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Stars Align for 'Bama in Beaufort

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BIFF stars fell

Apart from a readily available and highly effective vaccine what the world in lockdown craves most right now is distraction. We wish to be removed from reality and transported to a place without care in a way not experienced since the Great Depression. As it turns out, the perfect prescription for pandemic escapism was filled right here in Beaufort and is currently being administered at will, often in multiple doses, via your preferred method of Video on Demand.�

Requiem for a (Movie) Heavyweight

Film

Danny Aiello�s final film premieres at BIFF

�Michael Corleone says hello.��

The scene is from Francis Ford Coppola�s classic The Godfather: Part II. Corleone family enforcer, Tony Rosato casually drops the line as he attempts to assassinate Frank Pantangeli in one of the film�s most harrowing and pivotal moments. It was Danny Aiello�s only line in the film. In hindsight it served as his �hello� as one of the great character actors of his time.

Against All Odds

Film

The 15^thAnnual Beaufort International Film Festival Goes Live

BIFFlogo By Mark Shaffer, Editor at Large

Around this time last year as the Beaufort International Film Festival was coming to the end of another record-breaking run, the term �COVID 19� was rapidly becoming part of the worldwide public lexicon. Ron and Rebecca Tucker � like most people � thought that whatever this thing was, it would certainly run its course by summer�s end. And then like the hackneyed plot of a Sci-Fi �B� movie, the world went into lockdown. The virus spread, and . . . well, we all know the rest. The Tuckers, who run the festival via the Beaufort Film Society, have parlayed BIFF into a destination event during a traditionally slow time for business in Beaufort. If at all possible, the Tuckers felt the show must go on.�

Music of Love, Passion, and Place

Music

Chamber Ani Aznavoorian The third concert of the 41st USCB Chamber Music season will be performed on Sunday, January 31, 5:00 pm. Socially distanced in-house attendees and a virtual audience will be dazzled by vibrant, life-affirming music. Artistic Director Andrew Armstrong has selected three extraordinary, new-to-this-series artists to join him, two of whom were contacted on short notice due to coronavirus-related personnel changes.

USCB Chamber Music audiences have come to expect exceptional concerts as a matter of course. Having Artistic Directors with deep connections within and beyond the chamber music fraternity has sustained a level of performance excellence equal to that of New York, London, or Paris. It is a tribute to Charles Wadsworth, Edward Arron, and Andrew Armstrong, as well as the knowledgeable, supportive low-country audience that players of international caliber choose to perform in Beaufort.

South Carolina Stories

Books

Novelists Bren McClain and Jon Sealy in virtual conversation��

On�Wednesday, January 27, at 6:00 p.m., the Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a�virtual conversation with fiction writers Bren McClain and Jon Sealy as they discuss South Carolina stories--what they are and aren't, and the challenge of writing stories that are timely and yet timeless. They will also read from their novels: Bren�s�One Good Mama Bone�and Jon�s�The Merciful.�This free program will be moderated by Brooke McKinney, the Conroy Center's communications and events coordinator.

Books
On Wednesday, January 20, at 6:00 p.m., the Pat Conroy Literary Center and NeverMore Books will host a free virtual evening with Estelle Ford-Williamson, author of the new novel�Rising Fawn, in conversation with the Conroy Center's communications and events coordinator Brooke McKinney. Estelle and Brooke will be joined by a special appearance by Jennifer Daniels, a Lookout Mountain-based alt-country, folk rock band that inspired a scene in the novel.�
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