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We love to celebrate life on the Sunshine Coast. Almost any occasion will do,
and you'll find us enjoying the good life with festivals, concerts, parades, dances,
barbecues, country picnics, sports competitions . . . the list is almost endless.

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MAIN EVENTS - 2012:

FEBRUARY
Feb tba
Festival of Wind, Gibsons -
Heritage Playhouse
 
Feb 20 - Mar 7
Performing Arts Festival
Various venues, Powell River
 
Feb 16-19
Powell River Film Festival
Evergreen Hall
 
MARCH
March 17-20
Expose Yourself
An Exhibition for Exhibitionists
 
March 30-31
Vocal Summit Powell River
West Coat Jazz & Blues Society Powell River
 
APRIL
April 1
Sunshine Coast April Fool's Run
Gibsons to Sechelt run
 
April 2 - April 20
Performing Arts Festival
Sechelt to Gibsons
 
April tba
Powell River Writers Conference
Dwight Hall
 
April 18th
Powell River Oyster Festival
Brooks Secondary
 
April 28
Sunshine Coast Wooden Boat Challenge
9th Annual April Tools Wooden Boat Challenge, Millenium Park, Madeira Park
 
April 21
Earth Day
Roberts Creek Mandala.
 
April 29
Annual Marathon Shuffle
Sunshine Coast Trail, Powell River
 
MAY
May 19

May Day Parade & Fair
Downtown Madeira Park
Pender Harbour

 
May 18-20 10th Annual Attack of Danger Bay - Longboard Race, Francis Peninsula Pender Harbour

 

May 25-28 Lund Shellfish Festival  
May to October Farmers Market Top of Cowrie Street
every Saturday, 9 am - 2:30 pm
 
JUNE
June 1-3
Powell Blues Festival
various venues
 
June 1-3
9th Annual Pender Harbour Blues Festival
 
June tba Egmont Day - Annual festival, dance, and kids stuff; classic small town!  
June 2-7 Gibsons Landing Jazz Week
Festival Week - various venues
 
Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival
June 8-10
Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival
Gibsons Landing
 
June 29 - July 6 BC BIKE RACE - SOLD OUT!!
Powell River to Langdale
 
JULY
July 1 19th Annual Malaspina Regatta
Madeira Park
 
July 1 Gibsons Canada Day Celebrations  
July 1
Canada Day Shriner
Sechelt Canada Day Celebrations  
July 3-7 International Choral Kathaumixw
Powell River
 
July 8-14 Sunshine Coast School of Celtic Music
Roberts Creek
 
July 20-22 Texada Island Sandcastle Competition
Gillies Bay/Shelter Point
 
July tba Community Mandala Painting, Roberts Creek
"We accept watermelon as currency"
 
July 14
Halfmoon Bay Country Fair
46th Annual Halfmoon Bay Country Fair, Coopers Green
 
July 20-22 Powell River Sea Fair
One of Powell River's Best Annual Festivals
 
July 28-29 Gibsons Annual Sea Cavalcade
Fireworks, parade, street dance, craft fairs, logger sports, games, prizes and lots of free outdoor performances - great for the entire family.
 
Sunday July 15 Texada Island Annual Fly-In  
July 12-14 3rd Annual Texada Aerospace Camp!  
July TBA Commotion on the Ocean - Gambier Is.  
July TBA Savary Island Fun Triathalon  
AUGUST
Aug 1 Powell River
Townsite Centennial Celebration
 
Aug 10-17 Powell River Blackberry Festival  
Sleepy Hollow Rod Run
Aug. 10-12
Festival of the Rolling Arts:
Sleepy Hollow Rod Run and
Show & Shine, Sechelt
 
Festival of the Written Arts
Aug. 16-19
30th Annual Festival of the Written ArtsRockwood/Sechelt  
Aug. 18-19 Annual Hackett Park Juried Craft Fair  
Aug. tba Gibsons Landing Art Stroll  
August 12 Four Lakes 10K Garden Bay  
Aug TBA
sandcastle competition
Davis Bay Sandcastle Competition
 
Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival
Aug. 17-19
6th Annual Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival  
Aug. 24-26 Synchronicity Festival
Shirley Macey Park Gibsons
 
August 26 Run the Rock Marathon & Half Marathon
Texada Island
 
Aug. 18-19 Arts Alive in the Park
Powell River
 
Aug. 11 & 12 3rd Annual Pender Harbour Garlic Festival!  
Aug. tba Roberts Creek Daze  
Aug. 25-26 Powell River Studio Tour
Powell River to Lund
 
Aug. tba Astronomy in the Park
Porpoise Bay Park, Sechelt
 
Aug tba Gambier Island Community Centre
Summer Fair
 
SEPTEMBER
September TBA Gambier Island Harvest Fair
Various venues
 
September 1-2 Sunshine Music Festival
Powell River, Palm Beach Park
 
September TBA Gibsons Landing Salmon Festival  
Sept. 14-16
Pender Harbour Jazz Festival
Pender Harbour Jazz Festival  
Sept. tba Powell River Fall Fair
Exhibition Fair Grounds
 
September 22 3rd Annual Comedy on the Coast Fundraiser to benefit St. Mary's Hospital Foundation, Pediatric Care 2012  
September tba Loon Lake Run, Powell River  
ON BREAK
TIL 2013
New Moon Festival
Gibsons Dougall Park
 
OCTOBER
October tba Sechelt Festival of the Arts  
October tba 11th Annual Pender Fall Faire  
October tba Roberts Creek Fall Fair  
October tba
Gibsons Fall Fair
Quality Farms, Gibsons
 
October TBA
Apple Festival
Halfmoon Bay Coopers Green
 
October tba Sunshine Coast Mushroom Festival
Various venues, Madeira Park
 
October 19-21 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl
Langdale to Lund
 
NOVEMBER
Nov. 11 Remembrance Day Services, Coast-wide
Nov. TBA Blues & Burlesque Review
Dwight Hall, Powell River
 
Nov. TBA Lund Community Craft Fair  
Nov. TBA Powell River Festival of Trees  
Nov. TBA Powell River Fine Arts Christmas Sale  
Nov. TBA Annual Roberts Creek Christmas Craft Fair Roberts Creek Hall
DECEMBER
Dec. TBA Annual Pender Harbour Bird Count  
Dec. TBA Light the Lights at Rockwood Center, Sechelt, 6:30 pm  
Dec. TBA Light up the Harbour various locations, Pender Harbour  
Dec. TBA Annual Arts Council Christmas Craft Fair Seaside Center, Teredo St. Sechelt



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