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It’s Just Intermission
Highlands is in Intermission, but we’re slowly getting back to the performance. This is a very difficult time for everyone – the shop owners, the restaurants, the accommodations, real estate groups, the arts, – everyone is in intermission. The Highlands Performing Arts Center is in the process of rescheduling the June concerts to later in the year. Hopefully, if North …
Nothing Plain About Plein Air
This summer is the Sixth Biennial Cashiers Plein Air Festival, a festival to celebrate the outdoor lifestyle of the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, July 15-19. Plein air is French for “open air.” The festival will feature invitational artists painting outdoors, in the open air, capturing on canvas the beauty of the landscape and the bucolic way of life in the North …
Art League’s Definite Maybe
To say that 2020 has been a strange year so far hardly seems worth the effort. Like most Plateau dwellers, we at the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers looked forward to the new season. New speakers were lined up for our monthly meetings beginning in April, and we anticipated two more successful fine art shows and again sponsoring the Children’s …
Cherokee’s Utlunta Legend
The large stainless steel and concrete sculpture in The Village Green is named Utlunta, a figure in Cherokee legend. The name translates to “the one with the pointed spear,” and this shapeshifting witch is sometimes referred to as Spearfinger. According to Cherokee legend, she lived in Western North Carolina with her favorite home being Whiteside Mountain, a thunder mountain. …
See You in September
The Bel Canto Committee and our Artistic Director, Stella Zambalis, and our Musical Director, Dr. Stephen Dubberly, are hard at work coming up with yet another quartet of wonderful performers for our 28th year of the Bel Canto Recital. The recital, scheduled for Sunday, September 13, is shaping up to be another of our “it just keeps getting better and …
The Arts Cure
The Bascom has remained mission-focused throughout the challenges and limitations of recent events, adapting to create visual art experiences that inspire and empower individuals and communities through seeing, thinking, and doing. Mary Ann Carter of the National Endowment for the Arts has stated that “the arts provide comfort, resilience, wisdom, and the means for self-expression and connection, perhaps even more …
Inspire & Be Inspired
Jess Moschouris is a Western Carolina University Bachelor of Arts graduate with a concentration in oil painting, ceramics, and art history. Add to that a minor in philosophy with honors. A walking compendium of craft skills, she dips her fingers in dozens of mediums and delights. And she’s the mother of a two-month old boy. Bam! This woman is remarkable! …
Creative Cross-Pollination
What do architecture, banjo-pickin’, and fine-tunin’ a vintage car have in common? Plenty. Just ask Knight Martorell. If you don’t know Knight, chances are you’ve seen him in a variety of venues: he’s an accomplished architect, the banjo virtuoso in Silly Ridge (blue grass band); the esteemed illustrator of the annual posters for Highlands Motoring Festival; a fine arts aficionado …
PAC Youth Are Zoomin’!
On Friday June 12, the Highlands Performing Arts Center’s (PAC) Youth Theater Program, in collaboration with the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library, will attempt an unprecedented approach to its Murder Mystery Dinner Theater event. Because such normally in-person events are on hold due to COVID-19, the activity will take place via the Zoom platform. “The goal is to sharpen dramatic improvisational skills, and …
Get Reading This Summer
There are thousands of books at the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library, but what classifies as a “favorite” is highly subjective. Branch Librarian Serenity Richards polled her staff during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place quarantine to learn what they were reading. Following is a good mix of 10 titles that are all available in e-book and/or e-audiobook – just in case. – The …
Pandemic Ups & Downs for Pets
During these times of social isolation and high anxiety, more and more of us are turning to pets for emotional support and companionship. So it’s no surprise that one beneficiary of the coronavirus pandemic has been pets in shelters. With everyone truly physically isolated, many people are discovering that pets can be physically present in a way that other …
