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We love to celebrate life on the Sunshine Coast. Almost any occasion will do,
and you'll find us enjoying the good life with festivals, concerts, parades, dances,
barbecues, country picnics, sports competitions . . . the list is almost endless.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Please note, this is an ARCHIVED POST, from August 2010. ***2011 – No Dance on the Coast this year*** Unfortunately there weren’t enough volunteers to be able to host the dance this year, so there’s a hiatus. If you would like to be part of helping to put on a Pride Dance in 2012, or [...]
Wow, it really IS summer ! Music in the Landing returns this weekend and includes BC Day on Monday. Friday evening in the Gazebo at the end of the wharf will create a bit of nostalgia as Laura Jean Hogan returns to the coast to grace us with her ‘Patsy Cline’ power vocals in the [...]
With the cancellation of the annual Wooden Boat Festival, the Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives has stepped in with a new event for 2010 in conjunction with the Annual Sea Cavalcade Festival held every third weekend in July: Heritage and Hand-crafted Wooden Boat Festival When: Sunday, July 25th from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm. Where: [...]
by Publisher/Editor Laurie McConnell It’s that time again, and here’s hoping the weather stays great through this first July weekend of 2010. The event this year will be held on Sunday, July 11, starting at approximately 9:30 am for participant registration. Around noon- 1pm is a great viewing time for spectators. I’ll post an addendum [...]
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