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Growing Hope Gallery Expo Saturday 9/8 from 9am to 3pm
Here’s a Saturday diversion presented tomorrow by Union Mission at the corner of East Broad and East Gwinnett Street.
Of special interest are the participatory events:

“painting an art car” (hasn’t everyone always wanted to doodle and paint-up a car?)

the Generations of Change - My Savannah archive booth.
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Union Mission’s Growing Hope Artisans’ Cooperative presents paintings by Maurice Henderson at the Starfish Café during the month of February.
An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 9th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Starfish Café, 719 East Broad Street.

Henderson enjoys depicting images from African-American history: W.W. Law, Buffalo Soldiers, Freedom Riders, and […]

The Lucas Theatre played host last night to Richard Florida, one of the world’s leading social theorists and public intellectuals. He spoke on a narrow spectrum of topics which all centered around the idea that we are all creative and that Savannah has the potential to harness that creativity and disperse it throughout. […]

I attended my very first showing of “The Nutcracker” on Saturday night. I’ve been trying to get my husband to take me for years, but he’s a big “man’s man”, so he’s not into ballet. Our young son went with his class last year, so he moaned and groaned when I threw out the idea […]

Let’s face it. Who doesn’t like nudity? Seriously. What is there to not like about nudity. Sure there are some people who are a bit more out of shape than others. But when there are no tight wastebands to bulge the skin at the midsection or underclothing to restrict the […]

I had the great pleasure today to spend some time with the Rev. Father Vasile Miahi at St. Pauls Greek Orthodox Church in Savannah, GA. We spoke about the role of iconography in faith practice and just what these icons mean to the face of religion. He is an amazingly versed man in […]

When most people think of fighting or boxing they think of Mike Tyson, satin shorts, and weight divisions. Few think of photography though. That is unless you have seen the work of David Field. A photographer from Augusta, Georgia and a SCAD alumna, David is currently in town on assignment with The […]

I think its interesting that as an artistic communicty we can’t find equal handed representation for all artists. In fact, I can’t believe that this is the case in many art laden communities. What am I getting at, you ask? Well, yesterday the Telfair announced a new group, Friends of African-American Arts, […]