Events
All of our upcoming events, from cocktail parties to book signings and more.
Book Launch and Signing: Marjory Wentworth's "One River, One Boat"
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Circular Congregational Church
150 Meeting St
Charleston, SC 29401
Free
After being cut from Governor Nikki Haley’s inauguration in 2015, former South Carolina poet laureate Marjory Wentworth’s poem “One River, One Boat” serves as the titular piece for a collection of writings to be released by Evening Post Books on August 12, 2024. The book is available for preorders August 3.
The release of the book will be celebrated by a reading and book signing reception on September 12, 2024 at 6:00 in the evening at Circular Congregational Church, located at 150 Meeting St, Charleston, SC. A$iahMae and Marcus Amaker, the current and former poet laureates of Charleston, will also speak at the event. The event is free and open to the public.
This collection of occasional poems and essays includes those written about heartbreaking and joyous times in South Carolina’s history and Wentworth’s own life including the deaths of relatives, gubernatorial inaugurations, the Mother Emmanuel AME massacre, Hurricane Hugo, and more. Congressman James Clyburn read Wentworth’s poem “One River, One Boat” into the Congressional record in 2015 after it was slashed from Haley’s inauguration, saying he “hope[s] the people of South Carolina, across the country, and peoples around the world are as touched by her words as I have been.”
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“Payne-ful” Business: Charleston’s Journey to Truth
By Margaret Seidler
Illustrations by John W. Jones
Book Talks With Margaret Seidler & Dr. Nic Butler, moderated by Julian Gooding
Saturday, August 3, 2024; 11 am
Gallery Talk
Richland County Library
1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, South Carolina
Sunday, September 8, 2024; 3 pm
Panel Discussion
Richland County Library – Auditorium
1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, South Carolina
Art Exhibitions
July 19 – September 13, 2024
Richland County Library
1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, South Carolina
Opening Reception: Friday, July 19, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, August 3, 11 am
Panel Discussion: Sunday, September 8, 3 pm
October 3 – 31, 2024
Milliken Art Gallery, Converse College
580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3, 6 – 8 pm
January 6 – February 16, 2025
University of South Carolina Beaufort, Center for the Arts
801 Carteret Street, Beaufort South Carolina
Event dates and times to be announced.
Spring 2025
Steven F. Gately Gallery
Francis Marion University
142 N. Dargan St. Florence, South Carolina
Event dates and times to be announced.
Ongoing: Gallery Chuma
African American Artwork by John W. Jones
188 Meeting St, in the Charleston City Market