Capoeira transcends martial arts, music, and ritual. It was born on the streets of Brazil. It is a philosophical framework for approaching and interacting with the others and the world at large. It is a deep and holistic art form that pushes the practitioner to the proverbial limits – physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Charleston’s Capoeira Performance Arts group performed at the Charleston Arts Coalition Launch Party last February. Now, Charleston youth can learn this amazing art and sign up for classes at http://www.capoeiracharleston.com/
I managed to get back from a conference in Florida on Sunday, Sept. 27 just in time to get some Taco Boy tacos and cowboy beans and check out the Green Fair that took place last weekend at Marion Square in Charleston, SC. The Green Fair is an annual green affair, well attended by locals, that it supposed to showcase local green (in some cases unfortunately green-washed) businesses and to create excitement for green products and technologies. The fair also features local food, sustainable seafood cooking contest, musicians, presentations, arts and crafts. It also strives to encourage locals to buy local and recycle. I am always fascinated by the latest advances in solar energy technologies and green building materials. I was happy to see the Lowcountry Local First getting a lot of attention from attendees as they support and promote local businesses and economy.
To show its appreciation for its supporters, Cinebarre announces a completely free event this Saturday, September 26. As part of its Moonlight Movies lineup, Cinebarre will show the beloved classic E.T. outside under the stars at 8:00pm. BUT, this time the movie isn’t the only thing that will be free! Cinebarre is making everything free — hamburgers, hot dogs, pasta salad, chips, cookies, soda, water, and hot buttered popcorn — all free! Beer is only thing not free (bring cash).
Just bring a chair or blanket to sit on and you’re good to go for an all out night of fun and food. The outside cookout will start at 7:30pm. E.T. will start at 8:00pm sharp.
The Wells Gallerylooks forward to sharing its most avant-garde show to date by Sarah Ashley Longshore on October 2 from 5:30-8:30 pm. Longshore’s uninhibited bold oil paintings are best described in her own words as “Pop Expressionistic”. Guests will get a preview of Longshore’s live streamed video blogs. You don’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind show at the Wells Gallery! Clever and bold, shiny and fresh, are all words that come to mind when viewing her work, but above all, confident.
This confidence caught the attention of high end retailer Anthropologie, and her designs will be featured on furniture and packaging for 2009. Longshore’s work was most recently emblazed on 75,000 eco totes highlighted in the 2008 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Manhattan. No stranger to the spotlight, Longshore counts Salma Hayak and Peneloope Cruz as collectors.
Preferring to “infuse humor with things taken from everyday life,” the New Orleans native was recently named New Orleans’s artist to watch. The Wells Gallery was introduced to her work when gallery owner Hume Killian passed the Longshore Studios Gallery in the heart of Magazine Street during a recent visit to New Orleans. He found himself enraptured, saying “I couldn’t decide whether to laugh or look away! It was racy, it was original, it was exactly what we needed during a time when many people are facing hardship. Either way, I was intrigued and knew we had to feature her work!”
The Well Gallery is located at 125 Meeting Street in downtown Charleston, SC.
rehava Real Estate Store, an industry leader in bringing new real estate technologies for real estate online search, announced today that BeliefNetworks, Inc. will provide innovative online technology to the Charleston-based real estate company. rehava is also known for its high efficiency that translates into real estate rebates; the company pays half of its commission back to buyers at closing.
BeliefNetworks, Inc., a leader in semantic intelligence and predictive analytics, provides innovative technology that will serve semantically relevant display ad recommendations to its users and additionally to provide its users relevant content from other sites, blogs and real time Twitter conversations.
Just a few days ago, BeliefNetworks, Inc. announced a similar agreement with one of the most trusted information resources for the world’s business leaders, Forbes.com.
“As a technology leader that markets to buyers and sellers on the Internet, we are always keeping our eyes and ears open for new online technologies that will allow us to provide our homebuyers in Charleston, South Carolina with new services and better experience,” says Steve deGuzman, broker in charge of rehava.com. “BeliefNetworks provides us with innovative technology that will bring high quality original content to our clients as well as real estate news and market trends from across the web, blogs and Twitter.”
The rēhava ~Real Estate Store is a full service real estate broker that combines cutting-edge technology, focus on services and a new way of doing business to better serve clients. Located in Charleston, SC, the real estate company offers an innovative 50% buyer’s commission rebate to home buyers when they purchase their primary residence using one of rēhava’s REALTORS™. The first real estate store is located at 5060 International Boulevard in front of the Tanger Outlet Center. For more information please visit www.rehava.com.
Join Martin Gallery on Friday, October 2nd from 5-8 pm for the French Quarter Gallery Artwalk. Martin Gallery is proud to present a brand new body of work by Montreal artist, Joan Dumouchel. Although primarily known for her ethereal figurative work of circus performers, and dancers, Joan is exploring a new mystical world. Horses fade into dripping washes of color highlighted by gold and silver leaf, leaving the viewer suspended in a haze somewhere between dream and reality, longing to hop aboard the vessels that will transport us the realm of the unknown.
The gallery is pleased to announce that author, Carrie Host, will be present signing her book “Between Me & The River: Living Beyond Cancer, A Memoir.” The gallery’s newest artist Wanda Steppe will also be present.
Martin Gallery strives to bring some of the finest artists in a variety of fields together under one roof. Upon entering the historic Grand Salon of Martin Gallery, one experiences a soaring space filled with the exquisite color and texture of oils, acrylics, bronzes, marbles, terra-cottas and richly hued glass. Martin Gallery features contemporary art, representing more than thirty nationally and internationally renowned artists.
Our goal is to provide works of thoughtful beauty to enhance residential and commercial surroundings. Our belief in the quality of the work that our artists produce is what drives us, and our excellent client relationships are what sustain us.
Martin Gallery is located at 18 Broad Street on the corner of State and Broad Streets, in the Grand Salon of the historic People’s Building.
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents a 2009 MOJA Art Festival Exhibit at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park titled “Jonathan Green & Protégés”
The show, featuring original works of Jonathan Green, Juan Diaz, Reynier Llanes, Jean Dornevil, and Willie Leftwich, opens on September 13 through October 4, 2009. The City Gallery is located at 34 Prioleau Street in downtown Charleston. Admission is free.
Next spring Carnival Cruise Lineswill begin offering regular cruises from Charleston, the first ever year-round cruise schedule for the port. Carnival will operate five-, six- and seven-day voyages to The Bahamas and Key West, Fla., from the Passenger Terminal in historic downtown Charleston beginning May 18, 2010.
Charleston’s centralized location within the southeastern U.S., as well as the city’s strong appeal as a tourist destination, were key factors in Carnival’s decision.
“Charleston is an extraordinary city within easy reach of millions of U.S. residents who will now have convenient access to Carnival’s fantastic and affordable cruise vacation options year-round,” said Gerry Cahill, Carnival’s president and CEO. “Our past experience with the Port of Charleston, which has a very efficient and conveniently located cruise terminal, has been outstanding.”
The cruises from the Port of Charleston will be aboard the 2,056-passenger Carnival Fantasy.
“This vessel is a perfect fit for the Port of Charleston and is similar in size to others we have hosted in years past,” said Newsome. “We have enjoyed a successful, long-standing relationship with Carnival, and we are very pleased to extend that relationship with a year-round calendar.”
Previously, Carnival has operated seasonal voyages from Charleston, including two five-day departures on the Carnival Triumph this year and two on the Carnival Glory next year.
On its new Charleston-based program, Carnival will operate five-, six- and seven-day voyages on a variety of departure days. Five-day voyages departing Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will call at Nassau and Freeport in the Bahamas. Six-day voyages departing Saturdays will visit Freeport, Nassau and Key West, Fla. Seven-day voyages depart Saturdays and will feature Grand Turk, the private Bahamian island of Half Moon Cay, and Nassau.
Coinciding with the new business is the collaborative effort by the SCSPA and the City of Charleston to upgrade the Passenger Terminal to more effectively meet new security requirements, as well as to better serve the market needs of its cruise customers. An urban design firm has been selected to update the Master Plan for nine acres in downtown Charleston, including and surrounding the Passenger Terminal.
Carnival’s reservation system for the new voyages launched today, and travelers can book now by contacting a travel agent, by calling 1-800-CARNIVAL or by visiting www.carnival.com.
The Gibbes Museum of Art, with support from the Junior League of Charleston, will be offering a Folk Art Community Day on Sept. 26 with free admission and family activities from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Junior League Community Days are held quarterly to offer visitors the opportunity to experience the Gibbes’ programming free of charge.
Community Day events will include art-making activities for children, a ballet performance by Once Upon a Ballet, and beverages from Rising High Cafe. Visitors can also enjoy the special exhibition “Ancestry & Innovation: African-American Art from the American Folk Art Museum.”
The Gibbes is located at 135 Meeting St. Go to www.gibbesmuseum.org for more information or details.
On October 2, Robert Lange Studios will be moving to a new location at 2 Queen Street while mounting perhaps its most ambitious show since its gallery opening five years ago. Starting at 5 p.m. on October 2, the anniversary of the gallery, artist Nathan Durfee will present “Thoughts Between the Sky and Sea.” Durfee’s popular original paintings, ink drawings, and sketchbooks will remain on exhibit through October.
Gallery owner Robert Lange says, “Nathan’s paintings ignite the imagination of creative people, drawing them into an uncharted nostalgic world of the curious and inconceivable. I can’t think of a better artist to jump start our new location.”
For the opening, Durfee has created over thirty-five of these curious and whimsical works. Durfee’s paintings will not be the only thing for patrons to enjoy; the massive 2700 sq. foot space will have new work from all twelve RLS artists, as well as some creative renovations and special touches.
The old antebellum warehouse where the gallery is relocating has been charged with creative energy since the early sixties. Local renowned sculpture, Willard Hirsch bought the building and turned it into his studio. It has remained occupied by artists ever since.
“The sculptures I walk by everyday in Washington Park were created in the room I will soon have my easel set-up,” says Lange. “The space has such a rich artistic history I feel inspired just entering it.”
The exterior of the 1840 building will remain the same and is build out of local gray brick. The lettering can still vaguely be seen reading C. Wulbern & Co. Warehouse No. 2. In designing the front entrance to the space over thirty years ago, Hirsch handcrafted metal sculptures to adorn the window panels. Lange will be adding his own personal touch to the exterior by hand painting the new gallery sign.
Still to be seen on the interior are the massive 12-by-12 foot beams, exposed brick walls, and arched windows. To bring an element of the Lowcountry into the space Lange purchased an 8-foot-by-16-foot wall of marsh grass floating in resin that will be backlit in one of the rooms.
“Between our five year anniversary, Nathan’s solo show, and the new space, I think there is a lot to celebrate,” says Lange. “Charleston’s art scene has embraced us for the last five years and I think the opening is a great way to say thank you.”
Social Wine Bar & Restaurant will provide the catering; while Charleston Grill provides specialty drinks and Chocolate will be making dessert treates. The opening reception is free and open to the public on October 2 from 5:00 to 8:00 at 2 Queen Street and coincides with the French Quarter Art Walk.
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The gallery is pleased to announce that author, Carrie Host, will be present signing her book “Between Me & The River: Living Beyond Cancer, A Memoir.” The gallery’s newest artist Wanda Steppe will also be present.
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents a 2009 MOJA Art Festival Exhibit at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park titled “Jonathan Green & Protégés” 
On October 2, 