Local Arts

For the first of its dozen scheduled exhibitions in 2025, The Kube gallery in Gibsons turned its attention to an artistic hotbed directly across the street: Elphinstone Secondary School.

Only two days after a frenzied surge of 60 last-minute contributions, the Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s annual Friends of the Gallery show launched on Jan. 10 with a crowded public reception at its Sechelt complex.

A textile prodigy with a passion for performance has turned a graduation project into a forward-looking act of compassion.

One of the Sunshine Coast’s fastest-rising bands will perform at the Artesia Coffee House on Friday, Jan. 17 at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre.

Fox has officially renewed the Sunshine Coast set and filmed Murder in a Small Town for a second season. 

A nearly century-old silent film is due to get a fresh soundtrack in Gibsons later this month, as an instrumentalist who once shared the stage with grunge superstars Nirvana improvises an original score.

An all-ages spectacle featuring tap, swing and three-part harmony has been assembled by the Sunshine Coast Literacy Coalition to mark B.C.’s Family Literacy Week.

The award-winning debut by a Vancouver-based playwright will come to life this weekend in 2025’s first public play reading of the Off the Page series.

Also, an upcoming art show at the Roberts Creek Legion will pay tribute to a life cut short by the opioid and fentanyl crisis in B.C. 

When renowned artist Todd Clark and his wife, equestrian Carol Marlowe first laid eyes on the nearly five-acre property tucked away in a quiet corner of Gibsons, they thought it was “too good to be true,” says Todd. The couple put in an offer that same evening.