The Sunshine Coast Healthcare Auxiliary is once again holding our famous baking, craft and plant sale just in time for Mother’s Day! You’ll find delicious treats, beautiful gifts and plants to tickle your green thumb! Don’t forget to try your luck on the raffle for a Spring Basket from Kym’s Plants as well! Thanks for supporting Healthcare on the Coast!
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81st Annual Pender Harbour May Day
2026 Theme: Mardi Gras Street Party.
The day kicks off with a 4KM Fun Run, Kids Fishing Derby and Pancake Breakfast, followed by a parade through Madeira Park at 11AM and a day filled with games, music and good times.
With the school field closed, we’re taking things to the streets—literally. This year’s celebration will be a full-on street party and a massive community gathering, honouring Pender Harbour’s longboarding legacy and celebrating the final chapter of an incredible 25-year run of Attack of Danger Bay.
Sunnycrest Mall: Summer Market Series
Last Sunday of the month. A laid-back, feel-good Make It · Bake It · Grow It market celebrating everything local. Handcrafted goods, fresh-baked breads, sweet treats, and just-picked produce… it’s all here, waiting to be discovered.
Art Exhibition: GPAG – CARLYN YANDLE | Joyful Making in Perilous Times
In this exhibition in the Main Gallery, large scale fibre art pieces connect domestic rote hand-making methods with abject materials, issues of personal wellness, and social engagement. Grappling with critical environmental, political, and social issues, and offering possibilities for different futures, Yandle creates her pieces over the course of months or years, beginning as an impulse to engage the hands instead of wringing them and to gather up the lost and unwanted to achieve a new whole. Each project entangles traditional fibre art methods with stuff that is thrown away but is never gone. As each concept grows, connections are forged with others in the gathering of materials and often in the hand-making, making community engagement an essential part of Yandle’s art practice. It is there in the macramé tapestry composed of construction-site debris; in the sprawling, undulating field of braided throwaway jeans; in bound sculptures of plastic fragments plucked from foreshores and landfills; and in a crocheted mass of disintegrated tarp yarded out from a forest.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Sat. April 4th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
She’s Crafty @ The Kube: Explore Drawing with Georgina Brandon
Georgina uses drawing exercises to jump start the practice of drawing whilst dispelling hesitation and judgement. All skill levels welcome.
Drawing is a chance to observe and interpret the world around, and with that information, make individual decisions about line, shape and colour. This is how one’s unique visual language develops.
Georgina’s drawing exercises (recipes) are quick and exploratory for any level of participant. They are designed to touch upon various subject matter and use different approaches for one to further expand upon. Drawing is both accessible and the foundation to other mediums.
Supply List:
B or 2B pencil
Coloured pencils- a handful of different colours
Sketchbook- your choice of size
Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Artist Talk with Carlyn Yandle and CBC’s Stephen Quinn
Join us for a free Artist Talk with exhibiting artist Carlyn Yandle and CBC’s Early Edition host Stephen Quinn. Yandle and Quinn will be discussing a variety of topics relating to Yandle’s exhibition Joyful Making in Perilous Times, including how making is connecting — a form of resistance to forces of individualism.
Carlyn Yandle is a Vancouver-based artist whose art practice interweaves a childhood steeped in West Coast counter-culture, a range of skills in traditional craft methods, and her previous profession as a city newspaper journalist. Her exhibition in the Main Gallery Joyful Making in Perilous Times features large scale fibre art pieces that connect domestic rote hand-making methods with abject materials, issues of personal wellness, and social engagement.
Stephen Quinn is the host of CBC Radio One’s popular morning show The Early Edition. Previously, he was the long-time host of afternoon radio show On The Coast, he spent eight-years as CBC’s civic affairs reporter, he guest-hosted several CBC shows, news specials and a series on the media for network radio, and he is also the creator and host of the very popular Quinn’s Quiz on CBC Radio One. A multiple RTNDA (The Radio Television Digital News Association) award winner, Quinn has covered a multitude of stories that affects British Columbians, in addition to interviewing prolific individuals.
Opportunity: Gibsons Public Art Gallery: Call for Youth Artists
CALLING ALL YOUTH ARTISTS; it’s time to start creating! Our annual youth exhibition SHOUT OUT is coming up in March. Drop off your artwork March 5th – 8th.
Sunshine Coast youth aged two to eighteen are invited to submit their artwork of any size or medium for display at the Gallery during our annual youth exhibition Shout Out, on display March 12th – 29th, 2026. In addition to offering an inspiring body of work that represents the creativity of our community’s youth, this exhibition is also an opportunity for young people to experience what it is like to be a professional exhibiting artist at GPAG. Class/group art projects are also welcome! Find more info and submit your work online at https://gpag.ca/shout-out-application-2026/. Please do not drop off artwork before March 5th.
Sechelt Library: Distaff Day: SCSWG Spin In & Spinning demonstration
demonstrations on how to spin fibre by hand using a spinning wheel and various spindles.
Sechelt Public Library: Light-Up Holiday Paper Circuits
Play safely with electricity to make light-up holiday character. We’ll make some light-up cards for you to take home and then play with Squishy Circuits.
Ages 5-12
RC Community Hall: Roberts Creek Wednesday Market
Every Wednesday 1:30-4:30! Farm fresh vegetables, baking (also gluten free), perogies, honey, Dutch licorice, fudge, artisans. Everything you could possible need on a Wednesday!
If you are an artist, crafter, grower or maker please consider joining us.
Sechelt Library: Stitchin’
Mondays in the Community Room. (No meetings on holiday Mondays)
Bring your knitting/crochet/stitching project and enjoy a friendly stitchin’ session with other crafters. Drop-ins welcome.
No Registration required.
Gibsons Library: Kids Craft: Poppies to Remember
Drop-in and make a simple poppy bouquet in honour of Remembrance Day. All supplies will be provided. Children under 5 must be accompanied by an adult.
For ages 3-8
Free, drop-in program.
Gibsons Library: Knitting a Community
Tuesdays. Do you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting with others, and making useful items from donated yarn for local charities? Drop in to our weekly knitting group on Tuesday mornings. Knitters from beginners to experts are welcome.
Host: Lynne Dyment
Limited to 12 in-person participants, first-come first served.
Trash to Treasure Community Art Event
Do you re-purpose your daily trash in any way?
Come experience our creative workstations and make your own practical or decorative pieces to take home.
And/or take part in the communal art piece of an Orca whale to be displayed locally, throughout the year.
Learn and share information about reducing landfill use and saving money in our households through practicing ‘re-think and re-use’ strategies.
All are welcome for this free event and light refreshments.
Aqui Es Mexico Food Truck will also be on site.
Peace Love Art Tour 2025
to Sept 30. Keep your eye out for surprise pop-up locations throughout the Sunshine Coast, from Langdale to Lund.
To book the Art Caravan for an Art Studio Experience at home, work or event in your area, please contact Joanna directly 604.861.9944.
Halfmoon Bay Marketplace
Sell – Swap – Shop – Last Sunday of each month
Call or text Lauri for more info 604-989-0701
Hackett Park Artisan Fair
The Hackett Park Artisan Fair is an annual gathering of local and regional vendors. The Fair has been an annual tradition on the Coast for 34 years, and attracts close to 5000 visitors seeking to discover the creations of artisans who are jury selected based on talent, originality, and the unique items they have to offer for sale. In keeping with our ongoing tradition, the fair will coincide with the popular Festival of the Written Arts (August 11th-14th, 2022, celebrating 40 years!)
This year’s Fair will take place in the lower field of Hackett Park and at the Arts Centre.
We will have live musicians in Hackett Park’s new amphitheatre and fun activities at the Arts Centre. There will be a large variety of artisans, artists, entertainers, and food vendors!
Entrance by donation!
Knitting a Community
Tuesdays. Do you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting with others, and making useful items from donated yarn for local charities? Join our weekly knitting group on Tuesday mornings. Knitters from beginners to experts are welcome.
Host: Lynne Dyment
Limited to 12 in-person participants, first-come first served.