Local Arts

Also: Creative Expressions at Gibsons Public Market until Dec. 9; Off the Page Production 'Best Case Scenario' Sunday at 1 p.m. and Roberts Creek Legion's Friday lineup includes Phantom Limb, Uncle Nestor and Rodeo Jonze

Earlier this year, the District of Sechelt issued a Coast-wide call to artists seeking proposals for the new banners on the theme of 'Future Perfect'

There are more thrills and tense moments than ever in Peril at Pinecone Rock, the latest Maple Harbour Adventure, by Gibsons author M.A. (Michael) Wilson. It’s the fourth book in the series based in the fictional B.C.

The new exhibition at Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) could not be more timely, opening as it did last week, smack in the middle of COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Glasgow, Scotland.

Author and social and environmental activist Seth Klein will read from his new book, A Good War, at Gibsons Public Library on Saturday, Nov. 13, from 2 to 3 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 7, was an occasion for some local film folks to strut their stuff on the proverbial red carpet at a Heritage Playhouse screening of A Visit to Spoon River, by the Driftwood Players.

The Sechelt Arts Festival’s Maggie Guzzi, left, and co-producer Diana Robertson put some finishing touches on the 2021 festival’s Unity Mural at Trail Bay Mall in Sechelt on Nov. 6.

Despite a three-day weekend of downpours and heavy winds from a “bomb cyclone,” the 2021 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl has bounced back with near-record sales – a marked contrast to the 2020 event, which had to cope with a sort of storm

One of the highlights of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s (SCAC) annual calendar is the Young Artists Exhibition, which this year will run at the Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt from Nov. 26 to Dec. 10.

Gibsons writer Ron Hemmings has taken on a lot in his first novel, The Crooked Timbers, about a young Canadian journalist working in London in 1940 who delves into a sinister plot.