Join artists Natalie Grambow and Beth Hawthorn for an afternoon workshop of Indigo dyeing and traditional Japanese Shibori (shaped resist, or tie-dye) on Sunday, July 25, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. You’ll create a one-of-a-kind shawl using Indigo dye. “There will be locally sourced light food and drinks, as well as a cash bar of locally made beer and cider.” The workshop will be held outdoors by Hawthorn’s ceramics studio at 1551 Lockyer Rd. in Roberts Creek. Tickets at evenbrite.ca.
Art on the Porch
Kandice Keith is mounting an art and fashion collaboration she’s calling Art on the Porch and Itchycoo Park Pop-Up Shop, on Sunday, July 25. It will feature Keith’s artwork and “one-of-a-kind vintage fashion pieces.” It’s on from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 3204 Huckleberry Rd.
Meet the artist
Pippa Lattey is hosting an in-person walk through and discussion about her exhibit Between a Lamp, a Log and a Bucket at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s Doris Crowston Gallery in Sechelt, on Sunday, July 25 between 2 and 4 p.m. It’s free but you’re asked to register through eventbrite.ca.
Becoming Human
There’s an Open House at the Jane Covernton’s Little Gallery in the Garden in Roberts Creek all day on Sunday, July 25. Covernton’s show, Becoming Human, is up for only a few more weeks. She describes the exhibit as “an exploration of human archetypes using drawings, photos, photoshop, and colour, along with a little bit of story.” Text 604-989-9090 for directions.
Suitably recognized
The Whistler Independent Book Awards is down to its final round and Gibsons author Pamela McGarry’s fine debut novel, The Unsuitable Bride, is among just three fiction works to make it to that stage of the competition. The winner will be announced at the Whistler Writers Festival Oct. 14-17.
Writers podcast
Author Amanda Hale is the special guest on Coast actor and writer Caitlin Hicks’s latest podcast. Hale is a widely published writer and the author of four novels. She talks with Hicks about her latest book, a work of historical fiction set in the mid-20th century U.K., titled Mad Hatter, “a disturbing but ultimately transcendent story of a daughter’s search for family history.” You can hear the interview by following the links at caitlinhicks.com.
So much music
The Coast is bursting with live music this summer and there are more music events every week this summer than can be mentioned here. Check the two-page Coast Community Calendar in Coast Reporter and the Coast Cultural Alliance at suncoastarts.com for more detailed lists. Some key words to look for are Sechelt Summer Music Series, Music in the Landing, Slow Sundays in the Creek, and the Clubhouse Restaurant.
The food of love
The 10th Annual Peanut Butter Jam will be held Saturday, July 24 outside Roger Camp’s place at Henderson Beach in Roberts Creek. Camp and his jolly band, Slightly Twisted, along with some other musical friends, will rock out a good part of the afternoon starting at noon. All donations go the Sunshine Coast Food Bank. Follow the sound of music along the beach near the foot of Henderson Road, sit yourselves down on the massive rocks, donate, and enjoy. Bring sunblock.
Garden concert
The jazzy Moss Trio is performing a concert starting at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 25, in the garden at a home in Bonniebrook. There were still tickets available at press time for this limited audience event, featuring the talents of Anna Lumiere, Graham Ord, and Aristazabal Hawkes. For details, email johnleech296@gmail.com.
Let us know about your art event at arts@coastreporter.net.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
