Lancaster, SC, Offers Red Rose Festival – May 17 & 18, 2013

The City of Lancaster will celebrate the arrival of Spring with the fourth annual, “Red Rose Festival,” in historic downtown Lancaster, SC, on Friday, May 17, 2013, from 6-10pm and Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 10am-10pm.

Featured events will include two music stages with 18 local and nationally acclaimed artists, arts and crafts open market, Rosie’s Fun Fest Kids area, a Festival of Foods concessions area, roaming entertainment, a triathlon and more! Performances by The Donna Taylor Band, The Voltage Band.

The Lancaster County Council of the Arts will announce this year’s Photography contest winners and the unveiling of the 2013 Red Rose Festival Poster.

Chuck Boozer from Interstate 107 FM Country Radio will be your host!

On Saturday, excitement begins across town at USC Lancaster’s Gregory Health and Fitness Center with the Habitat For Humanity inaugural Tri For The Roses Public Safety Triathlon Challenge. Registration begins at 7am at the 476 Hubbard Drive location in Lancaster. The top three teams will receive trophies and the winning team will receive $500 for their organization. Call 803-283-1203 to pre-register.

The festival opens in the historic downtown on Saturday morning at 10am with a myriad of artisans and crafters from the Carolinas, Rosie’s Kid’s Zone with amusements, and beating music on two stages; The City Stage, located at City Hall and The Los Mariachi’s &Interstate 107 Country FM Stage, located on Main Street. Musical performances by Believe, Jon Anderson, The Hinson Girls, The Extraordinaires, Too Much Sylvia, Charity Case, Eight Oh Tree, Beau Beaumont, Special K, A Few Shots Down, Cleo White and the Identity Band, The Curley White Band and Mister Pleaze.

Area restaurants and vendors will be on site offering all of your favorite southern foods! The Red Rose Festival is scheduled rain or shine. Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information contact Cherry Doster at 803/289-1492 or visit (http://www.lancastercitysc.com).

See Lancaster in Lancaster, SC, is Calling for Participation in the 2013 Ag+Art Tour of Lancaster County – Deadline Apr. 12, 2013

Avant Garde Center for the Arts, Clemson Extension, Lancaster County Agribusiness Center, Lancaster County Council of the Arts, The Olde English District Tourism Commission, and See Lancaster invite you to participate in the 2013 Ag+Art Tour of Lancaster County. We have designed the event to be a weekend-long, self-guided tour that will link the agricultural and cultural aspects of Lancaster County, while adding a public art component for visual artists, musicians, and performance artists.

We invite you to participate in this summer’s tour and encourage you to open your studios and galleries, or allow us to station you at one of the sites along the tour to demonstrate your talents and sell your creations. We hope to enhance our visitor’s experience and promote to a wider audience, as well as providing our artists an opportunity to profit from the tour and gain wider exposure.

Participating artists will need to bring tables, chairs, tents for the tour and also indicate if you would prefer to be located at an indoors site. There is no fee for participation, but we will need to have a confirmation by Apr. 12, 2013, as an orientation dinner meeting is planned for April 16. Also, in order to include you in our brochures/listings/press releases/etc., an early confirmation will be necessary.

For further info call Cherry Doster, See Lancaster at 803/289-1492, e-mail to (cdoster@lancastercitysc.com) or visit (www.agandarttour.com).

Lancaster County Council of the Arts in Lancaster, SC, Seeks Entries for Annual Red Rose Festival Event – Deadline Apr. 1, 2013

The Lancaster County Council of the Arts in Lancaster, SC, seeks entries for annual Red Rose Festival Photography Exhibit & Competition, part of the May 17 & 18  Red Rose Festival, held to celebrate all that the community has to offer. Participants are asked to take a picture of their interpretation of Lancaster – a visual representation of what makes our community special.

The contest is open to all ages, includes cash awards, and winning photographs may be incorporated into poster designs for the Red Rose Festival. Photographs submitted which meet contest requirements will be exhibited at The Springs House Galleries for the months of May and June 2013.

Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2013.

For a complete prospectus and application, call Debbie Jaillette at 803/285-7451 or e-mail to (lccadebbie@comporium.net). The materials may be obtained at the Lancaster County Council of the Arts, 201 West Gay Street, Lancaster, SC or online at (www.lccarts.net) or (www.lancastercitysc.com).

The Lancaster County Council of the Arts is a non-profit arts organization which exists to provide community cultural arts and educational opportunities.

Native American Studies Center in Lancaster, SC, Kicks off 8th Annual USC Lancaster Native American Studies Week – Mar. 23, 2013

The Native American Studies Center in Lancaster, SC, Kicks off the 8th Annual USC Lancaster Native American Studies Week with a festival of Native American drumming, dancing, flute-playing, and a display of pottery on Saturday, Mar. 23, 2013, from 9am to 4pm, as USC Lancaster’s Native American Studies Center launches its 2013 Native American Studies Week.

Beginning Saturday morning at the NAS Center at 119 S. Main St. in Lancaster, guests will be treated to demonstrations of Native American performing arts, exhibits of Catawba and Cherokee pottery, and tours of the NAS Center. Pottery vendors will be on hand to show and sell their creations, and the Center will offer children’s activities, particularly a Catawba language puppet show.  Events are free and open to the public.

After the kick-off festival on Mar. 23 at the USCL Native American Studies Center on Main St. in Lancaster, organizers will begin a week of events focused on Native Americans, law, and justice. This year’s slate of speakers will discuss legal, political, and social justice issues, including the recent South Carolina/Cherokee adoption case of “Baby Veronica” (set to go before the Supreme Court this session), the saga of the Catawba fight for federal recognition and the subsequent land settlement, the Cherokee Removal under President Andrew Jackson, and the legal and social struggles of the Lumbee of North Carolina.

Events will be held at the USCL Native American Studies Center at 119 S. Main St, in Lancaster (except for the keynote address on Thur. Mar. 28, which will be held on the Bundy Auditorium on the USCL campus in Lancaster).

For an updated schedule of events, directions to the Center, or details on other 2013 NAS Week activities, visit the USCL website at (http://usclancaster.sc.edu/) or call 803/313-7172.

The Lancaster County Council of the Arts in Lancaster, SC, Calls for Entries for Red Rose Festival Photography Exhibit & Competition – Deadline Apr. 1, 2013

The Lancaster County Council of the Arts seeks entries for photography exhibit and competition as part of the May 17 & 18, 2013, Red Rose Festival, held annually in downtown Lancaster, SC, to celebrate all that the community has to offer.

Participants are asked to take a picture of their interpretation of Lancaster – a visual representation of what makes our community special. The contest is open to all ages, includes cash awards, and winning photographs may be incorporated into poster designs for the Red Rose Festival.

Photographs submitted which meet contest requirements will be exhibited at The Springs House Galleries for the months of May and June 2013.

Deadline for submissions is Apr. 1, 2013.

For a complete prospectus and application, call Debbie Jaillette at 803/285-7451 or e-mail to (lccadebbie@comporium.net). The materials may be obtained at the Lancaster County Council of the Arts, 201 West Gay Street, Lancaster, SC or online at (www.lccarts.net) or (www.lancastercitysc.com).

The Lancaster County Council of the Arts is a non-profit arts organization which exists to provide community cultural arts and educational opportunities.

City of Lancaster, SC, Calls for Participation in the 4th Annual Red Rose Festival – Deadline is Apr. 29, 2013

The 4th Annual Red Rose Festival in Lancaster, SC, is now accepting applications for its annual outdoor spring event on Friday, May 17 from 6-10pm and Saturday, May 18 from 10am-10pm. Applications for antiques, arts and craft, food, commercial and non-profits are available until Apr. 29, 2013. Space is limited already! Call or e-mail today to reserve your space.

The 2013 Red Rose Festival promises something for everyone. It’s the event of the year in Lancaster and we hope you will join us to see why we are excited about our Red Rose City.

For questions or more information on this event please contact Cherry Doster at 803/289-1492 or e-mail to (cdoster@lancastercitysc.com).

Native American Studies Center at USC Lancaster in Lancaster, SC, Offers Pre-Antiques Roadshow Artifact Identification Evening – Jan. 10, 2013

The Native American Studies Center at USC Lancaster in Lancaster, SC, is offering a Pre-Antiques Roadshow Artifact Identification Evening on Jan. 10, 2013, from 4-7pm.

Bring in those arrowheads, axes, pieces of broken Indian pottery or whatever else you have and the archaeologist will tell you what it is and how old it is.

The USCL Native American Studies Center is located at 119 South Main Street in Lancaster, SC.

For further info call 803/313-7172.

Support the Lancaster County Council of the Arts in Lancaster, SC, and Win a Bob Doster Sculpture

A six feet tall version of Bob Doster’s popular stainless steel palmetto tree sculpture will be awarded on February 2, 2012, to the first prize winner of the annual Gala Fundraiser.  A limited number of $100 tickets are available at the Lancaster County Council of the Arts galleries at 201 West Gay Street, Lancaster, SC, or from any member of the LCCA Board of Directors. Second and Third Prizes will be awarded and are yet to be announced – past year’s included weekend vacations, artwork, and gift certificates.

This annual fundraiser ensures the non-profit agency’s abilities to continue to provide arts and educational opportunities for Lancaster County, many of which are free to the public.

Doster is an internationally acclaimed artist whose works can be found in galleries, museums, and collections worldwide (www.bobdoster.com).

For information or to purchase tickets by phone or online, contact Debbie Jaillette at 803/285-7451 or  e-mail to (lccadebbie@comporium.net).

Lancaster County Council of the Arts in Lancaster, SC, Host Poetry Readings on Present Exhibit – Dec. 9, 2012

The Lancaster County Council of the Arts is hosting a poetry reading by the poets in the Vistas ~ Visions and Verse exhibit on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, from 2-4pm at the historic Springs House in Lancaster, SC. This exhibit, which will hang in the galleries through December, pairs original poetry with paintings by 14 different area artists.  This reading is free and open to the public.

The Springs House is located at 301 West Gay Street in Lancaster, SC.

For more information, call the LCCA at 803/285-7451.

USC Lancaster in Lancaster, SC, Opens Native American Studies Center – Oct. 4, 2012

On Oct. 4, 2012, the USC Lancaster Native American Studies Program in downtown Lancaster, SC, will host a public open house to inaugurate the opening of its new center.

Faculty and staff of this 15,000 square foot facility in historic downtown Lancaster invite the public to tour the new Native American Studies Center at 119 South Main Street from 5-7pm. Guests will have the opportunity to tour the NAS Center’s gallery spaces, archives, classrooms, and archaeology, language, and audio-visual labs. Refreshments will be provided and performers and artists will be on hand to demonstrate Native American traditions.

Artwork in the background by Fran Gardner; large wedding jug on the right by Earl Robbins (Duke Energy Collection); and small wedding jug on the left, teaching piece by Monty Branham and Evelyn George (Duke Energy Collection).

Through a partnership between USCL and the City of Lancaster, the Native American Studies Center was established to promote regional Native American art, culture, and history. Home to the world’s largest collection of Catawba Indian pottery, the NAS Center will offer exhibits of regional Native American Art, classes and programs focused on Native American history, culture, archaeology, folklore, and language.

Following the Oct. 4 open house, the NAS Center will be open Tue.-Wed., 10am-5pm; Thur., 10am-7pm; Fri.-Sat., 10am-5pm; Sun., 1-5pm; and Mon. by appointment. Both the public open house and regular admission are free.

For further details, call 803/313-7172, e-mail to (criswese@mailbox.sc.edu), or visit (http://usclancaster.sc.edu/NAS/).