Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Painting With a Twist in Savannah is raising money to support Union Mission programs for the homeless with a special Christmas-inspired Painting With A Purpose from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14.
Since its founding in 1937, Union Mission has provided emergency shelter, permanent supportive housing, behavioral health services, support for people living with HIV/AIDS and employment and educational services.
The Painting With a Twist studio is at 512 E. Oglethorpe Ave, Savannah, GA 31401, in Crawford Square Plaza.
The cost is $35 per person. An art instructor will lead a "creative evening of fun" with a step-by-step painting of your choice of Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
To register, go here.
For more information on Union Mission, visit www.unionmission.org.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive 30 minutes early. Those arriving more than 20 minutes late will not be allowed to paint. Painting classes are subject to change and cancellation for unforeseen circumstances. Registrants will be notified prior to class time and refunds will be processed.
AT Painting With A Twist painting sessions, attendees can sip their favorite beverage and enjoy step-by-step instructions with experienced and enthusiastic local artists.
Since its founding in 1937, Union Mission has provided emergency shelter, permanent supportive housing, behavioral health services, support for people living with HIV/AIDS and employment and educational services.
The Painting With a Twist studio is at 512 E. Oglethorpe Ave, Savannah, GA 31401, in Crawford Square Plaza.
The cost is $35 per person. An art instructor will lead a "creative evening of fun" with a step-by-step painting of your choice of Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
To register, go here.
For more information on Union Mission, visit www.unionmission.org.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive 30 minutes early. Those arriving more than 20 minutes late will not be allowed to paint. Painting classes are subject to change and cancellation for unforeseen circumstances. Registrants will be notified prior to class time and refunds will be processed.
AT Painting With A Twist painting sessions, attendees can sip their favorite beverage and enjoy step-by-step instructions with experienced and enthusiastic local artists.
In a special pre-season concert, Savannah Music Festival (SMF) presents Pink Martini on February 26, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lucas Theatre for the Arts.
Tickets for Pink Martini go on sale on Friday, October 25 at 10 a.m., and can be purchased online at www.savannahmusicfestival.org, by phone at 912.525.5050 or in-person at the Savannah Box Office at 216 E. Broughton St.
The performance is sponsored by Wilmington Trust, Dorothea & Tim Coy, Abshire PR, The Kennickell Group and Sound View Wealth Advisors.
Under the musical direction of founder and pianist Thomas Lauderdale, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden.
Tickets for Pink Martini go on sale on Friday, October 25 at 10 a.m., and can be purchased online at www.savannahmusicfestival.org, by phone at 912.525.5050 or in-person at the Savannah Box Office at 216 E. Broughton St.
The performance is sponsored by Wilmington Trust, Dorothea & Tim Coy, Abshire PR, The Kennickell Group and Sound View Wealth Advisors.
Under the musical direction of founder and pianist Thomas Lauderdale, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Savannah’s Gypsy, Swing, Honky-Tonk and Upbeat Latin band, Velvet Caravan, will headline an special evening of music Thanksgiving weekend on Friday, November 29 at 8 pm at Victory North Savannah.
Savannah Stopover is the presenting sponsor of the event.
The band continues its upward trend over the last year few years with gigs at South By Southwest Music Festival, Rochester International Jazz Festival, The Iridium Club in New York, Word Cafe in Philadelphia, and NPR’s Latino USA.
Locally, they have appeared at the Savannah Jazz Festival, Savannah Stopover Music Festival, Revival Fest, and the grand finale event for the 2018 Savannah Music Festival.
Tickets for the show will be available via Eventbrite with tiered pricing at $16-$26 for General Admission standing room and $51-$76 for reserved table seating.
Pre-Sale tickets will be available at 10:00am on Wednesday October 23rd to members of Velvet Caravan’s and Savannah Stopover Music Festival’s mailing list.
General Public tickets will go on sale Friday, October 25th at 10:00am on Eventbrite here.
Tickets can also be accessed from here.
Savannah Stopover is the presenting sponsor of the event.
The band continues its upward trend over the last year few years with gigs at South By Southwest Music Festival, Rochester International Jazz Festival, The Iridium Club in New York, Word Cafe in Philadelphia, and NPR’s Latino USA.
Locally, they have appeared at the Savannah Jazz Festival, Savannah Stopover Music Festival, Revival Fest, and the grand finale event for the 2018 Savannah Music Festival.
Tickets for the show will be available via Eventbrite with tiered pricing at $16-$26 for General Admission standing room and $51-$76 for reserved table seating.
Pre-Sale tickets will be available at 10:00am on Wednesday October 23rd to members of Velvet Caravan’s and Savannah Stopover Music Festival’s mailing list.
General Public tickets will go on sale Friday, October 25th at 10:00am on Eventbrite here.
Tickets can also be accessed from here.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) today announced the 2019 honorees to be recognized at the 22nd annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival, taking place Oct. 26 - Nov. 2.
This year, SCAD will honor:
Aldis Hodge and Valerie Pachner with the Discovery Award
Daniel Kaluuya and Elisabeth Moss with the Spotlight Award
Danielle Macdonald with the Rising Star Award
Samantha Morton with the Virtuoso Award
Alan Silvestri with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Composing
Olivia Wilde with the Rising Star Director Award (Wilde is a previous Spotlight Award winner)
The festival’s Breakout Award honorees include Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Jharrel Jerome, Mena Massoud and Camila Morrone. The five actors will participate in a panel discussion on Wednesday, October 30.
This year, SCAD will honor:
Aldis Hodge and Valerie Pachner with the Discovery Award
Daniel Kaluuya and Elisabeth Moss with the Spotlight Award
Danielle Macdonald with the Rising Star Award
Samantha Morton with the Virtuoso Award
Alan Silvestri with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Composing
Olivia Wilde with the Rising Star Director Award (Wilde is a previous Spotlight Award winner)
The festival’s Breakout Award honorees include Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Jharrel Jerome, Mena Massoud and Camila Morrone. The five actors will participate in a panel discussion on Wednesday, October 30.
Friday, October 11, 2019
Coastal ocean advocates on Friday announced the designation of Georgia's offshore waters as an international Hope Spot.
The Hope Spot is a project of Mission Blue, led by oceanographer Sylvia Earle, and means that our waters are important to our ecosystem and should be protected.
The push for the designation was led by Paulita Bennett-Martin, Georgia Campaign Organizer for Oceana; Angela Hariche, CEO of Catapult Design; and ocean advocate Dr. Simona Perry.
Partners include the Caretta Research Project, Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary, and the Georgia Conservancy.
The Hope Spot is comprised of Georgia's continental shelf and the Blake Plateau, which Hariche explains covers 16,865 square miles.
The U.N. says that there are 8,878 pieces of plastic litter can be found on every square mile of the ocean.
"There are 136,235,470 pieces of plastic litter in our Hope Spot, all of which comes from land activity," says Hariche.
Minimizing the pollution of our offshore waters is just one priority. Perry says that the Hope Spot plan has four specific goals: create an official representation site linking all the marine habitats; support and raise awareness regarding sustainable fisheries; prevent and reduce marine and nutrient pollution; and reduce adverse effects to the North Atlantic right whale and take action for their recovery.
"This is a clarion call to the rest of Georgia to start taking action for our oceans," says Perry.
For more information, visit mission-blue.org.
The Hope Spot is a project of Mission Blue, led by oceanographer Sylvia Earle, and means that our waters are important to our ecosystem and should be protected.
The push for the designation was led by Paulita Bennett-Martin, Georgia Campaign Organizer for Oceana; Angela Hariche, CEO of Catapult Design; and ocean advocate Dr. Simona Perry.
Partners include the Caretta Research Project, Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary, and the Georgia Conservancy.
The Hope Spot is comprised of Georgia's continental shelf and the Blake Plateau, which Hariche explains covers 16,865 square miles.
The U.N. says that there are 8,878 pieces of plastic litter can be found on every square mile of the ocean.
"There are 136,235,470 pieces of plastic litter in our Hope Spot, all of which comes from land activity," says Hariche.
Minimizing the pollution of our offshore waters is just one priority. Perry says that the Hope Spot plan has four specific goals: create an official representation site linking all the marine habitats; support and raise awareness regarding sustainable fisheries; prevent and reduce marine and nutrient pollution; and reduce adverse effects to the North Atlantic right whale and take action for their recovery.
"This is a clarion call to the rest of Georgia to start taking action for our oceans," says Perry.
For more information, visit mission-blue.org.
Tags: Oceana , Catapult Design , Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary , Caretta Research Project , Georgia Conservancy , ocean pollution , North Atlantic right whale
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Deep Center on Tuesday unveiled its first policy briefing for a more equitable Savannah.
The brief was written by executive director Dare Dukes, community engagement coordinator Raphael Eissa, director of communications Coco Papy, and community partner Kate Blair of Savannah/Chatham CASA.
The six recommendations Deep makes are:
1. Community, civic and faith-based organizations should build skills and capacity to undertake systems-change advocacy.
2. Child serving institutions should embrace a healing-centered, whole-village approach to building a climate of community healing, achievement, and thriving.
3. Chatham County Juvenile Court should abolish economic sanctions for youth in the juvenile justice system.
4. Our community should re-imagine policing.
5. Savannah Chatham County Public School System should centralize and codify positive school discipline across the district.
6. Chatham County should expand affordable mental health care.
Deep reached these conclusions by partnering with researchers at the University of Georgia to perform youth participatory action research. Through that process, the researchers found the most harmful system to be the school-to-prison pipeline. Deep encourages all child-serving institutions, municipalities, law enforcement, and civic- and faith-based organizations to join in advocacy for these policies.
Deep Center was founded in 2008 to foster literacy in Savannah's youth by hosting free creative writing workshops at middle schools. Since then, Deep's offerings have expanded to move into the community and fighting for equity and justice for our youth.
For more information on Deep, visit deepcenter.org.
The brief was written by executive director Dare Dukes, community engagement coordinator Raphael Eissa, director of communications Coco Papy, and community partner Kate Blair of Savannah/Chatham CASA.
The six recommendations Deep makes are:
1. Community, civic and faith-based organizations should build skills and capacity to undertake systems-change advocacy.
2. Child serving institutions should embrace a healing-centered, whole-village approach to building a climate of community healing, achievement, and thriving.
3. Chatham County Juvenile Court should abolish economic sanctions for youth in the juvenile justice system.
4. Our community should re-imagine policing.
5. Savannah Chatham County Public School System should centralize and codify positive school discipline across the district.
6. Chatham County should expand affordable mental health care.
Deep reached these conclusions by partnering with researchers at the University of Georgia to perform youth participatory action research. Through that process, the researchers found the most harmful system to be the school-to-prison pipeline. Deep encourages all child-serving institutions, municipalities, law enforcement, and civic- and faith-based organizations to join in advocacy for these policies.
Deep Center was founded in 2008 to foster literacy in Savannah's youth by hosting free creative writing workshops at middle schools. Since then, Deep's offerings have expanded to move into the community and fighting for equity and justice for our youth.
For more information on Deep, visit deepcenter.org.
The Chatham County Police Department is instituting new measures "to help better serve domestic violence victims."
After several months of study and preparation, "the department is implementing a protocol designed to help identify the most at-risk victims of domestic violence, and take immediate action to help ensure their safety," a spokesperson says.
"When patrol officers are dispatched to a call involving domestic violence, they will ask the victim a series of questions known as a lethality assessment. The purpose of the lethality assessment is to help determine how at-risk the victim is for escalating, and potentially fatal, violence at the hands of the other party involved in the dispute," police report.
"In cases where the risk is deemed great, victims will have the opportunity to be transported by a Chatham County Police officer to Safe Shelter where they will immediately receive assistance and a place to stay. The questions are based on a national model, and will be asked in a private setting so the victim feels free to speak truthfully without fear of further angering the other party involved in the dispute."
Training will be conducted for all patrol officers on when and how the questionnaire should be used, and what results require immediate action.
After several months of study and preparation, "the department is implementing a protocol designed to help identify the most at-risk victims of domestic violence, and take immediate action to help ensure their safety," a spokesperson says.
"When patrol officers are dispatched to a call involving domestic violence, they will ask the victim a series of questions known as a lethality assessment. The purpose of the lethality assessment is to help determine how at-risk the victim is for escalating, and potentially fatal, violence at the hands of the other party involved in the dispute," police report.
"In cases where the risk is deemed great, victims will have the opportunity to be transported by a Chatham County Police officer to Safe Shelter where they will immediately receive assistance and a place to stay. The questions are based on a national model, and will be asked in a private setting so the victim feels free to speak truthfully without fear of further angering the other party involved in the dispute."
Training will be conducted for all patrol officers on when and how the questionnaire should be used, and what results require immediate action.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Thomas & Hutton Marketing Manager — and popular local actress and singer — Cecilia Arango has been named as one of Georgia’s “40 Under 40” honorees in Georgia Trend magazine this month.
Cecilia also appears alongside three other professionals from the “40 Under 40” list on the magazine’s cover.
Cecilia is also a past winner of "Best Actress," as voted by our readers in our annual Connect Savannah "Best of Savannah" poll and special issue.
The annual Georgia Trend "40 Under 40" issue celebrates the professional and community service efforts of young leaders across the state in a variety of fields.
A graduate of Armstrong State University and Georgia native, Cecilia has been with Thomas & Hutton since 2001.
Thomas & Hutton is a privately-held professional services company providing engineering, planning, landscape architecture, surveying, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and consulting services to public and private clients.
Cecilia also appears alongside three other professionals from the “40 Under 40” list on the magazine’s cover.
Cecilia is also a past winner of "Best Actress," as voted by our readers in our annual Connect Savannah "Best of Savannah" poll and special issue.
The annual Georgia Trend "40 Under 40" issue celebrates the professional and community service efforts of young leaders across the state in a variety of fields.
A graduate of Armstrong State University and Georgia native, Cecilia has been with Thomas & Hutton since 2001.
Thomas & Hutton is a privately-held professional services company providing engineering, planning, landscape architecture, surveying, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and consulting services to public and private clients.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
The SCAD Savannah Film Festival has announced its full schedule for this year's edition, happening Oct. 26-Nov. 2 and taking place downtown, primarily at the Lucas and Trustees Theatres.
Tix are on sale now at filmfest.scad.edu
There is a full range of feature screenings, documentaries, pro and student shorts, animation, and a series of panels and workshops, including the popular Wonder Women series.
“SCAD alumni and students alike will join in the festivities at the 22nd annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival. With so many SCAD grads living in Georgia, they don't have far to come! SCAD is a global leader in entertainment arts, and it's our pleasure to host the best film festival anywhere," said SCAD President and Founder Paula Wallace.
“This year’s festival is one of our best and most exciting film line-ups we’ve put together,” said SCAD Savannah Film Festival Executive Director Christina Routhier. “We are thrilled to present eight days of premiere screenings, panels, workshops, and a one-of-a-kind Immersive VR experience to SCAD, our students, and the City of Savannah. One of the highlights of this year's festival is our annual Wonder Women series which includes award winning and rising directors, producers, writers, and below the line artists. I am even more proud that the festival will be screening films from over 50 female filmmakers making us one of the few festivals that are celebrating the work of female artists from around the world.”
Gala screenings include:
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 3 p.m. Sat. Oct. 26
The Aeronauts, 7 p.m. Sat. Oct. 26
Harriet, 3:30 p.m., Sun. Oct. 27
Motherless Brooklyn, 8 p.m. Sun. Oct. 27
Knives Out, 7 p.m. Mon. Oct. 28
Clemency, 9:30 p.m. Mon. Oct. 28
A Hidden Life, 7 p.m. Tue. Oct. 29
The Report, noon Wed. Oct. 30
Pain and Glory, 2:30 p.m. Wed. Oct. 30
The Two Popes, 7 p.m. Wed. Oct. 30
The King, 9:30 p.m. Wed. Oct. 30
Seberg, 11:30 a.m. Thu. Oct. 31
Honey Boy, 2:30 p.m. Thu. Oct. 31
Just Mercy, 7 p.m., Thu. Oct. 31
The Truth 1 p.m., Fri. Nov. 1
Waves, 7 p.m. Fri. Nov. 1
Parasite, 9 p.m., Fri. Nov. 1
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, 7 p.m. Sat. Nov. 2
The ten films selected for the sixth annual Docs to Watch Roundtable hosted by Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter include:
American Factory (Director: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar)
Apollo 11 (Director: Todd Douglas Miller)
The Biggest Little Farm (Director: John Chester)
The Cave (Director: Feras Fayyad)
Diego Maradona (Director: Asif Kapadia)
The Kingmaker (Director: Lauren Greenfield)
Knock Down the House (Director: Rachel Lear)
Maiden (Director: Alex Holmes)
One Child Nation (Director: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang)
Sea of Shadows (Director: Richard Ladkani)
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Savannah City Council today approved the final exterior/facade design of the new Savannah Arena — even though groundbreaking for the facility happened a week ago.
Some members of council expressed objections to the original design by Perkins & Will architects (Alderman Tony Thomas joked that the original design was "disgustingly horrific").
The new design, the architects say, incorporates lit towers to "act as a beacon" to show the rejuvenation of the new Canal District, surrounding the Arena.
At a previous Council meeting, members complained that they were about to attend a groundbreaking but still hadn't seen the final design.
In other Council business:
A $10 million liability settlement was approved in the case of Lisa Muse, a Memorial nurse severely injured and still incapacitated from a 2010 collision involving a Counter Narcotics Team officer.
At issue is an oak tree on White Bluff Road, which Muse's attorneys say was to blame for the crash because it blocked visibility, and which the City of Savannah had been warned about previously.
The Georgia Supreme Court had already ruled that the City of Savannah couldn't enjoy sovereign immunity from prosecution for negligence in this case.
Council also approved the formation of a new Historic Preservation Commission, as per state law. This new review body is intended to have review power over all historic and conservation districts in Savannah other than the Savannah Downtown Historic Overlay District, which already has its own review board.
