2018 photo GALLERY
ART EXHIBITION
The exhibition featured eight curated installations of multi-media “home-grown” artists conveying a message of sustainability, appreciation, and passion for this land we call home. The contemporary art installations included four painters, one ceramic artist, two multi-media artists, and one photographer, all accomplished professionals on the coast. As well as In addition to featuring a dramatic 20-foot high whale constructed cleverly from recycled boat parts, the venue doubled as the temporary home for the syiyaya Reconciliation weaving project featuring Shy Waters and Jessica Silvey’s community collaboration pieces. As in previous years, the art exhibition drew over 2,000 visitors during its ten-day duration, including 185 elementary students during eight guided school tours.
satio
SATIO was a riotous nouveau-cirque style show involving more than thirty performers, that played to three sold out audiences at the shishalh Longhouse, including one school show. The show featured a local cast of clowns and jugglers, kid acrobats, a hoop artist, actors, Taiko and indigenous drummers and dancers, and a parade of life-sized puppets. Our coast performers enjoyed the opportunity to work with two professional choreographers and dance artists from Kokoro Dance in Vancouver, and silk artist Sylvia Louis.
The technical challenges of rigging and hanging a lighting package, and silk hanging points were handily met by Lighting Director Bill Moysey. One of the coast’s most accomplished bands, The Rakish Angles, provided toe-tapping original live music that was quite perfect for the task, wirelessly amplified by Peter Lietz. With Projection Artist Mieke Jay providing projection imagery to underline story elements, SATIO was truly a multi-media extravaganza.
Coasters covering coasters
For this live concert evening we brought together four musical acts and invited them to cover songs written by other Sunshine Coast songwriters, as well as presenting their own originals. The evening at the Raven’s Cry Theatre, was a compilation of entirely “Home Grown” music, with each act carving out its own unique sonic space.
Michael Friedman, accompanying his singing on acoustic guitar. Coast favourite Simon Paradis, playing with his old crew Gut Bucket Thunder. Emerging artist Kaeli McArter brought us her original electro-pop sound. Dan Brubeck (yes, Dave is his dad) headed up a killer five-piece jazz ensemble, with Miles Black and Miles Hill locals, Sacha Fassaert and Karen Graves.
Eutierra
Platinum award winning composer and recording artist Kenneth Norman Johnson provided three performances of words and music freshly composed for our festival, all served forth in his own unique style, something between a Broadway musical and an evening of parlour music, blended with narrated and acted sequences, that the audience found suitably charming and heart-warming. Eutierria- at one with nature, portrayed a unique “home-grown” message about our relationship to nature and its importance.
HERITAGE EXHIBITION
Lest we forget. This was a tribute to local coasters from Pender Harbour to Langdale who served during WW1 and WW2 in honour of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day (Nov 11, 1918). Stories, photos, and artifacts were contributed by the Sechelt Archives, the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives, Pender Harbour Living History Society, tems swiya (shishalh Nation) museum, Sechelt Legion, and local residents.
Emerging sounds
Event producer Steve Wright provided an eclectic evening of performances by some of the Sunshine Coast’s very talented young emerging artists, including a selection of participants from Steve’s amazing on-going work at The Sound, where he mentors young coasters in the art of music creation and recording.
Workshops
Workshops included: Butoh Dance, Taiko Drumming, Making Beeswax Masks, Home Brewing, Vocal Soundscapes, Mark Making, Fruit-Wine Making, Finding your Military Ancestors, and Ceramic Pot Making. In every case, participants were able to take home learn a new skill, enjoy a new experience, or take away a deliverable like a piece of art made from found objects, a creative theatrical mask, or a terra cotta succulent pot.
Although not a scheduled workshop, visitors to the art and heritage exhibition were invited throughout the ten-day exhibition to learn how to add a row of weaving from a shíshálh master weaver, as part of the syiyaya Reconciliationproject. Over 100 visitors to the art exhibition venue took part in the weaving project.
