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Drama Camp: It’s All an Act
The Highlands Playhouse is always growing and looking for ways to entertain and engage the entire community. From the summer series of professional stage productions to the year-round, first-run movie theater, it offers something for everyone. This summer marks the return of the Children’s Theatre Camp. This program offers campers a chance to work with a team of professional actors to …
A Can’t Miss Season
We decided to shake things up this year! We’ve included new entertainment genres with an illusionist/mentalist and comedy and satire along with our favorites of Broadway, bluegrass, and retro-rock. The season starts off with Travis LeDoyt, who The New York Times dubbed “the best young Elvis.” He’ll perform two concerts, June 17 and 18. Travis only sings Elvis’ songs from …
Plateau Gallery News
The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts offers free exhibitions, unique education, and community outreach through workshops, classes, and lectures. Gallery hours are 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Saturday; and noon to 5:00 P.M. on Sunday. Call (828) 526-4949 or visit thebascom.org to learn about seasonal programs, classes, events. Mountain Mist Gallery of Cashiers represents some …
Wearable Sculpture
Elizabeth Haskins is a classic silversmith. Even though she was steeped in the arts as a child, she didn’t latch onto her true medium until college. At the insistence of a professor she took a jewelry-making class. It was love at first strike. “It was a challenge, but I loved the aspect of building small sculptures, using torches …
Living His Dream
Digital photographer Terry Barnes is not only a fine artist, but also a skilled visual entertainer. He loves to pull the viewer into his images, excite their senses, and give them a good show as he transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. One of Barnes’ trademarks is his wrapped canvas presentations. That means the collector enjoys the clean look of …
Choral Workshop and Concert
On Saturday, May 7, Highlands First Presbyterian Church’s Chancel Choir will host a Choral Workshop, open to all interested singers in the area. Participants will perform in a concert for the public at 7:00 P.M. that evening in the church’s sanctuary. The event will be facilitated by Master British Composer/Conductor Philip W.J. Stopford, a close friend of First Presbyterian …
Chamber’s Sneak Peek at 2016
Throughout the year the Highlands Chamber of Commerce works overtime, making sure the Plateau is thriving with activity. While Chamber members are busy implementing scheduled programs, concerts, outings, etc., they are also brainstorming events for the following season. The Chamber generates a jam-packed calendar that not only appeals to visitors and residents from toddlers to seniors, but to the …
Art for a Cause
The Village Green in Cashiers will come alive this Memorial Day weekend as some of the region’s finest artisans converge for the bi-annual Cashiers Rotary Arts & Crafts Show. The show takes place on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29, from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. both days, rain or shine. While admission is free, a suggested donation of …
The Art of Wine
Collective Spirits Wine and Food Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Be sure to Save-The-Date the weekend of May 19–21 for a fabulous fundraising festival benefitting The Bascom’s free programming and subsidized classes. It’s the art center’s biggest fundraiser of the year and certainly the most tantalizing for your tastebuds. The Private Wine Dinners on Thursday, May 19, feature in-home …
Cashiers Library: Community Resource
You may believe that with lengthening days and gorgeous weather, people would be inclined to spend less time inside Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library. Sure, people need books about gardening or hiking guides, but how on earth can the library attract patrons in this most sublime of seasons? Well, there are concrete reasons that this venerable institution remains a treasured year-round …
300 Cyclists, 10,000 Feet
Register now for the 24th annual Tour de Cashiers, slated for May 14, by visiting tourdecashiers.com. Coordinated by the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce and assisted by Pisgah Productions of Asheville, Jackson County Law Enforcement and numerous local volunteers, this annual event boasts entrants from across the Southeast and as far away as Idaho. May is the perfect time …
The Green Scene
April, the month when spring announces its intention to stay by providing us with more daylight hours, more sunshine, budding trees, and gorgeous flowers, is also the time when we all kick into our spring cleaning mode. Mother Nature is sprucing things up so it seems only natural that we would start freshening up too. Highlanders take their spring …
