FibreWorks Studio & Gallery had the privilege of presenting eight classes of pine needle basket weaving by Hattie Olsen. Hattie’s storytelling teaching style provided the students with a relaxed learning environment as they created their individual containers. Her stories of making her first basket — gathering pine needles in the Lillooet area, the support of [...]
There were a total of 472 images submitted in the second ZOOM Photo Contest. It is taking some time to catalogue all of them and the judging may not start until the week of the 19th. I am very impressed with the quality of submissions! I would like to personally thank all of the photographers [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Westwind Gallery presents “Trails of Discovery” - New Paintings by Greta Guzek. All are welcome to the opening reception on November 12, 4 to 7 pm at Westwind Gallery, #14-292 Gower Point Road in Gibsons Landing. Nature provides many metaphors for life’s journey, and as I walk down the beach and forest trails, hemmed-in [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Since August, the cast at Coast Community Productions has been working hard rehearsing for its initial offering, “The Man with the Plastic Sandwich,” an entertaining comedy by Roger Karshner. “After being fired from a job of 20 years, Walter Price ponders his future on a park bench, where he meets three wacky characters: Ellie, [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Lez Niepo, local visual artist and musician, immigrated to Canada from Scandinavia in 1973, first settling in Toronto, then moving to the Sunshine Coast, where he established his studio, Allworks, in Halfmoon Bay. His paintings from that time were influenced by the European abstract movement. In the eighties, Lez travelled to the Fiji Islands [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Tessa Rand grew up in Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast. She obtained a degree in 3D Animation from the Art Institute in Vancouver, where she met her husband. After moving back to the Coast in 2007, she joined a collective of self-taught metal artists who call themselves the Martopian Collective. Tessa, a “mompreneur” [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] The Sunshine Coast Driftwood Players is in the midst of rehearsals for a December production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”. The play’s director, Ingrid Bilton is delighted with the talent and enthusiasm of this cast of 25 children between 4 and 14 years of age. In the play, a couple struggling to put [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] My interest in photography has come into play over the last five years and after taking thousands of photos, I’ve discovered my passion is nature and taking close-up or macro shots. It’s amazing what you see once the photos have been downloaded to a computer, for example, the hairs on the ant’s chin, I [...]
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] Sechelt photographer Martin Nichols is from a working-class area of London, a city he says he couldn’t escape from even if he wanted to; and credits these roots with the development of his photographic style, which places emphasis on the emotional appeal of an image rather than technical brilliance: You have to feel it, [...]
The Pender Harbour Choir, under the direction of Joy McLeod has prepared a varied repertoire of holiday music to usher in Christmas Cheer this festive season. The concert will be held the Music School in Madeira Park on December 10th at 2:00 pm. Tickets are at $15 each and will be available at Bluewaters Books [...]