Open Mic Night featuring poet Lola Campbell
In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce at 711 Bladen Street. The featured writer is poet Lola Campbell, author of Writings on the Wall.
Book Launch for Lynn Seldon
Pat Conroy praised Lynn Seldon’s debut novel Virginia’s Ring as “a triumph and a tour de force. He joins the distinguished ranks of our military academy graduates who have written about the life changing, fire tested tribe.”
The Conroy Center will host a public drop-in launch event for Seldon’s new novel, Carolina’s Ring, from 5 to 7 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort. Free and open to the public.
An Evening of Art and Poetry with Yamamura, Francia
The Beaufort Arts Council and the Conroy Center will host art historian Midori Yamamura, speaking on Yoko Ono’s Painting to Hammer a Nail (1966), and poet Luis H. Francia, reading from his newest collection, Thorn Grass, on Friday, February 17, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Beaufort Arts Council at 921 Ribaut Road, Beaufort. Free and open to the public.
