Local Arts

 The latest volume in a series of books featuring B.C. artists is the first to be wholly dedicated to a specific geographic region. Artists of British Columbia: Volume 5, published last month, features 26 painters and sculptors, all from the Sunshine Coast.

An upstart artists’ collective — including a member from Savary Island — has resolved to illustrate collaboration over division by modelling community-building through creativity. 

And, the free film series presented by the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre continues in April with a short documentary titled Collective Agency. 

The pictorial bestiary on display at The Kube gallery in Gibsons does more than transport its backwoods subjects into the urban world of their human spectators.

One of the region’s most vibrant annual exhibitions provides visions of Sunshine Coast youth through the work of more than 100 emerging artists.

The Dissociates appears over eight performances: 7:30 p.m. on March 27 (a pay-what-you-can preview), 28, 29 and April 3, 4 and 5 plus matinee shows at 2 p.m. on March 30 and April 6.

Five visual artists are collaborating for the fifth installment of their annual Juxta Pose pop-up art show.

A group of teen technologists last week forecasted the increase of artificial intelligence in tech and science industries, as Elphinstone Secondary School hosted a regional speaking competition for the Skills Canada organization.

Three years after the body of a young fin whale was recovered by the shíshálh Nation in Pender Harbour (kalpilin), its carefully-preserved skeleton will be made visible to the public following a major renovation at the Nation’s tems swiya Museum.

Nearly 60 artists from the Gibsons Dance Centre provided a preview of the studio’s upcoming competitive season for a percipient audience on March 8.