Michael Gurney

Last week Juan Carlos Fernandez opened an exhibition of his carving and painting at The Kube gallery in Gibsons — the first solo show in about eight years for the Coast-based artist.

Painter and carver Levi Purjue, a member of the Tahltan Nation and a descendant of Nevada’s Shoshone people, on Aug. 4 opened the doors of the Deep Water Gallery on Gower Point Road.

The first exhibition of a newly formed Sunshine Coast artist collective took place last weekend, just steps from the crowded curbs of Sechelt’s Cowrie Street during the annual downtown Show & Shine.

Free summer music series continue across the Coast this weekend.

The start of Roberts Creek’s annual Creek Daze celebration belied the community’s laid-back character: the Higgledy Piggledy parade started precisely at the advertised hour of 11:11 on August 10.

The paintings of Bill Lowe’s debut solo exhibition — which opened during a public reception at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery on July 26 — may be fixed to the walls of the Joe Peters Lounge, but each image has momentum.

A Sunshine Coast author, educator and activist will this weekend premiere an original one-woman interactive theatre performance at the Nanaimo Fringe Festival. Danika Dinsmore is the author of eight young adult novels and four books of poetry.

The Roberts Creek mandala, an annual community art project begun 28 years ago by Robert Marion and Erica Snowlake, was in peril of fading this summer.

Free outdoor concerts in Gibsons, Sechelt and Roberts Creek run all summer long — rain or shine.

Just 10 days after inhabitants of Christenson Village gathered for a garden party to wind up a Coast-wide research project on aging, a bus bursting with exuberant residents from the uptown Gibsons care facility travelled to the town’s public ar