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Sunshine Coast Festival Of The Performing Arts Featured
The 45th Annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts provides opportunities for musicians, vocalists and dancers to perform for appreciative audiences and receive expert adjudication in the following disciplines: Choral, Dance, Speech & Dramatic Arts, Contemporary popular music, Folk Instrumental, Woodwinds, Brass, Piano, Strings and Vocal. Festival venues for 2018 include the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, St. John’s United Church, and Chatelech Secondary School Theatre in Sechelt; and the Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons. Awards, certificates, and scholarships are given…
Mountain Grind Featured
The Mountain Grind is a 10+ km race on Suncoaster Trail in Pender Harbour and offers fun and challenging nature-based obstacles for all fitness levels! Do it for fun, or race against the clock! The event begins in the park with a $5 breakfast by the Lions Club and music. Setting out in waves, Mountain Grinders will challenge themselves in a chip-timed race (open to participants aged 10 and up) approximately 10 km through nature influenced obstacles on the beautiful…
“The Moment” Documentary – Powell River Screening Featured
It's hard to imagine what mountain biking would be without the influence of freeriding on the sport. Our favourite web edits, our local mountain bike parks, our baggy shorts and pretty much everything else we consider as part of "normal" mountain bike culture has been influenced by freeriding in one way or another. Yet, it's not often we think about how it all came to be. Come down to The Patricia Theatre on Saturday April 21st, 2018, at 1:30pm for Powell River's…
Earth Day In Roberts Creek
Celebrate Earth Day with a gathering in mediation, sounds and prayer to awaken our interconnectedness and wonder of life. Sunday, April 22nd at 10am - Roberts Creek Hall
PRISMA Presents Award-Winning Pianist Edwin Sungpil Kim Featured
Powell River, B.C. – Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy (PRISMA) is thrilled to announce the return of Edwin Sungpil Kim to British Columbia for a two-night engagement this April. Kim will perform concerts April 26 in Powell River and April 27 in Courtenay. No stranger to Powell River or to PRISMA, Kim appeared as a guest artist at the 2015, 2016 and 2017 festivals and quickly became a crowd favourite for his on-stage charisma and off-stage charm. Don’t miss…
The Marathon Shuffle Featured
Celebrating it's 25th year, the Marathon Shuffle is an annual rite of spring for many. The Marathon Shuffle is hosted by PAWS (Powell River Parks and Wilderness Society), Tla’amin Nation, Club Fat Ass, and the BOMB Squad. On the shuffle we traverse the new Tla’amin Nation Treaty Settlement Lands, and we raise up our hands to them. Due to the extraordinary ongoing interest in this event, the Shuffle is making some changes in 2018! The Shuffle will take place over…
April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge Featured
The 17th Annual April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge arrives on April 28, 2018, starting at 10:00 AM at Millennium Park (Govt Dock), Madeira Park! The day begins at 10AM with the reveal of the 'twist' and the first view of the building materials. Teams of up to 4 people build a boat from materials provided (and no one knows what they will be until the day of the race!) and race around the harbour for cash prizes. Youth races, mini boat…
Coaster 50
Celebrating its 18th year, the Sunshine Coaster XCM is a 50km and 21km amateur cross country mountain bike race held annually on BC's beautiful Sunshine Coast with two awesome courses on single track, lakeside trails, ocean views, and canopied climbs! This year's event is expected to attract approximately 300 competitors, breaking down into 20 per cent serious riders and 80 per cent recreational mountain bikers. The course will be marked by April 5th, so curious racers can test the runs beforehand.…
Attack of Danger Bay Featured
Coast Longboarders welcome the best downhill racers in the world for a weekend of racing on our famous curvy downhill roads. REGISTRATION IS OPEN and it's time for the 17th annual celebration of the first official downhill longboard race in Canada!! Stretched out over 5 days in Pender Harbour, the festival includes many smaller competitions followed by the title event on Sunday. Click here for registration and event details or visit the facebook page! THURSDAY: *** Egmont Grind Push Race!!! (finish line the ocean)…
Annual Lund Shellfish Festival Featured
The 11th Annual Lund Seafood Festival will be held along the shores of Lund Harbour, BC, Canada. People will enjoy fresh-cooked seafood, listen to local musicians, take tours, watch free cooking demonstrations, buy live shellfish, shop at the craft booths, and sample special menu items at the restaurants - there are activities for everyone and admission is always free! The Lund Shellfish Festival is a “green event” with recycling bins placed at strategic locations. This event produces no garbage. Limited…