Local Arts

Summer series of afternoon readings planned

The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts (SCFPA) continues its long tradition of promoting and encouraging local performing artists on the Sunshine Coast by offering a virtual festival this year, in keeping with the times.

The Sunshine Coast Arts Council has come up with a creative fundraising idea to help pay for a new roof.

One of the most striking things about the new exhibition, Life Drawing, at the Arts Centre in Sechelt is the variety of styles that can come out of such a classically simple art practice.

A poignant exhibition of paintings at Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) throughout February – Black History Month – touches on a little-known nugget of history leading up to the American Civil War in the 1860s.

Gibsons theatre couple Bill Moysey and Varya Rubin, known for their creativity, kindness and generosity, are turning now to their community for help for themselves and their two young children.

The Nutcracker is back. After a year in which, thanks to the pandemic, the popular Christmas-time dance production was absent on the Sunshine Coast for the first time since 2012, it will be remounted at Raven’s Cry Theatre this coming December.

Most of us can’t read or write music. We might enjoy listening to it and may sing or play an instrument, or even dream up our own musical compositions. But understanding those five-line staffs dotted with symbols is another matter.

The B.C. Federation of Writers is hosting an online reading by six Sunshine Coast authors on Thursday, Feb. 11. Featured will be Nicole Breit, Heather Conn, Claire Finlayson, Stella Leventoyannis Harvey, Bruno Huber, and Jennie Tschoban.

At first glance on entering the current show at Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG), entitled Territory, you might think you’ve wandered into a science exhibit of nighttime wildlife photos taken by motion-triggered cameras – ghostlike, partial images,