Local Arts

For Bowen Islander Lisa Marie Bhattacharya, foraging for wild foods is a hobby, a passion. Mushrooms, she says, is what’s she’s really into.

A big thanks to the West Coast Symphony (WCS) for generously offering to come to Bowen Island on Sunday December 14 to perform in the BICS gym at 2 p.m. on stage.

Sticks, stones and imagination are the materials Charmaine Hefflefinger, Franny Hefflefinger, Monika Senn and Lenya Dowler use to build fairy houses, which will be on sale for the third year in a row at the Collins Hall Craft Fair.

Bowen Islander Shari Ulrich brought home the English Songwriter of the Year award from the Canadian Folk Music Awards last week.

Fund for the Arts on the North Shore Society, otherwise known as FANS, honoured Bown Island singer-songwriter Shari Ulrich with a Distinguished Artist Award alongside sculptor and designer Brent Comber last Friday at the Gordon Smith Gallery in North

Good news for live music lovers! After being without a venue since the closure of Doc Morgan’s, the trio of Teun Schut, Buff Allen, and Rob Bailey have secured the Tunstall Bay Clubhouse for a series of monthly jazz shows that will take place over th

Storms and Stillness is about a search for hope irrevocable changes that humans are forcing upon the Earth including the loss of ancient forests, the demise of pollinators and large predators, shifts in the chemistry and circulation patterns of the a

Oliver Swain and Corbin Keep, both über talented veterans of the BC music scene, are about to embark on their fourth 2014 tour together, which will bring them to Tir-Na-nOg Theatre on Saturday, November 8th at 7:30PM.

That was what “The Ed Sullivan Show” was first titled and in fact the name of the opening theme song. The show ran from 1948 to 1971 for 22 years and was well known to World War II and the baby boomer generations.

Shakespeare’s longest play has also inspired countless re-tellings and starting next week in Vancouver, another version of Hamlet will be brought to the stage starting next week by Bowen-raised directors, Sam and Kailey Spear.