Local Arts

At an appearance on Monday at Sechelt’s Run With Soup café, LaCasse also demonstrated Pied Piper-like powers. He started his midday set playing to diners numbered in the single digits. By the end of the two-hour concert, fans had filled every seat. LaCasse’s will perform next at the Gibsons Legion on Feb. 25, with admission payable by donation to the Legion or with a non-perishable contribution to the food bank.

‘Our goal with our dancers is to help empower them to show them how powerful they are, and to heal whatever parts they need to heal’: Boudoir Rouge Burlesque plans to present two high-spirited, adult-only shows at the Roberts Creek Community Hall on Feb. 17 and 18.

One Flower One Leaf exhibit opening, Riders of Justice's second screening, pandemic-postpone piano performance and Steve Wright offers a songwriting workshop

'Among the people that we got together, we felt that we need to be re-connected and that love needs to be spread’: One Flower One Leaf's The Love Exhibition opens on Feb. 10 at Zócalo

'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

'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.

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.

'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.'

Mythic Blade Sword Academy is offering weekly classes for all ages

'For me, playing the didjeridu is a meditation. It’s a journey in which you can detach yourself from habitual reasoning and mental activity.'