Get out your cameras because SpoletoToday and Lowcountry Live of WCIV-TV Channel 4 are teaming up to sponsor a video contest. The rules are simple: The video cannot be more than 3 minutes; it must have a Spoleto and/or Piccolo tie-in; and it must be finished by June 4.
For more shocking details (OK, not really shocking, I just always wanted to say that) tune in at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 27, to see Geoff Marshall and Janet Edens Conover talk about SpoletoToday on Lowcountry Live with Ryan Nelson.
You do have to make a video even your mom could watch. There is a $200 prize and the winner will be featured on Lowcountry Live. It can be funny, serious or inspiring. It doesn’t have to be perfect: Just shoot it, post it and send us the link (with an embed code) to SpoletoToday@postandcourier.com. We will check it out and, if it meets all the content criteria, we’ll put in on SpoletoToday and in the running for the prize.
Celebrities who have agreed to judge so far include Mitchell Davis and Farrah Hoffmire of Organic Process Productions. They just wrapped up the surfing documentary “Finding Pura Vida” in Costa Rica. Nick Smith, our own Spojo and Charleston filmmaker will also be taking a look-see at the videos. Learn more about what he’s been up to at his Cat City Online blog. As always, if you’ve got any questions, give us a shout at SpoletoToday@postandcourier.com or comment here.
On Monday I got a chance to ride with a van full of acrobats and singers from the cast of Monkey: Journey to the West to a great Asian grocery just north of I-526 on Rivers Avenue. This weekly grocery run is part of the Chinese cast’s survival strategy: The players have been on the road off-and-on in support of this production since May 2007, and finding food that tastes like home is a big deal.
It’s a lively, young, likable cast from a production that has all the color and excitement of a beloved Chinese classic, but without the super-serious “cultural treasure” tension that followed Peony Pavilion around the world. Here’s hoping you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed following them around.
There are plenty of reasons to pay attention to Amistad this season. It’s an opera — which always means a high profile at Spoleto USA — it’s leading things off with this year’s eve-of-the-festival preview, it christens the restored Memminger Auditorium, and the festival staff has clearly invested a lot of energy in building a program of related events around the production.
Earlier today I toted the camera down to Memminger Auditorium for a meet-the-press session with some of the big guns from Amistad. I came away fairly well impressed by the creative commitment I saw on display there. Read the rest of this entry »
For more shocking details (OK, not really shocking, I just always wanted to say that) tune in at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 27, to see Geoff Marshall and Janet Edens Conover talk about SpoletoToday on Lowcountry Live with Ryan Nelson.
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