Local Arts

Nestled in the heart of Roberts Creek is a special village-within-a-village. It encompasses the Gumboot Café, the Gumboot Restaurant, Temporary Utopia shop and the Tiny Farm. Together, they are emblematic of the welcoming community of Roberts Creek.

The earliest printed news serial on the Coast was a typewritten bulletin mimeographed on foolscap paper. 

When someone reminds you there’s a book faire coming up at the Sechelt Public Library, they could be suggesting one of two things: Either you should start getting rid of the ridiculous number of books you have piled up everywhere, or you might want to go get some more.

'When it comes to belonging and identity, tonight’s glittering drag artists are light years from staid science clubs of yore. Even Galileo Galilei—who used his telescope in 1609 to challenge the view that the cosmos is static, Earth-centric clockwork—might wonder at the Sunshine Coast Astronomy Club’s exuberant and iconoclastic forces of attraction.'

The grassy yard of a two-storey home in Roberts Creek’s Cohousing opens into deep forest, which evokes a welcoming den of wilderness. Sequoia, 13, quickly climbs over horizontal branches on a high-reaching cedar, rests comfortably as if in a lounge chair, then scrambles down to join her sister Phoenix, 8, on a trampoline next to the house.

One of the Sunshine Coast Hospice Society’s simplest and most emotionally potent traditions, Lighting of the Memories takes place on the beach of Mission Point on Jan. 1 at 1 p.m.

Since the beginning of 2024, the Stonewater Motel has undergone a transformation. A new owner moved in, and not long after, the 'no' of the 'no vacancy' sign turned on, glowing red with all the bookings it’s been receiving since it’s been rejuvenated.

'I made up my mind at seven that I wanted to go to sea,' Don MacKenzie of MacKenzie Sea Services

Carmen Ruiz y Laza's 'CARPe diem' is broadcast on three different TV channels, including Canadian-wide VisionTV.

Fourteen full-scale performances of the Nutcracker ballet marked the 12th anniversary of the holiday dance tradition on the Sunshine Coast, as two unique productions packed audiences into venues in Sechelt and Gibsons last weekend.