Season two of the Augusta Readers Theatre for Senior Citizens kicks off with stories and scenes about the importance of discovering the true meaning of home. The Readers Theatre is a free program that allows senior citizens the opportunity to rehearse and read plays. FREE.
The Smithsonian’s distinguished scholar and ambassador-at-large Richard Kurin served as the director of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and founded the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, which works to save cultural heritage endangered by natural disasters and human conflict. He will discuss his book The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects. Lecture, 6:00 p.m.; reception and book signing,…
A local favorite, singer-songwriter Jacob Beltz will perform original songs as well as cover classics. FREE. Funded by the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962), a classic political thriller starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury in a performance so scary that she gives a bad name to both Communists AND mothers. FREE.
An art history professor at Georgia State University, Connor Hamm will discuss his research on the art of Edwin and Elise Harleston, husband and wife. His paintings and her photographs made them an important part of the Charleston Renaissance as they chronicled the resurgence of their city in sensitive portraits of its Black residents during the 1920s. FREE.
