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Music Groups
Pender Harbour Blues Society
Chris Anderson, President, 604-883-2642
This groups holds the annual Pender Harbour Blues Festival and promotes blues in Pender Harbour. Its Annual General Meeting is in April, and its annual fundraiser dance is in May.
Offsite link: Pender Harbour Blues Society.
Pender Harbour Community Choir
Joy MacLeod, 604-885-3087
Do you love to sing? Join the Community Choir for rehearsals at the Music School Tuesdays 7 pm, September through June. No experience required and no auditions held. Under the direction of Joy MacLeod, the choir performs at local events and entertains residents of Sunshine Coast seniors facilities. The choir was formed in 1973 by Les Fowler.
Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival Committee
The Chamber Music Festival committee includes Lise Alymer (chair), Joyce Fowler, Kathy Harrison, Margaret Hutton, Theresa Kishkan, Marg Penney, Margaret Skelley and Louise Todhunter. This festival is held the third weekend of August.
Pender Harbour Jazz Festival Committee
Barry O’Hara, 604-741-5272
Jazz Festival co-founder Monty Rolston chose the annual event dates of the third weekend of September. Why the third weekend? Because, statistically, it’s the sunniest weekend of the fall and the festival was established in 1997 to extend the local tourist season.
Pender Harbour Legion Pipe Band
604-883-0055
Our pipe band offers lessons, marches in parades and performs at local events such as Burns Night.
Pender Harbour Music Society
604-883-0237
Formed in 1987, the Pender Harbour Music Society is an umbrella organization for operations of their Centre for the Performing Arts (a.k.a. Music School), including concerts, festivals and music lessons. Groups operating under the society’s umbrella include the Community Choir, Chamber Music Festival Committee and Jazz Festival Committee. Offsite link: Pender Harbour Music Society.
Pender Harbour Youth Choir
All elementary school children are welcome to join this choir. Contact the Pender Harbour Community School for more information.
Shakuhachi Society of Canada
604-883-2023
This group is dedicated to Japanese flute music.
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Gardening Groups
Pender Harbour Gardening Club
604-883-0295
Do you have a passion for ornamental plants, landscaping and gardening? Join Pender Harbour Gardening Club members the second Monday of the month.
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Visual Arts Groups
Harbour Artists
604-883-2807
This group, mostly painters, shares tips and techniques and sells their work at the Harbour Artists Gallery at the Pender Harbour Cultural Centre.
 Pender Harbour Digital Junkies
Myrtle Winchester, 604-883-0010
Val Reid, 604-740-8030
Pender Harbour’s first and only camera club —digital optional— had its beginnings in 2006 on the Pender Harbour Message Board. New members are always welcome! Join us for photo expeditions, weather permitting, and sharing of tips and techniques. Offsite links: Digital Junkies on Flickr, Digital Junkies on Facebook
Pender Harbour Piecemakers
604-883-9385
This quilting guild meets twice monthly to share projects, ideas and supplies. A few talented members have won impressive awards over the years, and occasionally the Piecemakers donate a work to be raffled as a community fundraiser.
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Written Arts Groups
Pender Harbour Reading Centre Society
604-883-2983
Volunteers operate the Pender Harbour Reading Centre, which is like a library, but without the pedigree and funding. The reading centre is housed in an old Forestry building at the Pender Harbour Cultural Centre.
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