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Cultural Events/Activities
Egmont Heritage Centre
Summer Hours: The centre is open 10-5 daily. Admission is $3 (adults) and $1 (children 6-16). For more information, call 604-883-9994.
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Performance Arts
Live Music
Besides our three big music festivals...
...you’ll regularly find live music at various locations throughout Pender Harbour.
Garden Bay Pub books live bands throughout the summer and hosts a blues jam session every Sunday. The Legion and Grasshopper Pub occasionally feature live entertainment, and the Pender Harbour Music Society presents an annual concert series at their Centre for the Performing Arts (a.k.a. the Music School). Other musical events are held at the Pender Harbour Community Hall.
Also see: Offsite Entertainer
Who's Who
- Cook, Larrie
- Dougan, Skinny Jimmy
- Jacks, Terry - Best known for Seasons in the Sun
- McGiliveray, Jim
- Mitchell, Joni - Best known for Big Yellow Taxi
- Nichols, Shauntelle
- Rayment, Randy
- Rayment, Sue
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Visual Arts
A Tribute to Pender Harbour
In the summer of 2004, local artist Ken Walters painted two murals in Madeira Park and then completed a large mural project at the Pender Harbour Aquatic Centre with Emily Carr College of Art and Design student Emily Gray. As Walters continues his work, we see more murals painted in our community, and more artists joining Walters in the muralization of Madeira Park.
Our many artists show their works in a variety of mediums and in a number of studios locally. Much of their work is a tribute to the landscape and lifestyle of Pender Harbour.
Works are displayed in galleries as well as public locations such as the Credit Union and Health Centre. Go to Pender Harbour Dot Com for listings of galleries, studios and artists.
Local Arts Groups
Who's Who
- Freeman Cain, Mary - Photographer
- Freemantle, Kim - Potter
- Haines, Val - Fabric artist
- Hohn, Pauulet - Stained glass artist
- Iato, Iso - Painter
- Jackson, Patty - Soapstone sculptor
- LaCroix, Charlaine - Photographer
- Malaka, June - Painter
- Motoko - Painter
- Scordas, Tom - Graphic artist and signpainter
- Simmonds, Wendy - Painter
- Stowell, Yvonne - Fabric artist
- Todhunter, Louise - Sculptor
- Walters, Ken - Painter, muralist
- Whelen, Diane - Photographer and videographer
- Winchester, Myrtle - Photographer and graphic artist
Also See
Check the Calendar for upcoming art shows and sales, including the Rotary Club’s annual Art Auction.
Looking to buy or sell local art? Try a free classified ad at our Marketplace.
Visit Pender Harbour Dot Com (Shopping) for gallery, studio and artist business listings.
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Written Arts
Writers
A number of award-winning authors make or have made Pender Harbour their home, and Pender Harbour has been written about by a number of other authors such as late LR Wright, who set her popular murder-mysteries on the Sunshine Coast. Their works are available for loan at the Pender Harbour Reading Centre, our little library that's part of the BC Libraries book-sharing program.
Publishers
Harbour Publishing in Madeira Park, well-known for its Raincoast Chronicles and BC Encyclopedia, is one of the largest publishing houses in Western Canada.
Also in Madeira Park, Paq Press publishes the community's newsmagazine, the Harbour Spiel.
Events
The annual Festival of the Written Arts in nearby Sechelt is a national literary event featuring best-selling authors from around the world.
Who's Who
- Bosner, Terry - Poetry
- Daly, Edith - Fishing With John, Dennison’s Ice Road, etc.
- Dlin, Ben - Tales of a Country Doctor
- Foss, Maureen - Rat Trap Murders, The Cadillac Kind, etc.
- Gregory, Roxanne - Bodicea’s Revenge.
- Kishkan, Theresa - Poetry and fiction; Sisters of Grass, From a Limb, etc.
- Lee, Brian - Publisher of the Harbour Spiel.
- Pass, John - Poetry.
- Rubin, Carol - How to Get your Lawn off Grass, How to Get your Garden off Drugs.
- White, Howard - Owner/founder of Harbour Publishing, creator of Raincoast Chronicles; wrote Writing in the Rain etc. White was awarded the Order of Canada in 2007.
- White, Mary
- White, Patrick
- Winchester, Myrtle - Creator and, until 2006, publisher of the Harbour Spiel.
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Offsite Arts, Entertainment & Culture Links
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