Secret Life of Bees and NY Times Bestselling Author, Sue Monk Kidd will help USCB celebrate the 10th anniversary of the USCB Lunch With Author series on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Beaufort. Kidd is launching the paperback tour of her memoir, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France, written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor.
Project Runway: Beaufort Stylereturns for the second “season” show, “Art of Couture Madness,” on Friday, September 24 at 7:30 PM at a new location – the USCB Performing Arts Center. “Art of Couture” class instructor Pat Wilcox has challenged her students to create fashions in four categories: everyday and formal wear; costumes; and tailored suits. Unlike the hit American reality television series Project Runway, where contestants are usually restricted by time, materials, and theme, Project Runway: Beaufort Style contestants are only restricted by their own creativity. Willcox has told her students to “have fun, create, let your mind’s eye run free, then capture your vision through sketches, fabric, and making your own patterns.” The students select their category(s), purchase their own material and work independently under the guidance of Willcox.
The Beaufort Art Association will feature recent paintings and drawings by Pat Connor in an appealing exhibit entitled “Pets, People, and Other Animals.” The show opens on September 7 and runs through October 16. A reception for the artist, to which the public is cordially invited, will be held on Friday, September 17, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the BAA Gallery in the historic Elliott House, 1001 Bay Street at the corner of Charles Street in Beaufort.
The Hilton Head Island New Play Festival is an event unlike any other in the Lowcountry. It’s an opportunity for playwrights to receive feedback on their work from audiences outside New York and L.A. and hear a different perspective than they might find elsewhere. It gives Hilton Head residents the chance to hear brand new plays and shape the final product into something that speaks to them and their experiences. SCRC is becoming a testing ground for new voices and is an organization that is committed to nurturing American playwrights. The Hilton Head Island New Play Festival will also strengthen our relationship with the SCRC audience by providing a venue for frank discussion of the work while offering new audience members another way to experience theater on the Island.
“Some people call it “the sane version of Method acting,” said instructor Gail Westerfield, who is preparing to teach a class in Meisner Technique at ARTworks. “The class will be an introduction to the fundamentals of Sanford Meisner’s work, a practice that trains actors to be fully ‘in the moment’ on stage. Through a series of exercises, both experienced and inexperienced actors will learn what Meisner called ‘living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.’”
The Beaufort Film Society has announced that the first ever poster art contest for the 2011 Film Festival is underway. The winner’s artwork will represent the 5th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival in all event promotions. The deadline for contest submissions is August 31st, and all the contest rules and submission guidelines can be found at http://www.beaufortfilmsociety.org/.