Big events, 12 months a year.
In Savannah's balmy coastal climate, the celebrations and festivals never end. The best-known include the Savannah Music Festival, an annual draw for major artists from all over the world, and the fall Savannah Film Festival, sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design.
There are home and garden tours, a Black Heritage Festival, a Greek Festival, annual Scottish games, a Fiesta Latina, an Asian Festival and a Jewish Food Festival. On the water, there's the Blessing of the Fleet and Seafood Harvest Festival and, at the beach, the annual Tybee Beach Bum parade.
But the biggest celebration of all is Savannah's St. Patrick's Day, the nation's oldest and second largest March 17 celebration. Make your reservations early!
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SMF LiveSep 12, 2011 to Apr 01, 2012 • Various
Various
The Savannah Music Festival launches new programming that includes a year-round concert series - SMF LIVE - featuring some of the music world's most acclaimed performers, increased distribution of its concert recordings to public and satellite radio, and music education programs that span the entire year. The complete program for the 2012 Savannah Music Festival, which takes place March 22 through April 7, will be announced in early November (with highlights previewed below).
The SMF LIVE Concert Series - a new initiative that reflects the quality and breadth of festival programming -presents renowned artists in jazz, classical, Americana and world music from October through April. "After nine years of continual growth," says Executive & Artistic Director Rob Gibson, "this expansion addresses our community's need for first-rate live music and supplemental music education, while also enhancing Savannah's profile as a premier cultural tourism destination." To view SMF Live programs and/or buy tickets, click website link.
Jan 06, 2012 to Mar 04, 2012 •
Telfair Museums
Robert Claiborne Morris began to re-examine his understanding of race in America after reading an early proof of Douglas A. Blackmonâ™s Pulitzer Prize winning book, âSlavery by Another Name.â The revelation that slavery continued until World War II changed the way he saw his native South.
Morris began an odyssey in search of the images, objects and artifacts related to this obscure chapter in American history. From Georgia to North Carolina, he examined the junkyards, flea markets and historical societies, hunting and collecting, in the hopes of finding a medium that could both incorporate found objects and project images to better understand the spiritual darkness of re-enslavement.
Incorporated in Morrisâ™ works are portraits of the re-enslaved, maps of the slave mines, courageous articles and images published by the Atlanta Constitution, blood money, letters to the Department of Justice pleading for mercy and implements of bondage and torture ranging from words to ropes, locks and chains. Morrisâ™ hope is that the series of overlapping mediums awakens complex emotions and promotes reconciliation.
Over the course of Morrisâ™ three previous exhibitions in three cities, after greeting and speaking to hundreds of people he has discovered that art has a power that must be directed to the improvement and reconciliation of manâ™s soul. Morris believes that art has a greater strength when focused on the soul of man, asking us to search deeper into the things that comprise our own history.
Jan 20, 2012 to Feb 05, 2012 • Selected Days
The Historic Savannah Theatre
The world wide hit musical is brought to life onstage by the theatre's award-winning cast and band.
Savannah Restaurant WeekJan 27, 2012 to Feb 05, 2012 •
Various Locations
This 10-Day celebration of Savannahâ™s restaurant scene pays homage to the culinary heritage that makes our city unique â” and is held in tribute to the restaurants that are becoming such a vital part of Savannahâ™s tradition of hospitality!
From January 27 â“ February 5, each participating upscale restaurant will offer a spectacular 3-course, prix fixe dinner menu for only $30 per person (not including tax and gratuity). See website for participating restaurants!
Feb 01, 2012 to Feb 29, 2012 • 6:30 p.m.
Paula Deen's The Lady & Sons Restaurant
Follow Zeke- the unknowing, unwitting, and world's worst tour guide, as he takes 4 suspicious passengers around the city and try to figure out which one has the bomb on "There's a Bomb on Trolley 409!"
A fabulous dinner theatre combination! $23.08 for Paula Deen's all you care for buffet (incl. salad bar, drinks, dessert, gratuity, and tax) plus $18 for a tour-de-farce comedy! Weekly shows at Paula Deen's The Lady & Sons Restaurant!
Feb 03, 2012 to Feb 05, 2012 • Friday night 6 - 8 p.m. - walk-ins welcome for $45; Saturday 1 - 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.; $200 for Entire Works
Savannan Yoga Center, 1319 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401
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Incorporating a daily yoga and meditation practice into our life keeps us attuned to the importance of living ordinary moments with awareness. Nevertheless, even the most dedicated practitioners hit plateaus and need opportunities to become re-inspired. In this workshop, Sarah will provide an atmosphere for balancing the body, heart and mind through active and receptive yoga poses, as well as offering teachings on Mindfulness meditation so that we can deepen or develop a skillful and committed meditation practice.
Yin yoga is an essential compliment to our more active styles and offers a vehicle to develop our contemplative nature. The Yin style also keeps the body supple at its cor e while encouraging stagnate chi (prana) to flow throughout the joints, engender ing a quality of steady ease. The active practice helps rejuvenate our natural vitality while developing a core stability, coupled with meditative, body-centered presence. This workshop will focus on the integration of our Yin and Yang aspects of being, creating a practice that values both vitality and insight. Mindfulness meditation and Loving-kindness practice will be emphasized in both the beginning and ending sections of each session.
This workshop is suitable for anyone who has been doing Yoga for at least one year and has a strong interest in meditation. We recommend you come with a basic understanding of these practices by reading Sarahâ™s book, Insight Yoga, and/or viewing her dvds Yin and Vinyasa and Insight Yoga, Mingling Heaven and Earth.
Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She is the founder and author of Insight Yoga, which interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga, Buddhism, Chinese medicine, and Transpersonal Psychology into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of floor poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with an alignment-based slow flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar teachings. Sarah feels that enlivening the physical and pranic bodies, as well as learning to open to our emotional difficulties is paramount for preparing one to deepen and nourish insights into oneâ™s essential natureâ“a natural state of awareness. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her in-depth training in the Vipassana and Tantric practices of Buddhism.
To learn more about her see her dvds Insight Yoga or Yin and Vinyasa and go to www.sarahpowers.com.
You can register on our website @ savannahyoga.com
Feb 03, 2012 to Feb 04, 2012 •
Tybee Island, Georgia
Encompasses five events including a 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, 2.8 mile beach run and 1 mile run. If you participate in all five events, the distances add up to 26.2 miles- a full marathon!
Feb 06, 2012 to Feb 06, 2012 • 8 p.m.
Lucas Theatre 32 Abercorn Street Savannah, GA 31401
Part of the Southern Circuit of Independent Film
Shot on location in New York City and starring an ensemble cast of New York City Ballet dancers, NY Export: Opus Jazz takes Jerome Robbins' 1958 "ballet in sneakers" and reimagines it for a new generation in this scripted adaptation. After winning an Audience Award at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival, the film aired nationally on PBS' Great Performances series and was nominated for the Rose d'Or Award.
Feb 10, 2012 to Feb 18, 2012 • Selected days
The Historic Savannah Theatre
A hilarious musical look at everything you've ever thought about romance and marriage, but were afraid to admit.
Leif Ove AndsnesFeb 13, 2012 to Feb 13, 2012 • 6:30 p.m.
Wesley Monumental UMC
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is one of the most in-demand recitalists and concert soloists in classical music today. In the 2010/2011 season he has served as Artist in Residence with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, toured Europe with the London Philharmonic and Vladimir Juroowski, and began his recording of the complete cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
5th Annual Savannah Book FestivalFeb 15, 2012 to Feb 19, 2012 • Various
In and around Telfair Square
The Savannah Book Festival is a five-day event in February that celebrates books and the written word. Authors come from around the country to Savannah and present their work to audiences of booklovers eager to hear what they have to say.
Most events are FREE and open to the public, including the Friday Night Keynote Address with Pat Conroy (The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides)and the actual Festival on Saturday. There are a few fundraising events throughout the weekend including the Brad Thorr dinner, an evening with Walter Isaacson (the biography of Steve Jobs) and the closing ceremony with Stephen King.
Feb 17, 2012 to Feb 18, 2012 • Times Vary
Tybee Island, Georgia
Festivities include the Masquerade Ball, Mardi Gras Tybee Parade & the Mardi Gras Tybee Street Party with free live entertainment.
Feb 24, 2012 to Feb 26, 2012 • Selected days
The Historic Savannah Theatre
Joing The Savannah Theatre as we presernt a glorious evening of American "standars" by Irwin Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, and many more. Join us as we go through the many memoral moments with the cast and band.
FUNdamentals of Beekeeping at Oatland Island Wildlife CenterFeb 25, 2012 to Feb 25, 2012 • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Oatland Island Wildlife Center
Did you know that 1/3 of everything you eat is a result of honey bee pollination? Humankind depends on these fascinating animals for food, as well as many other hive products that improve our health and wellbeing. But honey bees face many challenges in todayâ™s world. Both hobby and professional beekeepers are needed to help maintain the populations of this vital creature. This day-long beekeeping school will seek to help advance the knowledge base of both novice and experienced beekeepers alike. So, catch the buzz and get ready for the gardening season and spring nectar flow! Registration is required. Open to all ages 12 and up.
A Night at the Telfair- Ball and Silent AuctionFeb 26, 2012 to Feb 26, 2012 • 6 p.m.
Jepson Center and Telfair Academy
A Night at the Telfair will begin with cocktails at 6 p.m. and a silent auction in the Jepson Center. The live auction will commence at 7:15 p.m. in the Jepson Center, followed by a delicious dinner prepared by Savannahâ™s Trish McLeod and served in the beautiful Telfair Academy.
PULSE 2012Feb 27, 2012 to Mar 04, 2012 • Times Vary
PULSE, Telfair Museumsâ™ Art and Technology Festival will be back in 2012 in a new time slot and with a line up of exciting exhibitions, performances, lectures, workshops, and events celebrating technology and creative innovation.
The featured exhibition will be a 10 year survey of work by renowned light sculptor Leo Villareal, organized by the San Jose Museum of Art. PULSE will also include an exhibition and programs by artists working within the medium of videogames, performances by national and local electronic music groups, an evening of projections and light installations and a âGreen Machineâ Art Bike Ride, coordinated with the Savannah Bicycle Campaign.
The festival is presented free of charge thanks to project funding from the City of Savannah and other generous sponsors.
Mar 01, 2012 to May 26, 2012 • Selected Days
The Savannah Theatre
Join our cast and crew for a two-hour musical explosion of your favorite 60's, 70's and 80's music. The Savannah Theatre celebrates the sounds of three generations as the cast sings its way along the musical highway of American pop hits with songs like Carolina Girls, Staying Alive and the Heart of Rock and Roll.
Dinner Theatre by Hard Hearted Hannah's Playhouse at Paula Deen's Lady & SonsMar 01, 2012 to Mar 31, 2012 • 6:30 p.m.
Paula Deen's The Lady & Sons Restaurant
Follow Zeke- the unknowing, unwitting, and world's worst tour guide, as he takes 4 suspicious passengers around the city and try to figure out which one has the bomb on "There's a Bomb on Trolley 409!"
A fabulous dinner theatre combination! $23.09 for Paula Deen's all you care for buffet (incl. salad bar, drinks, dessert, gratuity, and tax) plus $18 for a tour-de-farce comedy! Weekly shows at Paula Deen's The Lady & Sons Restaurant!
Mar 01, 2012 to Mar 01, 2012 • 6 p.m.
Trustees Theater
The greatest big band in the land returns to Savannah for an evening of full-tilt swing. Celebrating the 50th birthday of bandleader Wynton Marsalis, the orchestra will perform a retrospective of his own compositories and arrangements of big band classics - from the music's New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. "[Marsalis] projects an amiable informality that tells people the music is meant to be as fun as it is important. --CHICAGO SUN TIMES
A Commemorative Robert E. Lee in Savannah TourMar 01, 2012 to Jun 30, 2012 • By Appointment
Andrew Low House, Historic District
A Commemorative Robert E. Lee in Savannah Tour - explores rare, little known treasured experiences of Robert E. Leeâ™s civilian and military days in Savannah, covering a sweeping panorama of war and love â“ from Fort Pulaski to the drawing rooms of the Andrew Low House from his earlier Savannah courtship days as a young military bachelor to the war years of 1861-1862 to his final visit in 1870. Site visits include the Andrew Low House, Fort Pulaski and other Lee in Savannah/Low Country locations. Group tours itineraries and private tours available. Book now for the Spring.
A Commemorative Civil War Savannah TourMar 01, 2012 to Jun 30, 2012 • By Appointment
Andrew Low House, Historic District, Low Country
Commemorative Civil War Savannah Tour I â“ Spies, Soldiers, Slaves, Sailors, Blockade Runners, Cotton Factors, and Civil War Savannah civilians come together in one of the most unique commemorative Civil War tour events in the United States. Sweeping panoramic bus, carriage, and walking tours of love, war, intrigue, and desperate days on the Civil War Savannah home front, rare glimpses of Robert E. Leeâ™s civilian and military days in Savannah, secret schools, courageous women, cotton factor buildings, naval battle sites, defense works, Shermanâ™s headquarters and moreâ“ from Fort Pulaski to the drawing room of the Andrew Low House. Site visit choices include the Andrew Low House, Fort Pulaski, the Green-Meldrim House, and more. Group tours itineraries and private tours available. Book now for the Spring.
Southern Nights VarietyMar 02, 2012 to May 27, 2012 • Selected Days
Selected Days
Come join us for a two- hours of high energy music, dance and comedy. Sit back and enjoy a musical variety perfect for a Southern evening that includes country, rock and roll, Broadway, jazz and pop in one hot production!