Local Arts

The Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival kicks off this weekend with five performances at Gibsons-area venues, and a bonus performance on July 1. 

The Beachcombers TV show's iconic Persephone floats once again — on a much smaller scale — thanks to a hobbyist in Ontario and his radio controller know-how.

?antuni Tony Paul’s legacy celebrated with ceremony at Tsain-Ko Centre

The Coastal Voices anthology is a collaboration between School District 46 and the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. Close to 800 submissions were collected from the 3,200-student district.

The three-hour Celebration show reprised acts that netted the Sechelt-based dance school honours during festivals earlier this year.  

Marion McKinnon Crook's best-selling book Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin chronicles Crook’s tenure as a public health nurse during the 1960s, following her university studies in science and a nursing degree program. 

Also, Living Forest Institute's Songbird Forest Concert series continues, the Waldorf Ballet presents Alice in Wonderland and at 95, Nikki Weber is putting on a variety extravaganza at Gibsons Heritage Playhouse.

Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts outgoing artistic and executive director Jane Davidson and her successor Marisa Alps talk legacy and future of the longest-running literary festival that features only Canadian authors.

Spade Hoile started as Steve Wright's music student as a nine-year-old but the better part of a decade later, the two have formed a rock duo and they released an album June 1: 'Title the document'