Celebrating the vibrant arts scene in Beaufort, Port Royal, and the Sea Islands. This section features visual arts, performances, local galleries, festivals, cultural events, creative heritage, artist profiles, and community arts programming. It highlights how arts and culture enrich life along the South Carolina Lowcountry coast.
The Freedman Arts District has expanded into the historic Beaufort Arsenal at 713 Craven Street, as the organization continues to grow and serve the Beaufort community, according to a media release.
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The University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) has announced Hillary Waters Fayle as the Sea Islands Center Gallery Artist in Residence, according to a media release. A Virginia-based textile artist, Fayle is known for her delicate botanical constructions. Using found leaves and simple hand tools—needle and thread and X-Acto knives—she creates refined, fragile assemblages that invite viewers to see art in nature.
USCB Artist in Residence Fayle to lead public workshops Feb. 27-28 Read More »
Are you one of the lucky people who got to hear — and see — TAKE3 on Fripp Island in the fall of 2023? Three musicians who dazzled both the ears and the eyes of the audience and received such enthusiastic ovations that they played two encores. Well, two of those fabulous musicians are coming back to Fripp on Sunday, March 1: Lindsay Deutsch, founder of TAKE3, vocalist, violinist, raconteur and gymnast (of sorts), and Jason Stroll, pianist. The duo is adhering to Lindsay’s idea of combining, as she put it, “classical music with music people actually like.” A principle that she applied to the repertoire of TAKE3.
Voice, violin, piano: The Lindsay and Jason Duo Read More »
USCB Center for the Arts will be showing Academy Award-nominated film “Hamnet” at 3 and 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 23
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026, commemorates the 10th anniversary of the passing of Pat Conroy, and the Pat Conroy Literary Center is hosting the 10th annual March Forth celebration to pay homage to the extraordinary life and legacy that this literary giant left behind.
Celebrate the legacy of Pat Conroy at the 10th annual March Forth Celebration Read More »
It’s safe to say that this year’s Beaufort International Film Festival will display oodles of passion, and the USCB auditorium will ring loudly with applause. It runs from Thuesday, Feb. 17 through Sunday, Feb. 22.
Jonathan Haupt, longtime Executive Director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, has resigned, according to a news release dated Sunday, Jan. 22.
Executive Director Haupt leaves Pat Conroy Literary Center Read More »
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is hosting the Broadway (Off Paris!) choral extravaganza at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 15. Due to overwhelming demand for seats, the event has a new location: St. John’s Lutheran Church, 157 Lady’s Island Drive in Beaufort.
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Lowcountry romance author Jennifer Vido will be doing local book signings to promote her latest book, “Simplicity by the Sea,” the third of her Gull Island series of books via Wild Rose Press that are set in the Lowcountry.
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