Three for the Week, Feb. 12-18
Maura's curated list for your week in cultural comsumption.
HALO’s “A Celebration of Love!” Valentine Concert
The Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St., downtown Charleston, Feb. 14 at 6:30 p.m.
The opera companies in Charleston are forever pulling out the artistic stops, often hosting acclaimed visiting vocalists. This one-night-only immersive Valentine’s Day concert presented by HALO (Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera) is no exception.
The featured real-life couples straight from the stages of Broadway and The Metropolitan Opera perform songs of romantic love, lust, unrequited love, self-love and love of children. Star couples include: Tamar Greene (Hamilton) and Broadway veteran Lindsay Roberts; Matt Shingledecker (Wicked) and Caitlin Finnie (Phantom of the Opera world tour); baritone John Dooley and soprano Shannon Kessler Dooley, who have both performed at Lincoln Center and Santa Fe Opera; and HALO founders Leah Edwards & Dimitri Pittas.
Culture South Subscriber Exclusive: Use the code MH10 at checkout to save 10% off yout entire purchase, tickets and add-ons included.
Pro tip: Around the corner on East Bay, the Palmetto Hotel is offering 50% off a specially crafted drink called “A Celebration of Love” when you show your HALO ticket.
For more information, visit holycityarts.org.
Author DeLana R.A. Dameron with Charleston Poet Laureate Asiah Mae
Buxton Books, 160 King St., downtown Charleston, Feb. 15 at 6 p.m.
Chances are the name DeLana R.A. Dameron, a longtime South Carolina poet and debut novelist is about to hit. The Columbia area-raised-and-based Redwood Court has already nabbed a rosy review in The New York Times, status as the February pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club, and my own profile with the engaging, ever-inquisitive Dameron in The Post and Courier. Her national book tour is now revv
ing up, with stops in South Carolina including this ticketed event at Buxton Books.
For more information, buxtonbooks.com.
Ming Smith: Feeling the Future
International African American Museum, 14 Wharfside St, downtown Charleston, through April 28
Exploring the artist’s unparalleled and under-recognized career from the early 1970s through the present, this temporary IAAM exhibition displays an array of artistic expressions that represent Smith’s vibrant and multi-layered practice. It is grounded in portraiture, and encompasses themes such as Afrofuturism, Black cultural expression, representation and social examination.
Pro-tip: IAAM has joined Bank of America as a new partner in the bank’s Museums on Us program, which offers free general admission on the first full weekend of each month to Bank of America, Merrill and Bank of America Private Bank credit and debit cardholders,
For more information, visit iammuseum.org.
Bonus: Ohm Radio’s Singing Telegrams are back and belting
I “heart” this annual charmer. Create your own cultural happening with 96.3 FM Ohm Radio’s annual Valentine’s Day Singing Telegrams. Options range from in-person performances of either a standard song or custom; a digital video; or an on-air love song and shout-out.
To purchase them, visit bit.ly/OhmValentine.