Charleston journalist and author Jason Ryan will join us to discuss his book in which he chronicles the 1927 Dole Air Derby and the first flights across the Pacific in the 1920s.
The College of Charleston’s Arts Management Program will host Charlotte Sellmyer, Senior Vice President of External Affairs for the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Simons CenterRead more
Join Adam Parker and Cleveland Sellers, Jr. for the launch of Parker's biography on Sellers, Outside Agitator. Additional guests will discuss the history of the freedom movement, the seminal 1968 Orangeburg Massacre, and current challenges facing activists today. Parker's incisive biography detailsRead more
Join the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art for a lecture by "Southbound" exhibition photographer Jeff Rich, a South Carolina-based photographer and educator who explores water-related issues via long-term documentary projects about specific regions of the United States. He earned hisRead more
Sybil Fix, a Charleston artist and writer, paints birds in order to free them from the invisibility to which they have been relegated by our insatiable appetites and dulled sense of observation. Her work seeks to highlight and sensitize usRead more
Marcus Amaker, Charleston's 1st Poet Laureate, will recite two original poems and serve as DJ. Don't forget to bring cash; copies of his music and poetry will be available for sale DANCEFX, Charleston's Premier Nonprofit Adult and Youth Dance Studio willRead more
Regina Marler, editor of Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell, and Sarah Milroy, curator of the recent Vanessa Bell exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery London, discuss the modernist painter, a pivotal figure in 20th century British art - as innovative as her sister Virginia WoolfRead more
David Hare was recently described by the Washington Post as "the premier political dramatist writing in English." His stage plays include the Tony Award nominated Plenty, Racing Demon, and Skylight, and his screenplays include Damage, The Hours, The Reader, and Denial. His memoir, The Blue Touch Paper, is a frank account ofRead more
In the era of populism, Christopher Dickey, World News Editor of The Daily Beast, and David Hare, British playwright renowned for his state of the nation dramas, discuss the implications of the Trump regime in the US and Brexit in the UKRead more
Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. A deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture, it describes the contradictions of her comparatively privileged upbringing among Chicago's upper-class Black community. She is alsoRead more
