Local Arts

The longest-running arts festival on the Sunshine Coast just staged its first-ever all-virtual event, which has been deemed a success.

The District of Sechelt is looking for an artist or graphic designer residing on the Lower Sunshine Coast to create original artwork on the theme of “Future Perfect” for Sechelt’s lamppost banners.

There’s more than one way to work around a pandemic. Just ask the Driftwood Players. The longstanding Sunshine Coast theatre troupe had been accustomed to mounting a couple of productions a year, mostly at Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons.

The 2021 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts has been underway since April 12, with about 200 performers in a variety of musical and non-musical disciplines undergoing adjudication by experts in their field.

The annual young people’s exhibition at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s (SCAC) Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt this year has a theme of forest conservation.

The first song Clay Hepburn ever wrote – which he dashed off in response to a kind of dare – is still the one he might be best known for.

The Griffin Poetry Prize, a separate entity from the B.C. and Yukon program, is the largest international prize for poetry written in or translated into English, awarded for a first-edition single collection of poetry published the previous year.

This is the final weekend you’ll be able to take in the excellent display of ceramics, Diversity in Clay, at the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Arts Centre in Sechelt.

Gibsons singer-songwriter Lowry Olafson is once again in a pretty good place, as his talents, life circumstances, and a little help from his friends have led to new initiatives, with music always at the centre.

Artist Shannon Pawliw is immersing us in her imagination at her exhibition, Microscapes, which opened this week at Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG).