It’s Sunshine Coast Arts Crawl Weekend… and the ShroomFest… and Sechelt Arts Festival – time to break out the rubber boots and get out and about on the Sunshine Coast.
This weekend dozens of Volkswagen Westfalias, Buses, Weekenders, Rialtas, and VW Camper Fans will make their way to the Cross Road Grill RV Park in Pender Harbour (13518 Highway 101) for ‘Buses at the Crossroads 1st Annual Camp Out’. Taking advantage of smaller ferry lineups and shoulder season travel, these v-dubbers are coming up at [...]
Above is the Bigpacific.com Mushroom Playlist, a collection of short videos that includes a story I wrote about last year’s festival and foray with Larry Davis, including a fairly decent clip of some mushroom identification, as well as a chanterelle identification from another picker’s Langdale foray – but don’t use it as identification yourself. Always [...]
Celebrate Gay Pride on the Sunshine Coast! Friday, June 29th, 2012 at Roberts Creek Hall in Roberts Creek This event is a fundraiser for the Child and Youth Suicide Prevention Committee, a committee supported by Sunshine Coast Community Services, and a variety of community organizations on the Sunshine Coast. Celebrating Gay Pride and the vibrancy [...]
April 14 is a Benefit Concert to Raise Awareness of Mt Elphinstone’s Forests, showcasing hundreds of photographs, with live music to be held Saturday, April 14, 7:30 pm at Roberts Creek Community Hall.
For a ‘shoulder season’ weekend on the Sunshine Coast there sure is a lot going on! We are stoked for a couple of foodie/outdoorsy events! For anyone who loves apples, the Halfmoon Bay Apple Festival is a good old-fashioned country event held in the beautiful seaside Cooper’s Green park named for a RCAF bomber pilot [...]
by Laurie McConnell, Editor/Publisher Sunshine Coast artist Jan Poynter has organized a wonderful event in Gibsons for this coming weekend, September 9 through 11th: the first ever Plein Air Paint Out event in Gibsons Landing, joining an international stage to demonstrate the art of painting outdoors. Last year Diane (my spouse) and I were travelling [...]
Image from the Gallery Archives at www.seacavalcade.ca What a weekend this July 22-24 on the Sunshine Coast. SATURDAY 9-10AM The annual Sea Cavalcade, a beloved favorite among the Coast’s summer festivals, begins Saturday morning with, of all things, the ‘largest outdoor yoga class on the Sunshine Coast’ and then promptly heads into intense action for [...]
Hosted by Deer Crossing The Art Farm, this enigma of a festival returns to Gibsons for 2011 – this time at Shirley Macey Park in upper Gibsons on August 20 & 21. It is difficult to describe this event. From a forest circus, a farmer & artisans market, art installations, food & wine, and of [...]
Blues fans mark off the first weekend in June for the 8th annual Pender Harbour Blues Festival. June 3, 4, 5 – a weekend full of the blues served up just the way you like it. Johnny Ferreira, rock and roll sax star, with the sensational Nadine States, opens the weekend Friday, June 3, at [...]
May 28th from 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm, head to Gibsons for George and Charlotte Gibson Day. Presented by the Sunshine Coast Museum & Archive, George and Charlotte Gibson Day is the SCMA’s annual event commemorating the arrival of the Gibson family to West Howe Sound in 1886. This year is the 125th anniversary! To [...]
Bigpacific.com’s Editor Top Picks for Events May 3-8 on BCs Sunshine Coast
Coast to Coast : Earthquake Relief & Tsunami Relief Fundraiser for Japan Sunday, April 10th at the Roberts Creek Hall from 12 noon to 4 pm Admission by Donation 1:20 to 2:30 – SCRD’s Emergency Preparedness Presentation Over $3,500 worth of items for Silent Auction live/local musicians and performers (BOAB, Tonbo Taiko, Celso Machado, and [...]
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 [...]