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Town of Kiawah Island Arts Council

The Town of Kiawah Island Arts Council works to enhance community appreciation and involvement in the visual and performing arts within the Town of Kiawah Island and its environs by providing a diversity of planned programs. All events are open to public and complimentary tickets for most events are available at Kiawah Island Town Hall on a come first serve basis. Ticket release dates are two weeks prior to the event date. For more information call 843-768-9166.

    2010 Season Planner
**The dates and venues are tentative and subject to change**

2010 JANUARY

	Oscar Rivers Jazz Performance Thursday, January 14th @ 7:30 pm -Turtle Point Ticket Release Date: January 4th Oscar Rivers Jazz Trio will perform with Mary Louise Smallwood, vocalist.  Oscar Rivers on piano is one of Charleston’s legendary jazz performers.  Chuck King, bass, and Max Moore, percussion form the trio who will perform their forte of jazz standards, including smooth jazz.  Jack McCray wrote recently that he heard “a fine singer in a cozy café” speaking of Mary Louise.  Come and get cozy in our Turtle Point Clubhouse.
	Women in Art Film Series Part 1 featuring “Camille Claudel” Friday, January 15th @ 2:00pm - the Sandcastle Ticket Release Date: January 4th See the first in out two-part film series "Women in Art".  Showing the Oscar-nominated and award winning "Camille Claudel", a French film with English sub-titles, which tells the tragic story of the 19th century sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943). Camille was already recognized as a gifted sculptor when she met the famous Rodin in 1883.  She soon became his student, collaborator, model, muse, and mistress. She is remembered for bronze works such as "The Waltz", and is a casualty of heartbreak and mental illness. When their affair ended, her career and mental state declined, and she was committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1913, where she lived out the last 30 years of her life. This movie has it all: art, beauty, truth, passion, insanity, tragedy, pathos!!!
	Chopin Film & Mini Concert NEW DATE Wednesday, January 20th @ 7:00pm -the Sandcastle Ticket Release Date: January 6th Showing the film Desire for Love about the life of the famous composer, Frederic Chopin and his stormy love affair with flamboyant feminist writer Aurore Dupin (pen name George Sand) . Prior to the file there will be a short performance of a Chopin Concerto performed by Micah McLauren.  Micah is 14 years old and a student of Enrique Graf.  He will give a full concert in February in the International Piano Series.
	Charleston Ballet Theatre performing Would you like to Tango?  Sunday, January 24th @ 4:00 pm - East Beach Conference Center Ticket Release Date: January 8th We have a very special ballet performance with live classical guitar music.  The first part will be the sexy tango that CBT dancers do so very well.  The second part will feature guitarist, Fernando Troche, as he plays a Spanish composition on the guitar as the dancers perform around him.  Created especially for our Kiawah audience.  The finale will be the bolero. Sure to be a steamy afternoon.
	CSO Chamber Music Woodwinds Thursday, January 28th @7:30 pm - Church of Our Saviour Ticket Release Date:  January 14th The Woodwind Quintet of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra has been coming to Kiawah from the early days when there was an informal series of musical presentations at the Episcopal Church. Mark Gainer, who has always spear-headed the CSO Woodwind Chamber group, promises music that is sure to be entertaining.  He has some new music he has gleaned in his travels to bring to us for everyone's enjoyment.

2010 FEBRUARY

	Women in Art Film Series Part 2 “Frida" Friday, February 5th @ 2:00pm - the Sandcastle Ticket Release Date: January 22 The second film in our Women in Art is "Frida", is a beautiful motion picture nominated for six Academy Awards about an exceptional woman who lived an unforgettable life. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) survived many difficult events---polio, a serious bus accident which left her with chronic and agonizing pain, difficult marriage, miscarriages-- and used these experiences as inspiration for her brilliant works. The movie chronicles the life Frida shared openly and unflinchingly with her husband and mentor Diego Rivera, infamous philanderer and amazing painter and muralist, as the young couple took the art world by storm.  It shows us the complex and enduring relationship they had, and reveals her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, as well as her provocative and romantic entanglements with women. Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary, and became an art world icon.
	Recital by Mark Gainer Taisiya Pushkar  Wednesday, February 10th @ 7:30pm Church of Our Saviour. Ticket Release Date: January 27th Don’t miss a very special recital with Mark Gainer, Principal Oboist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and pianist Taisiya Pushkar .The recital consists of music that speaks to everyone featuring pieces from Schumann, Chopin, Poulenc and Sammartini.    They collaborated on this program this past summer in New York City. It was so very well received they are bringing it to Charleston.  Mark Gainer is in his twenty-sixth season with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and its woodwind quintet, and has been a featured soloist with the CSO on numerous occasions.   Taisiya Pushkar is active chamber musician and has performed in Belgrade, Helsinki, Italy, Israel and in many places in the United States as part of her collaborations with various musicians.
	CSO Spiritual Ensemble Friday, February 12th @ 7:00pm - Holy Spirit Catholic Church Ticket Release Date: January 15th Nathan L. Nelson leads the Ensemble in a new program entitled Spiritual Masterworks highlighting the importance of preserving the legacy of the ‘Spiritual’ and its significance to the South Carolina Lowcountry. The CSO Spiritual Ensemble a 35-voice group focusing on African-American spirituals that honor the musical tradition African-Americans formed as slaves, in particular its relevant history here in South Carolina.  Come experience the ensemble that have delighted sold-out crowds this past year. Tickets are on a first-come first-serve basis (four tickets per person max). Tickets may be picked up in advance at: Kiawah Island Town Hall, Indigo Books, Johns Island Public Library or Holy Spirit Catholic Church office complex located at 3730 Bohicket Road, Suite 3 Johns Island Monday-Friday 8am-3pm.
	Amori Vini “For the Love of Wine” Thursday, February 18 @ 5:00pm - Sandcastle $12 per ticket    Ticket Release Date: February 4th An interactive wine tasting with string quartet music as Yuriy Bekker & Natalia Khoma enchant us with their beautiful music.  Ed Hart, classical composer, will emcee the event speaking to the music with his special approach to music while Debbie Marlowe of The Wine Shop speaks of the wine tasting to accompany the music.  Appropriate cheese from Avondale will be paired with the wine.  First conceived and performed for Piccolo Spoleto, it was a huge success.  Seating is limited.  Ticket price of $12 is to pay for the wine & cheese only.
	Andrew Thielen Big Band Sunday, February 21 @ 7:30pm - E.B. Conference Center Ticket Release Date: February 5th Back by popular demand the Andrew Thielen Big Band is heading back to Kiawah performing old tunes of Glenn Miller, R&B hits of Aretha Franklin to swing, rock, disco and Motown classics. The AndrewThielen Big Band plays your favorite style of music and gets everyone on the dance floor. Great singers, all those horns, fantastic energy, a world class drummer and the songs you just love. Andrew Thielen is one of today’s greatest big band drummers and has played in drum battles with Louie Bellson and Ed Shaugnnessy of the Tonight Show fame. This fantastic band has been the band of choice for Planet Hollywood, House of Blues, Hilton Head, the Greenbrier, Ritz Carlton, Charleston Place, the Kentucky Derby gala, a PBS TV show. Everyone and every taste will be on the dance floor all night!
	Chinese New Year  Saturday, February 27 @ 4 pm at the Sandcastle   Ticket Release date: February 12th   Celebrate the year of the “Tiger” and find out what your Chinese astrological sign is as you listen to Chee Hang See, accomplished piano student at C of C, play the erhu (Chinese fiddle) and piano.  The erhu is a 2 stringed instrument with sounds similar to the human voice and can imitate many natural sounds, such as birds and horse.  It is a very expressive instrument and most well known for playing melancholic tune.  From Singapore, Chee Hang as performed in Piccolo Spoleto’s Young Artist Series, the Music Fest in Perugia and in Spoleto, Italy.  Gung Hay Fat Choy (Happy New Year)
	Charleston Ballet Theatre performing Masterpieces of Dance  ***performance change** Sunday, February 28 @ 4:00pm - EB Conference Center. Ticket Release Date: February 12th The elegance and sophistication of the art of ballet will be on full display as Charleston Ballet Theatre premiers their latest collection of 20th century masters with the return of their annual Masterpieces of Dance winter production. This season the ballet pays homage to the master of modern ballet George Balanchine by performing two of the horeographer’s most celebrated works Serenade and the ballet Rubies, the most celebrated section of Balachine’s famed Jewels ballet. Jewels has often been regarded as the first fulllength abstract ballet, however it can also be seen as three separate ballets, linked by their jewel-colored costumes. Rubies, with its vibrant deep red flared costumes is the most popular of the three pieces which also include Emeralds and Diamonds.  Charleston Ballet Theatre is the only ballet company in South Carolina licensed to perform the works of Balanchine. This performance is a rarity and is one of the few places in the southeast where these exclusive works can be viewed live.