If it’s laughs you’re looking for this Christmas, cross it off your Santa wish list. The Arts Center’s production of “The Drowsy Chaperone” will have you ho, ho, ho’ing like the jolly old elf himself. “Drowsy Chaperone” runs Dec. 7-31, closing with a special New Year’s Eve performance. The 9:30 p.m. show on Dec. 31 will feature champagne, party favors and a countdown to 2012 with the cast.
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The publication of Short Story America Anthology, Volume I, marks another major milestone in Beaufort resident Tim Johnston’s quest to revive the great American literary art form. When Beaufort writer Tim Johnston launched his website Short Story America a couple of years ago, I interviewed him about his mission to rescue a dying literary art form. “The short story didn’t lose popularity because authors forgot how to write stories that entertain, move and matter,” Johnston told me during that conversation.
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LowCountry Children’s Chorus will be presenting its 10th Annual Holiday Concert on Saturday, December 10, at 3 pm at The Baptist Church of Beaufort, 600 Charles Street. This 10th Anniversary Celebration will also feature a guest choir. The St. Helena Royal School of Church Music for Boys and Girls will be singing several numbers and also collaborating with LCCC on some joint selections.
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The Smithsonian exhibit, New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music is coming to town! The Beaufort Branch Library, in cooperation with The Humanities Council SC will explore aspects of America’s roots music as it hosts the local showing of New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition.
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The Photography Club of Beaufort celebrate American Roots Music at the Beaufort Branch Library Celebrate the roots of American Music with the Photography Club of Beaufort. The club’s 2011 annual exhibit is currently hanging in the Second Floor Gallery of the Beaufort Library. This year the Library asked the club to coordinate their year-long project with the traveling Smithsonian exhibit “New Harmonies: American Roots Music,” which will be coming to the Beaufort branch in mid December. Club members spent the past year photographing every aspect of American Music from blues to jazz; from porches to street corners.
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New Work by Cabell Heyward at the Charles Street Gallery From December 9 through the 31st, the Charles Street Gallery offers a show of new work by Cabell Heyward, a contemporary oil painter of amazing realism crossed with flagrant surrealism, balanced by humor and skill.
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“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more . . . He became as good a friend, as good a master, as good a man as the good old City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world.” – Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol”
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Down the alley and up the stairs, ArtLofts takes Beaufort’s art scene to a whole new level. THE CONTACT POINT My first ever assignment for Lowcountry Weekly was to interview the author of 100 Best Small Art Towns in America. The Beaufort Guild of Galleries flew John Villani in for a weekend art event in February 2008. As I recall – much to the Guild’s chagrin – gale force winds and rains blew in right along with him.
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Down the alley and up the stairs, ArtLofts takes Beaufort’s art scene to a whole new level. THE CONTACT POINT My first ever assignment for Lowcountry Weekly was to interview the author of 100 Best Small Art Towns in America. The Beaufort Guild of Galleries flew John Villani in for a weekend art event in February 2008. As I recall – much to the Guild’s chagrin – gale force winds and rains blew in right along with him.
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(Part Two in a Series. Read Part One here.) As I mentioned in the last issue, Port Royal is in the midst of making significant history…again. The first part of this series took a look at the town’s various eras of prosperity as well as its many instances of untimely fate. By understanding the town’s history, readers can now share in the contagious excitement surrounding the current slate of events that will put 2011/2012 on the town’s perpetual timeline of monumental feats.
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