Free Lemira Elementary Percussion Ensemble Performance at the SC State Library 

Please join us December 8 at 2:00 p.m. as we welcome the Lemira Elementary Percussion Ensemble to the State Library! We are honored to host this enthusiastic and talented group of students from Lemira Elementary School in Sumter, SC. Created from a grant to enhance the school's musical curriculum and to promote cultural awareness of other countries, this student ensemble performs in various musical styles. These include classical, Taiko, Latin American, Jazz, drumline, while utilizing unique instruments such as boomwhackers, pipes, buckets, and trash cans.

This is a free event and open to the public.  For more information,  visit our website.
'Unforgettable' Exhibit Travels to St. George Library

The Jennie J. McMahan Library in St. George, SC is hosting a photography exhibit by the legendary artist Cecil Williams from December 4 to January 25. Cecil Williams, a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, is a professional photographer, videographer, publisher, inventor, author of 6 books, and architect of six residences that became his home and photography studio. This exhibit, titled Unforgettable: Celebrating a Time of Life, Hope and Bravery, showcases some of Williams' most powerful work. The collection of forty images provides a rare glimpse of events, portraits, and moments of significant social change during the 1950s through the 1970s.  For more information , visit our website.
Next Speaker @ The Center Features Edisto River Natural History

Join us December 7 at noon for our next author talk and book signing: Edisto River: Black Water Crown Jewel  by Larry Price and Susan Kameraad-Campbell. From South Carolina's Midlands to the Lowcountry's coastal shores, the Edisto River's 300+ miles are captured here more completely than ever before in words and images . To register for this talk,  visit our calendar .

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