Local Arts

The final classical concert of Bowen Island’s 2014-2015 Classical Concert Series will be played by internationally renowned guitarist Daniel Bolshoy on January 11.

The scientific evidence on climate change and the loss of global biodiversity is wonderfully accurate, precise and measured however, scientific publications are often devoid of stories of hope and optimism.

“The world will be saved by beauty,” wrote Dostoevsky, who is quoted in the prophetic film, The Wisdom to Survive, the latest film in the Forward Focus Series to be screened on Saturday, January 10 at 7 PM at the Gallery.

As we round up a year and look forward to 2015, the Bowen Island Arts Council and Bowen Island Public Library sometimes wish they had a crystal ball.

If you missed it the first time around, you’ll get another chance to see the Jessie Award winning play Kayak starring Bowen Islander Susan Hogan starring on January 7.

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