Local Arts

Watch party returns to scene of crime: Murder in a Small Town is filmed and set on the Sunshine Coast

‘They draw people in, they gather them together and they help us tell stories’

Andrea Hooge’s Tiny Rooms is on at The Kube until Sep. 30

An enticing aroma of cedar permeates the air as carver Derek Georgeson enters his gallery workspace in ch’atlich (Sechelt). Past the double doors bearing a metal blackfish design, which he created digitally and had fabricated elsewhere, he holds up his latest work-in-progress: a red cedar wall panel with a stylized eagle facing a bear.

Under the coordination of library staffer Nancy Relova, the Gibsons Public Library welcomed dozens of community members to its third-annual Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday, Sept. 7.

Musical artists Andrew Bate and Matthew Lovegrove performed an hour-long set of meditative melodies on Sept. 1 during an open-air concert in the Oxygen Trail Forest on the slopes of Mount Elphinstone.

Stories of the Estuary is to coincide with autumn equinox, Sept. 21

Cultures exposed, developed in new historical fiction

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.  

Sechelt’s Tom McPherson is captain, cook, mechanic, guide and more as he aids filmmakers’ quest to showcase elusive sea wolves