Red Piano Too hosts Annual Summer Show, featuring the work of Shirley “SA” Hunter. No mistake about it – it’s summer time on Saint Helena Island with heat ‘n more heat at the Red Piano Too Art Gallery’s Annual Summer Show. Be sure to mark your calendar for Saturday, August 4, 2012 from 1-5 pm at the gallery “Where Art is Joy.”
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Short Story America, the Beaufort-based publisher of great short stories by current and classic authors, has announced that its acclaimed first anthology, The Short Story America Anthology, Volume I, is now available on Kindle. This 580-page collection of 56 short stories by 46 top authors has been called “literary fiction at its best” and “better than Best American Short Stories” by reviewers.
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The inaugural Short Story America Festival and Conference comes to Beaufort. Great news for fans of literature in the Lowcountry! The inaugural Short Story America Festival and Conference is scheduled for September 21-23, 2012 right here in historic Beaufort.
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USCB presents “The Phantom of the Opera” 25th Anniversary production live from the Royal Albert Hall… and “Love Never Dies” a week later. To mark its 25th Anniversary year, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh present “The Phantom of the Opera” in a fully-staged, lavish production, set in the sumptuous Victorian splendor of the Royal Albert Hall.
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Jan Nordby Gretlund will give a talk called “Clyde Edgerton’s Grandmas and Mummies: Age and Aging in the Carolinas” on Tuesday, August 7th at 4 pm at the Beaufort branch of the Beaufort County Library.
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The inaugural Short Story America Festival and Conference comes to Beaufort. Great news for fans...
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The Photography Club of Beaufort will have Bluffton photographer Marge Agin as their guest speaker for their August meeting. Marge’s program is “Out of the Box in Photoshop.” She will show how to enhance average or even exceptional photos using Photoshop techniques.
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Carol Newsome will be the featured artist from August 5 through September 15 at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery. Carol first started painting in watercolor and it’s her first love, but she’s branched out to oil and acrylic. You will see some of each in her show. The public is invited to meet the artist at a reception on Friday, August 10th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.
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What Can We Do? Lately (or perhaps always?) the news has been filled with heinous people doing heinous things: Sandusky, Holmes, among others. The comments under the news feeds spew outrage, fear, horror and are riddled with terms like “evil,” “sick,” “madman,” and “crazy.” I have two questions: How DO we judge these shocking people? And how do we keep up with the reality of our world without becoming totally overwhelmed and embittered? Jennifer, St. Helena Island, SC
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August makes me grumpy. It always has. Not only are we knee deep in swampy, soupy summer now, but we know what’s coming – September… with all its false promise. We never learn, do we? Every year, we look to September with renewed energy and hope in our hearts (back-to-school! first-day-of-fall!), only to have that hope crushed out – mercilessly – by a month even hotter and more oppressive than August.
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