What a cool festival – and I’ve barely heard about it. So, in the spirit of sharing, I give you the Roberts Creek Arts Festival, coming up in just one week, ‘set in ten unique and diverse studio locations set in old growth forests’. There’s a nifty map: It’s a great visual to the diversity [...]
When I first moved to the Sunshine Coast 26 years ago as a production assistant in one of the community newspapers (while my roommate worked as a reporter for the other – our shared domicile was a thorn in the side of both bombastic publishers at the time) I can remember meeting up with all [...]
April 27 & 28 saw approximately 250 riders hit the trails in Roberts Creek for the SunCoaster Mountain Bike Race and Mach Chicken downhill. Suncoaster Race Results | Mach Chicken Race Results Map courtesy of http://sunshinecoaster.net/ I was not surprised to see Magnus Manson take the 15-16 yr old male age category – Magnus is a [...]
Tuwanek is an interesting sub-community on the Coast. Lumped in with Sechelt, Tuwanek is out at the very end of Sechelt Inlet Road on the east side of the inlet. The 10km moseying road winds past forest, parks, the Sandy Hook enclave, Tillicum Bay, Lambs Bay and the turnoffs for the Mt. Richardson/Tetrahedron Plateau recreational [...]
PechaKucha (pronounced p’cha k’cha) Night is a global phenomenon happening in over 600 communities around the world. Gibsons is one of the smallest communities currently participating.
Our innovative friends at Townsite Brewing continue to expand on their ideas of what makes an awesome brew brand, with the first ever Brewmaster Invitational Dinner, set for Saturday January 19 at 7:30 pm in Powell River. Townsite Brewing has invited a few of their favorite brewmasters to bring their craft beers for a private [...]
Photo Haley McConnell, story by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell I’m pretty pro community economic development and love the idea of our own small town community forest company sustainably logging suitable timber for value-added jobs & products in our community. But sooner or later we’re going to have to pay the piper, environmentally-speaking. At some point, the [...]
…yes, Culture! (Groan… that’s why I need more cultural exposure). Tomorrow and Sunday are ‘Sechelt Culture Days‘ and the District of Sechelt’s Arts, Culture & Heritage Advisory Committee is putting on a cultural extravaganza to share the unique culture of the isthmus of Sechelt. Saturday’s event is a FREE Writers Workshop with The Coast Reporter [...]
Sunday September 16 found my partner Diane and I looking for a place to put in for a leisurely kayak and some marine level photography. We checked out our favorite spot by the Trail Islands but the wind was kicking up and the drift is fairly fast for photos there unless it’s calm – partly [...]
Author: Phillip Vannini Publisher: Routledge, January 2012 Stars: 5/5 Review by Webmaster Laurie McConnell I’m not a university professor, grad student or otherwise embalmed in the macrobiotic fluids of academia. I’m just a web designer, writer, and portal publisher in one of BC’s many ferry-dependent communities – in my case, the Sunshine Coast. I can’t [...]
Here we go… Festival Season is really kicking into high gear on the Sunshine Coast, and this weekend is the 17th Annual Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival. Wow, it’s a teenager now. Plan for a wonderful 2 days on the Sunshine Coast taking in a comprehensive schedule of events throughout Gibsons Landing and a few upper [...]
So why is Gibsons called ‘Gibsons’ when George and Charlotte were ‘Gibson’? These and other thorny questions continue to puzzle me when I ponder the early non-aboriginal days of the Sunshine Coast. (Have we finally learned not to call white folks the first settlers? I hope so.) Given the 126 years of history, dating back [...]
Did you know there was a place on the Sunshine Coast where your dogs can take you for a holiday? Bluff Hollow Bed & Breakfast in Garden Bay is a truly dog-friendly getaway: the entire property, cottage, and main house are all off-leash zones, with amenities every discerning dog will sniff out. They can swim [...]
One of the great things about camera technology and software is that it puts the power of stunning imagery into the hands of people who may not be professional photographers but make up for it by regularly taking pictures and often of a certain type… Gigi Butterfly, an artist from Halfmoon Bay, very consistently, posts [...]
Every time I get an email, Facebook message, or calendar event posting request, I am reminded of how lucky the Sunshine Coast is to have attracted – and retained for almost 4 years now – Kimiko Hawkes as the Manager & Curator. Kimiko seems to have boundless energy, and a contagious enthusiasm for history, culture [...]