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SC Aquarium presents Aquarium Aglow

See the Aquarium in a whole new light! OPEN SELECT EVENINGS THROUGH JANUARY 2, 2022, visit website for specific dates. New for 2021, Aquarium Aglow is a one-of-a-kind holiday experience in downtown Charleston! This immersive holiday light spectacular brings forthRead more

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Sound of Charleston – Holiday Edition

Circular Congregational Church 150 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Come enjoy the music that is so much a part of Charleston’s rich history…from gospel spirituals, jazz, music of Gershwin to Civil War songs and light classics….all coming to life in weekly concerts at historic Circular Congregational Church. Charleston’s finestRead more

$16 – $28
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Romare Bearden: Abstraction

Gibbes Museum of Art 135 Meeting St., Charleston, SC, United States

Gallery 8 & 9 With some 55 paintings, works on paper and collages, Romare Bearden: Abstraction is the first exhibition to fully examine and contextualize the artist’s significant body of abstract work. Recognized as one of the most creative and original visualRead more

Free – $12

Happy New Year, Charleston!

Charleston Visitors Center 385 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Come celebrate with your friends and neighbors at this family-friendly, non-alcohol event. We will have live music and entertainment as the evening progresses.

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CSO Masterworks – Hart of Tchaikovsky

Charleston Gaillard Center 95 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC

This performance will explore fanfare, reflection, and fate with music from two living composers and a 19th Century Russian Romantic. The concert opens with Black American composer Adolphus Hailstork’s Fanfare on “Amazing Grace,” a work performed by “The President’s Own”Read more

CMC Ovation Concert Series

Historic Dock Street Theatre 135 Church Street, Charleston, SC, United States

Chamber Music Charleston’s Ovation Concert Series continues with the return of guest pianist Phillip Bush and violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti joining musicians of CMC to perform Mahler’s Quartet Movement for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in A minor alongside Franck’sRead more

$5 – $50
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Griots of Cotton, Indigo, & Clay

City Gallery 34 Prioleau St, Charleston, SC, United States

Griots of Cotton, Indigo, & Clay debuts the permanent collection of the Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund, an evolution of the advocacy efforts of the Black Belt Justice Center. Curated by Torreah “Cookie” Washington, and featuring over 75 piecesRead more

Free, reservations required

CSO Pops – The Great American Songbook

Charleston Gaillard Center 95 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC

There was a time before Elvis swiveled his hips on national television and prior to anyone knowing a musical genre called “rock and roll.” Music written during what we now call the Great American Songbook originally started around 100 yearsRead more

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Ben Butler

Cannon Street Arts Center 134 Cannon Street, Charleston, SC, United States

BEN BUTLER BY RICHARD STRAND Directed by Sharon Graci Cannon Street Arts Center January 21 – February 12 When an escaped slave shows up at Fort Monroe demanding sanctuary, General Benjamin Butler is faced with an impossible moral dilemma—follow theRead more

$28 – $40