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Coralie Swaney’s ‘Laughing Matters’ at the Gumboot Café is a tonic for the winter blues

Coralie Swaney’s ‘Laughing Matters’ at the Gumboot Café is a tonic for the winter blues

'I don’t think that including humour necessarily robs art of its substance': Coralie Swaney's new collection, filled with irrepressible buoyancy, is on display at the Roberts Creek café until Feb. 28
These Sunshine Coast high school painters bend reality, blur boundaries

These Sunshine Coast high school painters bend reality, blur boundaries

'It’s really exciting being able to look at reality and mould it to your mind, letting you see [more clearly]. And experiments are always interesting': Chatelech Secondary School senior art students held a mid-year showcase.
Art Beat: Buckle up for Riders of Justice with the film society

Art Beat: Buckle up for Riders of Justice with the film society

Also, February is Black History Month, and the Gibsons Public Art Gallery is featuring Lower Mainland artist Teri Ejere on behalf of the Sunshine Coast Black History Month Collective.
Coast writers find good in grief in David Roche-led hospice pilot project

Coast writers find good in grief in David Roche-led hospice pilot project

'Particularly in a storytelling environment that is verbal, not written, when someone tells about someone who has passed, and really steps into their grief, I feel like that person is called into the room and they are present in the room.'
Why the clang of swords rings from Roberts Creek Community Hall

Why the clang of swords rings from Roberts Creek Community Hall

Mythic Blade Sword Academy is offering weekly classes for all ages
Sunshine Coast didjeridu album gets its long-awaited launch

Sunshine Coast didjeridu album gets its long-awaited launch

'For me, playing the didjeridu is a meditation. It’s a journey in which you can detach yourself from habitual reasoning and mental activity.'
Art Beat: Literary Readings Series launches 2023 season with Ted Chamberlin reading

Art Beat: Literary Readings Series launches 2023 season with Ted Chamberlin reading

Also, Vivaldi Gloria endeavour seeking vocalists, Sechelt coffee house series returns and authors and students connect for Family Literacy Week 
Artists weigh history, shape language at Gibsons Public Art Gallery

Artists weigh history, shape language at Gibsons Public Art Gallery

Gabriela Hirt's Storied Bodies and Robin Ripley and Ilze Bebris's collaborative A Conversation on at GPAG until Feb. 5.
Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival coming to Elphi Feb. 3

Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival coming to Elphi Feb. 3

The Tetrahedron Outdoor Club has moved the Sunshine Coast’s biggest one-night cultural event to a new time of year, uniting skiers and cinephiles alike for the annual Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. Doors open at Elphinstone Secondary at 5:45 p.m. on Feb. 3; films begin at 7 p.m. 
Transformation a theme of Coast Vietnam draft dodger's panoramic memoir

Transformation a theme of Coast Vietnam draft dodger's panoramic memoir

When Ohio-born objector to the Vietnam War Jon Van Arsdell landed in Garden Bay in 1970, he was greeted by a sign proclaiming "No Longhairs." Van Arsdell’s autobiography 'No Longhairs: The Odyssey of a Vietnam Draft Dodger' shows that countercultural expatriates were hard-working contributors to the interdependent idyll of the Sunshine Coast, writes Michael Gurney.
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