By Margaret Evans, EditorTraditionally, mid-February is when I write my annual Movie Column. During this grim, bleak, shabby excuse for a month, it always cheers me to look back at the year in movies and comment on the new batch of Oscar nominees. This year, it has somehow come to pass that I’ve only seen three of the nine films nominated for Best Picture. And I call myself a film buff? Disgraceful.
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Soprano Renee Fleming returns to Metropolitan Opera in the role that has become one of her signatures in the last 15 years, that of the title character in the Met’s revival of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka when USCB Center for the Arts presents The Met:Live in HD on Saturday, Feb. 8.
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USCB’s Festival Series continues on Sunday, February 9, at 5:00pm at the Center for the Arts. Artistic Director Edward Arron has planned a rich, varied program of some of the finest chamber music featuring works by Mozart, Brahms, Turina, and Schumann and is bringing in extraordinary artists for the performance.
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ONE Yoga Sanctuary opens on Lady’s Island The New Year rang in the opening of ONE Yoga Sanctuary. Located on the second floor of the Lady’s Island Marina, the studio offers a stunning view of the Beaufort waterfront.
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The Society of Bluffton Artists presents “Everyday Moments,” a collection of original pastel and oil paintings by local artist Shirley Good Bacher, on display from February 3 through March 1.
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On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, locals look back at the Oscar-sweeping cinematic sensation whose Lowcountry roots run deep. By Margaret Evans, Editor Who’d have imagined moving from metropolitan Atlanta to an obscure barrier island off the South Carolina coast could drastically broaden a girl’s horizons? It was the summer of 1993. I had lived on Fripp Island only a short time, but already my life had taken a decided turn for the glamorous. I’d met my literary hero Pat Conroy, who turned out to be a neighbor . . . and now, a movie was being filmed right down the street from my house!
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Women just love to laugh! And they love to laugh most with each other about their common problems and challenges. So, if you’re one of these women, get some friends together and come to “The Hen Party” at USCB Center for the Arts on Jan. 30 for an evening of hilarious introspection on the trials and tribulations we all face sooner or later.
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Open auditions will be held February 4 and 5 for the highly acclaimed “A Piece of My...
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“Some people call it “the sane version of Method acting,” said instructor Gail Westerfield, who is preparing to teach a class in Meisner Technique at ARTworks. “The class will be an introduction to the fundamentals of Sanford Meisner’s work, a practice that trains actors to be fully ‘in the moment’ on stage. Through a series of exercises, both experienced and inexperienced actors will learn what Meisner called ‘living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.'”
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The world of customer feedback has come a long way. If we circle back to around 1900, the life of many working Americans was bleak if not simply miserable. Sweat shops that we now only read about were a grim reality in New York and many other cities. Entire families worked backbreaking, soul destroying hours –up to 18 at a time – in conditions so foul and unhealthy as to demand outcry and immediate action.
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