The Beaufort Arts Council/Mather Academy (www.beaufortartscouncil.org or www.matheracademy.org ), will be hosting a Beaux Arts Ball on November 12, 2016 from 7pm-11pm at the Beaufort Inn’s Tabby Place. In the wake of the announcement of the King Street Arts Center, the Beaufort Arts Council’s Beaux Arts Ball is a fundraising event that will contribute significantly to furthering art education opportunities in the new KSAC!
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By Mary Ellen Thompson There it was, sitting on a table at USCB during the Saturday evening reception for the Pat Conroy Literary Festival. I’m sure we all saw it; many of us thought it was something on exhibit, a sculpture of a desktop. Upon further inspection, it was clearly Pat Conroy’s desktop. It had a solid, enduring look, as if fashioned from wax.
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Hundreds of Pat Conroy fans, friends, and family members gathered in Beaufort, SC on Saturday night, October 22 for the closing ceremony of the inaugural Pat Conroy Literary Festival. The program, which took place in the auditorium of the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Center for the Arts, was intended to share information about the new nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, formed last April as a living legacy to the beloved writer Pat Conroy (The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, A Lowcountry Heart, and others), who died of pancreatic cancer on March 4, 2016.
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Beaufort Author Jack Gannon will debut his brand-new book I Walked in Santa’s Boots at 5 pm on Saturday, November 19, at Lowcountry Produce and Market, 302 Carteret St, Beaufort.
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The Thibault Gallery, 815 Bay Street, Beaufort, will highlight Lowcountry marshes, seascapes, and waterfront scenes by Linda Sheppard during November.
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Penn Center celebrates its 34th Annual Heritage Days Celebration, November 10-13, 2016 and honors South Carolina native artist Floyd Gordon, by naming him the 2016 Featured Artist. Penn’s York W. Bailey Museum located on St. Helena Island, South Carolina will exhibit a collection of Floyd Gordon’s artwork.
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David Noyes: Portraits opens at Art League Gallery November 8 and runs through December 3, 2016. The public is invited to the artist’s reception on Thursday, November 10th from 5 – 7 pm.
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Beaufort artist Aki Kato has been invited by the Pat Conroy Literary Center Board of Directors to paint a Lowcountry mural on a free-standing screen for display in the temporary home of the Literary Center at 308 Charles Street.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorA few weeks ago, a friend invited me to speak at an event being hosted by a local civic group later this month. A “post-election” event, specifically. The plan, she said, was to help our community heal, rebuild relationships and make new connections after this horrific election season. (No pressure, right?) The theme of my talk was to be “forgiveness and unity,” a topic upon which I have zero authority to speak. Fortunately, I was unavailable on the date they had in mind. Unfortunately, they changed the date.
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“He went to record stores and jazz clubs and sat alone in the back. What they saw: a scrawny Chinese guy, barely any meat on his bones, five-foot-seven on a good day, Coke-bottle glasses, cheap clothes, an underfed accountant’s underfed accountant loser brother. They saw a man who couldn’t dance. They heard a man who couldn’t sing. But in his leaky water-balloon heart, Sam could sing and dance.” – Lisa Ko, “Pat + Sam,” The Best American Short Stories 2016, Mariner Books
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