Local Arts

The Children’s Chair Auction fundraiser for Sunshine Coast Grandmothers and Grand Others had to be cancelled in March with the onset of the pandemic.

The night before Claire Barclay’s tour group arrives in England, she is kept awake by her loud partying neighbours, Patrick and Rita. One of their party guests is mystery writer Oliver Nott who turns up in the garden with a knife through his chest.

In his debut short story collection, Dead Flowers (Nightwood Editions), local author Alexander Laidlaw explores complicated literary territory – that no-man’s-land between childhood and adulthood.

The relationship between grandparents and pre-teen grandchildren is like no other. The youngsters bring their raw energy and unfiltered love, while the disarmed oldsters add their reawakened playfulness and vintage patience to the mix.

It’s the COVID Christmas, which means it will be like none we’ve known in more than a century. Pre-Yuletide traditions like craft-fair shopping will also be uniquely 2020.

Gibsons resident Margaret Grenier, choreographer, dance artist, executive and artistic director of Dancers of Damelahamid, and producer and director of the annual Coastal Dance Festival, is the winner of the 2020 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in

What does a singer-songwriter mom do for creative fun when the pandemic keeps her at home for extended stretches with her young kids? She records an album with them, naturally.

The Reading Series at the Arts Centre presents poet Raoul Fernandes on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. Fernandes’ poetry collection, Transmitter and Receiver, published by the local Nightwood Editions, won B.C.

Sunshine Coast designer and artisan Karen Konzuk has been named a 2020 recipient of the Carter Wosk Award for Applied Art and Design from the British Columbia Achievement Foundation.

Due to pandemic restrictions, fewer than 50 tickets could be sold for the Dave Brubeck Centenary Concert last month at Raven’s Cry Theatre, as part of the Sechelt Arts Festival.