The 2017 Short Story America Festival and Conference will be held in Beaufort for the fourth time, during the weekend of February 24th-26th. This three-day literary celebration of the short story will begin with a catered opening reception on Friday, February 24th, from 5 pm to 8 pm at the historic Lewis Reeve Sams House overlooking the water in downtown Beaufort.
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“In the vast repository of language, the poets never shout at you when you pass them by. Theirs is a seductive, meditative art. They hand you a file to cut your way out from any prison of misrule…. The poets of the world occupy a place of high honor in my city of books.” – Pat Conroy, My Reading Life
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South Carolina native Bren McClain will be touring extensively with her debut novel, One Good Mama Bone, published by USC Press under its Story River Books imprint. The imprint was founded by Pat Conroy, and McClain’s book was selected for publication by Conroy, himself, before his death last March.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor I think y’all know me well enough by now to know I won’t be writing about basketball. Actually, if I were smart I wouldn’t write about anything at all for a while. I’m so disoriented and discombobulated that any opinion I express might very well change a few hours from now, and almost certainly will have changed by the time you read this.
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“This is the problem with the media. You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally. The American people didn’t . . . They understood that sometimes, when you have a conversation with people, whether it’s around the dinner table or at a bar, you’re going to say things, and sometimes you don’t have all the facts to back it up.” – Corey Lewandowski “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”- John F. Kennedy
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Joseph Ausanio will star in Lean Ensemble Theatre’s ‘Tribes’ When Lean Ensemble Theater director Blake White decided to stage Nina Raine’s critically-acclaimed Tribes, he knew he’d be plunging the two-year-old theater company into new territory. The play, which tells the story of a young deaf man and his struggle to be understood in a hearing world, needed an actor who had experienced those challenges firsthand.
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Review by Margaret Evans, Editor “Opera isn’t going anywhere… it’s just changing,” Maeve Hoglund tells me as we chat at the bar of the Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head. “It’s becoming smaller. More intimate. Getting back to its roots. Like tonight.”
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Charles D. Frost, organist, and the Charleston Symphony Brass Quintet will present a recital of music for organ and brass on Sunday, February 12 at 4:00 p.m at Sea Island Presbyterian Church, 81 Lady’s Island Drive, Beaufort, South Carolina.
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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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