Local Arts

They're hot, they're new (their first show was in 2004), and they've already been nominated for Best Band by the prestigious Washington Blues Society's Best of the Blues Awards.

Roll up! They're coming soon - it's Clowns for one night only at St. John's United Church in Davis Bay on Tuesday, May 16.

The S.C. Arts Council presents multi-media artist Solveigh Bremer Harrison with her exhibition entitled Estuary. Concurrently, Saanichton photographer Ger Cawdell exhibits Salmon Corpses.

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.