Author Diana Stevan of Campbell River will be reading from her latest novel, Sunflowers Under Fire , at the Courtenay Public Library on Friday, May 17 at 2 p.m.

Centrepiece Jazz presents a variety of jazz genres. When they play for the Georgia Straight Jazz Society Thursday night, you will hear memorable melodies in swing, ballads, Latin and fusion.

Former Comox Valley resident, Matt Rader, returns to the Valley to launch his new book Visual Inspection ( published by Nightwood Editions).

The Comox Valley Concert Band takes a walk on the wild side this Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12 at 2 p.m. Sponsored by the Evergreen Club, A Musical Menagerie features creatures great and small in a tribute to the animal kingdom.

The seventh incarnation of Comox Valley Arts’ Central Island Studio Tour is coming up May 24-26 – with over 85 artists’ spaces open between Parksville and Campbell River.

A screening event that features a juried collection of past and present short films made by local youth through the Comox Valley Art Gallery’s Youth Media Project will be showing on Wednesday, May 15, at the Sid Williams Theatre.

When John Kuby, a 68-year-old snowboarder and mountain biker, was diagnosed with tongue cancer three years ago, he had no idea his body had been carrying a viral infection. He got this cancer-causing virus from a sexual partner, probably in his 20s, when he was his most sexually active.

The Celebration Singers Choirs will perform their silver anniversary concert, Celebrate! at the Sid Williams Theatre on Friday, May 10, 7 p.m. The choirs will showcase music by their guest conductor for the night , Brian Tate.

Powerful performances had poetry aficionados whooping and applauding wildly Monday night in the final round of the competition to become the 2019-21 Comox Valley poet laureate.

Island folk singer taking the stage at Studio Live