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July 2020
Opportunity: Friday Night Go FB Live
Every Friday evening at 7:10 pm (til this crisis is over) Sunshine Coast Artists go FB Live on FB Page: Performing Artists for Sunshine Coast Food Banks to help with donations through the Sunshine Coast Community Services Society. Email Verna at musicinthelanding@gmail.com for more info.
Find out more »Facebook Live: Local Musicians Jun 25 – 27th
Check out some of the Coast’s musicians sharing their music from home … Click on their name for the link – Joe Stanton - guitar, vocals - Thursday Night at 6pm - First set : Joe Stanton - guitar, vocals - Thursday Night at 6pm - Second set : Mark Brezer and baby Arlo - guitar, vocals - "Hoping the Night Falls' : Steve Weave - Stranded (the streets of Sechelt) video - piano, vocals
Find out more »Facebook Live: Local Musicians Jun 21 – 24th
Check out some of the Coast’s musicians sharing their music from home … Click on their name for the link – Ernestine-Ernie Day - guitar - 'Pure Joy' Matt Richards - guitar, vocals - "Street Fighting Man" Dianne Baker - group singing - Odonata SongRise Susann Richter - piano, vocals with Matt Watson, guitar; Ray Fulber, bass; Steven Jack, guitar - 'Cloth Monkey' video Joe Stanton - guitar, vocals - live at the Clubhouse Restaurant, outdoors
Find out more »Facebook Live: Local Musicians Jun 18 – 20th
Check out some of the Coast’s musicians sharing their music from home … Click on their name for the link – Joe Stanton - guitar, vocals, Thursday Nights @ 6pm - First Set : Joe Stanton - guitar, vocals, Thursday Nights @ 6pm - Second Set : Captain Fantasy - 4 piece Creek band live in the Creek - Chris Hergesheimer, vocals, guitar; Paul Deleo, guitar; Jamie, acoustic bass; Kelly Backs, drums : Verna Chan Quartet - Verna Vocals, Paul…
Find out more »Nia with Jan online Classes
TUE, THU & SAT now on-line classes 9 AM. To help you to feel lighter, stronger, more flexible with global dance forms, martial arts, healing arts and powerful imagery, Contact Jan Jensen here or 604.885.3363 to sign up and learn more. Get ready to feel lighter, stronger, more flexibleAND more fully in your power … Slide yourself on in to Jan's Nia classes … and with each step notice how the global dance forms, martial arts, healing arts and powerful imagery feed your…
Find out more »Canada Day (Week Long) Art Gallery Opening – Gigi Hoeller
June 27 - July 5th - giving people more time and space to come and enjoy the work. A special opening where Gigi brings out old much loved art works and display them and gently let them go at very reasonable prices. Plus check out the very interesting new pieces in the gallery!
Find out more »French Conversation Group now On-line
Our bi-weekly French Conversation Group is now taking place online every other Thursday from 10:30am–noon on Zoom. Everyone welcomed, no matter your level of fluency in French. Contact Sam Talbot, our community outreach coordinator, to learn more and get the Zoom link. stalbot@gibsons.bclibrary.ca
Find out more »Coastal Art Gallery NOW OPEN
in the Trail Bay Mall is now open with reduced hours (11am to 3 pm) and days, (Tuesday to Saturday) and with pandemic protocol in place. Come and see our artwork with radically low prices: watercolour, oil, acrylic, pastel paintings, dolls, carvings, pottery, metal works, and many art note-cards.
Find out more »PR – Artique New Hours
For the safety of our customers and staff we will be following the guidelines of the B.C. Centre of Disease Control. The guidelines include social distancing at all times in the store and a limit to the number of customers in the store at one time. We will also be frequently cleaning the touch points in Artique and have a hand sanitizing station upon entry. New Hours Monday through Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm. Come in to check…
Find out more »Art Exhibition: Sunshine Coast Surface Design Group: Between the Layers
to July 5. No Opening Reception. Fibre and textile art, because of its tactile nature and inter-generational associations with comfort, has the ability to reach out and communicate directly with the viewer. ‘Between the Layers’ may be interpreted as multiple layers of techniques, meaning, materials or design. Artists include the recent work of 17 members of the Sunshine Coast Surface Design Group, whose homes and studios range from Texada Island and Powell River, to Gibsons Landing.: Alexis Bach Marie Barry…
Find out more »Art Exhibition: FibreWorks Studio & Gallery Re-Opens with ‘Connected’
The gallery plans to be open June 27th until October 31st this season. Wed - Sun, 12-4 PM and by appointment. First show: Connected - June 27-Aug 12, 2020 - No Opening Reception
Find out more »Art Exhibition: Performing Flux
to July 12. Performing Flux, a visual art show featuring the works of Craig Cochrane, Jan Legault, Marilyn Marshall and Romi Kim runs to July 12, 2020. The fifth anniversary of the Sunshine Coast’s LGBTQ2+ art show, works in photography, video and painting and explore issues of gender, identity, and sexuality.
Find out more »PR – What the Plus (+)
JUNE 20-JULY 25, 2020. A Group Art Exhibition Showcasing LGBTQ2+ (and allied) Artists in the qathet Region Guest curator rabideye; Alfred Bolster - Amber Friedman - Andrea Bennett (guest speaker); Angelica Hamilton – Blossom/Maia Wade – Chris Roberts - Daniel Rajala; Earle Thompson - Fiona Tyler - Giovanni Spezzacatena/rabideye; Jazz Rico - John Hewson - Karin Birch - Kathryn Neun; Kevin Wilson - Prashant Miranda - Sophia Sanford; The Art Centre ~ Powell River Public Art Gallery Open Tues, Thurs,…
Find out more »Thursday Night Live with Joe Stanton
A virtual house concert on Facebook live every Thursday at 6pm @joestantonmusic
Find out more »2020 Creative Expression During Social Distancing
DIGITAL EXHIBITION at GPAG. GPAG has launched a virtual exhibition which aims to capture the feelings, emotions and daily life in this unprecedented time when not only daily routines but our lives have been drastically altered. Our community, our country and the world struggle to respond to this ubiquitous pandemic. The virtual gallery will be ongoing with new submissions added each week. Keep checking back to see what’s being created or captured in your neighbourhood.
Find out more »2020 Hike for Hospice
June 10 - 26. This year, we will host our Hike for Hospice event online, and welcome individuals to run, walk or hike for Hospice on their own! Participants can raise funds online and share photos with the hashtag, #hikeforcoasthospice. You can choose your own time, location, and frequency of hikes, and they will all culminate on the weekend of July 25-26, 2020. Click here for details or to sign up.
Find out more »PR – Art Exhibition: ‘Art Under Lockdown’ & ‘Intertidal Impressions’
to July 5. MAS Summer Group Shows: Online Editions from Malaspina Art Society (MAS). View the show here.
Find out more »Motoko Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Open by Appointment
starting July 1st and for the rest of the year. This is to ensure that safety protocols are observed for everyone's safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. Please call 604.883.9472 | text 604.989.6686 | info@motoko.ca
Find out more »Podcast: Nicht Meine Kinder (A piece of paper)
In her last moments of life a mother saves her child in an unexpected act of kismet and courage.
Find out more »Women of Essondale: Podcast
Podcast series SOME KINDA WOMAN, Stories of Us - dramatic and comedic stories of women in pivotal moments, getting through the grief & hilarity of life and sharing insights into how these events have changed them. This series debuted on iTunes, LibSyn, Stitcher and other podcast hosts, for international audiences. The free podcast features Sunshine Coast playwright/performer Caitlin Hicks, and the many quirky characters from her standing ovation international tours of one-person theatrical performances. Back story & photos here www.caitlinhicks.com/wordpress…
Find out more »Virtual ART ROAD TRIP with Marlene Lowden
We invite friends, colleagues or family members to join us for this three part video series. Use a long weekend road trip with your BFF as a metaphor for this online art adventure. There are 3 parts, each part invites companions to work together and support each other to create art studies. The exercises will push everyone a little out of their comfort zones and if they are practicing artists, out of their normal mediums. Don't worry if you're a…
Find out more »Opportunity: 2020 Creative Expression During Social Distancing
DIGITAL EXHIBITION at GPAG. We invite all ages to connect with community, provide an opportunity for you to share your feelings through art during this historical moment we all find ourselves in. We welcome digital files of ORIGINAL ARTWORK you have created in response to Covid-19 during times of physical distancing. Photography, visual arts, spoken word video, dance video… it’s up to you. Show us what’s happening in your studio or on the streets in your community.
Find out more »Opportunity: Sunshine Coast Community Foundation Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund
In response to community needs created by the Covid-19 health pandemic, Sunshine Coast Community Foundation has established the Sunshine Coast Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund. This fund, seeded by resources from the Community Foundation, and to which individuals and businesses may contribute, is intended to provide emergency relief to charities or other qualified donees whose operations, programs, or services are negatively impacted by the restrictions or other factors related to the current situation.
Find out more »Harbour Gallery Open
July and Aug. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Harbour Gallery is open daily 11am to 4pm for the month of August. Many new works on display. Water colour, acrylic, pastel, oil and mixed media works for sale.
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