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Thursday, February 20
Beer and burger fundraiser for Chatelech 2020 graduation, Lighthouse Pub, Sechelt, 5:30-9pm
Magician Justin Gilbert addresses Sechelt Downtown Business Assoc. AGM, LL Meats, 5:30-7:30pm, rsvp to sdba@dccnet.com
Dr. Ron Band, 101 Brewhouse, Gibsons, 8pm
Friday, February 21
LIFT speaker series on the subject of community service and leadership, hosted by Loretta Macklam, Gibsons Public Library, 12:15-1:15pm
Spectrum Youth Company dancers’ winter show, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 7pm
French soiree with fiddle music and original tunes buy Anna Lumiere and Noah Ord, Gumboot Cafe, Roberts Creek, 7:30pm
The Burying Ground and Deanna Knight, the Kube, Gibsons, 8pm
The Killing Floor Blues Band, Roberts Creek Legion, 9pm
Saturday, February 22
First day of a weekend class on gel plate monoprinting with Jennifer Love, Arts Building, Gibsons, 10am-4pm
Repair Cafe, Trail Bay Mall, Sechelt, 11am-4pm
Spectrum Youth Company dancers’ winter show, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 1pm
Meet the artists, Marlene Lowden, Lucja Barker and Louise Valentine, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, 2-4pm
Chamber music mid-winter weekend concert 1 including Mozart, Bartok, Largo and Schoenfeld, School of Music, Madeira Park, 2-4pm
The Co-Conspirators entertain, Persephone Brewing, Gibsons, 2-4pm
MOTET Chamber Choir presents “Ex cathedra”, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Gibsons, 2:30-4pm, by donation
Roberts Creek Scouts torchlight parade to celebrate 163rd anniversary of Lord Robert Baden-Powell’s birth, collecting for the food bank, meet at Coast Self Storage, 109-1161 Gibsons Way, Gibsons, 5:30pm, 604-885-2282
Fiesta Italiana with live jazz, dance and four-course dinner, Gambier Island Community Hall, 6pm
Annual trivia night and games, Seniors Activity Centre, Sechelt, 7pm
Jim Foster, Backeddy Pub, Egmont, 7pm
Comedy Club standup with headliner Tim Nutt, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 7:30-9:30pm, share-there.com
The Killing Floor Blues Band, Gibsons Legion, 8pm
DJs DaniXLizzy and Emotionr, Lighthouse Pub, Sechelt, 9pm
Karaoke with DJ JB, Sechelt Legion, 9pm
DJs Deano and HOL4GR4M, fundraiser for new legion floor, Roberts Creek Legion, 9pm-1am
Sunday, February 23
Chamber music mid-winter weekend concert 2 including Khachaturian, Brahms, Guastavino and Cardy, School of Music, Madeira Park, 2-4pm
Sunday blues jam hosted by Steve Hinton Band, Clubhouse Restaurant at Pender Harbour Golf Club, 2-6pm, by donation
Monday, February 24
Sechelt Garden Club presents nursery operator Gwen Odermatt with plant picks for your garden, Seaside Centre, Sechelt, 7-9pm
Wednesday, February 26
Open mic, five minutes to share prose, poetry or song, Gibsons Public Library, 6pm
Thursday, February 27
Galactic Glow latern festival, with food and music, fundraiser for PAC, Cedar Grove Elementary, Gibsons, 5-8pm
Friday, February 28
Musical duo Shine entertains at business excellence awards dinner, presented by Coast chambers of commerce, Blue Ocean Golf Club,
Sechelt, 5:45-10pm
Standing with the Wet’suwet’en, an evening of film, education and music, The Kube, Gibsons, 6-9pm
Youth D&D night, Gibsons Public Library, 6-7:30pm
Habitat Protection Project presentation, Roberts Creek, contact habitatprotectionproject@gmail.com for location, 7-9pm
Artesia Coffee House with guitarist Bradley Wells, Bits of String, poet Shelley Harrison Rae and Sh-Boom with special guest Maddy Webber, Arts Centre, Sechelt, 7:30-9:30pm
The Modelos, rock ‘n’ roll cowboy surfers, Roberts Creek Legion, 8pm
Domenique’s School of Dance presents “Ephemere”, Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, 8pm
Friday, February 28 – Sunday, March 1
SD46 Musical Theatre Ensemble presents the musical “Newsies”, Chatelech Secondary, Fri. & Sat. 7pm, Sun. 2pm, share-there.com
Saturday, February 29
Brenna Fynes demonstrates how to brew kombucha, presented by One Straw Society, The Arts Building, Gibsons, 10am-noon, programs@onestraw.ca
Meet Vancouver author and illustrator Christine Leist and doodle with her, for kids 5-10, Gibsons Public Library, 11:30am-12:30pm
Third birthday party for Tapworks, with Grant Olsen at 2:30pm and Sam Pulpo at 9pm, Gibsons, noon-11:30pm
Repair Cafe, Gibsons Public Library, 1-5pm
SC Film Society presents “The Guilty”, a Danish thriller about a police officer’s real-time race against time to save a kidnapped woman, Raven’s Cry Theatre, Sechelt, 2pm
