Entertainment

The Celebration Singers are still looking for new voices, particularly tenor and bass.

The 2011 Sunday Sounds series ends this weekend at Filberg Park with a performance by Greg Bush.

Courtenay Little Theatre is breaking new ground with their production of Homechild by Joan MacLeod.

Sharon Pederson of Black Creek was a finalist in the Pacific West Quilt Show from Aug. 26 to 28 at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center in Washington

The Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox presents The Bold and The Beautiful — Steel and Pastel, two different mediums and two different artisans. It is the combination of Ablaze Metal Art's Miraculous Metal and Leonard Barrett’s Sensitive Pastels. This show runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 19. A reception will be held Sept. 10 from 1 to 4 p.m.

The Celebration Singers will starting a new season of song in September under the direction of Jenn Forsland.

With Among the Blue Mountain, Comox author Ruth Dickson completes the poignant tale she began in Pebbles in the Stream — River Rocks. Meet Ruth Dickson this Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Laughing Oyster Bookshop on Fifth Street in Courtenay.

A Highland Secondary School graduate was announced recently as one of the top prize winners in Nikon International's Emerging Talent Awards. Rebecca Bundschuh of Rebecca Amber Photography, who grew up in Comox and is now based in Squamish, was recognized for her work Going to the Chapel.

Not many people take a couple of bags of goose down, a blanket and some tanned hides with them on a trip. But that’s just what Andy Everson packed when he went to Taiwan this July. Everson and six other Canadian First Nation performers participated in the Global Indigenous Peoples Performing Arts in Taiwan. The July 27 to Aug. 3 event marked the country’s 100th anniversary with a celebration of indigenous culture.

Fresh off their Canadian and U.S. tours, followed by Ontario dates supporting Young The Giant, Toronto’s own Wildlife has been invited out on the road with fellow Canadian rockers Hollerado. Wildlife is coming to the Waverley Hotel in Cumberland Sun., Sept. 25.