2023 photo GALLERY
mind over matter - part two
The 20th anniversary festival welcomes back Mind Over Matter - part two; a reprise from 2014.
Coast indigenous & non-indigenous multi-media visual artists collaborating in the spirit of art and reconciliation. The exhibition showcased 3D and multi-media work by Candace Campo, Sandi Buck, Todd Clark, Nadina Tandy, Manuela Salinas, Jessica Silvey, Miyuki Shinkai, Dean Hunt and Matthew Talbot Kelly.
First Festival Films
Our first film night featured films by Steve Schwabl, Charlene San Jenko, Diego Semper, Annie Frazer, Matthew Talbot Kelly, Mark Buzzell, Gordon Halloran, and Thomas Afflolter
Covering Joni: The Reprise
A celebration of our beloved Joni Mitchell’s art and music during her 80th birthday year! Originally presented in 2013, this special anniversary concert featured an outstanding cast of vocalists and musicians including: Bill Barclay, Trudi Diening, Sasha Fassaert, Keely Halward, Wendy Hibberd, Martinez, Graham Ord, Janet Panic, Patrice Pollack, Ross Powell, Rebecca Shoichet, Paul Steenhuis, Randall Stoll, Charlie’s Friends Drum Corps, and the Sunshine Coast Children’s Choir.
Celebration of Dance
Celebrating the past 30 years of Sunshine Coast dance, from its traditional beginnings to today’s diversity, this special multi -media dance event paid tribute to the dancers, choreographers, and mentors who helped to create our current vibrant Coast dance community.
Featuring performances by: Sylvain Brochu, Maria Avila, Brittany Robertson, Brooklyn Turner, Anna Kotai, Makenzi Harris, Andrea Villaneuva, Peter Reznick, Connor Dixon, Eibhlin Minastis and more.
Little Voices | AWARD-WINNING Small stage drama
Little Voices with Lucas Foss is an off-beat, original, and charming one-man play exploring the inner dialogue of an aging couch potato trying to make something more of himself. Caught between his voice of comfort and his voice of truth, he asks himself the big questions: Can he find love and still get home in time for his favourite TV shows? Should he spend more money on cigarettes - or that copy of Soulful Sex at the alternative book store? As he proceeds on his plodding but highly amusing journey, hazarding relationship counselling with his girlfriend, Cheryl, and coming face to face with his deepest fear at a men’s retreat, our very ordinary “hero” discovers his true, and not so ordinary self. ( WINNER: BEST COMEDY Award, and Special Merit 1999 Theatre BC Canadian National Playwright Competition).
Showing size | small stage drama
One man revolts against the cyber giants of the new world order. Steven Schwabl starred in this one-man play by Gordon Halloran.
On the cusp of a new millennium, the career of a powerful, charismatic trader is threatened by the onset of internet trading. In a desperate attempt to survive a digital Armaggedon, he launches an act of sabotage that triggers a battle for control of the world’s largest financial exchange.
ANNIE SHEA | Special literary performance
Caitlin Hicks performed excerpts from the comedy Six Palm Trees and her award winning novel A Theory of Expanded Love and her latest 1968 sequel Kennedy Girl.
Samhain Parade and Carnival - Oct 31
Celtic and Latin Culture collide in a fantastical parade and stage show of costumes, live music, shadow puppets, and fire dancing. This colourful festival finale event honoured the annual life and death cycle of the fall harvest on October 31st in a unique new way.
Halloween night we rendezvoused at the Seaside Centre for “Catrina” face-painting. Then at dusk (6PM), the Samhain/Dia De Los Muertos inspired street parade of Latin Catrinas, pagan forest people, roving minstrels, and other ghoulish characters paraded to Hackett Park, serenaded by Caravan Paradiso, for a folkloric play by Shadow Circus Puppet Theatre followed by the return of the Cool Heat Fire Dancers.
Artist Gerardo Avila and his team of puppeteers presented the folkloric Latin tale of Malinche. Her transformation from villain to hero is told through mime, shadow theatre, and music by Caravan Paradiso and Susana Williams.
syiyaya heritage stories
This year we celebrate a ten-year collection of local heritage stories told through short videos.
FEATURED VIDEOS:
The Story of Cedar
Totem Tales
Syiyaya, Our Families, Our Stories.
Provocative stories told by elders, coast carvers, totem builders, and Sechelt heritage actors. Each one of these videos is a tribute to our Coast and its people, poignantly captured by film maker Tamar Kozlov.
Workshops
making ofrendas
Participants Created a Mexican altar in honour of a departed loved one in 3D collage art from bits and bobs. Artists Gerardo Avila and Tam Harrington provided the Hispanic cultural background information behind ofrendas. Small objects and materials were transformed into unique objects of art.
mexican “Catrina” mask making
Master mask artist Gerardo Avila led participants in creating carnival style masks just in time for Halloween and the Samhain Parade and Carnival.
joni guitar tuning workshop
Musician Ross Powell explored Joni Mitchell’s unique guitar tunings and chord structures.
Samhain mask making
Master mask artist Gerardo Avila led participants in creating carnival style masks just in time for Halloween and the Samhain Parade and Carnival.
