Arts Weekly

This week's guest on Arts Weekly was Les Reagan, with the Augusta Broadway Singers. Host Brenda Durant, executive director of the Greater Augusta Arts Council, spoke with our Arts Weekly guest about their upcoming event, "An Evening of Gershwin" being held August 24 & 25. Tickets are on sale now at www.tabsaugusta.com

Brenda spoke with special guest Karlton Clay of Victory Productions Network about the Augusta Indie Film Fest being held Saturday, July 22 at Poppin Stop. Great celebration of indie film in Augusta!

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Brenda Durant invited guest Kevin Grogan on this week's episode of Arts Weekly to talk about the recently announced lineup of the upcoming Southern Soul and Song concert series. The monthly series starts in september, and tickets are on sale now.

Host Brenda Durant talks with Matthew Porter, Curator of Education at the Morris Museum of Art, about upcoming programs with the Morris Museum of Art, including the July 12 Art Now talk at the Museum, 6pm. It will feature Eleanor Davis, cartoonist and illustrator. Free admission

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My guest his week is Carol Cook who is leaving for Graz Austria in a few weeks to coach French Diction to opera students at the American Institute of Musical Studies. This program is a training ground for opera singers wishing to join an Opera Company in Germany or Austria. Who knew?

Of course I covered events for the week-end and beyond.

It was great to be back in the studio.

Brenda

Guest host Rhian Swain had another full house in the studio this week, talking with Jason Craig, the winner of the first-ever Kath Girdler Engler Award for Public Art, as well as Shiso Sassy and Amelia Rate from the Dirty South Burlesque and Cabaret. Coming up for Dirty South will be a burlesque basics workshop on June 23, with registration and at dirtysouthburlesque.com, as well as their main stage show in July, benefitting local nonprofit That's What Friends Are For.

Jason Craig, a freelance artist and designer for the Westobou Festival, talked about his public art projects and thoughts on bringing more public art to Augusta.

Rhian covered upcoming events and arts programs found at the Arts Calendar - events.augustaarts.com.

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Special guest host Rhian Swain highlighted some upcoming summer camps in this week's episode of Arts Weekly. She was joined by Shanita Tolbert of Creative Impressions, Gary Dennis of Jessye Norman School of the Arts, and JNSA student Aijalon. Of course, arts events for this week and beyond were shared so you can make your plan to have fun and experience the arts!

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This week on Arts Weekly, Pax Bobrow spoke with a variety of actors and talent from Augusta! Kiara Iman, actress, singer, songwriter spoke about her upcoming project titled, "Exodus," a one woman musical show, which debuts June 1 at Humanitree House. Then, actors from the Augusta Jr. Players cast Logan Kelly and Dezmond Chavous, as well as their director Roy Lewis, shared about their production of Annie Get Your Gun, coming up on June 8th and 9th.

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Pax Bobrow spoke with Erin Prentiss of the Augusta Library about the free Appleby music series, and Frieda Dean, facilitator of the Business of Being an Artist class's group show, Vital Connections. Reception May 31