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Maurice Spira artworks reflect lived experience head-on: GPAG exhibition

Maurice Spira artworks reflect lived experience head-on: GPAG exhibition

The opening on Aug. 31 of an exhibition spanning four decades of portraiture by Maurice Spira, drew a crowd of familiar faces — and not only because so many of the admirers who packed the Gibsons Public Art Gallery are neighbours or friends of the Roberts Creek-based artist.  
Following the Pack: How one Sechelt company tracks elusive sea wolves

Following the Pack: How one Sechelt company tracks elusive sea wolves

Sechelt’s Tom McPherson is captain, cook, mechanic, guide and more as he aids filmmakers’ quest to showcase elusive sea wolves
Audience connection at heart of new recital season: Coast Recital Society

Audience connection at heart of new recital season: Coast Recital Society

The Coast Recital Society is set to launch its new season on Sept. 7 at the Raven’s Cry Theatre with a concert featuring a masterpiece of classical music performed by one of the most dynamic young musicians on the international stage.
SCWES's Book Awards for BC Authors winners revealed

SCWES's Book Awards for BC Authors winners revealed

The contest was introduced last summer by the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society and this year attracted nearly 100 titles submitted by publishers across Canada.
Do you know where this photo of the 1941 lumbermen's picnic came from?

Do you know where this photo of the 1941 lumbermen's picnic came from?

The Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives is searching for the mystery donor who last week deposited a black-and-white photograph at the facility.
Visual artists, creative writers team up for third annual Art & Words Festival

Visual artists, creative writers team up for third annual Art & Words Festival

This February, festival organizers again matched novelists, poets, and short story writers with painters, photographers, and mixed-media artists — more than 50 participants in total.
Art Beat: Sayonara to Sunshine Coast summer serenades

Art Beat: Sayonara to Sunshine Coast summer serenades

The Labour Day weekend represents grand finales for the free summer-long music series that entertained audiences in Gibsons, Sechelt and Roberts Creek.
Social documentarian: Director, producer and writer Liz Marshall takes on cultural collaboration

Social documentarian: Director, producer and writer Liz Marshall takes on cultural collaboration

Liz Marshall quickly reveals her collaborative spirit during our brief outdoor photo shoot in Lower Gibsons. “Scarf on or off?” she asks while posing in front of an ocean backdrop on Marine Drive.
Rockwood Lecture: Festival keynote frames answers to housing scarcity

Rockwood Lecture: Festival keynote frames answers to housing scarcity

CBC Victoria radio host Gregor Craigie shares insights from his latest book, 'Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis'
Harbour Publishing's 50 years honoured at writers festival

Harbour Publishing's 50 years honoured at writers festival

'I think that one of the things that makes Harbour books is that they are timely books, even if the world doesn’t know they are timely at the time': Panel honours the publishing powerhouse during the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts