicians perform with a water bottle on stage, but few use it as a centerpiece for an impromptu percussion number.