Local Arts

Andrea Hooge’s Tiny Rooms is on at The Kube until Sep. 30

An enticing aroma of cedar permeates the air as carver Derek Georgeson enters his gallery workspace in ch’atlich (Sechelt). Past the double doors bearing a metal blackfish design, which he created digitally and had fabricated elsewhere, he holds up his latest work-in-progress: a red cedar wall panel with a stylized eagle facing a bear.

Under the coordination of library staffer Nancy Relova, the Gibsons Public Library welcomed dozens of community members to its third-annual Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday, Sept. 7.

Musical artists Andrew Bate and Matthew Lovegrove performed an hour-long set of meditative melodies on Sept. 1 during an open-air concert in the Oxygen Trail Forest on the slopes of Mount Elphinstone.

Stories of the Estuary is to coincide with autumn equinox, Sept. 21

Cultures exposed, developed in new historical fiction

The opening on Aug. 31 of an exhibition spanning four decades of portraiture by Maurice Spira, drew a crowd of familiar faces — and not only because so many of the admirers who packed the Gibsons Public Art Gallery are neighbours or friends of the Roberts Creek-based artist.  

Sechelt’s Tom McPherson is captain, cook, mechanic, guide and more as he aids filmmakers’ quest to showcase elusive sea wolves

The Coast Recital Society is set to launch its new season on Sept. 7 at the Raven’s Cry Theatre with a concert featuring a masterpiece of classical music performed by one of the most dynamic young musicians on the international stage.

The contest was introduced last summer by the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society and this year attracted nearly 100 titles submitted by publishers across Canada.