Uncork the Festival!
Local civic organizations are invited to compete in Grape Stomping & I Love Lucy Look-Alike contests for their favorite charity.
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Author: Margaret Evans
HS2 to Ignite Arts Center Stage
Bringing its unique sizzle to the stage, the contemporary dance company, Hubbard Street 2 (HS2), based in Chicago, IL, will be performing at the Arts Center for one night only, at 8pm, January 18th. Celebrating 15 years this season, HS2 was founded by Julie Nakaawa Bottcher and is now led by Taryn Kaschock Russell. HS2 was recently acclaimed by the Julliard Journal Online as “….a tremendous show of virtuosity, beauty and intimacy.”
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Arts Center Welcomes Andrea Gannon
The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina has just announced that Andrea Gannon as its new Vice President of Marketing, with responsibility for promoting all events at the Arts Center as well as the Center’s branding presence in the region and on the internet.
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Southern Scenes
Gloria Dalvini will be Beaufort Art Association Gallery’s featured artist from January 6 to February 16. A reception to meet the artist will be Friday evening, January 11 from 5:30 to 7:30 at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery, 913 Bay Street.
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Newtown On Our Minds
It’s been a numbing transition. In the past few weeks, Newtown has gone from a dot on the map to a state of mind. My journey spans 30 years.
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Do You Hear The People (and Hugh Jackman) Sing?
It’s that time of year when folks like me are expected to offer up an annual reflection . . . a thoughtful retrospective that somehow – through the magic of hindsight? – might lend new insight into the year gone by. Since I can hardly remember what happened last week, much less last year, I began reading through my old columns to see what I obsessed about most in 2012. Was it the soul-crush of election year politics? The antisocial effects of social media?
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Election Reflections
Getting All Their Frogs in the Wheelbarrow… Like of lot of folks I know, I was glad to finally have the 2012 election in the rear view mirror. Certainly the so-called battleground states, especially Ohio, a wonderful place I called home in the 80’s, must have let out a giant sigh of relief. Especially, one supposes, if their candidates won.
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Let’s Take the Plunge!
Friends of Hunting Island gear up for 5th Annual Pelican Plunge It was January 1st, 2010. I called my neighbor, Amy Matthews, and said, “I don’t want to hear the word ‘no.’ Come on, we’re doing the Pelican Plunge.” Unfamiliar with the event, she said, “Huh?”
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That’s Life
LCSOPA’s Deanna Kraszewski bids a fond farewell to Beaufort. She did it her way, and we all took her lead. This 30-year-old pirouetted into Beaufort with not only the desire to teach dance, but the resolve to instill a love of the performing arts in the youth that call the Lowcountry home. And, as Deanna Kraszewski gives her last curtsy Saturday, she will certainly elicit a standing ovation from parents, grandparents, peers and friends, all of whom have benefited from her tenacity, strength and grace.
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Anything Goes
… this Holiday Season at the Arts Center On stage now at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Island is Anything Goes. It is without a doubt, a must-see during your holiday festivities, running through December 30th, and receiving rave reviews from delighted theater-goers.
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
