Local Arts

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.

Bowen Island Arts Council (BIAC) is happy to be presenting the Cascadia Reed Quintet as it’s first in the 2014-2015 Classical Concerts Series at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday October 25 at Cates Hill Chapel.

If you are a writer—or want to be a writer—you most likely are a master of procrastination. Few activities are more exhilarating and more frustrating than trying to write something you’re proud to have read.

Sunday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. at Collins Hall will be the venue for a shared program of poetry by Bernice Lever and the “Once Again” musicians (Lorraine Ashdown, Earl Jenkins and Nicolas Belluk).