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Cultural Events/Activities
Egmont Heritage Centre
The centre is open 10-5 daily in summer. 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, the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival, Blues Festival and Chamber Music Festival, 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.
Who's Who
- Larrie Cook - Blues musician and regular host of Sunday jam sessions at Garden Bay Pub, Cook is a founding member of the Pender Harbour Blues Society.
- Skinny Jimmy Dougan - This traditional country and western singer, songwriter and guitarists from Texada Island has released several tapes and cds. Website? Hell no. We’re surprised he has a cell phone.
- Terry Jacks - Jacks, best known for Seasons in the Sun, continues to have one of the most successful music careers in the country.
- Jim McGiliveray - An old-timer on the west coast jazz scene, McGilliveray is a regular guest at the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival.
- Joni Mitchell - Best known for Big Yellow Taxi, Mitchell is also an accomplished artist.
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Visual Arts
A Tribute to Pender Harbour
Our many artists show their works in a variety of mediums and in a number of local studios and galleries as well as public locations such as the Health Clinic and Credit Union. Much of their work is a tribute to the landscape and lifestyle of Pender Harbour. See Pender Harbour Dot Com for listings of galleries, studios and artists.
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.
Who's Who
- Mary Freeman Cain - Photographer
- Val Haines - Fabric artist
- Pauulet Hohn - Stained glass artist
- Patty Jackson - Soapstone sculptor
- Charlaine LaCroix - Photographer
- Tom Scordas - Graphic artist, signpainter
- Yvonne Stowell - Fabric artist
- Louise Todhuntere - Sculptor
- Walters - Painter, muralist
- Diane Whelen - Photographer, videographer
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 on our Message Board 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.
- Gill, Judy - Numerous bodice rippers.
- 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 - Best New Magazine Writer of 2008, author of Mounties in Mukluks
- Winchester, Myrtle - Creator and, until 2006, publisher of the Harbour Spiel.
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Offsite Arts, Entertainment & Culture Links
Harbour Publishing - The Big Groove
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