Local Arts

Singer Bobby Bruce is taking to the water as he did in 2020 with a set of floating concerts at three locations on Gambier Island, his home base.

“It’s hard to appreciate what’s at stake without seeing it for yourself,” says T’uy’t’tanat, Cease Wyss, referring to the Sunshine Coast’s Dakota Bowl ancient forest.

The 10th Annual PB Jam fundraiser for the Sunshine Coast Food Bank, led by the band Slightly Twisted, went off without a hitch and in perfect weather on Saturday, July 24.

The ongoing summer weekend festival that is Music in the Landing is back in lower Gibsons this year, thanks largely to Kevin Crofton, who has stepped in to organize it all.

Veteran Sunshine Coast-based musician Janet Panic will play the first notes at this year’s re-formatted Rogue Arts Festival.

Join artists Natalie Grambow and Beth Hawthorn for an afternoon workshop of Indigo dyeing and traditional Japanese Shibori (shaped resist, or tie-dye) on Sunday, July 25, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. You’ll create a one-of-a-kind shawl using Indigo dye.

The Landing Artists are staging a pop-up exhibition and sale at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Gardens (5941 Mason Rd., Sechelt) on the long weekend: Saturday, July 31 (1-6); Sunday, Aug.1 (1-6); and Monday, Aug. 2 (1-5).

A remarkable exhibit has opened at Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG), featuring contemporary serigraph prints by Coast Salish artists. The quality and originality of these works will have you reaching for superlatives.

Sunshine Coast vocal group Definitely Diva inaugurated the new outdoor performance space at High Beam Dreams in Gibsons with two concerts on Sunday, July 11, delighting the audiences with their repertoire of pop and jazz.

The male vocal quartet Sh-Boom headlines an evening musical variety show at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons on Saturday, July 24.