Upcoming Events, May 22 - May 29
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Date: May 22, 2012
• Celebrate Recovery: A biblically-based recovery program created to help you overcome your hurts, hang-ups and habits, experience true peace and serenity. Tuesdays 7pm at The Salvation Army, #5 - 682 Gibsons Way, Gibsons. Info: coastcelebraterecovery@gmail.com or 604-886-2944.
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Date: May 22, 2012
• April 17 to May 22. Free Chronic Pain Self-Management Program. Six sessions at the Sechelt Seniors Centre, 5604 Trail Avenue, Tuesdays 12:30 to 3pm. Register: 1-866-902-3767 or 604-940-1273 or selfmgmt@uvic.ca
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Date: May 22, 2012
• April 3 to May 29. The BC Schizophrenia Society Sunshine Coast Branch presents Strengthening Families Together, a free eight-session educational course for family and friends of adolescents and adults with mental illness. Classes are held Tuesdays, 6:30pm at the Salvation Army Administration Office, Seaview Plaza, #5 - 682 Gibsons Way. Info: 604-740-0406, or rpavitt@dccnet.com
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Date: May 23, 2012
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
• May 23. ITCHA: It Can Happen to Anyone, a prevention based workshop designed for parents, service providers, and community audiences includes a comprehensive overview of youth sexual exploitation in BC, including “little girl” parties, older boyfriends, sexting and online safety, 7pm at the Gibsons Community Centre.
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Date: May 23, 2012
Sharing Women of Passion (SWOP). Meet other business and professional women to share goals and experiences in support of each other’s life changes in personal, career and community endeavours. A facilitated session held at Discovery Place Retreat, every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, 7pm. Info: 604-885-0405.
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Date: May 24, 2012
• May 3, 10, 17, 24. Family Caregiver Series for family members who are caring for a person with dementia. Presented by the Alzheimer Society at Capilano University Sechelt Campus, 9:30am to noon, by donation. Pre-registration required: 1-866-984-8348, ksutherland@alzheimerbc.org.
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Date: May 24, 2012
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
• Sunshine Coast Model Railroad Club. Anyone interested in checking out the club is welcome any Thursday 7 to 9pm. Contact Greg 604-886-8633 or Bill 604-886-7297.
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Date: May 24, 2012
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
• May 24. Understanding Dementia: a free workshop exploring Alzheimer’s disease and its impact, 1:30 to 3pm at Sechelt Seniors Centre. Presented by Alzheimer Society of BC. Info: 604-885-3123.
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Date: May 25, 2012
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
• May 25. Artesia Coffeehouse: A Night of Spoken Word, 8pm at SC Arts Centre, Sechelt. Presented by Coast Cultural Alliance, tickets at the door. Come early to enjoy treats by Trish and a slideshow of performers.
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Date: May 25, 2012
• May 25. Haydn’s Creation (major excerpts) and songs celebrating creation, 7:30pm at St. John’s United Church in Davis Bay. Presented by Suncoast Singers.
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Date: May 25, 2012
Time: 5:00pm - 11:55pm
• May 25. Karaoke at Gibsons Legion with RoketSound, 8pm. Roast chicken dinner 5 to 7:30pm.
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
• May 26. Artists in Our Midst presents Vocal Intent, an outstanding a cappella ensemble, 7pm at St. Hilda’s Church. Admisson by donation.
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Venue: SCRD Administration Office
Join us on Saturday, May 26, from 10am to noon for the Chapman Creek watershed community clean up followed by a BBQ at the SCRD Field Road parking lot until 2pm.
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Date: May 26, 2012
• Big Indoor Market at Sechelt Legion Hall, 9:30am to 2pm. Every other week on Saturday. Do you make it, create it, bake it, grow it? Come to the hall to sell and buy.
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Date: May 26, 2012
• May 26. Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives presents a Cedar Weaving Workshop with Jessica Casey, 10am to 4pm at the Sunshine Coast Museum, 716 Winn Road in Gibsons. All materials included, no experience necessary. This workshop is a pre-requisite to the upcoming two-day cedar weaving workshop in June. Pre-register at 604-886-8232.
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 9:00pm - 11:55pm
• May 26. Dance at Roberts Creek Hall with Skellig, 9pm. Presented by Live Music Society, original Celtic rock influenced by Irish folk, Led Zeppelin, U2 and Muse.
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
• May 26. FREE: clothing, toiletries and lunch for low income families and seniors, 10am to 2pm, St. Mary’s Catholic Church Hall, 956 Gibsons Way. Info: 604-741-2257.
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
• May 26. Hugel Culture with Heinz Engelmann, 1 to 4pm at 2546 Miles Road, Roberts Creek. Learn how to construct a Hugel culture bed for gardening. Workshop presented by the Live and Learn Program of One Straw Society, funded by Vancouver Coastal Health SMARTFund. Pre-register: justin@onestraw.ca
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
• May 26. Poker Walk, hosted by St. Mary’s Hospital Health Care Auxiliary, Hopkins Branch, 10am to 1pm at Dougall Park, Gibsons, rain or shine. Get walking for St. Mary’s Hospital (and your health). Prizes, hot dogs, home-baked treats. Easy walking route suitable for children and dogs on leashes.
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 9:00am - 2:30pm
• Sechelt Farmers and Artisans Market: Downtown Sechelt, 9am to 2:30pm, every Saturday. Artisans, farm produce, baking, preserves. Info: 604-885-8483, Facebook.com/secheltmarket, or email secheltmarket@gmail.com
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue: 1163 Cedar Grove Rd
• May 26. Sunflower Seedling Fundraiser, many varieties, noon to 2pm, 1163 Cedar Grove Rd in Roberts Creek, a fundraiser for Stephen Lewis Foundation. See www.turntothesun.org
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Date: May 26, 2012
Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm
• Sunshine Coast Peace Group holds a vigil in Davis Bay every Saturday, 11:30am to 1pm in an effort to bring our troops home.
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Date: May 27, 2012
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
• Fiddlehead Farmers' Market and Gibsons Landing Sunday Market both in Holland Park, Lower Gibsons, Sundays 10am to 3pm, craft market, live music, local organic produce, honey. May to September. New vendors welcome: 604-886-3698, www.fiddleheadfarmersmarket.com
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Date: May 27, 2012
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
• May 27. Haydn’s Creation (major excerpts) and songs celebrating creation, 2:30pm at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church in Sechelt. Presented by Suncoast Singers.
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Date: May 27, 2012
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
• May 27. St. Mary’s Hospital/Health Care Auxiliary Gibsons Branch Huge Sunday Sale at the St. Mary’s Thrift Store in Sechelt, spectacular jewelry, plants and all the usual goodies.
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Date: May 27, 2012
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
• May 27. Saving Seeds That Sustain Us: A Beginner’s Workshop with Leonie Croy and Maria Hunter, 2 to 4pm at the Davis Bay Hall, 5123 Davis Bay Road. Save seeds from food you have grown in your backyard starting with plants that self-pollinate and produce mature seed in their first year. Presented by the Live and Learn Program of One Straw Society, funded by the Vancouver Coastal Health SMARTFund. Spaces are limited, register early: justin@onestraw.ca
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Date: May 27, 2012
Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm
Venue: Sun Haven Waldorf School
Sunday, May 27, 11am- 3pm. Music, puppet plays, maypole dancing, strawberry boat, games, crafts, bake sale, BBQ lunch and more for everyone to enjoy. At Sun Haven Waldorf School, 1341 Margaret Rd, Roberts Creek.
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Date: May 27, 2012
• Sunshine Coast Guitar Society meets last Sunday of every month at the Rockwood Centre at 7:30pm. If you play classical, jazz, folk, bring your guitar and join us, or just come to listen. Info: Paul Pinsonnault at 604-740-5938.
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Date: May 28, 2012
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
• May 28. SC Film Society presents Gay and Lesbian Lives in West Africa, 7:30pm at Gibsons Heritage Playhouse. These are three short films by Paula Stromberg, a journalist covering human rights issues around the world. Director Stromberg and Chris Morrissey, founder of the Rainbow Refugee Committee, will attend. See www.scfs.ca
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Date: May 28, 2012
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
• May 28. Sechelt Garden Club: Ron Knight will present a photographic essay, Four Seasons in a Rhododendron Garden, 7:30pm at Seaside Centre. Knight is co-creator of Caron Gardens in Garden Bay and past-president of the Vancouver Rhododendron Society.
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Date: May 29, 2012
• Air Canada Pionairs and Airline Retirees meet on the last Tuesday of each month, 10:30am at the Sunshine Coast Golf Course in Roberts Creek. See www.pionairs.ca
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Date: May 29, 2012
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
• May 29. Coast Recital Society AGM, 5pm at Sunshine Coast Arts Centre Gallery, Sechelt. Election of new officers for the 2012-2013 season, and 2012 CRS scholarship winners will be presented. Refreshments will follow.
More events from May
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Sunshine Coast Model Railroad Club |May 17, May 24, May 31 |• Sunshine Coast Model Railroad Club. Anyone interested in checking out the club is welcome any Thursday 7 to 9pm. Contact Greg 604-886-8633 or Bill 604-886-7297.Read More
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Green Drinks |May 31 |• Green Drinks: an off-line pit-stop for anyone passionate about building a better future for generations to come, a collaboration of the One Straw Society and Deer ...Read More
Events for June
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Sharing Women of Passion (SWOP) |Jun 27 |Sharing Women of Passion (SWOP). Meet other business and professional women to share goals and experiences in support of each other’s life changes in personal, care...Read More
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Sunshine Coast Model Railroad Club |Jun 07, Jun 14, Jun 21, Jun 28 |• Sunshine Coast Model Railroad Club. Anyone interested in checking out the club is welcome any Thursday 7 to 9pm. Contact Greg 604-886-8633 or Bill 604-886-7297.Read More
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Big Indoor Market |Jun 09, Jun 23 |• Big Indoor Market at Sechelt Legion Hall, 9:30am to 2pm. Every other week on Saturday. Do you make it, create it, bake it, grow it? Come to the hall to sell and bu...Read More
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Sechelt Farmers and Artisans Market |Jun 02, Jun 09, Jun 16, Jun 23, Jun 30 |• Sechelt Farmers and Artisans Market: Downtown Sechelt, 9am to 2:30pm, every Saturday. Artisans, farm produce, baking, preserves. Info: 604-885-8483, Facebook.com/s...Read More
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Sunshine Coast Peace Group |Jun 02, Jun 09, Jun 16, Jun 23, Jun 30 |• Sunshine Coast Peace Group holds a vigil in Davis Bay every Saturday, 11:30am to 1pm in an effort to bring our troops home.Read More
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Fiddlehead Farmers' Market |Jun 03, Jun 10, Jun 17, Jun 24 |• Fiddlehead Farmers' Market and Gibsons Landing Sunday Market both in Holland Park, Lower Gibsons, Sundays 10am to 3pm, craft market, live music, local organic prod...Read More
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Sunshine Coast Guitar Society |Jun 24 |• Sunshine Coast Guitar Society meets last Sunday of every month at the Rockwood Centre at 7:30pm. If you play classical, jazz, folk, bring your guitar and join us, ...Read More
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Air Canada Pionairs and Airline Retirees |Jun 26 |• Air Canada Pionairs and Airline Retirees meet on the last Tuesday of each month, 10:30am at the Sunshine Coast Golf Course in Roberts Creek. See www.pionairs.caRead More
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Green Drinks |Jun 28 |• Green Drinks: an off-line pit-stop for anyone passionate about building a better future for generations to come, a collaboration of the One Straw Society and Deer ...Read More
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BC Schizophrenia Society AGM |Jun 01 |• June 1. BC Schizophrenia Society Sunshine Coast Branch Annual General Meeting, 5:30pm at Davis Bay Community Hall, 5123 Davis Bay Road.Read More
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Beachcombers Advanced Toastmasters |Jun 01 |• Beachcombers Advanced Toastmasters, first Friday of every month, 8am at Davis Bay Hall. For Toastmasters who have achieved their CTC level.Read More
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Coast Market: Small Business Show |Jun 01 |• June 1. The Coast Market: Small Business Show and Sale, 4pm at Seaside Centre, Sechelt. A fabulous market with great vendors and a fun night out with delicious foo...Read More
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Music at Gibsons Legion |Jun 01 |• June 1. Music at Gibsons Legion with Altered, 8pm. Ukranian dinner 5 to 7:30pm.Read More
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Pender Harbour Blues Festival |Jun 01, Jun 02, Jun 03 |• June 1 to 3. Pender Harbour Blues Festival at various venues in Pender Harbour. See www.penderharbourbluesfestival.com for full schedule.Read More
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Taizé: Candlelight Contemplative Service |Jun 01 |• Taizé: Candlelight Contemplative Service, 7pm at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church, with chant, inspirational reading and meditative silence (1st & 3rd Sunday). Info: 60...Read More
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Under the baton of Artistic Director Edette Gagné, the Orchestra presents a Concert of Firsts featuring, but not limited to, Mozart, Schubert, Kalinnikov. With one o...Read More
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Dig Up Some Dirt at the Library |Jun 02 |• June 2. Dig Up Some Dirt at the Library, 1 to 4pm at Gibsons Library. Learn to plant a vegetable garden and feed your family with Catherine Abbott, local author an...Read More
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Jazz Up at the Library |Jun 02 |• June 2. Jazz Up at the Library, with classical guitarist Paul Pinsonnault and Julie Rutte, noon to 1:30pm at Gibsons Library. A free event, part of Gibsons Landing...Read More
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Lions Club Meat Draw |Jun 02 |
The Sechelt Lions Club is hosting a meat draw at Gilligan's Pub, 1:30 to 4pm, with all proceeds going to support the Sunshine Coast Breakfast for Kids Program.Read More
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CAFIN Talent-a-thon |Jun 03 |• June 3. Communities Adopting Families In Need (CAFIN) is looking for people of all ages to perform in the upcoming fundraiser talent-a-thon at the Heritage Playhou...Read More
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Coast Phoenix Singers |Jun 03 |• June 3. Coast Phoenix Singers and friends present Music Hath Charms, 3pm at Gibsons United Church. Tickets at Laedeli, Sechelt Visitor Information Centre, and at t...Read More
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Under the baton of Artistic Director Edette Gagné, the Orchestra presents a Concert of Firsts featuring, but not limited to, Mozart, Schubert, Kalinnikov. With one o...Read More
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Tailgate Sales |Jun 03 |• SC Lions Club Tailgate Sales, 8am to 1pm, first and third Sundays of the month at Trail Bay Centre parking lot, weather permitting. Info: 604-885-3822.Read More
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YMCA Healthy Kids Day |Jun 03 |
On June 3, 2012, YMCA Camp Elphinstone will join YMCAs across Canada in hosting YMCA Healthy Kids Day. This FREE community event will focus on fun and engaging activ...Read More -
Fat Quarters Quilters |Jun 04 |• Quilters new and not so new are welcome to join us on the third Sunday of the month from September to June. Business meeting followed by group activity, or do your...Read More
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Jazz Week in Gibsons Landing |Jun 04, Jun 05, Jun 06, Jun 07, Jun 08 |• June 4 to 8. Jazz Week in Gibsons Landing. Live music all week in restaurants and other venues in the Landing. See full line-up at www.coastjazz.comRead More
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Celiac Disease and Wheat Intolerance |Jun 06 |• June 6. Celiac Disease and Wheat Intolerance: Everything You Wanted to Know (But Were Afraid to Ask), 6pm at Gibsons & District Public Library, with Meghan Molnar ...Read More
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Free Community Meal |Jun 06 |• Pender Harbour Free Community Meal, first Wednesday of each month, 6pm at Christ the Redeemer Church, next to Pender Harbour High School. A time of friendship and...Read More
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Driver’s Licence Re-Examinations |Jun 07 |• June 7. Driver’s Licence Re-Examinations: A Presentation for Senior Drivers, 1 to 3pm at Gibsons & District Public Library. Presented by an ICBC staff member who w...Read More
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A Cappella Strait and Choralations Spring Concert |Jun 08, Jun 09 |• June 8 & 9. A Choral Mosaic presented by A Cappella Strait Choir and Choralations Childrens Choir. An evening of beautiful and varied music, featuring two of the C...Read More
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Astronomy Club Meeting |Jun 08 |• The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Sunshine Coast Centre meets second Friday of the month, 7:30pm at Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt. See http://coastas...Read More
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Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival |Jun 08, Jun 09, Jun 10 |• June 8 to 10. Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival. Live music in restaurants and outdoor parks in the Landing. Main event Saturday in Dougall Park. See full line-up at w...Read More
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• June 8. New Moon Festival Cooking Series Demonstration, 5 to 7:30pm in Roberts Creek. To register and for more info, call 604-885-8103 or 604-886-4108.Read More
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School of Music Coffeehouse |Jun 08 |• June 8. School of Music Coffeehouse, 7:30pm at Pender Harbour Music School, Madeira Park.Entertainment by local musicians.Read More
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• June 9. Art and Solo: An Evening of Art and Music at The Arts Building, 464 South Fletcher Rd (next to Gibsons Library). Art show 5:30 to 7:30, concert starts at 8...Read More
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Home Show |Jun 09 |• June 9. Coast Community Builders Association Home Show at Gibsons Community Centre, locally provided products and services for your home.Read More
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Sechelt Summer Choir |Jun 12 |• June 12. Sechelt Summer Choir, 7pm at St. Hilda’s Church in Sechelt. Adult singers prepare Mozart’s Requiem with Sara Douglas, David Millard and Tom Kellough for a...Read More
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Sunshine Coast Newcomers Club |Jun 12 |• Sunshine Coast Newcomers Club. Are you new to the Coast? Get together for social meeting with other newcomers over lunch at noon at Sunshine Coast Golf Club, secon...Read More
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• Second Wednesday of every month, Davis Bay - Wilson Creek - Selma Park Community Association at the Hall, 5123 Davis Bay Road, 7pm. See www.davisbaybc.caRead More
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Sharing Women of Passion (SWOP) |Jun 13 |Sharing Women of Passion (SWOP). Meet other business and professional women to share goals and experiences in support of each other’s life changes in personal, care...Read More
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• June 14. New Moon Festival presents Cinema and Chai, 7:30pm at Gibsons Public Art Gallery, 287 Gower Point Road. With the film Defining Diversity, Creating Communi...Read More
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Astro-Café |Jun 15 |• Astro-Café, 8:30pm at Pier 17, Davis Bay, hosted by Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Sunshine Coast. Astro-Cafés are held on the third Friday of the month. Tea...Read More
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Meditation Class |Jun 16 |• June 16. Meditation Class with Teacher Gen Kelsang Delek, 11am at Gibsons Public Library, 470 South Fletcher Road, Gibsons. Use meditation and Buddhist understandi...Read More
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These drop-in meditation classes are taught by qualified Western teachers and are very easy to understand and apply to our daily lives. The classes are suitable for ...Read More
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Music Makers Gospel Night |Jun 17 |• Music Makers Gospel Night, 7 to 9pm at Music Makers Studio, 4669 Simpkins, Davis Bay. Learn some wonderful gospel tunes with a great group of people, totally stres...Read More
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My Heart’s in the Highlands |Jun 17 |• June 17. My Heart’s in the Highlands, 2pm at St. Hilda’s by the Sea, 5838 Barnacle St, with the Vivaldi Chamber Choir from Vancouver performing traditional Celtic ...Read More
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Tailgate Sales |Jun 17 |• SC Lions Club Tailgate Sales, 8am to 1pm, first and third Sundays of the month at Trail Bay Centre parking lot, weather permitting. Info: 604-885-3822.Read More
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Taizé: Candlelight Contemplative Service |Jun 17 |• Taizé: Candlelight Contemplative Service, 7pm at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church, with chant, inspirational reading and meditative silence (1st & 3rd Sunday). Info: 60...Read More
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Tour of Private Gardens |Jun 17 |• June 17. Tour of Private Gardens in Roberts Creek, organized by SC Botanical Garden Society. Email: info@coastbotanicalgarden.org for details.Read More
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Food Bank |Jun 20 |• St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church Food Bank (every third Wednesday of the month) in the parish hall, 1 to 3pm.Read More
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Beachcombers Advanced Toastmasters |Jun 21 |• Beachcombers Advanced Toastmasters Dinner Meeting, third Thursday of every month, 5:45pm at Sunshine Coast Golf & Country Club, Roberts Creek. Guests, friends, par...Read More
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Parkinson’s Self-Help Support Group |Jun 21 |• Parkinson’s Self-Help Support Group meets 3rd Thursday every month at St. Hilda’s Church, Sechelt, 10:30am to noon. For people with Parkinson’s, caregivers and fri...Read More
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Children’s Festival and Duck Pluck |Jun 23 |• June 23. Annual Children’s Festival and Duck Pluck in Dougall Park, Gibsons Landing, 10:30am - 3:30pm, a fun-filled family day of music, crafts, pony rides, BBQ, h...Read More
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SC Music Society Homecoming |Jun 23, Jun 24 |• June 23 & 24. SC Music Society Homecoming Weekend at Gibsons Heritage Playhouse. Saturday 7:30pm with Erin MacDonald, Dora Brooks and Tom Kellough. Sunday 2pm with...Read More
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Malaspina Regatta |Jun 29, Jun 30 |• June 29 & 30. Malaspina Regatta in the Pender Harbour area, four divisions, open to all. Registration Friday, June 29 at 6pm at Fisherman’s Resort and Marina. Race...Read More
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Stonewall Pride at Roberts Creek Hall |Jun 29 |• June 29. Stonewall Pride at Roberts Creek Hall. DJ at 7pm, performances starting at 8pm, dance 9:30pm to 1am featuring Yvette Narlock, MLA Nicholas Simons, Adelene...Read More
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BC Bike Race |Jun 30 |• June 30 to July 7. BC Bike Race from Vancouver to Whistler, runs the length of the Sunshine Coast on Day 4 and Day 5, www.bcbikerace.comRead More
