Local Arts

In a weekend permeated with local dance performances, Sechelt’s Coast Academy of Dance concluded its exuberant year-end revue with onstage fireworks — literally.

A homegrown musical theatre training program that prepares young actors for the world stage is setting its sights on long-term expansion.

Among the highlights of the Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival (and Beyond) will be an album release by the vastly multifaceted quintet Mimosa.

Waking up in one of 31 guest villas at the Painted Boat Resort consciousness is accompanied by mild surprise. No bedside alarm beams the time with crimson rigidity. No wall clock admonishes the late sleeper.

xets’emits’a (Candace Campo) and Sandy Buck co-curate ‘Preparing for the Potlatch’ at GPAG

The BlueAct Marine Society, which together with the Gibsons Community Building Society operates the Nicholas Sontag Tidepools Aquarium at the Gibsons Public Market, has launched an art show to raise funds for the aquarium.

A dynamic duo renowned for high-energy interactive events on the Sunshine Coast has branched into concert promotion, with an all-star lineup confirmed for dates over the next month.

A month of dance ahead as schools wrap up season

Jazz festival scales up with accent on youth

One of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is coming to Sechelt this July, in the debut of a newly formed community theatre collective dedicated to staging works by the Bard of Avon.