Arts & Entertainment
First Art in the Parks Installation Displayed in Hampton Park
Sculptures engraved with local children’s drawings, maps of Charleston and images of plant life have been installed in Hampton Park, part of a new Art in the Parks program created by the Charleston Parks Conservancy in collaboration with Redux Contemporary Art Center and the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs. The four large-scale pieces…
Read MoreBeyoncé Announces Homecoming Scholars Award Program For 2018-2019 Following Her Historic Headlining Show At Coachella
Today, Beyoncé, through her BeyGOOD initiative, announces the four schools to receive the newly established Homecoming Scholars Award Program for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Universities, Xavier, Wilberforce, Tuskegee and Bethune-Cookman, are all Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). HBCUs are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil…
Read MoreDr. Ade Ofunniyin curates new City Gallery exhibit “WOKE: Rattling Bones, Conversations, Holy Rites and Sacred Places”
The “WOKE: Rattling Bones, Conversations, Holy Rites and Sacred Places” exhibition at the City Gallery is open from April 4 – May 6. A free community event will be held April 16 with a talk by the archaeologists that uncovered the African remains during the Gaillard construction in 2013, Nic Bulter, historian with the Public Library, and…
Read More2nd Annual Charleston Civil Rights Film Fest Set for April 25-26
The second installment of the annual Charleston Civil Rights Film Fest will take place on April 25 and 26, 2018. Anticipation is high this year after the event debuted to wide acclaim in 2017, with the Charleston premiere of Stanley Nelson’s Tell Them We Are Rising in addition to an appearance by Danny Glover, who…
Read More36th Annual North Charleston Arts Fest Set for May 2-6
The annual North Charleston Arts Fest is just one month away, set to take place May 2-6. The celebration of arts and culture highlights the talents of national, regional, and local artists and performers in the areas of dance, music, theatre, visual arts, media arts, and literature. Performances, activities, and exhibits are scheduled to take…
Read MoreMike Colter, Gabourey Sidibe, Danny Glover and an All-Star Cast Perform The Radical King for Audible
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, today announced the release of The Radical King. This collection of twenty-three of Martin Luther King Jr.’s essays and speeches, curated by Cornel West, is performed by LeVar Burton, Mike Colter, Leslie Odom, Jr., Colman Domingo, Danny Glover, Gabourey Sidibe,…
Read MoreBlack Panther Makes Big Statements Across the Board
By Jolie O’Rourke Your new favorite superhero movie just got bigger! Black Panther was recently titled the No. 1 highest-grossing superhero film ever in the U.S. This weekend, sales bumped the total domestic boxoffice ticket sales to $630.9 million, surpassing The Avengers with $623.4 million back in 2012. Black Panther is also currently the No.…
Read MoreAfrofuturism panel and Artist Salon go beyond featured exhibitions at CMA
The Columbia Museum of Art offers two exciting programs that delve deeper into the work of two pioneering female photographers as their exhibitions draw to a close. Renée Cox: Soul Culture closes Sunday, April 22. Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham closes Sunday, April 29. Afrofuturism & Beyond Thursday, April 12 | Galleries and cash bar open at…
Read MoreThe Speak Freely Foundation Hosts Its First Poetry Festival
The Speak Freely Foundation (SFF) presents its inaugural poetry festival on April 12-14, 2018 in North Charleston, SC. The 2018 Speak Freely Foundation Poetry Festival is purposed to raise awareness about poetry’s importance to the arts and youth. Studies have shown that fine arts are therapeutic, and through exposing children to the art of poetry,…
Read MoreCharleston County School of the Arts senior Malachi Jones to be honored at Carnegie Hall
Malachi Jones is on his way to Carnegie Hall – not to perform though. Instead, the senior at Charleston County School of the Arts (SOA) will visit the historic performing arts center to be honored for his talent and ability in writing. The nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers awarded him with a Gold…
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