Local Arts

I am standing inside a camera. It is not the latest digital wonder; in fact, it's very low tech.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council concurrently presents two exhibitions honouring the late Kasia Jabloska, an artist who lived in Garden Bay. A Free Spirit is a selection of Jabloska's art in a variety of media.

In the musical, Blast from the Past, five kids from today's world get off at the wrong stop and wander into another time zone.

Roberts Creek jeweller and metalsmith Erin Dolman has recently won a top honour in a province-wide competition. Dolman was one of five artists from across B.C. who will be recognized at a gala ceremony April 12 as a winner of the inaugural B.C.

This year's Festival of the Performing Arts grand finale concert last Saturday opened with the latest generation, the young Music Makers' pennywhistlers, piping two tunes and closed with the adult Pender Harbour Choir.

Paul Heringer, the carver, starts his day like any other at a wooded campground on the Coast.

The eagerly anticipated joint recital debut by widely acclaimed Canadians Libby Yu, pianist and Yegor Dyachkov, cellist, at the Raven's Cry Theatre Sunday proved to be as close to perfection as one could hope for.

Gibsons editor Audrey Owen is passionate about writing for the web.

Graham Walker, well-known children's entertainer from Gibsons, is looking forward to meeting lots of new and old friends at his upcoming concert at Pender Harbour School of Music. The concert is next Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m.

CBC Radio microphones will be on hand to record two popular classical soloists, performing here as a duo for the first time in the Coast Recital Society's Sunday afternoon concert at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.