Continuing our collaboration with SaltWata Cinema Club, we will be screening Crooklyn (1994), directed by Spike Lee.
SaltWata Cinema Club is an itinerant film club designed to engage the community in film and conversation, with an emphasis on Black, Diasporic, Indie, and short films. It was created in 2019 by Charleston’s current Poet Laureate, A$iahMae. For more information, visit asiahmae.com.
About Crooklyn
As her teacher mother, Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), and her jazz musician father, Woody (Delroy Lindo), worry over monthly bills, grade-schooler student Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris) banters and bonds with her four brothers. Against her will, Troy is sent to her aunt’s southern home for a summer visit, but when she returns to her bustling Brooklyn neighborhood, she learns that a family member is gravely ill. Already mature, Troy is forced to face to some very grown-up facts about life and loss.
Free and open to the public. Film will include closed captioning.
Screening will take place in the Simons Center Room 380 (third floor), located at 54 St. Philip Street.
Join us for Halsey After Hours from 5:30 – 7:30 PM and check out Maria Britton: Second Sleep & In Kyoung Chun: Make Room! Mingle and drink in the views of these up-and-coming artists.
Halsey After Hours is a happy hour event where guests are encouraged to bring a friend and enjoy light bites, drinks, and tunes. This event is free for Members of the Halsey Institute. Not-yet Members will be asked for a $10 donation. Find out more about the benefits of membership here.
Want to refresh your wardrobe? Join us for a Clothing Swap with the Naked Lady Society! Participants bring gently used unwanted clothing and accessories to swap for new pieces.
Folks of all styles, shapes, sizes, and ages are welcome. Clean out your closet, meet other amazing people, support local causes, and update your wardrobe in an environmentally friendly way. Bring any stylish clothes you’re not feeling anymore and swap them for a FREE wardrobe refresh. Unclaimed clothing will be donated to local organizations.
Bring your own reusable bags!
Bring the whole crew for a fun-filled morning of art and creativity! Inspired by the exhibitions Maria Britton: Second Sleep & In Kyoung Chun: Make Room, this free event features hands-on activities for all ages — yes, even adults!
Maria Britton (born 1982, Florence, SC) lives and works in Carrboro, NC. She has participated in artist residencies through Lighthouse Works, Hambidge Center, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Petrified Forest National Park, and Vermont Studio Center. Her recent group exhibitions include the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Lump Gallery, and Atlanta Contemporary. Her work will be featured in New American Paintings No. 178. Maria earned her BFA from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, and her MFA from UNC Chapel Hill. From 2015–2020, she co-directed an experimental art gallery called LOG. Maria has worked around 50 jobs as a housecleaner, educator, stain and glaze dental technician, direct support professional, photo re-toucher, hospital artist-in-residence working directly with oncology patients, and rideshare driver.
Maria Britton transforms discarded bedsheets into artworks that dance between painting and sculpture. Second Sleep highlights these textile-based works called “Draperies” in which patterned bedsheets become expertly layered, pleated, and playful abstract paintings. Mounted on the wall in curtain-like forms, her “Draperies” shape portals of reflection, whether obscuring the past or inviting to imagine what lies beyond.
The term “second sleep” references a pattern of segmented sleep common prior to the Industrial Revolution. Some used this middle of the night wakefulness as a time for creativity and thought, others used it for household chores and maintenance. With the invention of electricity and working pressures from capitalism, modern societies lost touch with this natural rhythm of rest.
Intertwining domestic materials with joyful abstraction, Britton invites a celebration of reinvention and free-thinking. Second Sleep points to over a decade of ambitious artistic development, showcasing a body of work where new methods and designs are prioritized over tradition.
Maria Britton: Second Sleep is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of The Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina.
