One of the highlights of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s (SCAC) annual calendar is the Young Artists Exhibition, which this year will run at the Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt from Nov. 26 to Dec. 10. An awards reception will be held on Saturday, Dec. 11. The event is a great opportunity for young Coast artists aged five to 18 to share their work with the public in a major gallery and to receive feedback from professional artists. Participants can submit up to three works, which can be drawings, paintings, prints, mixed media, digital media, photography, videos, ceramics, fabric arts, or sculpture. The submission deadline is Saturday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. You’ll need to fill out an entry form, available at the SCAC website.
Meet the artist
An installation of photographic, sculptural, and video works by Vancouver artist Valerie Durant opened Thursday, Nov. 4 at Gibsons Public Art Gallery. The exhibit, Invisible Rivers, “reflects upon the climate crisis and our relationship with the natural world.” You can meet and chat with Durant at the gallery from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6.
Performing arts fest
The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts (SCFPA) plans to mount its annual event as an in-person festival in April 2022, following a COVID-safe, all-virtual event last spring. SCFPA president Sarah Lowis said in a release that the adjudicated festival – which began in the mid-1970s – aims not only to be live at its home at the Heritage Playhouse, but to proceed this year with three strategic priorities: “[P]romoting inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA), growing community engagement and awareness alongside performer participation, and supporting and strengthening organizational and financial capacity.” Full details can be found on the SCFPA website, coastfestival.com. The Annual General Meeting of the society is at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6, via Zoom.
Callout for artisans
Gibsons Public Market is mounting its 2021 Winter Fair from Friday, Dec. 17 to Sunday, Dec. 19 and organizers are “looking for some incredible artisans to help this event come to life.” Details are available at the market’s website under the events tab. The application deadline is Friday, Nov. 12.
Red carpet
The Driftwood Players theatre company celebrates its 2021 film A Visit to Spoon River with a red-carpet gala at Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons on Sunday, Nov. 7 leading up to a 2 p.m. screening. The actors and crew invite the public to a presentation of the 55-minute movie, based on a 100-year-old anthology by American writer Edgar Lee Masters. Gala dress is encouraged, as is a big smile for the paparazzi as you enter. Admission is by a suggested $20 donation.
Live music
Bluegrass maestros The Lonesome Town Painters perform at High Beam Dreams in Gibsons on Saturday, Nov. 6. The Vancouver band will feature tunes from their new album along with some standard gems from this noble musical genre. Doors at 6, show at 6:30 p.m. Tickets at eventbrite.ca
Singer-songwriter Charlotte Wrinch will be playing on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Gibsons Public Market’s atrium.
Batch 44 in Sechelt has guitarist and vocalist Jim Foster performing between 7 and 10 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6.
The music played by Imperial is billed as “Vancouver soul RnR Murder Disco.” You can hear what they mean by that at Roberts Creek Legion Saturday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
