2019 photo GALLERY
ART EXHIBITION
FUSION • Pop Goes the Art, featured nine local visual artists including a collection of abstract portrait painting and collage art alongside a fibre and glass installation, a photographic essay on body art, and a provocative installation of how art, family, and a deep respect for culture play important roles in the First Nation family home.
Becoming
Becoming presented the original work of award winning local choreographer Becky Izad in her first full-length production. The audiences were wowed by the compelling story, amazing contemporary dancing, and emotive imagery.
the marvellous mr. moysey
The Marvelous Mr. Moysey (aka Bill Moysey) presented a refreshing, avant garde evening of original music, audience assisted musical composition, and contemporary tap dance.
forro-do-cana
Under the direction of internationally acclaimed local fiddler Serena Eades, the newly formed Brazilian dance band, Forro do Cana was premiered on the Coast to an appreciative crowded house on the final weekend.
HERITAGE EXHIBITION
The Seaside Centre venue also featured the 2019 heritage exhibit: Through Helens Eyes a tribute to the Coast’s first commercial woman photographer, Helen McCall, and Helen Dawe, Sechelt’s first archivist. The exhibit presented a selection of over one hundred photos from the thousands in the combined collections, a vintage camera collection, a dark room vignette and insights about the places and people of the Sunshine Coast during earlier times. A few lucky people even got to have Tea With Helen.
Coast Streaming
Created by the multi-talented producers Steve Weave and Mieke Jay, The Space Between delighted visitors in a new experiential event.
paintillio
All were welcome at Trail Bay Mall to help complete this paint by numbers canvas.
workshops
In cooperation with the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, the festival offered a glass bead making demonstration, and a sand-cast candle-making. There was a workshop on casting in pewter and one on Brazilian Forro Dance. We also presented, in cooperation with the shishalh nation, a series of Totem Tales Walking Tours with Candice Campo and featured the totem carving of Tony Paul.
