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A League of Artists
From June 21-July 26, a partnership of the Art League, The Bascom, and the Highlands Recreation Park sponsored the 2018 Summer Art Camp for area youth. This program dates back to 2007, when the Art League held its first camp. Once a week during the summer months, league members took turns teaching art to local young people in space provided …
The Business of Theater
If you’ve had the pleasure of enjoying a film, a play, or a rousing musical at Highlands Playhouse, it was well worth the price of admission…and then some. Here’s why. The playhouse takes pride in presenting high-quality, live performances on stage and award-winning cinematic productions on screen. Its mission is to enlighten, educate, and inspire the Western North Carolina …
Folk Art Revealed
It all started with a single face jug! The owners of Around Back at Rocky’s Place, Tracey Burnette and Robin Blan, became collectors nearly 30 years ago. What started out as a face jug obsession quickly spread to paintings, then woodcarvings, metal pieces and so forth. With such a wide collection, they were asked to be pickers for a couple …
Art & Gratitude
Smitten’s Kat Evans, Annelize Giliomee, and Bonnie Earman enjoyed another banner year, thanks to you, their supporters, clients, artists, and friends. Smitten would like to express its gratitude this Thanksgiving season by hosting a party for its award-winning painters, sculptors, crafts-persons, and patrons of 2018. Smitten delights in bragging about its stable of phenomenal talents, hailing from the Plateau all …
The Bascom Gift Shop
Fall ushers in many exciting shopping opportunities in The Bascom Shop. The month of November will offer Pop Up Shops featuring baskets, paintings, and photography. New work is always being dropped off by our talented artists in a wide variety of mediums offering an endless supply of new and exciting gift giving opportunities. As we near the holiday season, ornaments …
Annual Holiday Program
Let it snow or rain, let the winds blow. It will not deter the Highlands Cashiers Players and the Performing Arts Center from presenting their annual free Holiday Program on Thursday, December 13 at 7:00 P.M. at the Highlands Performing Arts Center. Once again, The Mountain Voices and HCP actors will be singing and reading. This year will feature short …
Unparalleled Performances
The Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival‘s 37th season has ended and was a smashing success! It took many to present the caliber of talent that keeps our patrons coming back year after year; so much was due to the generosity of others and a hard-working board of directors led by Olivia Holt. Our Artistic Director, William Ransom, is unparalleled.
A Guitar and a Woody Wagon
Scott Low’s been tangled up in blue ever since he first heard Bob Dylan sing his iconic hit live. The lyrics grabbed Scott by his heartstrings, spun him around a time or two, and helped propel him into a career of singer-songwriting. That was a couple of decades ago and now he has several tracks and albums of his own. …
Hard Candy Christmas
The 31st Annual Hard Candy Christmas Arts and Crafts Show has changed dates from the Thanksgiving weekend to the first Saturday and Sunday in December. The hours are the same, 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., each day and the same Mountain Christmas Tradition. The Western Carolina University Ramsey Center in Cullowhee, North Carolina, is still the location and original art …
Tree-mendous Choices
We are incredibly fortunate here on the Plateau for many reasons, but during the holiday season one of our greatest blessings is that we boast an abundance of Christmas Tree Farms. Start your holiday season by visiting one and choosing your perfect tree. Here’s a sampling of what’s available: Grandy Mountain Tree Farm, 842 Breedlove Road, Cashiers, (828) 743-1737; Moss …
Have an Ice Day
Grab your mittens, your coat, and your skates! It’s time for the Highlands Recreation Department’s ice skating rink to open. Open from November 8 until March 3, the rink has been a gathering place for winter activity since 2015, thanks to generous donations that made it all possible. The rink is located in Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park and if you’re not …
Music of our Heritage
For the past 24 years talented singers from throughout the area have joined together as the Highlands Community Chorale to celebrate the music of Christmas. This year’s chorale will present the music of our heritage here in the mountains from the Carolinas to Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgia. Chorale conductor Les Scott says, “‘An Appalachian Christmas’ features music that reveals the richness …
