Waldorf Ballet of Sechelt has announced that auditions for its 2022 production of The Nutcracker will take place on April 17.
Pre-registration is mandatory at www.waldorfballet.com/nutcracker.
Ballet dancers aged seven years and up from all Sunshine Coast schools are welcome. (Six-year-olds who will turn seven by December are encouraged to audition.)
Dancers eight years and up may be considered during their Nutcracker audition for the Waldorf Ballet Professional Training Programs.
Give us a verse, drop some knowledge
The Gibsons Public Library has summoned anyone who relishes the opportunity to read aloud with expression, or who enjoys listening to others’ readings.
The Readers’ Open Mic event takes place monthly, in person at the library and live on Zoom. On April 20 at 6:30 p.m., readers are invited to pick a piece of poetry to read aloud (five minutes maximum).
In keeping with National Poetry Month, April’s theme is “Song of Myself,” Attendees may read or perform their favourite poems or songs—composed by anyone. Teens and adults, and readers at all levels of English, are welcome.
Details are online: gibsons.bc.libraries.coop.
The peak of entertainment
The Tetrahedron Outdoor Club is hosting the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour for the 22nd time on Friday, April 22 at Elphinstone Secondary School in Gibsons.
Every year, the Banff World Tour team licenses about 40 films that feature a range of styles and themes, including climbing, skiing, kayaking, biking, adventure, culture and the environment. Local host organizations determine which movie selections to project.
The Tetrahedron Outdoor Club uses the event as a fundraiser and community builder to unite 750 outdoor enthusiasts from across the Sunshine Coast for an evening of films and inspiration.
Funds raised at the event will support the volunteer maintenance of four cabins and accompanying trails in Tetrahedron Provincial Park.
The event will include raffle tickets and prizes, a 50/50 draw in support of Dakota Ridge Nordics, a concession in support of Elphinstone Secondary students, and membership opportunities with the Tetrahedron Outdoor Club. Films start at 7 p.m.
Tickets ($25) are on sale now at Beyond Consignment, Tapworks, Alpha Adventures, Trail Bay Source for Sports and Elphi Cycles (Gibsons & Sechelt). Browse for more information online: www.tedoutdoor.ca.
High-flying inspiration
At the Kube Gallery in upper Gibsons until April 30, Vancouver-based artist Rachel Rivera is displaying brightly-coloured canvases infused with natural elements and charismatic birds in an exhibition titled Super/Natural.
Rivera, who is a co-founder and designer for the lifestyle brand WKNDRS, is inspired by the land and the sea. She draws inspiration from the juxtaposition between nature and “supernatural” colours.
She is a graduate of the communication design program at Alberta University of the Arts, and regularly produces art, murals and installations for galleries and exhibitions.
Details are at The Kube’s website: thekube.ca.
The last cookbook you’ll ever need
Roberts Creek artist Jane Covernton has published a cookbook for the survivalist in everyone. Infused by Love: an End Times Cookbook, with recipes, photographs, preserving tips, thoughts on gardening, community, sharing food, and on how to live through These Times contains dozens of recipes ranging from Lovely Nettles to Echinacea Peppermint Schnapps. Staples like Chicken Soup and Roasted Spiced Beets are here too—documented with Covernton’s trademark passion for garden-raised crops and homegrown wisdom.
The book (priced at $35) is available from the Davis Bay Farmers Market at the Davis Bay Hall every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. At that location, Covernton offers in-person chats “about the End Times, cooking, building community or your grandchildren or whatever, and to sell you a book.”
Alternatively, copies can be ordered by phone: 604-989-9090.
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.
