- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Events
Art Meets Orchestra
September 10, 2007 – 3:24 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra looks and sounds fancy, but it isn’t too proud to take a few hand-outs. On Thursday Sep. 13Â from 6 to 9 p.m., Rebekah Jacob Modern on King St. will present a night of art and classical music to raise money for the CSO.
Artists Donna Hurt, Eric Abrecht and Jennifer Shaw will […]
South Windermere Wraps
September 4, 2007 – 12:35 pm
It’s official: South Windermere Cinemas, West Ashley’s only family-run moviehouse, is closing for good. A bunch of fans of the $3-a-ticket venue will be saying farewell to the managers with a party on Wednesday, September 12 from 6-9 p.m.
Everyone who’s ever caught a cheap flick there is invited, as well as all the people who kept […]
Campus Media Tour falls together
August 27, 2007 – 10:40 am
Organic Process is an organization founded two years ago by Charleston-based artist/filmmaker Farrah Hoffmire and her husband, BookSurge instigator Mitchell Davis. The Process is dedicated to setting up memorable art and media projects such as 2005’s Pieces of Sanity, a group multimedia show at the Humanities Center on Rutledge Ave.
Recently, Hoffmire and Davis have been highlighting […]
Furry News
August 22, 2007 – 1:38 pm
The John Ancrum SPCA’s Furry Affair art auction won’t be held until Friday night at 6 p.m. But the art’s on display right now at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, and the organization is taking bids.
Here’s a chance to see the lots without having to worry about having to negotiate crowds of patrons, autograph hunters chasing […]
Summer Dreams
August 4, 2007 – 8:59 am
The South of Broadway Theatre Company on East Montague Ave. has been kind to visual artists of late, tinkering with its potential as an exhibition space during this year’s North Charleston Art Walk (back in May).
In a couple of weeks it will host an alternate art show featuring artists like Hashenda Baxter, Mia Jenkins, Sharen […]
SCETV to rebroadcast firefighter memorial tonight
June 27, 2007 – 2:00 pm
If you weren’t one of the 30,000-plus people who trekked out to North Chuck for the stirring memorial service the City of Charleston held for its nine fallen firefighters last week, you can still experience the communal catharsis via television: SCETV’s rebroadcasting the whole thing tonight at 9 p.m. and again Wed. July 4 at […]
48-Hour Film Project headed for Charleston
June 19, 2007 – 4:08 pm
Back in the summer of 2002, when I was still a freelancer for the City Paper waiting for all the post-9/11 brouhaha to blow over so I could return to New York City (how little I knew), I found myself participating in something called Stopwatch Cinema — a short film contest that pitted local teams […]
