Calling All Singers!
The Lowcountry Chorale, a mixed-voice community of singers, has begun preparation for its upcoming season. The Chorale has been singing as a group since the spring of 1997, with continuous performances twice a year.
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Author: Margaret Evans
A Feast for the Ears, Eyes, and Palate
When you come to Fripp Island on Sunday, February 24 to hear Sandra Wright Shen’s piano artistry, stay for the complimentary catered reception featuring Harold Merrill’s delicious hors d’oeuvres and meet the internationally celebrated artist, you will have a multi-sensory experience, I assure you.
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Read Across America Day at USCB
The University of South Carolina Beaufort is inviting parents and their children ages...
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Like Ripples in a Pond
The next generation of creative writers at the University of South Carolina Beaufort is about to take pen in hand—figuratively, of course—to begin work on the second of two related literary magazines published by the USCB Society of Creative Writers each academic year.
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Warley’s New Novel Set in Civil War Era Beaufort
In 1861, a 12-year-old boy and his 80-year-old grandmother flee their elegant home along the Beaufort River to shelter in the wilderness of Cane Island, South Carolina. There, they’ll spend the following years struggling to survive as the Civil War lays waste to the existence they’ve known and loved, a way of life doomed from its unholy inception.
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“T is for Texture” Pastel Class Offered by BAA
Eve Miller, acclaimed pastel and oil artist, has partnered with the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) to offer a two-day workshop in Beaufort at the Retreat on Lady’s Island. The program will run from 10 am to 5 pm on Thursday, April 11, and Friday, April 12. The cost is $215 for BAA members and $225 for non-members.
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Hank Herring Brings ‘Sankofa’ to BAA Gallery
A collection of artist Hank D. Herring’s iconic cultural work entitled “Sankofa: Go Back to Fetch It” will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) from Feb. 24 through April 3. An opening reception will be held at the Gallery at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, March 1, from 5 to 7:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. There will also be on exhibit the work of 65 other local artists, who are members of the Gallery. The public is invited.
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A Past That Won’t Rest
An exhibition of 50 historic photographs by documentary photographer Jim Lucas—A Past That Won’t Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi—will be on display from February 26 – March 17 at USCB Center for the Arts Gallery. An opening reception and book signing will be held from 5:30 – 7:30 pm on Thursday, February 28.
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Did Beaufort Have a Green Book “Hotel”?
With five Academy Award nominations,Green Book is one of 2018’s leading films. Controversial. Does it accurately portray the reality of segregation and a black musician hiring a white driver for a concert series in the South? Did the writers have permission from the musician’s family? Is it another Hollywood “made to make people feel good” drama/comedy? Film critics are asking these and many other questions but, as a local walking tour guide, the film immediately made me ask, Did Beaufort have a Green Book “hotel”?
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Goodbye, Plaza. Hello, BIFF.
By Margaret Evans, EditorBy now, it’s old news that the Plaza Stadium Theater has closed after 44 years. But as 80-plus visiting filmmakers, along with thousands of movie lovers, descend upon USCB Center for the Arts this week for our 13thannual international film festival, the cut feels somehow deeper. Beaufort is a movie town without a movie theater. And isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
