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It’s Art Crawl weekend on the Coast

It’s Art Crawl weekend on the Coast

With 98 venues from Langdale to Earls Cove, Sunshine Coast Art Crawl weekend – 2020 edition – is good to go from Friday, Oct. 23 to Sunday the 25th.
Live music an added element to big arts weekend

Live music an added element to big arts weekend

You can do a “music crawl” this weekend in addition to enjoying the visual delights of the 11th annual Art Crawl.
Art auction creates hope during COVID

Art auction creates hope during COVID

COVID got you down? Let art lift you up! You can personally make a difference for B.C.’s coast through participating in the power of art. Join Pacific Wild for #wildauction2020 by creating an original art piece or bidding on one.
Understanding different

Understanding different

Dispatches from Ray’s Planet: A Journey through Autism (Caitlin Press) is the fascinating story of a man who free dives through the thermocline, swims naked across the Rhine, inhales the miraculous intricacies of math, science and nature and creates
Funding push on for Dianne Whelan film

Funding push on for Dianne Whelan film

Sunshine Coast documentarist Dianne Whelan is set to get a financial boost for her current film project thanks to fundraising campaign led by former Gibsons councillor Charlene SanJenko.
Art Beat: Arts Festival stages dance premier

Art Beat: Arts Festival stages dance premier

The Sechelt Arts Festival presents international dance artist and choreographer Joshua Beamish in a performance of his new five-part production, Falling Upward, at Raven’s Cry Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 17 and Sunday, Oct. 18.
Newsprint netting makes for original art

Newsprint netting makes for original art

Recycled newspapers have seldom looked like this.
Meme Me delves into ‘screen culture’

Meme Me delves into ‘screen culture’

A unique show that opened this week at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt has some creative fun with the concept of “meme,” a new word describing a new pastime.
Art Beat: Fafard plays the Heritage

Art Beat: Fafard plays the Heritage

Southern roots singer-guitarist Joel Fafard performs in two shows this week at the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. The Roberts Creek-based blues maestro is finally getting to play these local gigs, postponed from early March, thanks to The Virus.
Dancer Joshua Beamish to present new work at the arts festival

Dancer Joshua Beamish to present new work at the arts festival

The Sunshine Coast will get a fresh jolt of contemporary dance at the Sechelt Arts Festival this month when international performer Joshua Beamish takes the stage at Raven’s Cry Theatre for a premiere of a new show, Falling Upward.