A renowned horseman once said, “When you have the smell of a horse in your blood, it never leaves you.” Artist Steve Weeks had a few horse lessons as a child and took a few dates out on trail rides, but it was when his wife Martha had him back in the saddle several decades later that rekindled the flame of his admiration for horses.
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120 original pieces of art will be up for grabs on October 3rd at Got Art?, Art League of Hilton Head’s annual fundraising benefit. Doors open at 5pm with a preview and reception, including wine, hors d’oeuvres and live music, followed by an exciting live drawing for artwork. Every ticket holder will choose an original piece of art to take home by the end of the night. Tickets are drawn in random order and you never know which artworks will still be available as each name is called. It always proves to be a fun and lively night! The event is limited to 100 tickets, sold at $100 a piece. Each ticket admits 2 people and guarantees one piece of art.
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A cooperative exhibit of Sweet Bay and Beaufort Art Association Experience the blending of two art forms. The beauty of floral design coupled with Beaufort Art Association’s painters, photographers, and jewelers will be a treat beyond compare. For the next two months, October through November, the featured artist show at BAA will be “Gatherings.”
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Acrylic Paintings by Vickie Jourdan The Society of Bluffton Artists Gallery welcomes Vickie Jourdan as featured artist from October 5 – 31. Color and texture are at the forefront in Vickie’s exciting paintings in the exhibit she’s calling “Color Me Abstract.”
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Why is this theatre important to you? This simple question was posed to the cast of Beaufort Theatre Company’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ opening this month on the ‘main stage’ of The USCB Center for the Arts. The expectation was that answers would be similar, with echoes of “it is important to the community,” or “I love having the opportunity to do something I love.” But, they weren’t…
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Deeply rooted in an ancient, time-honored tradition, the Golden Dragon Acrobats bring to the stage incredible grace, power and beauty in performance that is unparalleled in other art forms.
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Beaufort’s newest bookstore offers up the stuff of dreams. Story and Photos by Mark Shaffer “Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.” ― Stephen King, The Waste Lands
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The Italian Heritage Festival on Hilton Head celebrates a growing population and cultural influence in the Lowcountry. Growing up on Hilton Head in the 1970’s, I was accustomed to a certain kind of southern pace, that included predictable, hot, hazy, slow summers, blended with buttery, salty, lowcountry flavors that stewed all day long with fat back. Houses took four to nine months to build, give or take (nobody got into a fist-fight over a completion date, because well… why rush it?), and the lines at banks and post offices stood still while people caught up with one another’s family news. There weren’t many stoplights, but there were a lot of ‘Yield’ signs and of course, rotaries.
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The Santa Elena Foundation if offering Lowcountry residents two unique opportunities to meet Spanish Count Alvaro Armada, the current Adelantado of la Florida and direct descendent of 16th century founder of Santa Elena, Pedro Menendez de Aviles.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor Writer Richard Hawley will be the featured presenter at the opening of the 3rd Short Story America Festival and Conference in Beaufort, where he’ll debut his new novel Greeves Passing. I met Hawley two years ago during this same event, and a few months later had the pleasure of reviewing his marvelous short story collection, The Other World, about which I wrote…
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