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CALENDAR: One week to go with Spoleto festivals

Charleston’s Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto Festival continue through June 13 with performances and events all over town. You can find the printed 16-page Piccolo Spoleto 2021 guide online (right) in the Charleston City Paper and at venues around town. But because this season’s free events are being continuously updated, you might want to also check at charlestonarts.org to get the most updated information on events. Piccolo is a companion celebration to Spoleto Festival USA.

by Charleston Currents · 06/07/2021 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

NEW for 5/24: Mapp wins fellowship; Improve jail safety; Piccolo Spoleto

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Charleston Law graduate wins prestigious fellowship
COMMENTARY, Brack: Legislature needs to get it right on making state, jails safer
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SC Clips
NEWS BRIEFS: Spoleto season starts May 28; Piccolo guide is now online
FEEDBACK: Send us a letter
MYSTERY PHOTO: Familiar archway
CALENDAR: Take the bus to the beach

by Charleston Currents · 05/24/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

FOCUS: Piccolo Spoleto 2019 has something for everyone

Staff reports | Hold onto your hats for what may be the most memorable Piccolo Spoleto season ever when the city’s annual arts tribute opens May 24 for 17 days.

“The arts resound throughout Charleston year-round, but Piccolo Spoleto’s performances and exhibitions afford special license for the arts to be your guide as you discover landmark houses of worship, historic parks and celebrated public spaces, as well as lesser-known performance venues off the beaten path,” Mayor John Tecklenburg said in his annual welcome letter.

For the 2019 season, artists will be using two new venues — the Cannon Street Arts Center downtown and “The Pearl” at Charleston Stage’s new West Ashley Theater Center. Several shows will take place at the Cannon Street venue, including “Big Mama’s House” (May 24-26); “Butcher Stories” (May 29-30, June 2); “The Why” (June 7-8); “Too Much Memory” (May 29-June 1); “Reality is Overrated” (May 31-June 1); and “Vincent John Doe” (June 6-9). Other shows that caught our attention: …

by Charleston Currents · 05/06/2019 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news

5/6, full issue: Piccolo Spoleto, state Senate, tulip trip; new pier

IN THIS ISSUE

FOCUS: Piccolo Spoleto 2019 has something for everyone
COMMENTARY, Brack: State Senate has changed a lot in two decades
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: South Carolina Ports Authority
PHOTO ESSAY: The colors of spring in Holland and Belgium
GOOD NEWS: County to replace Folly Beach pier
FEEDBACK: On wishes, hopes and Hollings
MYSTERY PHOTO: Swampy clue
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Education in South Carolina
CALENDAR: From gun safety to Greek food and surfing penguins

by Charleston Currents · 05/06/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Uncategorized

Along the Ashley River at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, outside Charleston, S.C.

GOOD NEWS: Magnolia Gardens to undergo $3.2 million habitat restoration

Staff reports | Ducks Unlimited has received a $1 million federal grant to launch a habitat enhancement and restoration project at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, according to a press release. The goal is to improve the flow of water through the various impoundments and ponds on the 500-acre Magnolia property to raise the diversity of plants and animals.

Funding from the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) will be combined with $2.2 million in matching funds from federal, non-profit, state and private sources, said James A. Rader, manager of conservation programs in Ducks Unlimited’s South Atlantic Field Office in Charleston. The first phase of the two-year project will begin in the spring.

by Charleston Currents · 10/30/2017 · 1 comment · Good news, News briefs

CALENDAR, May 30+: Festivals, concert and talk of potlikker

Spoleto Festival and Piccolo Spoleto: There are scads of events through June 11. Check out top events in our Focus piece from May 22.

Reggae Nights concert series. James Island County Park. Gates open at 7:30 p.m. with performances starting at 8:30 p.m. for this county concert series that starts June 2 with Da’ Gulla Rootz, followed by De Lions of Jay, June 23; Jah Works, July 21; and Mystic Vibrations, Aug. 4.

Potlikker Papers be discussed. Longtime Charleston Currents friend John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, will be in the Holy City 5 p.m. June 2 for a discussion of his new book, Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South. He and Garden & Gun editor David DiBenedetto will discuss the book and how it came to be at a space-limited discussion at the magazine’s offices at the Cigar Factory on East Bay Street.

by Charleston Currents · 05/29/2017 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

PHOTO ESSAY: City Gallery features great Piccolo art exhibit

Staff reports | If you’re downtown over the next few days and have a few minutes, you might want to step in to the cool, conditioned air of the City Gallery on Prioleau Street. It’s featuring a grand variety of more than four dozen works in the Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Show – everything from paintings, sculpture, drawing and photographs by South Carolina artists. Click to see some favorites:

by Charleston Currents · 05/29/2017 · 1 comment · Photo Essay, Photos

FOCUS: It’s festival season again

Staff reports | The Charleston festival season opens for 17 days Friday as Spoleto Festival USA offers more than 160 ticketed events in 12 venues throughout Charleston while the city’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival for 2017 has more than 500 events through June 11.

Perhaps the easiest way to get the full flavor of all of the offerings is to scroll through each festival’s websites, but we offer some highlights and links below.

by Charleston Currents · 05/22/2017 · 3 comments · Focus, Good news

GOOD NEWS: Chamber, Be a Mentor are partnering to help future leaders

Staff reports | Charleston Young Professionals, a division of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, is partnering with Be A Mentor, a nonprofit organization headquartered in North Charleston, to encourage young professionals’ involvement in the development of our region’s future leaders.

Also in Good News: Mount Pleasant’s new library; Remembering the late Sen. Clementa Pinckney; RiverDogs and reading; Romantic garden walk at Magnolia Plantation; Crafts deadline; Charleston Animal Society grant; Lowcountry AIDS grant.

by Charleston Currents · 01/23/2017 · 1 comment · Good news, News briefs

MORRIS: Spoleto is at home here — and part of our edge

By Kyra Morris, contributing editor | 1977 – the beginning of Charleston’s emergence as a world destination city– was also the first year of Spoleto Festival USA. Is this a coincidence, or is there a correlation?

Gian Carlo Menotti, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer, sought to establish a sister festival to the Festival dei Due Mondi of Spoleto, Italy. After a comprehensive search for the right place, he chose Charleston. It met his expectations for old world charm, historical architecture, and abundance of theatres and other performance spaces, including the variety of beautifully-maintained churches that reminded him of those in Italy.

by Kyra Morris · 05/30/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Money, Views