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Festivals

05/10/2012 - 05/13/2012
The Bounty will be docked at the Maritime Center and will be open for dockside tours Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
05/25/2012 - 06/10/2012
Produced by the City of Charleston’s Office of Cultural Affairs, this companion festival offers hundreds of family-friendly and moderately priced events.
05/25/2012 - 06/10/2012
Considered America’s premier international performing arts festival, Spoleto Festival USA (May 25 – June 10, 2012) fills Charleston with over 140 performances.

Exhibits

05/25/2012 - 06/10/2012
Special Piccolo Spoleto exhibit that holds mixed media artwork, which was inspired by the events and people of wartime.
04/03/2012 - 06/19/2012
Continuing its commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Charleston Museum presents a special traveling exhibit, The Life and Times of Congressman Robert Smalls.
04/21/2012 - 08/26/2012
As spring in Charleston transitions into a playful and sunny summer, so do the garments in the Charleston Museum's Seasonal Fashions exhibit.
05/05/2012 - 12/09/2012
Pieced (or patchwork) quilts consist of geometric shapes sewn together to form a pattern.
03/10/2012 - 11/04/2012
200 Years of Couture Fashion on Exhibit. The exhibit will showcase over fifty fine garments and accessories from the 1770s to the 1970s.
01/13/2012 - 09/10/2012
Continuing its commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Charleston Museum presents Blasted: Assorted Projectiles and Explosives of the Civil War.
07/22/2011 - 10/01/2012
This exhibition showcases paintings, drawings, and sculpture by the foremost self-taught artists of the American South.
02/10/2011 - 12/31/2015
This includes the most comprehensive list of events commemorating the Civil War.
01/01/2011 - 12/31/2015
Special changing exhibits will mark sesquicentennial anniversaries of the American Civil War on a year-by-year basis and follow the lives of the Alston family and their slaves.
01/01/2011 - 12/31/2015
Includes special changing exhibits commemorating American Civil War sesquicentennial anniversaries on a year-by-year basis and follow the lives of the Middleton family, friends and slaves.

Events from 05/01/2012 to 05/31/2012

Songs for the Spirit—Opera and the African American Experience
This is a spellbinding tale of life in a post-Civil War plantation, and how the power of one voice can change a community. This concert features three of South Carolina's most promising emerging singers as part of the inaugural Young Artist Program of Cha
May
06
2012

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2nd Sunday on King Street
Enjoy shopping and dining and surprises, in the spirit of Easter in The Holy City.
May
13
2012

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2012 Piccolo Spoleto: The Great Migration: 1915-1930 African-American Southern Exodus
This performance was performed in April to a sold-out crowd and is inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabelle Wilkerson.
May
26
2012

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Living History Days at Middleton Place
Reenactors bring history to life through military camp and craft demonstrations
May
26
2012

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Living History Days at Middleton Place
Reenactors bring history to life through military camp and craft demonstrations
May
27
2012

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Mahalia - A Gospel Musical
Take a look at the life of America’s most famous gospel singer who struggled through the iron fist of her aunt and later found acceptance among churchgoers who didn’t approve of her shouting and clapping for Jesus.
May
29
2012

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Mahalia - A Gospel Musical
Take a look at the life of America’s most famous gospel singer who struggled through the iron fist of her aunt and later found acceptance among churchgoers who didn’t approve of her shouting and clapping for Jesus.
May
30
2012

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Robert Smalls Commemorative Weekend
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician.
May
12
2012
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May
13
2012

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Fashion Plates: Illustrating History's Latest Styles, 1760s-1920s
Once the most important resource for current styles, fashion plates are now a valuable source for historic research.
Nov
19
2011
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06
2012

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