Michael Gurney

From filmmakers to true crime, here's the latest from the Coast's art scene

High Beam Dreams is contemplating suspending its concert program

The first-ever Art Throwdown organized by the Coastal Art Gallery at Sunnycrest Mall in Gibsons blossomed on March 18. Nearly a dozen artists dedicated two hours to depict a floral arrangement, which gleamed iridescent under a ceiling skylight.

Nadina Tandy and Jean Bradbury exhibit on at Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt until April 15. 

Mr. Cuddles the Evil Octopus operated by Sunshine Coast ventriloquist Damien James is set to appear on season two of the national talent show.

Shout Out! exhibition features works of local students. It's on at GPAG until March 29.

Gibsons' Catherine McNeil releases a new book, Emily & Elspeth, and a new album, The Me In We

Also, Sunshine Coast Film Society screening Hive, One Flower One Leaf celebrates six years and Literary Reading Series winds down its season with Wakeland detective novels' author Sam Wiebe.

Youth dominate sneak peak performance

'People worship icons, and that’s how I felt about my painting. I worship the process. Also, what the wood does is disrupt ideas. I have an idea and it interrupts it. As human beings, we have all kinds of conjectures and whatnot, and wood is a little reminder of reality': Stefanie Denz's exhibition on at the Kube until March 31