South Porch Artists Residency

Test kitchen for artists coming in 2024. Can’t wait to dig in!

Test kitchen with a new dish for the artists coming this winter-spring season.

You know it’s that holly jolly time of the year when you wake up dreaming about end of year donation letters! Your gift will literally be a dream come true!

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Excited to support the Charleston Symphony and the Library Society at this holiday concert in this beautiful historic venue.

Join these passionate advocates in support of the arts in SC!

Arts Advocacy Day will be here before you know it! Mark your calendars for Thursday, February 15th 2024 and join us online via daily Facebook Live events or in-person at the State House. Let's go support the arts in South Carolina together!

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Photo by Cheshire Isaacs

Great opportunity!

Have you ever dreamed of pursuing a career in the arts? The Gibbes Museum of Art is now accepting applications for its new Vibrant Leaders Internship Program.

With staff members of color still significantly underrepresented among museum leadership across the field, Vibrant Leaders aims to create a pathway for rising college sophomores of color to gain experience and forge a career in the arts.

This is an intensive, 8-week paid summer internship. Interns will have the opportunity to work with staff leaders across departments learning the curatorial process, education and program planning, fundraising, accounting, facilities management and more.

Tap our link in bio "Vibrant Leaders" to learn more and to apply. Applications are open through January 22nd. The selected summer 2024 intern will be notified April 1.

More about the history of our neighbors…

Can’t wait!

Coming to the PURE stage in 2024...

Weaving together nearly two centuries of family history, this epic theatrical event charts the humble beginnings, outrageous successes and devastating failure of the financial institution that would ultimately bring the global economy to its knees.“A vibrant yarn about greed and American values”, THE LEHMAN TRILOGY is the quintessential story of western capitalism, rendered through the lens of a single immigrant family. Directed by Sharon Graci

Tix available on our website, or through the Season 21 Flex Pass which is on sale now!

Resilience!

EXHIBIT - RESILIENCE AND RESOLUTION: NATIVE PEOPLES IN 18TH CENTURY SOUTH CAROLINA.
November 1st - 30th

The traveling exhibit is now located at Colleton Museum & Farmers Market and will be open all of November as we celebrate Native American Heritage Month and is FREE to the public to attend during business hours. It also has some collaborative panels from the State Recognized Tribes of south Carolina featured in the exhibit.

Explore the struggles experienced by Indigenous peoples in South Carolina to retain their independence following the establishment of the Carolina colony by the British.

Developed in partnership with South Carolina Humanities, SC Department of Archives, and the Native American Studies Center at USC Lancaster, this new traveling exhibition explores the struggles experienced by Indigenous peoples in South Carolina to retain their independence through the upheavals, unrest, and uncertainty following the establishment of the Carolina colony by the British.

Prior to European arrival at least 29 distinct tribal communities had lived for centuries in what later became known as South Carolina. Each tribe had its own political, economic, and social systems. As Europeans colonized and threatened their existence, Indigenous communities fought back or accepted the changes to their worlds. The resilience of the Indigenous peoples will be a theme woven throughout the exhibit as it shares information about how war impacts societies, how the pursuit of freedom and happiness can take different forms, and how Native peoples of the 18th century and descendants today can shape our never-ending quest to strengthen our Union.

Project Director Alice Taylor-Colbert notes, “The exhibit examines Indigenous cultures by exploring such topics as Relationship with Nature, Women’s Roles, Social and Governmental Structure, Trade, and Wars of the 18th Century. It highlights how colonization and subsequent formation of the United States impacted Indigenous peoples.”

SPONSORED BY: SC Humanities & The Donnelly Foundation

With South Porch artist Brittany Ann Tranbaugh at Awendaw Green.

With South Porch Artist Brittany Ann Trannbaugh at the awesome venue Awendaw Green.

On the porch with last week’s amazing cohort of artists.

Join us for our Fall Artists Salon
Sat, Nov 11
4:00-6:00PM

See the art, meet the artists.
Share a bite and a glass of wine.

516 Central Ave
Summerville, SC 29483

Street parking on Dan Miler Lane
And near the Baptist Church.

Join us for our Fall Artists Salon

Share a bite and a glass of wine.
See the art, meet the artists and hear about their process.

Saturday, Nov 11
4:00-6:00PM

516 Central Ave
Summerville, SC 29483

Street parking on Dan Miler Lane
And near the Baptist Church.

Spreading the good ink!

Hogan: In back-to-back productions, Pure Theatre lavishes love on local wordsmiths In its two-plus decades, Pure Theater has demonstrated time and again its commitment to new writing. Its current offerings are no exception — and particularly meaningful in how closely they

RachelSimone Wyley presents This Is Not a Performance, It’s a Protest-action. In collaboration with PURE Theatre and South Porch Artists Residency.

RachelSimone Wyley presents This Is Not a Performance, It’s a Protest-action, in collaboration with PURE Theatre and South Porch Artists Residency.

Exciting to see this!

We are thrilled to announce the return of the Lowcountry Tribal Symposium, taking place at the Coastal Carolina Fair this Sunday, October 29th. This event will feature representatives from the three Recognized Lowcountry Tribes: the Wassamasaw, Santee, and Edisto Natchez Kusso Tribes. They will come together to explore and discuss their rich and shared history in the region.

This Is Not A Performance

South Porch resident RachelSimone with PURE Theatre and South Porch invite you to...

This Is Not A Performance

Sunday, Oct 29, 2PM
PURE Theatre, 134 Cannon Street, Charleston
Pay-What-You-Will

This is an invitation to co-creATION and conversATION. It’s a call to elegant PROTEST. This is not a performance. This is a PROTEST-ATION.

Engage with RachelSimone’s reinterpretation of performance as protest-ation - a combined community protest, conversation, and co-creation. In this co-created container, she reconceptualizes the Black music tradition of call-and-response to create space for vulnerability, unlearning, and spontaneous community building. Join her for an experience of song, storytelling, and community conversation focused on identity and lived experience.

Check out four South Porch writers at Main Street
Reads, Oct 26, 6PM.

Four South Porch writers reading from their new work. Check them out tomorrow night, Oct 26 at 6PM, at our friends at Main Street Reads on the square in downtown Summerville.

Hanging on the Porch: Special Salon Readings From... - Main Street Reads We’re celebrating the written word with our friends at Summerville’s own South Porch Artists Residency. Each month, hosting artists and…

And next weekend on the Edisto…

Only 1️⃣ week left until the 4th Annual Edisto Blackwater Boogie! Don't miss out on this unforgettable weekend of adventure, music, and community fun.

Grab your tickets today and get ready to boogie until the moon comes up!
https://edistoblackwaterboogie.com/

Tomorrow!

This Is Not A Performance

South Porch resident RachelSimone with PURE Theatre and South Porch invite you to...

This Is Not A Performance
Sunday, Oct 30, 2PM
PURE Theatre, 134 Cannon Street, Charleston.
Pay-What-You-Will

This is an invitation to co-creATION and conversATION. It’s a call to elegant PROTEST. This is not a performance. This is a PROTEST-ATION.

Engage with RachelSimone’s reinterpretation of performance as protest-ation - a combined community protest, conversation, and co-creation. In this co-created container, she reconceptualizes the Black music tradition of call-and-response to create space for vulnerability, unlearning, and spontaneous community building. Join her for an experience of song, storytelling, and community conversation focused on identity and lived experience.

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