The Charles Street Gallery invites you to the opening of “A Serbian Celebration of Art,” featuring the works of Zoran Srbljin and Zoran Kuzmanov. The artists will not be in attendance, but their friends, countrymen and collectors will be! The reception is from 5:30 to 9 pm on Friday, April 21st, at 914 Charles Street, Beaufort. 843-521-9054.
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“Gullah-Geechee Island” is the name of the next Beaufort Art Association (BAA) show, featuring the artwork of local artist Amiri Geuka Farris. The show starts May 1st and runs through June 30th, and will feature a “pop-up” shop of a variety of handmade small and medium size pieces of art, as well as t-shirts, postcards and a music CD, all made by Farris.
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The 25th Biennale, featuring the best work of artists from all across the country, opens May 2nd at Art League of Hilton Head Gallery. This national juried art exhibit will showcase approximately 100 artworks selected by jurors from over 500 entries, based on originality of concept, composition and execution.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor In ancient Rome, the powers-that-were relied on “bread and circuses” to keep the masses distracted from politics and the goings-on of their corrupt government. The emperors – some of whom had no clothes – figured they could do exactly as they pleased as long as they kept the people fed and entertained. They gave away bread to satisfy the first part of that formula, and for part two there were chariot races, gladiatorial games, Christian/Lion face-offs, and other festive spectator sports.
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“Across the country, shopping became a complicated and often frustrating experience. Even with coupons for rationed goods and the patience to wait in long lines, there was never quite enough to go around. Everyday items were now hard to come by—laundry soap, facial tissue, cotton diapers, thumbtacks and even hair curlers.
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Eight local woman take to the stage to tell tales of monumental moments in their lives –all marked by a particular dress, a pair of shoes, a bathing suit, a tattoo – in Lean Ensemble’s production of Nora and Delia Ephron’s comic yet poignant Love, Loss and What I Wore.
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How many times have you attended a show expecting it to be about the title and by the time you left the theatre you, were still trying to figure out what the title had to do with the play at all? I have always been intrigued by the titles of Broadway plays. This was my thought when I first heard of The Drowsy Chaperone, May River Theatre’s 16th season opening show.
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Last month, under warming sunny skies, local and federal leaders, joined by the Lowcountry’s diverse community, celebrated the start of the Reconstruction Era National Monument at Penn Center on St. Helena Island.
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First Presbyterian Church Hilton Head Island will present two programs in the series “Stories of Grace, Given and Received,” at 6:30 p.m. on two consecutive Wednesdays. April 19 and 26. The first program, on April 19th, will feature U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn talking about his book, Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black. Then, on April 26th, novelist Cassandra King Conroy and Jonathan Haupt, executive director of the Pat Conroy Literacy Center, will speak on the subject: “A Generous Lowcountry Heart… Building on the Legacy of Pat Conroy.”
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Seven Beaufort county high school students – six from Beaufort High School and one from Battery Creek High School – were named finalists in the fourth annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest. On March 17 they gathered at the University of South Carolina in Columbia to participate in the second round of the writing contest.
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