Just Birds: Photography by Edith Wood
The SOBA Gallery is happy to once again host Edith Wood as Featured Artist of the Month, with her new show “Just Birds. Edith Wood studies nature as she waits patiently for the best moment to capture.
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Author: Margaret Evans
Fugue on Inauguration Day
By Margaret Evans, EditorJanuary 20, 2017 – It’s early in the morning on Inauguration Day. I’m at my computer and have just watched a YouTube video of a 12-year-old boy, oozing braggadocio, discussing the fire he set at a protest last night. This clean-cut, apple-cheeked lad is so proud of himself, so completely without shame or fear of reprisal, I can hardly believe my eyes and ears. Not much surprises me anymore, but I am aghast.
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Picture a Song: Images that Sing
Can one photo accurately depict the essence of a song? The Photography Club of Beaufort hopes thinks so. Throughout 2016, members of the club were asked to select a song title and spend the year photographing events, places, landscapes, still lifes or portraits that represent that song in a single photograph.
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How To Survive: the Garden in Winter
The garden in winter is never as quiet or inactive as I might wish, and this is emphatically true for gardens in the Lowcountry. While I might dream of several months off from the labors associated with keeping a garden healthy – things like weeding, pruning, digging up and dividing, adding mulch, etc – in fact, winter is a great time for doing just those jobs. Fortunately, not everything requires attention this season, unlike the rampant demanding growth everything shows once the weather warms up.
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Wait Until Dark
The thriller, ‘Wait Until Dark’ is a play by Frederick Knott, first performed on Broadway in 1966 and often revived since then. A film version was released in 1967 starring Audrey Hepburn. The suspense-filled drama will hit the stage at Magnolia Hall with the tense plot that twists and turns and ultimately shocks audiences. Directed by William McDougall & Mary-Alice Mangan and Produced by Dominick Wasliewski.
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Sticking Up for the Facts
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” – Abraham Lincoln “Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it’s always interesting how many people toss the facts.” – Rebecca Solnit
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At Last . . . CFA Hosts Etta James Tribute
After Hurricane Matthew forced a postponement last fall, the USCB Center for the Arts is delighted to finally host the much-anticipated musical tribute to the legendary three time Grammy winner Etta James on Saturday, January 21 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, January 22, at 3 pm. Dr. Marlena Smalls, world renowned singer, entertainer, educator and actress, will perform many of James’ hits including her signature hit, “At Last.”
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Community & Good Karma
DragonBoat Beaufort members get back as much as they give.By Joy CraigThe first time I set foot in Beaufort was when I took my place on those famous Yellow Footprints over on Parris Island. Suffice to say that for the next thirteen weeks I looked forward to putting Beaufort far in the rear view mirror. My Drill Instructors called it, “The land that God forgot” and boy did I agree.
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A Submarine, A Plantation House & Pocotaligo Living History
A living history program with battles, infantry and period demonstrations, local authors, Gullah historian Aunt Pearlie Sue and a traveling exhibit of a life-size replica of the CSS H.L. Hunley Submarine will take place on the grounds of Frampton Plantation House and Visitors’ Center in Yemassee, SC, January 21 & January 22. The program runs from 10 am to 5 pm both days and admission is free.
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Home & Garden Show in Savannah
Right down the road in Savannah, returning for its 17th year, the Annual Low Country Home &...
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
