by Diane Mueller Ami McKay, author of The Birth House and The Virgin Cure, walked on stage in the wooded open-air pavilion at the Sunshine Coast Festival of Written Arts and looked out onto a lecture hall filled with mostly 50 and up female readers and writers, instantly connecting with us as soon as she [...]
Deanna Cartea is one of my favourite Coast musician. I stumbled across her remarkable sound during a summer Music in the Landing event in lower Gibsons, where she was playing in the back lane behind the Molly’s Lane Market. A handful of people were ringing her in white resin chairs – the perfect stationary vehicle [...]
Sechelt, June 2011 – You’ll never guess what’s happening in the east end of the Trail Bay Mall. Kids from 2-15 – pardon me, artists – and their parents, have discovered 4 Cats Art Studio and entered into another world. From what I would call chaos in my home, young artists are learning through a [...]
from the Sunshine Coast Jazz & Entertainment Society Another packed event despite chilly winds After getting hailed on at Sargeant Bay on Saturday, April 16, I suppose one should be thankful for sunshine – even if one needed a down jacket for this annual Creeker celebration! Down along the road leading up to the mandala, [...]
So here’s a random look at YOUR Sunshine Coast, from Howe Sound to Desolation Sound. Cool graphic, eh? This little image is called a ‘wordle‘, and the code is based on the Google App Engine, and was created by a guy who wrote the core of the program during the course of his job at [...]
by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell Sunshine Coast author Deanna Proach’s first novel, Day of Revenge, is a credible start to a promising writing career. Set in revolutionary France, the novel follows the lives of a group of Loyalists determined to fight the Revolutionaries, who are growing more paranoid and erratic by the day. The book centres [...]
Organizers pronounced the First Annual Sunshine Coast Art Crawl a huge success, with some galleries seeing as many as 250 visitors through in a single weekend. The ‘hub/bead’ concept was very popular, with some visitors coming from Powell River just to collect the four additional beads for their crawl bracelets from the hubs of Madeira [...]
A feel-good homegrown story for all small rural communities in BC: Gibsons performing artist Deanna Cartea has been signed by Citation Records in Los Angeles, California and is recording her first album. Deanna Cartea from Laurie McConnell on Vimeo. Bigpacific.com first stumbled across this evocative artist when strolling past Molly’s Lane after dinner along the [...]
Artist Gigi Hoeller of Halfmoon Bay opened her studio just off Leaning Tree Road North for a tour with Bigpacific.com Publisher Laurie McConnell, and invites locals and visitors to tour her gallery of original art. Subjects are varied: gorgeous flowers, landscapes, architecture, and totems all find their way into her work. Gigi also creates original [...]
Keith A.E. Thirkell is a professional photo-journalist who, for 20 years, has documented the beautiful Sunshine Coast in all its glory. His work has appeared in publications around the world. Two of his calendars have won awards of excellence. Feel free to call Keith about wholesale purchases of this calendar, comments on the content or [...]
by Laurie McConnell Editor/Publisher Bigpacific.com Guide to the Sunshine Coast Apologies for Vimeo’s sudden difficulties in dealing with video shot on the iPhone in portrait mode! Wow. The second weekend in June is always a very good time to be out and about in Gibsons… not only for those who groove to what falls into [...]
by Laurie McConnell Editor/Publisher, Bigpacific.com’s Guide to the Coast Every weekend April through October, I love visiting the Sechelt Farmer and Artisans Market at the Ravens Cry Theatre lot just across from St. Mary’s Hospital. For one thing, I always stop at Greta’s for freshly made bannock with home preserves (today it was blackberry/blueberry – [...]
I received this great communique from our very own and very innovative Gibsons Recycling Depot (see story in Just Business People, date) about a funky new program they’ve got going on to encourage recycling and reuse of discarded materials: JUNE 10, Gibsons Sunshine Coast Gibsons Recycling Depot, 1018 Venture Way Gibsons, is currently looking for [...]