Sechelt Arts Festival, 5714 Medusa Avenue, Sechelt, BC (2026)

The Sunshine Coast's leading edge arts festival will be presented this year from October 13 to 31. The multi-disciplinary Festival features visual art, music, heritage, theatre and workshop events http://secheltartsfestival.com

09/18/2025

🔥Sign up for our events next weekend!
🔗Register on website | Limited Capacity

🪸Writing Theatre in Response to the Climate Crisis with Elaine Ávila
🗓 September 27, 2025, at 1:00pm – 4:00pm | 🎟️Free
📍Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt

In this fun, interactive, hands-on workshop, you will write a short play in response to the climate crisis, by identifying issues, as well as exploring and expanding your sense of the possible.

🎭 An Evening of Climate Change Theatre Action
🗓 September 27, 2025, at 7:00pm | 🎟️Free
📍Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt

An evening of short play readings. The collection of plays explores stories about climate, ecology, and the environment, told through the perspectives of animals.

🎥Closing Celebration: Nature Girl Screening
🗓 September 28, 2025, at 6:00pm | 🎟️Free
📍Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt

✨Celebrate the closing of the Festival with Candace Campo and Trent Maynard as they present their film Nature Girl. After the screening, Candace and Trent will engage in a discussion.

💙We want to extend our gratitude for everyone who took part in Sechelt Arts Festival! We couldn't have done it without you!

09/13/2025

Next Saturday join the community in honouring the equinox with a Festival Procession and a special Durational Taiko event!

🐦‍⬛ Festival Procession: Equinox Raven
🗓 September 20, 2025, at 5:30pm | 🎟️Free
📍Snickett Park, Ocean Ave (meet at the roundabout)

Waterfront procession guided by musicians, drummers, dancers and puppets – all celebrating the creatures of the sea. Unfolding stories of the sea on the Fall Equinox. Micro-performances by musicians, storyteller, artists and performers at the waterfront, celebrating the shifting cycles – a new phase of the year. We will end as the sun sets.

Performers include Equinox Raven, Driftwood Players, Estelle Honeywell, Play Sechelt and more!

🥁 Durational Taiko celebrating the Equinox
🗓 Saturday, September 20, 2pm – 9pm | 🎟️Free
📍Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt

Taiko a thousands’ of years ceremonial tradition that bring entire communities together—lasting for hours to days—as a form of collective healing and resilience. Taiko players from the Vancouver and Sunshine Coast taiko community will gather for a ceremonial offering in honour of our chosen and biological ancestors.

09/04/2025

🎉 We are pleased to announce the 2025 Sechelt Arts Festival events are now live!

Join us Friday for Sechelt Arts Festival opening reception!

🗓 Friday September 19th at 6pm
📍Sunshine Coast Arts Centre • 5714 Medusa St., Sechelt

Just a few of the offerings.... An exhibition featuring the work of Valerie Durant, Xel, Tegan Ceschi-Smith, Play Sechelt and Giorgio Magnanensi’s West Coast Radians – wood resonators – bring a soundscape of shíshálh elder Robert Joe and master weaver Jessica Silvey’s stories of Sinku and the Salish Sea.

A community celebration at Trail Bay Waterfront on September 20th for the Raven Equinox Procession featuring more than 20 performers, storytellers and musicians.

Climate Change Theatre Action events on September 27th and 28th, featuring play readings, a writing workshop and family programs.

🔥Register for these free and limited capacity events while you can!
🔎 Check out our website for more information 🔗 link in bio.

📷 First image of shishalh nation drummers; Andy Johnson and Cora Lee Joe-Louise.
📷 Last image of
📷 Michael Gurney Photography

08/07/2025

Announcing the 2025 Sechelt Arts Festival!

Save the dates for the 2025 Sechelt Arts Festival! sinku – the she shashishalhem word for “open water”, often referred to as the “Salish Sea” is a core undercurrent for this year's festival. Connecting artists and creative ideas to local ecologies and our changing climate on the Coast!

🗓 September 19 – 28, 2025

💫 Exhibitions, screenings, a community procession and waterfront micro concerts, climate change theatre actions, play readings, shíshálh-led storytelling and more

💫Stay tuned for more information throughout August, as well as opportunities to volunteer.

Immense thanks to our sponsors who make this event possible for our community:
District of Sechelt, Department of Canadian Heritage, BC Arts Council, BC Gaming Commission, SCRD, Sunshine Coast Credit Union, O’Reilly Real Estate Group

Images:
1. SAF 2025: sinku
2. Equinox Raven: Gerardo Avila
3. SAF 2024 Equinox Raven: Andy Johnston + Cora Lee
4. SAF 2024 Equinox Raven: Taiko with Kare + Noriko
5. Elaine Avila’s “Hummingbird”
6. Valerie Durant
7. Hadis Fard
8. Save the Date!

11/30/2024

We are throwing a party celebrating the closing of the Sechelt Arts Festival! An all ages party. Entrance by donation until full capacity!

Dancing + live electronic music + projections + art to look at + art to make
Goats and Lasers will be performing on the Coast!!
Mieke Jay's one-night performance - images of the Salish Sea

🗓️ Event Date: Saturday Dec 14, 8-11pm
📍 Location: Sunshine Coast Arts Center, 5714 Medusa Ave, Sechelt

This is an all ages show
Snacks + Non-Alcoholic Drinks available by donation
Cash Bar for Sip + Play available for the 19+ in the Arts Studio

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5714 Medusa Avenue
Sechelt, BC
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Website

http://www.secheltartsfestival.com/

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