Local Arts

A showcase of dance performances primed for upcoming festivals and competitions exploded onstage at the Raven’s Cry Theatre last Saturday night, as more than 120 performers from the Coast Academy of Dance demonstrated momentum and mastery in a multiplicity of disciplines.

The deadline to submit writings to the 15th anniversary edition of Coastal Voices, an adjudicated anthology of writing by School District 46 students, is rapidly approaching.

An Indigenous design consultant whose input is shaping the future of the Gibsons Public Art Gallery last week issued a call for increased sensitivity to the practice of traditional West Coast art forms.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues with performances at Chatelech Secondary School on March 7 and 8 (at 7 p.m.) and March 9 (at 2 p.m.). Tickets are available at Sew Easy in Sechelt and One Flower One Leaf Gallery in Gibsons.

Tzaddi Gordon’s blackout poetry offering, Found In the Thick of It, on to March 9

At Coastal Art Gallery, when space permits, one or two artists will each mount a display highlighting achievements and biographical details. 

Tickets are on sale now for the eight-show Driftwood Players run of 'The Dissociates'

Finishing with a flourish

Ripped Open studio opens at Sunnycrest Mall

Also, another banner year for Sechelt and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat drops next week