Local Arts

After an eight-month hiatus due to the pandemic, the longstanding and informal song-circle known as the Duttons has come back to lower Gibsons on Wednesday evenings, weather permitting.

The newly published novel, The Unsuitable Bride , by Gibsons author Pamela McGarry, begins just before the outbreak of the Second World War and brings us in decades-long leaps close to the present day.

The District of Sechelt has issued two more callouts for artists, following the notice earlier in May about the district’s 2021 lamppost banner project. The banner deadline has passed.

Collage comes in many forms, from the works of pre-schoolers to Picasso.

My Sea to Sky, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of Howe Sound, is holding a youth art contest – the Howe Sound Art Challenge.

The longest-running arts festival on the Sunshine Coast just staged its first-ever all-virtual event, which has been deemed a success.

The District of Sechelt is looking for an artist or graphic designer residing on the Lower Sunshine Coast to create original artwork on the theme of “Future Perfect” for Sechelt’s lamppost banners.

There’s more than one way to work around a pandemic. Just ask the Driftwood Players. The longstanding Sunshine Coast theatre troupe had been accustomed to mounting a couple of productions a year, mostly at Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons.

The 2021 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts has been underway since April 12, with about 200 performers in a variety of musical and non-musical disciplines undergoing adjudication by experts in their field.

The annual young people’s exhibition at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s (SCAC) Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt this year has a theme of forest conservation.