Local Arts

Olga Chnara paints, sings and styles hair. But if you ask her about her favourite art, she will answer “food.” “Everyone loves to have a good meal,” she says.

The sagacious steward of the Sechelt Community Archives is stepping down after almost three decades overseeing the community’s collection of historical records.

Imagine a kayaker paddling with a friend off Haida Gwaii. Without warning, a killer whale surges out of the water about 12 metres away. After exhaling through its blow hole, the bold blackfish swims under their kayaks. They freeze. Will it swamp their boats? It never reappears. Yet, as they look towards K’il Kun (Sandspit), they see orcas pulling seals off rocks in a turbulent thrash of shoreline hunting.

In a season whose carols extol seraphic skies, local astronomers are taking steps to keep the stars shimmering year-round.

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.