[custom_frame_left][/custom_frame_left] Catching the Langdale ferry had never been very entertaining until I recently stumbled across a wonderfully talented group of young fiddlers. As was usual at any other sailing, people went about their business of grabbing a coffee and a bite, reading the paper, or catching up on work, except shortly after departure, I noticed [...]
After 17 years, the Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival (June 14—16) is moving its Saturday main stage to Gower Point Road in the Seaside Village. The businesses in the Landing are thrilled and will celebrate with special Jazz Supporter surprises and street specials. There will be a special stage for kids with the Legion of Flying [...]
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 [...]