Local Arts

For most of the students gathered in the Raven's Cry Theatre last Sunday it was their very first live opera.

Eight promising, young Sunshine Coast music students received scholarships last week from the Coast Recital Society (CRS) at the society's annual general meeting in Sechelt.Erin Macdonald of Gibsons received $500 to further her viola studies.

A fundraiser for Special Olympics athletes will attract a different crowd, those who are as familiar with fashion as they are with the soccer field. On Thursday, May 25, The B.C.

Definitely Diva, a trio of local musicians, has developed a new act, cut themselves a demo CD and will be going on the road in June. For a preview of the new show, Coast fans can check out The Club in Gibsons on June 3.

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.