For more than fifteen years now, the Beaufort Harbormasters have delivered Singing Valentines all around the Beaufort area. They have sung to sweethearts, wives, lovers, hospital patients and nurses, (even doctors), senior centers, office staff, Marine Corps families, restaurant and gallery patrons, firefighters, police officers, private parties, political meetings . . . and all sorts of innocent bystanders. What a way to spread the love.
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USCB Center for the Arts invites you to an Affair… with the Arts. The setting for this year’s fundraiser is late 1950’s Mad Men style cocktail lounges created by local designers Lisa Mykleby, Liz O’Herron, and Ann Gallant. The evening would not be complete with out signature cocktails, finger food, and of course, a chocolate fountain. Live Music by the Bull Grapes, dancing and a show are all part of the festivities. Local artists have created masterpieces on dinner plates that you will not believe.
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First Presbyterian Church Hilton Head Island will present the two programs in the “Beaufort County Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” series at 6:30 pm on January 25 and February 1. The programs are free and open to the public and are preceded by a dinner at 5:30 m. Dinner cost is $10 and reservations are required by 5 pm the Tuesday before.
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Karol Thompson will exhibit new works in graphite and pastels at the Charles Street Gallery in Beaufort from January 27 – February 18. A sixth generation Floridian now living in the Lowcountry, Karol has a PhD in Arts Education from Penn State and spent much of her career teaching Art and Humanities.
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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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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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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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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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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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“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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