Michael Gurney

Under the coordination of library staffer Nancy Relova, the Gibsons Public Library welcomed dozens of community members to its third-annual Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday, Sept. 7.

Musical artists Andrew Bate and Matthew Lovegrove performed an hour-long set of meditative melodies on Sept. 1 during an open-air concert in the Oxygen Trail Forest on the slopes of Mount Elphinstone.

Stories of the Estuary is to coincide with autumn equinox, Sept. 21

Cultures exposed, developed in new historical fiction

The opening on Aug. 31 of an exhibition spanning four decades of portraiture by Maurice Spira, drew a crowd of familiar faces — and not only because so many of the admirers who packed the Gibsons Public Art Gallery are neighbours or friends of the Roberts Creek-based artist.  

The Coast Recital Society is set to launch its new season on Sept. 7 at the Raven’s Cry Theatre with a concert featuring a masterpiece of classical music performed by one of the most dynamic young musicians on the international stage.

The contest was introduced last summer by the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society and this year attracted nearly 100 titles submitted by publishers across Canada.

The Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives is searching for the mystery donor who last week deposited a black-and-white photograph at the facility.

This February, festival organizers again matched novelists, poets, and short story writers with painters, photographers, and mixed-media artists — more than 50 participants in total.

The Labour Day weekend represents grand finales for the free summer-long music series that entertained audiences in Gibsons, Sechelt and Roberts Creek.