Local Arts

While depicting the journey of Chinese migrants to gold rush-era British Columbia, multidisciplinary artist Janet Wang underwent an odyssey of her own. Ports of Entry on until March 11

Emily van Lidth de Jeude’s what.home exhibition is on at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery until March 5.

'I want the characters to have dignity,' said Kathryn Shaw, 'each of them in their own way. We laugh at them and in a way they have the ability to laugh at themselves too.' Shaw composed the one-act play following her 2020 retirement as artistic director of Langara University’s Studio 58 theatre training program. 

Also, Love Exhibition holds another reception. Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society establishes a book award scheme. And, pianist Nicolas Namoradze, first-prize winner of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, plays at the Raven's Cry.

Fifteen writers were matched with an equal number of artists at a recent event. Each partnership will collaborate to prepare works for presentation at this year’s Art and Words event, which runs Aug. 10 to 13 at the Public Market. 

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