Local Arts

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Roberts Creek artist Kandice Keith is on the U.S. East Coast this week to show her nature-inspired paintings at the Affordable Art Fair in New York City, Thursday, Sept. 23 to Sunday, Sept. 26.

Ata Omani (standing) and Brynn Staples (kneeling) add splashes of colour to the nearly complete mural in Sechelt’s Hackett Park on Sept. 16.

The Sunshine Coast Art Council’s Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt is back from its August break with two quite different exhibitions by artists Vicky Marshall and Kitty Blandy.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s Reading Series presents author Gil Adamson on Saturday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m.

Gibsons Public Art Gallery is featuring works by two abstract artists until Oct. 3.

Gibsons author Marion McKinnon Crook has a certified hit on her hands with her latest book, Always Pack a Candle, about her first year as a public health nurse in B.C.’s Cariboo-Chilcotin region in the early 1960s.

Large new artworks designed by a local Indigenous artist are being mounted on buildings at the Tsain-Ko Centre mall in Sechelt, telling the shíshálh story of a two-headed sea serpent.

After a successful debut last year and with the support of the District of Sechelt and Sunshine Coast Credit Union, the FortisBC-sponsored Fresh Air Cinema inflates its big screen once again at Sechelt’s Hackett Park. On Friday, Sept.

Sunshine Coast author Marion Quednau has a rule about short stories: they should not merely be about something that happens; whatever happens must also trigger a change in character.