Main Street Beaufort hosting free photography workshop
Main Street Beaufort is hosting a free, hands-on photography workshop from 2:30 to 5 p.m., on Tuesday, Jan. 13 with Phil Eich of Storyville.
This workshop aims to build a regional network of photographers to strengthen communications, marketing, and small-business storytelling year-round. Local photographers, students, creatives, and community leaders are encouraged to participate. No prior experience is needed — mobile phones work perfectly.
Workshop highlights will include:
- Three simple tips to instantly improve your photos;
- Example photography for social media, newsletters, and marketing materials;
- Hands-on practice with professional feedback; and
- Real-world photography.
City staff, Main Street teams, local photographers, students, nonprofits, chambers of commerce, and other community marketing partners are invited. Multiple representatives per organization are welcome.
Strong visuals boost social media, newsletters, year-end reports, and marketing campaigns. Creating a local network of trained photographers ensures downtown stories are captured professionally, consistently, and sustainably.
Workshops are free, but space is limited. Community organizations are encouraged to send multiple representatives. Register at https://bit.ly/3N9mT5k.
Conroy Center hosts Open Mic Night
The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be presented as a virtual event, live-streamed to our Facebook page, on Thursday, Jan. 8, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is poet Bo Hee Moon, author of “Birthstones in the Province of Mercy,” winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. Interested in reading as part of virtual Open Mic? Email the Conroy Center in advance at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org.
Poet Davis hosting workshop
Chaplain and poet Will Davis (“Tethered Wrds”) will lead a community workshop on reflection and restorative writing as opportunity to breathe again, speak truth, and let go of what has weighed you down.
This workshop is an invitation to speak life back into those places, to honor the parts of you that were stretched or wounded in the process. Words can be used as swords by hurt, but they can also become a shield, a balm, and a path toward healing. Come ready to write, release, and rebuild.
This is an in-person writers workshop, held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center at 601 Bladen Street in Beaufort on Saturday, Jan. 17, from 10 a.m. to noon. Event is limited to 15 participants with advance registration; free to attend. Please call 843-379-7025 to reserve your spot.
Coastal Discovery Museum highlights Hilton Head’s legendary Round Table Artists
The Coastal Discovery Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is hosting a retrospective exhibition, “It’s Thursday! Artists of the Round Table,” celebrating 15 prominent local artists who gathered weekly at The Red Piano Gallery from the 1970s through 1994 to share ideas and projects that nurtured Hilton Head Island’s growing art community. The exhibit will be on view through March 23, 2026.
This retrospective brings together approximately 80 works from private collections and new museum acquisitions. The Artists of the Round Table include Aldwyth, Ralph Ballantine, Joe Bowler, Danielle DeMers, Joe DeMers, Ray Ellis, Elizabeth Grant, Walter Greer, Tua Hayes, Katy Hodgman, Louanne LaRoche, Allen Palmer, Marge Parker, George Plante, and Coby Whitmore.
The museum is offering free curator’s tours of the exhibit on the following dates: Thursday, Jan. 22, at 1 p.m.; Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 11 a.m.; and Saturday, March 14, at 11 a.m.
