Local Arts

Black Cat Productions and the Gumboot Cafe Bakery present the Black Cat Cafe, a Thursday evening film and discussion series.

There will be some sweet sounds at the Pender Harbour School of Music on Oct. 22.Jeff Shucard and his brand of hot syncopated vocal jazz and blues from the 20s and 30s have taken Pender Harbour by storm before, and they will do it again this year.

Two weeks ago Roberts Creek woodworker Edmund Butler opened a show of truly unusual hand-crafted works at the WindSong Gallery in Sechelt.

'Tis the season for all book publishers to inundate the reading public with new titles, especially books that will make great gifts.

The 2005/06 Coast Recital Society (CRS) season gets underway Sunday, Oct. 16, with a concert by one of classical music's top string quartets.

Sechelt artist Jane Ford arrived in war torn Bosnia, part of the former Yugoslavia, at Easter this year. The border crossing guard glanced at her passport wearily without meeting her eyes, apparently tired of having yet more foreigners arrive.

Two hundred hand blown glass bottles will soon be bobbing in the waters off Barkley Sound catching the Pacific currents to Alaska or even Japan.

Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces, Talking Heads, introduces us to a varied bunch of appealing characters. Last year, Driftwood Players presented two of these pieces, Bed Among the Lentils and A Cream Cracker Under the Settee.

The joke in the woodworking community, attributed to woodturner Gary Kelly, runs like this: you can always recognize a true lignophile or wood-lover.

Music industry consultant Graham Way of Tandem Music Group hasn't lived on the Coast very long, but he's already amazed by the great musical energy here.