The Sunshine Coast has one of the highest per-capita ratios of people who make all or part of their living from involvement in arts and/or culture - in Canada! The events calendar is full of receptions, gallery showings, live music events, HD Opera from the Met, book launches and more. Explore the links below for a ton of information about the local arts scene.
The popular "Purple Banner Studio Guide" is available from the Coast Cultural Alliance, in addition to a monthly printed or weekly emailed events calendar.
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 [...]
by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell I heard through the grapevine that a new ‘store’ was opening in the Trail Bay Centre this past weekend so dropped by to take a look. Originally I thought an arts studio was opening up in the space next to the washroom entrance on the south side of the mall, near [...]
Photographed in 1929 and narrated in 1980, this black and white film of 37 minutes will take you back to when tall ships sailed the oceans. During that year Irving Johnson sailed aboard the massive bark PEKING. The narration was done in 1980 by Mr. Johnson, who did the original filming – from the rigging [...]
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 [...]
Mix great jazz of all styles with small venues on the Sunshine Coast of B.C. and you have the phenomenon that is the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival. First established in 1966 by the local Music Society, the Festival is now an annual destination event for a crowd of jazz lovers from across the Pacific Northwest [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
SECHELT FARMER & ARTISAN MARKET FUN Our friend Dean Brooks (we call him MathGuy as he is a prodigious intellect in this field) is up visiting for the weekend, on his first holiday in seven years. We decided he needed a REAL getaway, so we’ve been getting him out doing things ever since we got [...]
The Gambier Community Centre Society is proud to announce the Arts and Ideas Series at the Gambier Community Centre, beginning March 6 2010 and continuing until August 7, 2010. Inspired and orchestrated by Gambier’s Geoffrey Smedley, the Arts and Ideas Series promises to bring something to everyone. Participating in this exciting series are artists well [...]
picture live from Garden Bay PENDER HARBOUR – I’m not one who regularly goes out for live music, not liking too-loud anything, crowds, bars… but my friend Mark Vance of the Pender Harbour Blues Festival Society gave me such an energy boost just talking about this year’s festival that I threw inhibition to the wind [...]
Jazzz…oh yaa It’s that time of year again. Time to lay back and enjoy some of the finest that our incredibly talented and connected Jazz Society will be laying out for us in restaurants and other local venues during Jazz Week, and right through to Sunday afternoon of the 14th Annual Gibsons Landing Jazz [...]
Mark your calendars for the kickoff to the Sunshine Coast’s summer music festival season. The Pender Harbour Blues Festival is produced by the Pender Harbour Blues Society, a not for profit organization committed to preserving, nurturing and promoting B.C.’s blues in all its forms. Don’t miss the great acts booked for this year, all playing [...]
It’s official! Bigpacific.com has launched our new social networking site for the Sunshine Coast at http://www.bigpacific.org! It’s like a Facebook or MySpace just for Coasters and those who love the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. You can create your own unique password-protected page, upload content like photos, videos, and songs, and create your own blog [...]
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