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A-Wash in Color, Dorethey Gorham
Dorethey Gorham is a gallery favorite at Rocky’s Place, thanks to her detailed memory paintings. Her finesse with a paintbrush, even the smallest, is phenomenal. It’s quite fun to study her pieces for long periods because you, the viewer, will see tinier, different snippets of detail with each viewing. One would think that Dorethey has been painting, and perfecting her …
A Bit of a Cut-up at Smitten of Highlands
When Phil Herzog hand-carves the likeness of a bear, cardinal, or woodland beast into a native-wood walking stick or cane, some of his spirit (and maybe a bit of his mischief) are transferred into that animal. Phil’s genius twinkles in the eye of his creation…as though carver and creature become one and know something we don’t. That’s how it is …
An Explosion of Talent, Highlands Cashiers Players
The glorious songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein take center stage at the Highlands Performing Arts Center when the Highlands Cashiers Players offer the musical revue “Some Enchanted Evening,” May 24–27 and May 31–June 3. The Players are getting to know a plethora of heretofore unknown singing talent on the Plateau. They have incorporated dancers from Western Carolina University for choreographer …
Feasts and Salons, Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival
Every season the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival offers opportunities to meet interesting people in some of the area’s most beautiful private homes while providing important and vital financial support to the festival necessary to bring world-class music to the mountains each year. The Feasts are wonderful dinners or cocktail buffets attended by festival musicians (who engage in lively conversation in …
Feast for Eye & Soul at The Bascom
The Bascom, Highlands’ Center for the Visual Arts, celebrates the magic of paper. Featured in The Bunzl Gallery is “PaPer View,” now through June 3. This exhibition explores the use of paper as a medium rather than as a surface − the featured artists manipulate paper by pushing, pulling, cutting, and using color, or not, to present a wide range …
Silly Ridge Round-up
If you’ve never experienced Beatles on the banjo or “Rocket Man” on the dobro, put a performance by Silly Ridge Round-up on your Bucket List. Better yet, put it on your Barrel List, ‘cause you’re going to have a barrel full of good times and a rockin’ night to remember. Silly Ridge Round-up is easy to find with frequent gigs …
Mind, Body & Soap – Yellow Mountain Garden
Everything, from the clothes we wear to the food we eat to the metals and plastics molded into our digital gadgetry comes from the earth. Hannah Moss Banks, whose family tree sprouted from a Cashiers agricultural lineage, says, “It wasn’t that long ago that America was an agrarian nation. Now farming is a gargantuan industry crowding out traditional family farms. …
Pac’s Back – Highlands Performing Arts Center
Now is the time to get on the Highlands Performing Arts Center Membership Roll. Members receive benefits like one-month advanced notifications for live concerts, advanced ticket purchase, seat selection, complimentary tickets, a 15-percent discount on all additional tickets purchased, and free beverage tickets at concerts. Upper-level memberships receive a reserved parking space for PAC concerts, a private pre-concert party for …
Showcasing Regional Artists at Carolina Gallery
Carolina Gallery supports the exceptional artists of the region who are members of the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers. On April 12, the gallery hosted an open house for those who have been juried into the Art League exhibition. Norma Hendrix, founder and executive director of Cullowhee Arts, graciously served as the entrants’ juror. Carolina Gallery’s co-owner Mary Lou Bilbro says, “Our …
Everyone Plays a Part at Highlands Playhouse
If you haven’t gotten your Highlands Playhouse Season Tickets, it’s not too late. Call the box office (828) 526-2695 or visit highlandsplayhouse.org to see how you can show your support for the 2018 productions, camps, internships, school programs, and essential day-to-day operations. In exchange for a donation at your selected level, you receive not only the best performances in the …
A Hurricane of Talent, Carol Conti
Whoever first made the statement, “Those who can’t, teach,” never met Carol Conti, the latest hurricane of talent to sweep into the area from Florida. Though calm and not blustery, she is taking our area with a storm of ideas and the willingness to make them happen. Carol Conti will give the presentation at the Art League’s meeting on May 21 …
Low Country Shrimp Boil in Highlands
Mark your calendars for the third annual Friends of Founders Park’s Low Country Shrimp Boil, from 5:00 to 8:00 P.M. Saturday, June 16. Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park, completed in 2017, has undoubtedly become the center of activity in Highlands, and is the perfect setting for an evening to remember. This event continues to draw crowds to the park, which is located …
