“Poetry is not a form of entertainment, and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but our anthropological, genetic goal, our linguistic, evolutionary beacon.” – Joseph Brodsky April is National Poetry Month. Come celebrate poetry, our evolutionary beacon, with the members of the Otram Slabess Group on Saturday, April 13th at the Charles Street Gallery.
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Mac Rogers at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery Mac Rogers is the Beaufort Art Association Gallery’s featured artist now through May 11. Mac says, “I have been blessed over the years with many opportunities to travel and paint.” For this exhibit he offers a collection of more than 30 paintings centered on the theme of water.
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Dear Reader, I am writing to you from a Howard Johnson’s in Greensboro, NC. We’re here for another dance convention – our daughter’s obsession, remember? – after spending hours yesterday hoofing around downtown Greenville, SC, shooting video for an architecture documentary my husband’s making.
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Chuck Ferguson, designer and craftsman, gets inspired with his wife and daughter at Camp Caroline, a fish camp in the heart of the Lowcountry. Good design is a balance of function and ingenuity. A good designer takes both and fashions a product, or series of products, with the help of some thematic inspiration. For Chuck Ferguson, that inspiration is the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
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We don’t often buy a new house a thousand miles away in a completely different environment. So when we discovered our current home on Saint Helena Island, it was a very big deal for us. Tucked against a lovely tidal creek, the backyard was serene. It featured palmettos, stately live oaks, and a husky, we later learned, Meyer lemon tree—about twelve feet tall and another ten wide.
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‘GOLF: The Musical’ spoofs South Carolina’s favorite sport. GOLF: The Musical, which has played to international acclaim since its Off-Broadway premiere in 2003, is on stage at the Arts Center now through March 30th. This hilarious Saturday Night Live-style musical spoofs everything about the game of golf.
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Classic British farce takes the stage at USCB. “We’ve got slamming doors, mistaken identities, cute British accents, a half-naked ingénue, men with trousers around their ankles, and pratfalls down a flight of stairs,” says “Noises Off” director Gail Westerfield. “Oh, and sardines. Lots and lots of sardines. It’s pretty much a perfect play!”
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At Holy Trinity Classical Christian School, they’re cultivating virtue, wisdom and eloquence . . . and you can almost always hear someone singing. As any local parent will tell you, Beaufort’s educational landscape is ever-shifting, with charter schools springing up (first Riverview, now Bridges), “choice” programs coming and going (arts-infused, STEM, etc.), teachers and administrators shuffling to and fro, and school zones changing with a frustrating regularity.
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Storyteller Bil Lepp headlines the BIG Story Fest at ARTworks. Bil Lepp is the headliner of the BIG Story Fest, April 11-14 at ARTworks in Beaufort Town Center. He’s an internationally-known storyteller and humorist whose style has been described as a satisfying blend of Bill Cosby and Jeff Foxworthy.
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Duncan Sheik & Meredith Inglesby Come Home for a Great Cause – The Arts Center! They grew up with the beach as their hometown backdrop, but with the arts as a guiding force in their creative journeys. Both Duncan Sheik and Meredith Inglesby are hometown success stories, having each moved to New York and conquered the Big Apple. Now they’re back to celebrate the Arts Center, with a special performance at its Spring Gala, April 6.
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