ZOOM | Fall 2020
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fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
special digital edition<br />
issue 44 | zoomsunshinecoast.com
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inside<br />
sheila june<br />
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karen konzuk<br />
patrick west<br />
autumn skye<br />
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cindy cantelon<br />
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FALL FLAVOURS<br />
Natalie Findlay's recipes for comforting,<br />
spicy, and flavour-packed dishes will have<br />
you embracing the change of season.<br />
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VIEWFINDER<br />
Friends of zoom magazine take great photos with<br />
their favourite local magazine in various locations around<br />
the world, and share with us snapshots of<br />
their adventures.<br />
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A SURPRISING TWIST<br />
The new reality due to Covid-19 has translated into<br />
a real estate boom for communities from Gibsons to<br />
Pender Harbour.<br />
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DIEGO'S DEN<br />
What started as a photo album of our Yellow Lab Diego<br />
and his friends has become our most popular section, with<br />
readers sharing photos of their own beloved pets.<br />
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LOVE AND GRATITUDE<br />
KEEP US STRONG<br />
PHOTO: JUSTIN SAMSON<br />
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Tough times never last,<br />
tough<br />
people do.<br />
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the sunshine coast magazine<br />
issue 44 | fall <strong>2020</strong> | digital edition<br />
PO Box 200<br />
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COVER IMAGE: TIM MOSSHOLDER<br />
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MORLEY BAKER<br />
JEFF BARRINGER<br />
ANNA MAY BENNETT<br />
KEITH BURDON<br />
CINDY CANTELON<br />
LIZ DE BEER<br />
ELIZABETH A. EVANS<br />
CLAIRE FOLSTAD<br />
ALLAN FOREST<br />
MIKEL GRANT<br />
BOB JAMES<br />
SHEILA JUNE<br />
LUCAS KRATOCHWIL<br />
VERN MINARD<br />
MOTOKO<br />
PAM MULLINS<br />
SHERRY NELSEN<br />
SHEL NEUFELD<br />
PETER NICHOLLS<br />
CARL OLSEN<br />
CINDY RIACH<br />
LINDA SABISTON<br />
CONRAD SARZYNICK<br />
PIA SILLEM<br />
PATRICK SKIDD<br />
AUTUMN SKYE<br />
DEAN VAN’T SCHIP<br />
BRETT VARNEY<br />
DOLF VERMEULEN<br />
PATRICK WEST<br />
NOV 20–DEC 15, <strong>2020</strong><br />
ONE FLOWER ONE LEAF GALLERY, SUNNYCREST MALL, GIBSONS, BC<br />
SUNSHINE COAST VISUAL ARTISTS,<br />
PHOTOGRAPHERS, AND ARTISANS COME<br />
TOGETHER IN ONE EXHIBIT THAT MARKS 1O YEARS<br />
OF <strong>ZOOM</strong> MAGAZINE’S CELEBRATION OF ART<br />
EXCELLENCE ON THE SUNSHINE COAST.<br />
PART OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THE ART EXHIBIT GOES TO THE<br />
GIBSONS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE, STUDENT ART BURSARY<br />
AT ELPHINSTONE SECONDARY, AND SENIORS ART PROGRAMME<br />
AT CHRISTENSON VILLAGE.<br />
MEET THE ARTISTS ON SELECT DAYS<br />
ARTISTS’ SCHEDULES WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE<br />
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FOCUS<br />
THROUGH THE LENS OF<br />
SHEILA JUNE<br />
WORDS | NANCY PINCOMBE | ISSUE 28<br />
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Mesmerizing close-ups of natural subjects,<br />
particularly flowers, combined with a<br />
strategic use of focus, give Sheila June’s<br />
photos a painterly feeling. Delicious<br />
smears of colour are juxtaposed with<br />
minute detail. You’ll really feel you’ve<br />
seen these subjects. Yet an element<br />
of abstraction gives these images a wonderful versatility.<br />
Sheila’s background in painting shows clearly, but she has<br />
turned her hand (and eye!) to almost everything you can<br />
think of that involves visual art. She feels that art is universal<br />
and that all mediums are equally valid and full of potential.<br />
She should know, she’s mastered so many. These include<br />
painting, decorative painting, photography, real estate<br />
photography, video production (keepsake, real estate, and<br />
video-from-still for personal and business), home staging<br />
consultation, and wall hangings that incorporate macramé,<br />
weaving, and feathers. She even makes accessories and<br />
jewelry. Sheila is self-taught and finds inspiration everywhere,<br />
in cracks and decay as much as in new growth and light.<br />
Living on the Sunshine Coast, Sheila finds that “everything<br />
here has . . . inspired creating. It is a beautiful, spiritual,<br />
magical place to live.”<br />
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SHEILA IS SELF-TAUGHT AND FINDS<br />
INSPIRATION EVERYWHERE, IN CRACKS<br />
AND DECAY AS MUCH AS IN NEW<br />
GROWTH AND LIGHT. LIVING ON THE<br />
SUNSHINE COAST, SHEILA FINDS THAT<br />
“EVERYTHING HERE HAS . . . INSPIRED<br />
CREATING. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL, SPIRITUAL,<br />
MAGICAL PLACE TO LIVE.”<br />
SHEILA JUNE<br />
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FINE ART PRINTS OF SHEILA'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARE AVAILABLE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT FACEBOOK.COM/SJFINEAARTPHOTOGRAPHY<br />
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HOLA AMIGOS!<br />
Exciting times! We are now open<br />
for dine-in customers, with a few<br />
adjustments to what was a typical<br />
Aquí es Mexico experience. We<br />
are observing some guidelines<br />
to keep everyone safe. We look<br />
forward to seeing you! As before,<br />
you can order takeout. Just please<br />
call 604.883.2223 or order online<br />
through our website.<br />
www.aquiesmexico.ca<br />
You can also buy GIFT CARDS on our website.<br />
Good for takeout anytime or for dine-in.<br />
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we need each other.<br />
a message from zoom magazine<br />
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FEATURE<br />
KONZUK<br />
THE ORBIS COLLECTION<br />
WORDS | NANCY PINCOMBE<br />
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CROSS A KEEN INTEREST IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN WITH A FLAIR FOR<br />
OBJECTS PERSONAL, RELATABLE, WEARABLE. ADD TO THIS A DASH<br />
OF ART HISTORY AND A COMMITMENT TO MINIMALISM AND YOU<br />
GET THE CREATIONS OF DANIEL POINT ARTIST KAREN KONZUK.<br />
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Unique and lovely jewellery and objets d'art fashioned<br />
with an everyday architectural and industrial medium:<br />
concrete. Using other unusual materials, Konzuk employs<br />
the commonplace (stainless steel) and the precious<br />
(diamond dust) to form her popular collections of rings,<br />
bracelets, earrings, and necklaces.<br />
Konzuk's Household Collection and Orbis Series grew out of the<br />
popularity of the jewellery and the inevitable flaws that were surprisingly<br />
appealing.<br />
“The Orbis collection was inspired by a jewellery collection (also called<br />
Orbis) I had created quite a few years ago. It consists of concrete<br />
spheres that are cast in molds. As is the nature of concrete (much to<br />
my dismay), not all of the spheres would come out perfectly when cast.<br />
Flaws such as raw, half-filled spheres were the result, and I always found<br />
them beautiful in their own way. The idea to take these flawed spheres<br />
to a larger scale as a vessel was the start of the Household collection.<br />
The hardest part was to figure out how to get the raw edges with every<br />
casting!”<br />
Achieving such fine work with a material more commonly used in<br />
massive blocks required some rethinking of the traditional methods<br />
she had studied. (Konzuk is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of<br />
Art and Design.)<br />
“The vessels are still cast in molds but have to be hand-formed into them<br />
and the edges smoothed to as fine a thickness as possible. How they<br />
come out of the mold is the final product, making each piece unique.”<br />
The vessels and candles, perfect for tea lights or succulent plants,<br />
are also compelling as stand-alone art objects. They have a lovely<br />
weight in the hand, yet call to mind the fragility of eggshells. The cool<br />
contemporary colours like Natural Grey, Charcoal Grey, and Coal Black<br />
help emphasize the elemental roundness and pitted texture of these<br />
austere yet tactile and friendly objects.<br />
Konzuk works from a home studio in Daniel Point, where she can<br />
recharge and tweak her work/life balance by simply stepping out the<br />
door. She is also grateful for the support and expertise of her husband,<br />
brand manager Dwayne Dobson, who is responsible for naming the<br />
collections.<br />
“Each collection has a starting point of inspiration. For example, the<br />
Stellar Collection is inspired by the amazing night sky we see here on<br />
the Coast. The use of diamond dust in the black concrete is meant to<br />
mimic the stars in the sky. Each piece is also named after a constellation<br />
or specific star that shares similar characteristics of the design. It is his<br />
favourite part of the branding, I think. As soon as I have a body of work,<br />
he is thinking of the name!”<br />
If you find yourself drawn to Konzuk's work, you are in good company.<br />
“We have found museums stores such as the Guggenheim and Chicago<br />
Art Institute to be our main customers as far as retailers go. Individual<br />
customers tend to live in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles.”<br />
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KONZUK<br />
THE VESSELS AND CANDLES, PERFECT FOR TEA<br />
LIGHTS OR SUCCULENT PLANTS, ARE ALSO<br />
COMPELLING AS STAND-ALONE ART OBJECTS.<br />
THEY HAVE A LOVELY WEIGHT IN THE HAND, YET<br />
CALL TO MIND THE FRAGILITY OF EGGSHELLS.<br />
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SEE MORE OF KAREN KONZUK'S WORK ONLINE AT KONZUKSHOP.COM<br />
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In a world that’s become increasingly<br />
automated, discovering items that are<br />
crafted with care feels like a breath of<br />
fresh air.<br />
Fresh from the Coast has been<br />
showcasing the best of the coast’s<br />
locally made artisan treasures since 2007.<br />
fresh<br />
from the coast<br />
local<br />
artisan shop<br />
& gallery<br />
5498 Trail Avenue,<br />
Sechelt, BC<br />
604.741.0760<br />
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We’ll be back!<br />
38 th<br />
Rockwood Centre | Sechelt<br />
August 12 -15<br />
2021<br />
Illustration by Carol La Fave<br />
We look forward to gathering together<br />
again at the Rockwood Centre in the heart<br />
of shíshálh swiya next year to celebrate<br />
Canadian books, writers and storytellers.<br />
Special thanks to our volunteers<br />
(we miss you!), sponsors, donors and<br />
our public sector funding partners<br />
for standing by us during these<br />
challenging times.<br />
tel: 604.885.9631|toll free:1.800.565.9631|www.writersfestival.ca
FEATURE<br />
WORDS | NANCY PINCOMBE<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY | EDMUND ARCEO<br />
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There are few things more satisfying than working<br />
with soapstone. In the stone are beautiful greys and<br />
greens, the natural colours we see all around us. The<br />
stone’s buttery, warm feel as it takes shape and the<br />
ease with which it can be carved and finished has<br />
been recognized and prized by cultures all over the<br />
world.<br />
It is Bowen Island artist Patrick West's favourite medium too.<br />
“I use other stones also like alabaster, clorite, wonderstone<br />
(from South Africa), sandstone, but I prefer soapstone to all<br />
others. I enjoy the texture and the speed I can work it. Because<br />
I don't like to use power tools, and harder stones like marble<br />
take such a long time to sculpt. Carving soapstone is a bit like<br />
3-D doodling.”<br />
West has been carving since 1988. He lived in the Sechelt area<br />
for fifteen years and now makes his home on Bowen Island.<br />
Handy in many ways, and with a strong urge to create, West is<br />
working at building a new studio out of repurposed pallets. His<br />
generally abstract yet intricate and organic shapes sometimes<br />
hint at known subjects from our West Coast environment, such<br />
as sea creatures, birds, and even flowers. Always, though, they<br />
are inspired by nature and the stone itself.<br />
“Most often I begin without any theme in mind and just see<br />
what the stone has to offer, combined with what is in my own<br />
mind. Eventually I settle into a form I like and then I continue<br />
to refine it.”<br />
Using simple, timeless tools such as mallet, chisel, rasp, and<br />
different grades of sandpaper, West works playfully with the<br />
stone, achieving lightness and balance, and following the kind<br />
of energy that guides meditative work. Ultimately, appreciation<br />
of the finished piece needs to be tactile as well as visual.<br />
“Mostly the sculptures are best experienced by touching them<br />
rather than just seeing them. And what isn't there is just as<br />
important as what is there, meaning the air spaces and the solid<br />
spaces, how they connect.”<br />
His work is loved and collected by clients in Canada and the US,<br />
as well as France, China, Switzerland, and Holland, to name a<br />
few. But for West, as with so many artists, the process is its own<br />
reward.<br />
“The process is of the ultimate importance. The sculpture, or<br />
finished object, is the end product of the meditation. Recently<br />
I finished a 300-pound abstract Buddha form, and I'd like to do<br />
another soon.”<br />
PATRICK WEST<br />
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“MOSTLY THE SCULPTURES ARE BEST EXPERIENCED<br />
BY TOUCHING THEM RATHER THAN JUST SEEING<br />
THEM. AND WHAT ISN'T THERE IS JUST AS IMPORTANT<br />
AS WHAT IS THERE, MEANING THE AIR SPACES AND<br />
THE SOLID SPACES, HOW THEY CONNECT.”<br />
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PATRICK'S SCULPTURES CAN BE FOUND AT SLO, GROUND FLOOR, WATERMARK IN SECHELT.
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HIS GENERALLY ABSTRACT YET INTRICATE AND ORGANIC SHAPES<br />
SOMETIMES HINT AT KNOWN SUBJECTS FROM OUR WEST COAST<br />
ENVIRONMENT, SUCH AS SEA CREATURES, BIRDS, AND EVEN FLOWERS.<br />
ALWAYS, THOUGH, THEY ARE INSPIRED BY NATURE AND THE STONE ITSELF.<br />
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17 th<br />
Due to the ongoing<br />
Covid-19 pandemic, the<br />
Pender Harbour Blues Festival<br />
for this year is<br />
regrettably cancelled.<br />
See you in 2021!<br />
june 4, 5, 6<br />
2021<br />
www.phblues.ca<br />
CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR DATE OF TICKET AVAILABILITY.<br />
MANY THANKS TO ALL OUR SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS<br />
THROUGH THE YEARS!<br />
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MARK BENSON LEVI PURJUE SANDY KAY<br />
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Photography<br />
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Indigenous Fine Art<br />
Painting & Carving<br />
604.865.0460<br />
Fine Art Painting<br />
604.328.7655<br />
We are open Thursday through Monday, 11am–5pm, through the end of the year.<br />
307 – 287 Gower Point Road, Gibsons, BC . silvermoongallery.com
ART<br />
WORDS | NATALIE FINDLAY IMAGES | CINDY CANTELON AND CHELSEA BISCHOFF | ISSUE 40<br />
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Sunshine Coast is the muse for Cindy Cantelon, owner/artist of Earthly Creature Designs. She has lived on<br />
the Coast for over twenty years, while creating art and jewelry for almost forty. Cindy’s design inspirations<br />
come from the beautiful wild flora and fauna that the Coast provides. In her collection you’ll find many<br />
local critters living in the Pacific Northwest coastal rain forest: birds, turtles, snakes, frogs, newts, bees,<br />
flowers, trees, and more.<br />
Cindy studies and sketches her subjects before she begins a new sculpture. She uses the method of<br />
“lost-wax” casting to create her original sculpture designs, working the wax as if it was paint, using hot<br />
tools to move the wax and create texture and form. Then an exact duplicate is created in bronze, silver, or gold, which<br />
is used to cast a silicone rubber mold of the original sculpture. She then creates wax replicas before moving on to<br />
the final casting of the sculpture.<br />
Each piece is then meticulously hand-finished, producing a sculpture, either in silver-pewter or copper-plated, with<br />
deep patinas highlighting the beauty of the material and the design.<br />
Cindy loves working with metals. Her material of preference has been silver-pewter for most of her designs of<br />
earrings, brooches, pendants, necklaces, and small sculptures for the garden. Obsessed with the details, she has<br />
put 100+ hours on her latest and largest project of a blooming foxglove flower. Cindy’s next endeavour is adding to<br />
her to collection with sculptures and jewelry made in bronze, silver, and gold.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHELSEA BISCHOFF - EARTHANDHONEYCREATIVE.COM<br />
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DISCOVER CINDY’S BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS ONLINE AT EARTHLYCREATURE.COM, AT FRESH FROM THE COAST (SECHELT), CIRCLE CRAFT (GRANVILLE ISLAND), OR THE FLYING ANVIL (KLEINDALE).<br />
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ART, CRAFTS & GIFTS FROM AROUND HERE<br />
One Flower One Leaf Gallery is proud to present the<br />
<strong>ZOOM</strong> Art Exhibit celebrating 10 years of artistry on the Sunshine Coast<br />
from November 20 to December 15, <strong>2020</strong> at our SunnyCrest Mall<br />
location in Upper GIbsons.<br />
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS<br />
COMING SOON<br />
One Flower One Leaf Gallery | 436 Marine Drive, Gibsons Landing<br />
We are open daily from 11am to 5pm | 604.886.0099 | 604.908.1995<br />
www.onefloweroneleaf.com<br />
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TOGETHER WE RISE<br />
CLICK HERE TO READ THE <strong>2020</strong> <strong>ZOOM</strong> SPRING EDITION<br />
FEATURES:<br />
• THE COAST SPIRIT<br />
• PAM MULLINS PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
• THE ART OF CONRAD SARZYNICK,<br />
MOTOKO, AND SANDY KAY<br />
• STAYING HEALTHY IN PANDEMIC TIMES<br />
• TRUE LOVE AT THE VILLAGE<br />
• FOOD SERVICE RESPONSE<br />
• COOKING AT HOME<br />
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October<br />
23–25, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Langdale to Earls Cove<br />
Fri, Sat, Sun | 10 am–5 pm<br />
Take a virtual coastal tour<br />
of participating artist venues!<br />
PLUS<br />
• Drop-in visits to galleries,<br />
public venues and selected studios<br />
• Visit by appointment to private studios<br />
• Online chats with artists<br />
• Online Friday Night Parties<br />
All venues will adhere to Provincial Health Guidelines<br />
#sunshinecoastartcrawl<br />
sunshinecoastartcrawl.com<br />
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AUTUMN SKYE<br />
These are strange times. Uncertain and bewildering times,<br />
fraught with dread and ripe with potential. In moments of<br />
reckoning, revolution, and re-creation, I feel more than ever<br />
the importance of art.<br />
Art is both trivial and essential. Simply put, a painting is<br />
colourful mud smeared on fabric, pretty and trite images<br />
for our fickle amusement. And simultaneously, it has the potential<br />
to move mountains, individually and culturally. It can heal emotional<br />
trauma, cure illness, and bring renewed vitality and joy. It can awaken<br />
and empower both the artist and the viewer and connect straight<br />
to the subconscious. It can speak truth and shine light on critical<br />
issues. It can start revolutions, shift paradigms, and offer visions of<br />
grand potential and solutions, paths toward healing and wholeness.<br />
WORDS | AUTUMN SKYE<br />
PHOTO | ADAM ZIORIO<br />
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ART PROPELS ME OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING, WHISPERING ME AWAKE WITH<br />
PURPOSE. IT FILLS THE PAUSE BETWEEN MY IN-BREATH AND OUT-BREATH AND THE<br />
QUIET LULLS AMIDST OTHER CHORES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.<br />
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Sometimes I wrestle with the “whys” of art-making,<br />
wondering if I should instead be dedicating this<br />
enormous amount of energy into something<br />
more “important.” Is my precious time better<br />
spent planting a garden, marching in the streets,<br />
feeding the homeless, chaining myself to oldgrowth<br />
trees, raising children?<br />
And while all of these noble acts are vital to the forward<br />
unfolding of humanity and the world, paradoxically, art<br />
remains the most crucial thing that I can do personally.<br />
Art propels me out of bed in the morning, whispering me<br />
awake with purpose. It fills the pause between my in-breath<br />
and out-breath and the quiet lulls amidst other chores and<br />
responsibilities. Since my earliest memories I have felt<br />
creative fire in my belly and fingertips, and the burning and<br />
relentless urge to make art and share it with the world. I have<br />
learned to trust the mysterious compass of my heart and<br />
intuition, to navigate my imagination as well as the grander<br />
trajectory of my life. In my bones I feel a sacred duty to play<br />
my small part in our collective evolution.<br />
Throughout history, society has looked to the arts to<br />
guide and inspire our individual and collective narratives.<br />
Artwork has the capacity to be an anchor in the storm and a<br />
touchstone of beauty amid an otherwise bleak reality. While<br />
the world is at the precipice of momentous change, artworks<br />
have the potential to be maps that can help guide humanity<br />
into new and positive ways of seeing and being.<br />
And so I offer my art to you, from my heart to yours, with the<br />
prayer that it may touch some part of you and spark your<br />
own creative passion. May it fan in you the flame of peaceful<br />
revolution and timely change. We have so much work to do,<br />
and while I don’t presume to know what your unique piece<br />
of the puzzle is, I am grateful to you for playing your part.<br />
Only you know what makes your spirit sing, and only you can<br />
claim it for yourself in order to share it with the world. Thank<br />
you for smiling at strangers, for growing food, for nurturing<br />
children, for pioneering political reform, for creating music,<br />
for writing love letters, for making artwork.<br />
We are all in this together, and it is my deep honour to dance<br />
alongside you on this epic and mysterious adventure.<br />
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ONLY YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES YOUR SPIRIT SING, AND ONLY YOU CAN CLAIM IT<br />
FOR YOURSELF IN ORDER TO SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD.<br />
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THROUGHOUT HISTORY, SOCIETY HAS LOOKED<br />
TO THE ARTS TO GUIDE AND INSPIRE OUR<br />
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE NARRATIVES.<br />
ARTWORK HAS THE CAPACITY TO BE AN ANCHOR<br />
IN THE STORM AND A TOUCHSTONE OF BEAUTY<br />
AMID AN OTHERWISE BLEAK REALITY.<br />
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FOOD<br />
FALL<br />
FLAVOURS<br />
The gale force winds have already been<br />
sweeping through the Sunshine Coast,<br />
announcing fall is here and winter<br />
is around the bend. Make sure your<br />
woodshed is stacked, your jacket hung by<br />
the door, rainboots ready, and prepare to<br />
fill your house with the savoury smells of<br />
autumn cooking.<br />
These comforting, spicy, and flavourpacked<br />
dishes will have you embracing<br />
the change of season. The gentle Thai<br />
flavours in this pumpkin soup will have<br />
you wishing you could travel again. The<br />
pear crisp is both nutritious and easy to<br />
make, plus it will satisfy any time of day. Sit<br />
back and savour a mug or two of masala<br />
chai in front of the fire while you bingewatch<br />
your favourite Netflix shows. Enjoy<br />
these delectable, warming dishes as we<br />
usher in this autumn season.<br />
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY | NATALIE FINDLAY<br />
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THAI COCONUT CURRY PUMPKIN SOUP<br />
Makes 3-5 servings<br />
1 tbsp coconut oil<br />
3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped<br />
1 small onion, diced<br />
1 inch fresh galangal, peeled, roughly chopped<br />
1 inch fresh ginger, peeled, roughly chopped<br />
1 inch fresh turmeric, peeled, roughly chopped<br />
1 stalk lemon grass<br />
10 curry leaves<br />
3 lime leaves<br />
3 bay leaves<br />
1 c white wine<br />
1¾ c coconut milk<br />
1¼ c chicken broth<br />
2¾ c pumpkin, peeled, seeded and chopped<br />
Garnishes (optional)<br />
Lime wedges<br />
Thai chili pepper<br />
Thai basil leaves, thinly sliced<br />
Cilantro<br />
Options<br />
Half a pound of shrimp, peeled and deveined, or 1 chicken breast,<br />
poached and shredded<br />
Vermicelli noodles prepared per package instructions<br />
Directions<br />
Sauté onion in coconut oil for 4 minutes over medium heat in a<br />
medium pot.<br />
Add the garlic, galangal, ginger, lemon grass, curry leaves, lime<br />
leaves, bay leaves, and turmeric and cook another 5 minutes.<br />
Add the white wine and cook another 3 minutes.<br />
Add the coconut milk and stock.<br />
Add chopped pumpkin and cook 45 minutes to 1 hour or until<br />
pumpkin is soft.<br />
Remove pieces of lemon grass, turmeric, galangal, ginger, and the<br />
bay, lime, and curry leaves. Purée soup with a hand blender until<br />
smooth.<br />
Serve with garnish options.<br />
If using shrimp, add to the finished soup and cook approximately<br />
8 minutes or or until shrimp is cooked.<br />
If using chicken, poach in a separate pot in 1 cup chicken broth<br />
until chicken is fully cooked, then shred and add to finished soup.<br />
If you want to add vermicelli noodles, cook noodles separately and<br />
add to the bowl while hot, then pour the soup on top.<br />
Note: This soup is even better the next day as flavours deepen.<br />
Can be frozen for up to 3 months.<br />
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EASY OVEN-BAKED PEAR CRISP<br />
Makes 4 sevings<br />
2 pears<br />
½ c<br />
rolled oats<br />
½ c<br />
almond flour<br />
½ c<br />
brown sugar<br />
1 tsp cinnamon<br />
¼ tsp allspice<br />
5 grates nutmeg<br />
pinch salt<br />
¼ c<br />
cold butter<br />
½ c<br />
slivered almonds<br />
½ c<br />
chopped pecans<br />
Directions<br />
Preheat oven to 375º F.<br />
Cut pears in half and remove core.<br />
Place on a lined baking sheet or low-sided baking dish.<br />
In a small bowl combine oats, almond flour, brown sugar, cinnamon,<br />
allspice, nutmeg, salt, cold cubed butter, almonds, and pecans.<br />
Use fingers to massage butter into pea-size pieces.<br />
Top pears with oat mixture.<br />
Bake for 25–30 minutes.<br />
Can be served warm or at room temperature; with ice cream or whipped<br />
cream for a lovely dessert or with a dollop of Greek yogurt for breakfast.<br />
FALL<br />
FLAVOURS<br />
MASALA CHAI<br />
Makes 3 mugs<br />
6 cloves, crushed<br />
3 bay leaves<br />
1½ tsp fennel, crushed<br />
1½<br />
cinnamon sticks, crushed<br />
3 star anise seed pods, crushed<br />
12 green cardamom pods, crushed<br />
¾ tsp black peppercorns, crushed<br />
1½ inches ginger root, peeled and roughly chopped<br />
1 black tea bag or 1 tbsp loose leaves<br />
3 tbsp honey<br />
½ c<br />
milk<br />
Directions<br />
Boil the above mix of chai spices in 31/2 cups water for 3 minutes then<br />
steep 10 minutes.<br />
Add your tea bag or leaves to the pot and bring back to a boil then<br />
simmer 5 minutes.<br />
Add the honey and milk and warm through.<br />
Strain through a cheese cloth.<br />
Serve immediately or you can let it sit on the stove and simmer for 15<br />
minutes if you want a stronger taste.<br />
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COMMUNITY<br />
A SURPRISING<br />
TWIST<br />
WORDS | BRIAN COXFORD<br />
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IT WASN’T ON ANYONE’S RADAR. IN FACT, JUST ABOUT<br />
EVERYONE THOUGHT BUYING A HOME, INVESTING<br />
IN REAL ESTATE, AND CHANGING YOUR ADDRESS<br />
IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC WAS NOT A SMART<br />
MOVE. IN APRIL, AS THE CORONAVIRUS SPREAD, REAL<br />
ESTATE SALES ON THE SUNSHINE COAST DROPPED<br />
33 PERCENT IN APRIL AND 44 PERCENT IN MAY. THE<br />
WRITING APPEARED TO BE ON THE WALL. THE VIRUS<br />
WAS KILLING PEOPLE, TRADITIONAL JOBS WERE<br />
DISAPPEARING OR ON HOLD, FAMILY INCOMES WERE<br />
DECLINING, AND THERE WAS GENERAL FEAR IN THE<br />
POPULATION. LIFE AS WE KNEW IT WAS CHANGING<br />
THEN THE NEW REALITY SET IN WITH PEOPLE<br />
TRANSITIONING FROM AN OFFICE ENVIRONMENT TO<br />
A HOME OFFICE WORKPLACE TO ACHIEVE HEALTH<br />
SAFETY FROM COVID. THEY BEGAN RETHINKING LIFE AS<br />
THEY MOVED FORWARD, AND THAT HAS TRANSLATED<br />
INTO A REAL ESTATE BOOM FOR COMMUNITIES FROM<br />
PENDER HARBOUR TO GIBSONS.<br />
ANASTASE MARAGOS PHOTO<br />
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John McKenzie, a top Coast realtor at Royal LePage Sussex in<br />
Sechelt, has sold more than forty homes during the pandemic.<br />
“It was like a perfect storm. A lot of people at the end of the<br />
baby boomer group were looking to downsize. They wanted<br />
a safer, more spacious lifestyle away from dense Covid-19–<br />
threatened neighbourhoods in the city, and now employers,<br />
because of the virus, are allowing their people to work from<br />
home. They can work from anywhere.” He says it has allowed younger<br />
families to move here and work because they can. “There is no traffic, little<br />
crime, and the Sunshine Coast is a great place to raise kids.”<br />
Because of Covid-19, the Sunshine Coast is experiencing a real estate<br />
boom that no one predicted, and it hasn’t let up. Demand for homes has<br />
outstripped supply. As a result, those earlier sales numbers in April and<br />
May have dramatically flipped around, with sales in August and September<br />
increasing more than 100 percent from the same period a year ago.<br />
Among the newcomers are a number of young people with families or<br />
planning to have children. Two of McKenzie’s clients, Nicole Smith and John<br />
Rogers, are both thirty years old. In this new Covid world they both have<br />
the ability to work at home. They just moved from rental accommodations<br />
into a larger home they own in Wilson Creek. It has two offices, one for<br />
each of them. Owning in Metro Vancouver would have cost them double.<br />
John is a programmer and Nicole owns an internet business. They also<br />
have parents here. Nicole says, “Covid has helped us rethink our lives. We<br />
are closer to our parents. We were not able to see them for five months<br />
during Covid. We also wanted to be closer to wilderness trails, camping<br />
and hiking.”<br />
North Vancouver residents David and Lani Morden are also recent<br />
purchasers of a waterfront condo in Sechelt. He is a private school teacher<br />
and she is a school principal. They normally travel to vacation spots around<br />
the world with their three young children, but Covid has also prompted<br />
them to rethink their priorities moving forward. So they went looking for a<br />
safer, happier place not too far from Vancouver to spend their leisure time<br />
with their family. David says, “We see the Covid reality as a bit of a gift. The<br />
Sunshine Coast has amenities and we like kayaking, biking, and nature.”<br />
Former Toronto resident Kevin Hennessy says, “Covid has changed<br />
how people think. They just don’t want to be in a populated area stuck<br />
in apartments.” He spent the entire Covid period in his waterfront home<br />
in Sechelt. “It’s a safe place, great value for your money, and it’s in a<br />
beautiful natural postcard setting.” Kevin’s older brother is also moving<br />
from Toronto to a condo he has purchased nearby.<br />
Sotheby’s Gina Stockwell is having her best year as a realtor. With more<br />
than fifty homes sold since March and more pending, she could have<br />
never predicted what has happened with Sunshine Coast real estate. “The<br />
market is totally Covid driven. People want lifestyle changes. It is about<br />
what is important in your life and what makes you happy. When you are<br />
in lockdown, you are afraid to get in an elevator, and people don’t want<br />
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ALL THE REALTORS AGREE, THE COAST IS A SAFE<br />
HAVEN FOR THEIR BUYERS IN THIS UNCERTAIN<br />
TIME. COVID HAS MADE PEOPLE RETHINK THEIR<br />
LIVES AND PRIORITIES AND HAS GIVEN THEM<br />
A CHANCE TO STEP AWAY FROM CROWDED<br />
CITIES INTO A BEAUTIFUL, QUIET, AND MORE<br />
AFFORDABLE PART OF BC.<br />
to go back to that.” Her clients are young professionals and retirees.<br />
Thirty percent of her buyers are under 50, families and young working<br />
professionals in their late twenties and thirties. They are all Canadians,<br />
some returning from living in the US, and none are foreign-based<br />
purchasers. She says those still working all have something in common.<br />
“They have the ability to work from home. They can work anywhere. We<br />
have the same high-speed internet as they do in a traditional office setting,<br />
and this is where they want to be and work. They are not interested in<br />
buying in the suburbs.” She says Covid has made them think differently,<br />
and they are coming for our coastal lifestyle.<br />
Stacey Buchhorn at Re-Max in Sechelt says her buyers are coming from<br />
Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Lower Mainland. Some are trading<br />
American and Mexican vacation properties for something on the Sunshine<br />
Coast. “They have decided to come this way, looking for retirement or<br />
recreational property closer to home at this time when travel due to Covid<br />
is restricted.” Stacey is also having her best year in real estate. Again, her<br />
younger buyers can now work from home.<br />
Stacey’s clients, Jose and Ravena Franca, had always wanted to live in<br />
a quiet setting by the ocean. The pandemic shutdown accelerated their<br />
plans. They moved into their oceanfront condo in Sechelt last month. He<br />
is a software specialist with home-team members in Ukraine, Russia, the<br />
US, and Canada. Ravena is pursuing her degree in Psychology from UBC<br />
online at home.<br />
DREW COFFMAN PHOTO<br />
All the realtors agree, the Coast is a safe haven for their buyers in this<br />
uncertain time. Covid has made people rethink their lives and priorities<br />
and has given them a chance to step away from crowded cities into a<br />
beautiful, quiet, and more affordable part of BC.<br />
John McKenzie predicts if the pandemic continues for another year it will<br />
be a game changer for the Sunshine Coast over the next five years.<br />
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INDIA<br />
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EDITOR'S NOTE: PHOTOS ON THESE PAGES WERE FROM 0UR READERS' TRAVELS<br />
PRIOR TO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.<br />
PLEASE CHECK WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA AT CANADA.CA<br />
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PANAMA
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QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA<br />
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CANARY ISLANDS<br />
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NATTANYA WARDEL<br />
NEW ZEALAND<br />
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RIOMAGIORRE, ITALY<br />
BY JODY DEFRIES<br />
GARY AND PAULINE WEBER<br />
REGENSBURG, GERMANY<br />
JOHN AND CANDACE PINKSTER<br />
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CROATIA<br />
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Rejoice<br />
...and Lean<br />
into Health<br />
Dearest Patients and Friends!<br />
We are happy to announce that we have re-opened our doors at<br />
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Things are slightly different as we have to comply with the<br />
safety protocols required by the College of Naturopathic<br />
Physicians of BC and the Provincial Health Office.<br />
No matter what, we are navigating as peacefully and mindfully<br />
as possible with these new rituals and nuances, to be there<br />
FOR YOU, so that you feel welcomed, seen, heard and felt, while<br />
we are taking the required measures to minimize the risk<br />
of viral transmission. I am still offering virtual TeleMedicine<br />
sessions, or I can offer consultations over the phone.<br />
We hold you very close to our hearts and we hope to make your<br />
experience as nurturing and caring as possible.<br />
Thank you for your support and for your patience in these<br />
moments in time!<br />
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N.D., F.C.A.H., C.C.H.<br />
Naturopathic Doctor<br />
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MIGUEL<br />
by Edmund Arceo<br />
GHOMI BAE<br />
by Christina Bae<br />
TEDDY & BEAR<br />
by Carol Shore<br />
ANGEL<br />
by Nattanya Wardel<br />
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This section is dedicated to<br />
the memory of Diego (2002-<br />
2014). What started as a photo<br />
album of Diego and his friends<br />
has become our most popular<br />
section, with readers sharing<br />
photos of their own beloved pets.<br />
Our boy Miguel has taken over<br />
editorial duties, with Scout as his<br />
lovely assistant. Please send your<br />
favourite pet photos to diego@<br />
zoomsunshinecoast.com.<br />
diego’s den<br />
SCOUT<br />
by Edmund Arceo<br />
CHLOE<br />
by Michelle MacMorland<br />
BLUE AURI<br />
by Wanda<br />
by Kathy<br />
Zatorskil<br />
Morrant<br />
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TUCKER<br />
by Kim Howcroft<br />
PEDRO<br />
by Allesandra Olmedo<br />
THURLEIGH<br />
by Jane Richardson<br />
RILEY<br />
by Allison Maxwell<br />
SHEIKA & CARGO<br />
by Sharon Johnson<br />
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SHELBY<br />
by John Allen<br />
TITUS<br />
by Selma Swab<br />
TIMMY<br />
by Sandra Razieli<br />
QUINN<br />
by Sharon Jones<br />
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EDDIE<br />
by Alexandra Leeks<br />
MOLLY<br />
by Cayce Laviolette<br />
WATSON<br />
by Schoen<br />
JAKE<br />
by Richard Eaton<br />
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SMUDGE<br />
by Penny Allport<br />
MARTY & ABBY<br />
by Lauren McEwen<br />
ROXY & BERT<br />
by Susan Arceo<br />
MIDNIGHT<br />
by Lynn Telder<br />
HANK<br />
by Katherine Roberts<br />
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TOBY<br />
by Corinna O'Neill<br />
CHLOE with Dad<br />
by Carolyn Clarke<br />
CHARLIE<br />
by Mitchell Gatrill<br />
MUESLI<br />
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You are braver<br />
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and stronger<br />
than you seem,<br />
and smarter than<br />
you think<br />
CHRISTOPHER ROBIN<br />
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