Join us at the Art Crawl for readings by local authors.
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B&K Garden Supply: Local Author Readings
Come join us for local author readings at the Art Crawl
B&K Garden Supply: Keeping It Real: Writing Memoirs
Get memoir writing tips from a panel of memoir authors at the Art Crawl with Heather Conn, “No Letter in Your Pocket,” Marion McKinnon Crook, award-winning book “Always Pack a Candle” and the sequel “Always On Call, and Rosa Reid.
Garden As Muse Writer’s Workshop
Engage with your senses while in writing amongst the fall colours of B&K landscapes to thoughtful prompts. All levels, genres, and types of writers welcome. Covered areas will be used in case of rain. Bring your usual writing tools, such as a journal, pen, or laptop. Facilitator: Cathalynn (Cindy) Labonte-Smith
Duo Book Launches with Michael Kluckner & Robin Lamarche
Join us during the Art Crawl in the new greenhouse at B&K Landscape for book launches with Michael Kluckner, Vancouver, author/illustrator of Winging It: Traveling With No Reservations & Robin Lamarche, Port Mellon, “Our Square of Sky”.
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl
Take a free, self-directed tour and discover the vibrant arts community of the Sunshine Coast!
The Art Crawl returns this year with 186 venues spanning from Gambier Island to Earls Cove and Egmont, showcasing an incredible range of artists, studios, galleries and other unique locations.
Over three days, meet the artists, explore their creative spaces, and experience the unique spirit of the Coast through painting, pottery, glass, woodwork, textiles, photography, jewelry, and much more.
Whether you’re a seasoned collector or simply curious, the Crawl offers something for everyone. Come explore, connect, and discover the creativity that makes the Sunshine Coast so special!
GPAG: Lori Thicke, Dreamer’s Daughter Book Launch
Lori Thicke, cousin of the late Alan Thicke, will be interviewed by Michael Gurney and read from her national bestselling debut memoir, “Dreamer’s Daughter: Surviving My Childhood and Raising My Father.” In a mining town where hope is as tapped-out as the gold, a mother abandons her two children. Dreamer’s Daughter is a memoir of what happens next as Lori, 10, and Brad, 5, end up in the custody of their free-spirited father. Colourful and larger-than-life, Dacker is a dreamer who fails spectacularly at everything — except at being a loving parent.
GPAG: New Stories with Annie Frazier Henry
She’s is an award-winning Indigenous writer, filmmaker and musician. She and her company, Full Regalia, have produced over 30 dramatic, documentary and experimental films, which have screened Internationally. A recipient of the “Trailblazer” award, “her films have has served as a springboards & inspiration for countless other projects”. She works as creative and production consultant, and produced student films. She was the first aboriginal person to sit on the jury at Sundance Film Festival & several of her films have had US premiers there.
She currently has several projects in development. Her short films have had a renaissance of screenings, to include the acclaimed “Ladies of the Inlet.”
She’s had over 15 short stories published. She is honoured to have her ‘Henry Miller’ short story “don’tcha know” published in NEXUS the International Henry Miller Anthology, about her time with him.
GPAG: Self-Publishing Success Stories
Doris Good, M.J. Milne, and Pat Sullivan share their self-publishing tips for creating and marketing self-published books from cover to cover.
GPAG: Showcase of Book Awards for BC Authors Finalists
Come listen to readings from the finalists from the Book Awards for BC Authors contest, including:
– Daniela Elza
– Marion Dodds
– Veronica Woodruff
– Joline Martin
– Calvin White
– Susan McCaslin
GPAG: AI is Here, Are We Ready: A Panel Discussion
AI Awareness for Bloggers, Artists, Authors & Others
with panelists: Doris Good, CPA and Author, Hilary Moses, Artist, Educator, and Animator, Ruth Rodgers, Artist and Author, Stephen Murphy, Artist, Author, and Bookbinder, and Stephen Smith, Blogger, and AI programmer.
GPAG: Penning the Paragraph: Prose Poetry Playshop with Isabella Mori
Whether you’re a poet or write prose only, you’ll enjoy this highly interactive workshop. We’ll ditch the lines and write beautiful/interesting/shocking/strange sentences, and like Tom Snarsky and Amy Lowell before us, compose poetic paragraphs.
2: 3:0-4:00, Saturday, Aug. 22, Gibsons Public Art Gallery
$25
Sign up by emailing sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com
GPAG: Interviews with Artist and Author Teams with Jan DeGrass
Jan DeGrass, Author, interviews Artist and Author teams from the Art & Words Festival, including:
Tracy Hall & Janice Rafael
Karen Taylor & Lianne Kirilenko
Rizz Fischer & Bruce Edwards
Leslie MacFarlane & Karis Gauthier
Richard Feehan & Roger Handling
Pammila Ruth & Lorena Ruth
Kathaleen Quinn & Matt Thomson
Rachel Amina & Denise Olson
Doris Good & Ellen Heale
Atma Frans & Michael Healey
Heritage Playhouse: Showcase of Sunshine Coast New Books
Enjoy readings from Sunshine Coast Authors of their new books, including:
Ken Blosser
Joan Fletcher
Doris Good
Robin Lamarche
M.J. Milne
Jan DeGrass
Marion McKinnon Crook
Ruth Rodgers
Free. Reserve your seat by emailing: sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com
GPAG: Book Binding 101 with Stephen Murphy
Learn the essentials of bookbinding including: paper grain and folding, sewing, and forming signatures to create a basic pamphlet book suitable for journaling or art projects.
Sunday, August 23, 10:30-Noon
Gibsons Public Art Gallery
$10 to cover provided materials.
Register by emailing sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com
Far From Home – Book Launch with Ruth Rodgers
Join author and artist, Ruth Rodgers, for the launch of her latest historical fiction novel at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery as she presents this latest story about the thousands of ‘home children’ sent out from England to Canada to fulfill agricultural and domestic service roles in the 1870s to the 1930s. Joseph and Lucy, orphans from London, experience very different fates in their new homes, typical of the stories of many of those caught up in this ill-considered scheme designed to solve Canada’s labour shortage while getting children off the streets of England’s growing cities.
Saturday, August 22, 2026, 11 AM – 12:30 PM
Gibsons Public Art Gallery
Free
Intro to Glosa Poetry with Bonnie Quan Symons
Explore how to write a glosa, a courtly form that steals a quatrain from another poet’s work to structure a poem of your own, in the course of which you create a glosa – or gloss on that poet’s work. Tangling with your chosen poet may allow her or his subtle influence to inform your tone and expand your expressive range.
THE GLOSA OR GLOSE is a form requiring:
a) A cabeza (or motto) – the quatrain borrowed from another poet, whose authorship must be acknowledged
b) Four 10-line stanzas, each endingwith one of the lines in sequence from the cabeza
c) A rhyme-scheme requirement that lines 6 and 9 rhyme with the final word of line 10.
Saturday, Aug. 22nd, 2026, 10:30 am – Noon
Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Joe’s Lounge
431 Marine Drive, Gibsons, BC
$25 – includes a chapbook of glosas and handouts
Register at sunshinecoastwirtersandeditors@gmail.com
GPAG: Poetry & Memoir Reading – Catherine McNeil & Daniela Elza
Sunshine Coast poet and musician, Catherine McNeil (Cat Mac) will be reading from her award-winning poetry book, “Emily & Elspeth.” Joining her is Vancouver author, Daniela Elza, author of scar/city, poetry, and Is This an Illness or an Accident, her memoir. Both of Elza’s books are finalists for awards in this years Book Awards for BC Authors contest.