Local Arts

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'

'I come from a family of artists, I live by these laws. But I didn’t know the beauty and the normative value of having your laws all around you all the time, constantly being reinforced.' Artist and retired lawyer Shain Níniw-ém Salepem Jackson's show Unity Within Diversity continues at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery until July 3.

Transportation Choices Sunshine Coast (TraC) will host the launch of a new guide to cycling the Sunshine Coast. The acapella choral ensemble Coast Vespersong will lead a concert of prayer and contemplation in Madeira Park. And Vancouver’s Graham Brown Band will perform at the Roberts Creek Legion on Friday, June 10, followed by We Found a Lovebird (with The Vallees) onstage the next night. 

Cambium Blue’s story is set in 1994 at the beginning of the bark beetle epidemic that ultimately destroyed millions of acres of pine forest in western North America. As industry dies with the trees, citizens must face existential questions about their community. Author Maureen Brownlee has two readings at Gibsons and District Public Library on June 10, with more appearances to follow in Powell River and Courtenay. 

Cultural connections inspire the visiting singer

Also, In the Serpent's Wake, Seraphina, author Rachel Hartman is visiting Gibsons and District Public Library on June 11.