Remember about a year ago, when everybody was talking about the “gender gap” in Hollywood? No? Well, that’s probably because you live in Beaufort, SC – not Hollywood – and you have a job and a life and such. And possibly because you’re not obsessed with movies, like I am.
The 11th Beaufort International Film Festival enters a new dimension with a groundbreaking partnership with USCB
With each iteration, the Beaufort International Film Festival seems to expand its scope and refine its mission. Festival runners, Ron and Rebecca Tucker, have long sought to integrate an academic aspect into the festival, more so since BIFF moved into the USCB Center for the Arts.
Joseph Ausanio will star in Lean Ensemble Theatre’s ‘Tribes’
When Lean Ensemble Theater director Blake White decided to stage Nina Raine’s critically-acclaimed Tribes, he knew he’d be plunging the two-year-old theater company into new territory. The play, which tells the story of a young deaf man and his struggle to be understood in a hearing world, needed an actor who had experienced those challenges firsthand.
“Opera isn’t going anywhere… it’s just changing,” Maeve Hoglund tells me as we chat at the bar of the Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head. “It’s becoming smaller. More intimate. Getting back to its roots. Like tonight.”
Charles D. Frost, organist, and the Charleston Symphony Brass Quintet will present a recital of music for organ and brass on Sunday, February 12 at 4:00 p.m at Sea Island Presbyterian Church, 81 Lady’s Island Drive, Beaufort, South Carolina.
For more than fifteen years now, the Beaufort Harbormasters have delivered Singing Valentines all around the Beaufort area. They have sung to sweethearts, wives, lovers, hospital patients and nurses, (even doctors), senior centers, office staff, Marine Corps families, restaurant and gallery patrons, firefighters, police officers, private parties, political meetings . . . and all sorts of innocent bystanders. What a way to spread the love.