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June 29, 2016
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Reception Begins Flowers Exhibit
Betsy LeVine’s ‘Before Me’ oil on panel.
Art works featuring lowers ushers in
summer and the new monthly exhibit
at Guardino Gallery, 2939 N.E. Alberta
St. A reception with the featured artists
opens the show on Thursday, June 30
from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The main gallery will feature paints in
oils on birch panels by Betsy LeVines.
Her concept, “Beauty is Before Me,”
concerns lora and mirrors. Screen paint-
‘Roses of Converano’ a screen print by Dennis Floyd.
er Dennis Floyd will show his works of
lowers that are colorful and almost ab-
stract in their creation.
The gallery’s featured area will show
works by Jeanne Drevas who works with
old skateboards to highlight her fasci-
nation with the distressed graphics and
markings found on the undersides and
sides of the skateboards.
Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
Stories behind the church members who lost their lives
“We Are Charleston,” is a
comprehensive new book about
last summer’s tragic events at
South Carolina’s Mother Emanuel
Church.
Herb Frazier, an award-winning
journalist and childhood member
of Mother Emanuel, Dr. Bernard
Edward Powers, another church
member and professor of history
at the College of Charleston, and
Majory Wentworth, South Caroli-
na’s Poet Laureate, are the authors
of the book which is based on ex-
tensive interviews with family and
friends of “The Emanuel Nine” –
the church members who lost their
lives on June 17, 2015, when a
young white man opened ire on a
prayer meeting at the church.
The book also details the tri-
umphant 230-year history of the
AME Church – the largest body
of African-American Methodists
with 7.5 million members world-
wide – and its role in America’s
social justice story from slavery to
the civil rights movement.
The oldest AME church in the
Deep South, Mother Emanuel’s
perseverance in the face of adver-
sity and discrimination serves as
an example of faith and forgive-
ness to the entire world.
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justice efforts that have been the
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Episcopal Church.”