Virtual Family Fun and Literacy Day

The Kaminski House Museum will present a Virtual Family Fun & Literacy Day on Saturday, October 31st in two sessions beginning at 10 am and 2 pm. The day will feature storytelling, fun crafts for the fall, and spooky treats. SC Humanities supported this project with a Fast Track Literary Grant. The Kaminski House Museum … Read more

Poetry Society of South Carolina Fall Season

The Poetry Society of South Carolina will celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2020-2021, and they plan to offer three virtual online readings and six virtual online workshops in September, October, and November 2020. SC Humanities supported these programs with a Fast Track Literary Grant. SC Poetry Society workshops and readings have previously occurred at venues around … Read more

Writing Wherever You Are Poetry Workshops

Award-winning poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul will lead a series of poetry writing workshops on Wednesdays in October and November 2020 at 10:00-11:30 a.m. for the Georgetown County Library System (GCLS). Due to COVID-19, all sessions will be conducted online with the video-conferencing program, BlueJeans. The program is free and open to the public. However, space … Read more

UNLADYLIKE2020 – Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass

Since March 4, 2020, UNLADYLIKE2020 has been releasing short films and a broadcast hour on PBS American Masters profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. The final, 26th, episode of the series will be about Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass, who has frequently … Read more

Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home

In the fall of 2020, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston will examine the shifting notions of “home” through a multimedia project, Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home. This project will feature ten artists whose works deal with issues of displacement from their ancestral homeland in various capacities. The core of the project will … Read more

Brazen Belles – Virtual Documentary Screening

Just in time for the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which ensures women’s right to vote in the United States, the first episode of the docu-series “Brazen Belles” will have a free virtual screening on Thursday, August 20. “Brazen Belles” is a three-part series about women’s rights activists in South Carolina. SC Humanities supported … Read more