Black Food Truck Festival
The Black Food Truck Festival will host its semiannual event at a new location this weekend, the Exchange Park in Ladson. The festival features some of the finest food trucks in the region along with music, vendors, kid-friendly activities and entertainment. But more than that, the event has a greater mission of making an economic and social impact on the community by showcasing and investing in Black-owned businesses.
April 23-24. 12-6 p.m. $20/day; $35/both days. Exchange Park Fairgrounds. 9850 Hwy. 78. Ladson. blackfoodtruckfestival.com
Waves 4 Women ‘Turn the Tides’ fundraiser
Waves 4 Women, a nonprofit therapeutic surf program promoting wellness in women and girls through surfing, outdoor activity and community building, is holding its first annual fundraising event in Folly Beach tomorrow evening. Join the team in raising funds to ensure therapeutic surfing and wellness programs remain available for all women and girls year-round. Tickets are limited, but it’s not too late to grab yours!
April 21. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free to attend. Taco Boy. 106 East Ashley Ave. Folly Beach. waves4women.org
Fido Fest
Save the date for Mount Pleasant Towne Centre’s sixth annual Fido Fest, an afternoon celebrating our four-legged friends and benefitting Charleston Animal Society. Contests include dog and owner lookalike, waggiest tail, peanut butter eating and cutest dog. Other fundraising events include giveaways, games and more.
April 23. 12-4 p.m. Free to attend; games, contest prices vary. Mount Pleasant Towne Centre. 1218 Belk Drive. Mount Pleasant. mtpleasanttownecentre.com
Benefit concert for ovarian cancer research
Music has always been a sanctuary and way of connecting to the universe, said singer and guitarist Mike Kaufman. When his wife Suzanne died from ovarian cancer last July, he set about writing songs as therapy. The songs forced him to confront the full range of his emotions from intense joy to incredible pain, into the beginnings of moving forward and reentering the world through music.
April 21. 7:30-9 p.m. $15/ticket. Fox Music House. 4248 Dorchester Road. North Charleston. foxmusichouse.com
Shag night on the dock
Join Freshfields Village and Doin’ the Charleston for a summer shag night series every Tuesday evening through August. Shag dancing pros looking to dust off their dancing shoes and those new to the area looking to learn the basic steps to the official dance of the Palmetto State need only head down to the Lakeside Dock to jam out to beach tunes perfect for shagging.
April 26. 6-8 p.m. Free to attend. Freshfields Village. 165 Village Green Lane. Kiawah Island. freshfieldsvillage.com
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