The Beaufort Symphony cordially invites you to celebrate the holiday season with them on Thursday Evening, December 16th at 8:00 P.M. and a Sunday Matinee, December 19th at 3:00 P.M. at USCB’s Performing Arts Auditorium. The ‘Winter Soiree!’ will showcase the orchestra in both classical selections of Bach, Handel, and Tchaikovsky as well as lots of toe-tapping music of the season!
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Thirty-six years after making her Broadway debut, “Hello, Dolly!,” the grande dame of American musical theater, is still going strong, revival after crowd-pleasing revival. The Arts Center brings the Jerry Herman classic to the stage of the Elizabeth Wallace Theatre Dec. 1-26 in a lavish, knock-your-socks-off production guaranteed to spice up your holidays.
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Friends of Hunting Island State Park (FOHI) and the Hunting Island State Park are jointly hosting the Lowcountry version of the ever-popular Polar Bear Plunges with the 3rd Annual Pelican Plunge at Hunting Island State Park Lighthouse (North) Beach on January 1st, 2011 at 1:00 pm. The scene for the 2nd plunge was wet and wild: Ready? Set? Goooooo!” shouted park manager Jeff Atkins. And with that, hundreds of Pelican Plungers raced for the cold Atlantic on the first day of 2010. As a fabulous steel band played, about 400 people dove into the roaring surf or cheered the brave souls on.
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When the Lowcountry pulls off a coup, it’s always a big one, and when the University of South Carolina Beaufort was selected to sponsor the Steve Berry History Matters Writer’s Workshop, it was an impressive coup for the Lowcountry! On January 17, 2011, the 300th anniversary of the town of Beaufort, Steve Berry, international and New York Times bestselling author, will spend 3 hours teaching aspiring authors how to hone their craft and become bestselling authors. The Steve Berry Writer’s Workshop will be held at the Holiday Inn Beaufort, 2225 Boundary Street, Beaufort, from 1:30 – 5:00 pm on Monday, January 17, 2011. Registration is $95 and must be made through Jo Ann Kingsley, 843-521-4147 or kingsley@uscb.edu.
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Ring in the holiday season with storyteller Tim Lowry’s one-man performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, on Friday, December 10th at 6 p.m. at the Beaufort Branch Library. This one-of-a-kind holiday production is performed in the style of Mr. Dickens himself, using a variety of voices, presenting a parade of amusing characters, and displaying a wide range of emotion with witty, tongue-in-cheek delivery. In this traditional retelling, audiences can rediscover their Christmas spirit as the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future guide the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on a classic journey of memory and redemption. Bring the whole family to attend this free holiday event! No tickets or reservations are required.
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Christmas shopping just got easier and more exciting at the Beaufort Art Association Gallery, located in the historic George Elliott House at 1001 Bay St in Beaufort. The “Holiday Show & Boutique” offers affordable, artistic and unique gifts created by BAA artists. While browsing the boutique, you will also enjoy the original art of more than 70 artists displayed in grand style in this historic home. The newly released book of spectacular black and white photography by Sandy Dimke entitled “Hands – at work and at play in the Lowcountry of South Carolina” is also featured.
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(The Christmas Column that Almost Wasn’t) Readers, I’m in a bind. I’m determined to produce a Christmas column. Something meaningful. Something inspiring. Something you might clip out and send to your mother. I really need to write something like that. I’m guessing you really need to read something like that. Something that will warm your heart, quiet your mind, cut through the droning cacophony that’s the soundtrack of our age…
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USCB’s new music series, The Met: Live in HD, continues on the Historic Beaufort campus Saturday,...
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Area WW II veterans share their stories in a new documentary… Certain events profoundly influence the fabric of everyday culture. War is such an event. It impacts human emotion, nature and intellect. It inspires heroic deeds. It reveals a measure of loyalty, devotion to duty and spirit of sacrifice not normally seen. Everyday people reach out to help in the “effort,” and, suddenly, no task or mission is too small or too great. “Shoe Box Memories” is a documentary that, in its dialogue with a handful of veterans, pays tribute to all individuals who contributed to the effort.
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USCB to host Saga of Secession tour led by two acclaimed historians Charleston was agog with excitement in the early morning of December 20, 1860. Crowds had gathered in the streets and waited through the night. Finally news broke that the Ordinance of Secession was ready for signatures. The 169 delegates, led by members of the Beaufort District, unanimously voted and signed the parchment document. South Carolina became the first state of the Union to secede! – from Dr. Lawrence Rowland’s book, The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina Join the USCB Saga of Secession historic tour on Saturday, December 18, 2010 on the 150th anniversary of the signing and learn the answers to these questions: Who were these Beaufort Planters who led this rebellion? What circumstances led them to endanger the life they loved with this radical act?
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