Local Arts

Marion McKinnon Crook’s memoir 'Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Living' — published in 2024 by Heritage House Publishing — was last week named a finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice Award.

A three-month student film competition unspooled last Saturday with an invitation-only screening at the Raven’s Cry Theatre that attracted scores of participating filmmakers, supporters and admirers.

After two weeks of live music, the longest-lived performing arts festival on the southern Sunshine Coast has reached its first rest.

A pair of tireless teen musicians have been announced by High Beam Dreams as its featured entertainment for a fourth-annual Mother’s Day High Tea on May 10.

An exclusive screening next week of the latest documentary feature by Sunshine Coast filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper is guaranteed to be the hottest ticket in town.

Two artists whose works transform prosaic leavings into transcendent topographies opened complementary exhibitions during a reception held at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery on April 5.

A convergence of creativity resulted in a new multi-sensory showcase at Roberts Creek’s Gumboot Café, led by Gibsons-based painter and sculptor Michelle Neilson.

A new exhibition at The Kube gallery in Gibsons features the work of a professional garden designer whose two-dimensional artwork gives shape to the concept of time.

Nardeen Ibrahim wins the prestigious Loran Award

The longest-running annual festival on the Sunshine Coast is set this month to expand beyond its time-honoured tradition of adjudicated performances by multigenerational participants.