A famous quip among musicians is that performing the music of Mozart “is too easy for children and too difficult for adults.” With reasonably conscientious practice most of the notes can be learned. The problem lies in their very simplicity because every performance smudge or inaccuracy stands out in bold relief.
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A Day to Wander and Love the Land… “Place and land and nature: how we tie these things together is critical to our sense of self-purpose and our fit in the world. They are the trinity. This is true for people everywhere, but nowhere is it truer than in the South.” —J. Drew Lanham, excerpt from The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature
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The fourth Short Story America Festival and Conference is this weekend, February 24-26. This celebration of short stories – the great original American literary art form – will feature authors from far and near, reading and discussing short fiction (including oral storytelling this year), the adaptation of short stories for film, discussing the writing process for those interested in developing their craft as fiction writers, and signing copies of the acclaimed anthologies published by Beaufort’s own Short Story America.
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The Coastal Discovery Museum is pleased to announce its upcoming temporary exhibition, “Where Nature Meets Art,” March 1 through April 30. Offered by the Artists of Spring Island, this exhibition will provide a glimpse into the beauty of that special place.
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The Beaufort Art Association’s 56th Annual Spring Show will be open to the public from Wednesday, March 8, through Saturday, March 11, from 10 am to 6 pm at Tabby Place, 913 Port Republic St. in Downtown Beaufort. Local artists will present their finest works for exhibit and for sale during the show. Oils acrylics, watercolors, photography, mixed media, pottery, woodturning, jewelry, and metal sculpture will be featured. Admission is free and the public is invited.
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Alexandra Sharma’s exhibition of intimate and revealing watercolor paintings, Historic Belfair and Rose Hill, fulfills her fascination with finding scenes and objects in hidden or forgotten places.
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__ –> Art League of Hilton Head invites you to enter the 2017 Biennale, a National Juried...
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A photographic exhibition by commercial and environmental photographer Eric Horan entitled, “Beholding Nature” will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) Gallery from Feb. 26 – April 30. An opening reception will be held at the Gallery at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, March 3, from 5 – 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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By Margaret Evans, EditorLast Thursday, slightly after lunchtime, everybody and their brother was watching Donald Trump’s press conference. I know this, because I logged onto Facebook right around then and found my newsfeed littered with real-time commentary. I say “littered,” because what confronted me was a stream of blow-by-blow reportage from ticked-off armchair critics, and certain words just make you feel battered even when they’re not aimed at you. I would quote some of them here, but as you’ve often heard me say . . . my mom reads this column.
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“Children are not fragile. Their parents can screw up, lose their tempers, and sometimes ignore their children’s needs, and yet if the overall pattern of care is reliable, then their kids still feel secure in their presence. Another lesson is that there is no one right parenting style. Parents can deliver stern punishments, and as long as the child thinks the conversation is coherent and predictable, then the attachment will probably still be secure.” – David Brooks, The Social Animal (Random House, 2011)
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