Seed and Feed Marching Abominable
The Seed & Feed Marching Abominable, Atlanta’s wildest community band, has been thrilling audiences since 1974 with its trademark explosive sound and colorful street theater. They’re back!
11 a.m. | U.S. Custom House | 200 E. Bay Street
Covenant Farm
Fifth Wall Productions presents a staged reading of Brigid Amos’ Covenant Farm.
Noon | Threshold Repertory Theatre | 84 1/2 Society Street
The Sound of Charleston
Now in its 16th season, The Sound of Charleston continues to be a Piccolo fan favorite highlighting Charleston’s rich musical heritage, from gospel spirituals to the music of George Gershwin. Performers include Ann Caldwell, former Mayor John Tecklenburg, the Bright Family Singers and a host of other Lowcountry legends.
2 p.m. | Saturday, May 23, May 30 and June 6 | Circular Congregational Church | 150 Meeting Street
10 + 4 + 1: A Collaborative Art Show Featuring Dance
Don’t miss this opportunity to see four different, 20-minute performances.
3 p.m. | Cannon Street Arts Center | 134 Cannon Street.
- Unbound Ballet Unbound Ballet Project presents excerpts from their full-length ballet Everything Moves and Nothing Stays, which premiered last July and was choreographed by director Crystal Wellman
- Annex Dance Company presents three repertory works inspired by the art of Leslie Alexander, Aya Kawano and Mary Walker, translating their visual worlds into movement.
- Collective SC presents Short Fuse, an exploration of the fragile line between calm and chaos. Short Fuse features excerpts from BREAK alongside new works in progress, choreographed by Lacey Bates and Izzy Byers.
- In The Yellow Wallpaper, dancers bring to life the eponymous 1892 classic feminist short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It tells the story of a woman suffering from postpartum depression and her struggle to get well during a time when women’s mental health was not taken seriously.
10 + 4 + 1: A Collaborative Art Show Featuring Dance
An encore performance of The Journey, Short Fuse, and The Yellow Wallpaper.
6 p.m. | Cannon Street Arts Center | 134 Cannon Street
Ann Caldwell: A Lesson in Spirituals
Ann Caldwell brings to life sacred songs born from the rice fields of the American South—songs of coded resistance, faith, and survival.
6 p.m. | Drummond Studio Gallery | 12 Line Street Suite 102
Shakespeare and Me
William Shakespeare has colored literary history with larger-than-life characters who changed how we see the world. Join Paul O’Brien as Shakespeare and Me gives the audience a solo performance featuring some Shakespeare favorites: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Othello.
7:30 p.m. | May 23, 24, 25, May 31 & June 2 | Threshold Repertory Theatre | 84 ½ Society Street
4 p.m. | May 26 | Threshold Repertory Theatre | 84 ½ Society Street
Ann Caldwell: Journey of Return
In Journey of Return, Ann Caldwell traces her family’s journey from Denmark, S.C. to Charleston and back with powerful a cappella renditions of spirituals and early R&B, paired with vivid, heartfelt narratives.
8:30 p.m. | Drummond Studio Gallery | 12 Line Street, Suite 102
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