Celebrate the arts in Beaufort County. Here are upcoming gallery shows, performances
We’ve just experienced two years of the most unimaginable challenge to our lifestyles, including our ability to enjoy and appreciate the cultural arts. COVID-19 and its variants have determined how and when we will re-emerge, ready to go forward.
Happily, artists have been easing into their efforts to bring about a fresh season of transportive experiences. For the coming month, here are some of the offerings planned in Beaufort County.
Performing Arts
The Lean Ensemble
Other Desert Cities
The story, from leanensemble.org: “Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history — a wound they don’t want re-opened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.”
Other Desert Cities, by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Chip Egan, opens Jan. 20 and runs through Jan. 30. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday.
HHPS Main Street Theatre, 3000 Main Street, Hilton Head Island. Tickets: (843) 715-6676 or leanensemble.org
The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra
Piazzolla performs with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra
Jose-Luis Novo, conductor
Hector Del Curto, Bandoneo’n
Manuel de Falla: Three Cornered Hat, Suite No. 1
Astor Piazzolla Acongagua: Concerto for Bandoneo’n
Juan Criso’stomo Arriaga Overture from Los esclavos felices
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose
4 p.m. Jan. 23; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24
Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, hhso.org, First Presbyterian Church, Hilton Head Island. Tickets: (843) 842-2055
USCB Center for the Arts
SMOKEY & ME: a Celebration of Smokey Robinson
The Jan. 26 show — one night only at the Center for the Arts — stars Charl Brown, nominated for a Tony for his role in Motown: The Musical on Broadway and London’s West End.
Enjoy this delightful story that celebrates the life, music and career of acclaimed singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson. He has received numerous awards, including the Grammy Living Legend Award, and has also been inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $40 for adults, $35 or seniors, and $25 for students. Available at www.uscbcenterforthearts.com, at the door prior to the show, or (843) 521-4145.
USCB Center for the Arts, 805 Carteret St., Beaufort.
The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Based on Mark Hadddon’s worldwide, best-selling novel, the story follows a 15-year-old boy, Christopher, who discovers his neighbor’s dog has died. After Christopher is held under suspicion, knowing he didn’t do it, he makes it his mission to solve the case. The show won seven Olivier Awards and five Tony Awards, including Best Play.
Directed by Whitaker Gannon, the show runs Feb. 2-20 at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, artshhi.com, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island. Box Office: (843) 842-2787
Visual arts
The Art League of Hilton Head
Anything Goes!
The first in a year-long series of events celebrating Art League’s 50th Anniversary, the annual member show, Anything Goes!, officially kicks off the year in celebration of Art League’s artists and their best work.
“This years Anything Goes! show will be a special one,” said Kristen McIntosh, general manager. “Not only will we showcase our members’ creative achievements but also begin to celebrate and commemorate a milestone year in Art League’s history.”
artleaguehhi.org/gallery, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island. (843) 681-5060
The Art Beyond Tradition Group presents: Interpretations
The Art Beyond Tradition Group returns to the Coastal Discovery Museum with its biennial exhibition of abstract art. With a focus on line, color, form, texture, shape and value, the artists bring their unique vision to the many different faces of abstraction.
Participating artists include Earline Allen, Joanna Chalson, Cindy Chiappetta, Margaret Crawford, John Crum, Jo Dye, Vickie Jourdan, Mark Larkin, Sharon Collings Licata, Donna Varner, Arla Crumlich Wible, and Irene K. Williamson.
Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn, 70 Honey Horn Drive, Hilton Head Island. (843) 689-6767. www.Coastaldiscovery.org
Meet and Greet the Artists: Jan. 20 from 3-5 p.m.
Reception: Feb. 3, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Artist Walks: Every Thursday from noon to 2 p.m.
Center for the Arts, University of South Carolina Beaufort
Dual Gallery Rock Inspired Exhibit at USCB Center for the Arts
Nationally published illustrator and retired college professor Frank Cerulli is staging a dual gallery exhibit of rock and pop culture through February at the USCB Center for the Arts.
The unique one-person show combines culture and illustration in a colorful tribute to some of the greatest musical masters of the rock and roll era, including John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, and Joni Mitchell. Cerulli’s interpretative pop-inspired portraits and illustrations capture the likeness as well as the souls of the artists in bright, bold and exceptional expressive ways.
The Gallery at USCB, 801 Carteret Street, Beaufort. (843) 521-3145. uscbcenterforthearts.com
SOBA
Lowcountry artists are invited to submit their work for the Society of Bluffton Artists’ (SOBA) 28th Annual Judged Show March 7-April 3. An awards reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. March 9. Registration deadline is March 1.
sobagallery.com. (843) 757 3776
La Petite Gallerie
La Petite Gallerie, an intimate Old Town Bluffton shop with local art, is featuring abstract artist Rose Cofield this month. Cofield’s work exploring the possibilities of form and shape with various materials have taught her to bend to the inherent attributes as well as the limitations of her chosen medium. Her abstract works in mixed media include collage, acrylic paints, mixed media, canvas and found materials.
lapetitegallerie.com, 56 Calhoun Street, Bluffton.
Cofield’s website: art-rose-cofield.com.
