Sechelt Festival of the Arts

Sechelt Festival of the Arts:

Heritage Time Travel Workshop

Saturday, October 26th, 2013

Sechelt Library Community Use Room

 (Council Chambers)

1^st Floor, 5797 Cowrie Street

2:00 pm      

 Step back in time with a set of short audio-visual historical presentations at the Heritage Time Travel workshop. The Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives will present its award-winning Time Travel Sunshine Coast smart phone app, showcasing videos from historic points of interest on the coast. This workshop is apart of a week-long celebration of the arts that also features the Snapshots: Our Coastal Heritage photograph exhibition with contributions by the shíshálh Nation,  Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives, Sechelt Archives and the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society. The Museum will also be open for the Arts Crawl on Saturday, October 19- 20^th from 10:00am – 6:00 pm.  Come celebrate arts and heritage during the Sechelt Arts Festival!   For more information: Call 604-886-8232; email at scm_a@dccnet.comFor other festival news visit:http://secheltartsfestival.com

Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives' Silent Auction

The Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives is hosting a Silent Auction at Sunnycrest Mall from 10 am – 3 pm on Saturday, October 5^th. The auction will feature a wide variety of specialty crafts, goods and services donated by local businesses to help raise funds for the museum. We don’t want to ruin the surprise, but there will be some very valuable and unique items up for auction! Bidding starts at 10 am sharp; final bids will be accepted until 3 pm. Come on down and place your bid and support your local museum. The funds raised will be used for museum programming and events, including this years All Hallows Eve Halloween event. A big thank you to all of the generous businesses and individuals who have donated items and services!

For more information call: 604-886-8232; email: scm_a@dccnet.com  

Going once....going twice.....see you at the auction!

Terri's Journal: Final Entry

Today is my final day at the Museum -- it’s been fourteen unpredictable and wholly enjoyable weeks since I started way back in May.  

I try not to begin anything, much less a job, with the mindset of simply “getting through it” and instead try to find the challenge or joy in what I’m doing, but that can sometimes be very hard. I found no such difficulties in my time here. I am well used to jobs that have a set timeframe, but this is the first job that I’ve left feeling that I could get more done with more time. Still, I can quantify my contributions to the museum and that’s a very good feeling. I feel a certain sense of accomplishment having completed my time here; I’ve finished what I set out to do.

A never ending stream of thank yous to Kimiko for giving me this opportunity and providing such a dynamic and wonderful workplace; to Matthew for making me laugh and never getting frustrated by my repetitive questions about the cash register; to Gary for letting me be his Vana; to all the wonderful board members and volunteers who gave me so much support. It’s been pleasure working with and getting to know you all.

I’ve learned a lot about our community this summer, met a lot of neat people, and gained some life skills and work experience. And I got paid to do it, too!

For the last time,

Terri

40th Anniversary Beachcombers Exhibit Launch

40^th Anniversary

Beachcombers Exhibit Launch

Saturday, August 17th, 2013
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

To celebrate the 40^th anniversary of the iconic series, the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives will launch a new and improved Beachcombers exhibit on Saturday, August 17^th from 1-3 pm. The centerpiece of the exhibit is the recreation of the Molly’s Reach countertop with a life-sized photo of the cast as seen in the image above.  Visitors are invited to “sit down and have a coffee” with their favorite characters and peruse archival photographs and scripts. There will also be life-sized cut-outs of Nick and Relic for photo opportunities and the continuous screening of 3 classic Beachcombers episodes (Save the Persephone, The Tray Tree and Voice of the People). Beachcombers alumni will be on hand to answer questions about the much-loved series. Funded by the Town of Gibsons, the new exhibit will celebrate all things Beachcombers and we hope to see you there! 

Terri's Journal: Week Ten

I don’t think it’s fair to say that summer is winding down given that it’s only August 7^th, yet I’m hearing it all over. Summer as a season doesn’t even end officially until well into September but, since our society’s year revolves around the school year, it’s true what they say: August is the Sunday of summer. I only have two more weeks at the museum now. Two weeks after that I’m back at school. When you lay it out like that, it really does seem short.

I always run a tally in my head of the earliest “Back to School” ads of the year. This summer I think it was Zeller’s at the beginning of June. I remember being tortured by that as a kid even though I enjoyed school. “Why must these foul reminders sully my freedom by announcing its imminent demise,” I’d think to myself (so I was a touch precocious and melodramatic as a child, does this really surprise?). The worst one I heard of was my friend’s story from many years ago. She got off the bus after the last day of school and opened the mail box to find a single piece of junk mail - you guessed it, a back to school ad.

I thought I’d share some back to school ads from yesteryear with you in this post so that I may join in the cruelty (although I’ve heard that these ads have quite an opposite effect on parents. Strange that.) These are from the Coast News …

… in 1964 …

… in 1958 …

… and 1970.

You may want to click on the images for a better view.

Do you want to know the strange part about all those ads? I found them all in late August and early September issues. I suppose in our present culture that tries to get us out Christmas shopping shortly after Valentine’s Day, Back to School Advertisers need to jump the gun a bit too. Personally I’d prefer if no one told me school existed until the last week of August.

Terri