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Exhibits Honoring Pat Conroy as Teacher (October 6, 2017)

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Part of the Pat Conroy Literary Festival, Oct 19-22, and the Beaufort Theatre Company's production of Conrack: The Musical, October 13-22, two exhibitions will be on display at the University of South Carolina Beaufort Center for the Arts lobby, beginning on Friday, October 6, through Sunday, October 22. Both exhibits honor Pat Conroy's role as teacher and mentor, in keeping with this year's festival theme of the Transformative Power of Education.

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Exhibits Honoring Pat Conroy as Teacher (October 9-22, 2017)

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Part of the Pat Conroy Literary Festival, Oct 19-22, and the Beaufort Theatre Company's production of Conrack: The Musical, October 13-22, two exhibitions will be on display at the University of South Carolina Beaufort Center for the Arts lobby, beginning on Friday, October 6, through Sunday, October 22. Both exhibits honor Pat Conroy's role as teacher and mentor, in keeping with this year's festival theme of the Transformative Power of Education.

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (308 Charles Street) will be open special hours during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.

Free

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort (October 19 – 1)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the second annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort (October 19 – 2)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the second annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

Guided Tour: Of The Former Beaufort High School (1)

Beaufort Middle School 2501 Mossy Oaks Rd, Beaufort, SC, United States

Guided Tour of the Former Beaufort High School (now Beaufort Middle School, 2501 Mossy Oaks Rd.), where Pat Conroy was a student for his junior and senior years and where he returned to teach for two years following his graduation from The Citadel and before his year of teaching on Daufuskie Island. Tours will be led by Pat’s BHS classmates, teachers, students, and colleagues. Ticket information: Advance registration required - Buy Tickets Here

$25

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (308 Charles Street) will be open special hours during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.

Free

Reception and Book Signing: at Pat Conroy Literary Center

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Reception and Book Signing at the center (308 Charles Street) - come and have a glass of wine and light refreshments with us. Book signing authors: Cassandra King Conroy, Tim Conroy, Melissa Conroy, Ellen Malphrus, Maggie Schein, Catherine Seltzer, and John Warley. Advanced registration required, this is a ticketed event and includes screening, reunion panel, and reception FRIDAY BUNDLE TICKET: Use this one ticket for 3 events: 1. Movie Screening of the Lords of Discipline 2. Citadel Class of 1967 Reunion Panel Discussion 3. Reception and Book [...]

$45

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (308 Charles Street) will be open special hours during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.

Free

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort ( October 22 – 1)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the second annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

Brunch with Cassandra King Conroy, Melissa Conroy and Tim Conroy

Dataw Island Club 100 Dataw Dr, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Brunch with Cassandra King Conroy, author of Moonrise, Melissa Conroy, author and artist of The Lowcountry Coloring Book, and Tim Conroy, author of Theologies of Terrain; to be held at the Dataw Island Club (100 Dataw Dr., St. Helena Island) 11 am to 1:00 pm (Novelist Ann Kidd Taylor is unable to attend due to illness. Our thanks to the Conroys for filling in with a living conversation about their writing lives.) Advance registration required. Included in the festival weekend pass or available as a [...]

$42

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (308 Charles Street) will be open special hours during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.

Free
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Gallery Talk: Pat Conroy and the Transformative Power of Teachers

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Humanizing Teaching: Pat Conroy and the Transformative Power of Teachers Drawn from materials in the Pat Conroy Archive at the University of South Carolina Libraries, this exhibit explores Pat Conroy as a lifelong teacher and learner. Beginning with Conroy’s time as a student at Beaufort High School during his Junior and Senior years, moving to journals and letters he wrote during his time teaching on Daufuskie and finally, highlighting addresses and writings from his career as a bestselling author where he advocated for teachers, this exhibit demonstrates how much Conroy admired, encouraged and championed educators and educational equality.

Free

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort (October 22 – 2)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the second annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

Guided Tour: Of The Former Beaufort High School (2)

Beaufort Middle School 2501 Mossy Oaks Rd, Beaufort, SC, United States

Guided Tour of the Former Beaufort High School (now Beaufort Middle School, 2501 Mossy Oaks Rd.), where Pat Conroy was a student for his junior and senior years and where he returned to teach for two years following his graduation from The Citadel and before his year of teaching on Daufuskie Island. Tours will be led by Pat’s BHS classmates, teachers, students, and colleagues. Ticket information: Advance registration required - Buy Tickets Here

$25

Daufuskie Island Field Trip

Bluffton Oyster Factory Park 63 Wharf Street, Bluffton, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with Haig Point and Tour Daufuskie, presents a day trip to Daufuskie Island—immortalized as Yamacraw in Pat Conroy’s beloved memoir The Water Is Wide.

$189

Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy

Tabby Place 913 Port Republic, Beaufort, SC, United States

The new anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy shares the heartfelt remembrances of 67 writers inspired and influenced by Conroy over the arc of their own writing lives. This special dinner event invites guests to share a meal and memories with more than 20 of those contributing writers—including Conroy family members and longtime friends.

$75

The Red Clay Ramblers

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Join us for a BBQ reception and cash bar, followed by a musical performance by the Tony Award-winning North Carolina string band The Red Clay Ramblers who appears prominently in Pat Conroy’s novel Beach Music...

$45

Sandra Brown in Conversation with Cassandra King Conroy

Dataw Island Club 100 Dataw Dr, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times best-selling novels, most recently Seeing Red and Tailspin. Her novels French Silk, Smoke Screen, and Ricochet have been adapted for feature films, and she has appeared on...

$50

Gullah Geechee Heritage and Spirituals – SOLD OUT

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Cultural preservationist and educator Victoria Smalls will share an enlightening presentation on the distinctive heritage of the Gullah Geechee culture of the lowcountry with an emphasis on spirituals and spiritual lives...

$10

Friends of the Beaufort Library Annual Book Sale – November 2/19

Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park - Beaufort, SC Beaufort, SC, United States

This special event is a full day event. Please visit and support our library. 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m: Friends of the Beaufort Library Annual Book Sale, Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park (Open to the public)...

Pat Conroy Festival: Camp Conroy Reading

Old Bay Marketplace - Beaufort, SC 917 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Join us as the Pat Conroy Literary Festival welcomes back some of our young poets and writers from this summer's second annual Camp Conroy. Our campers will be reading selections from Re-World, the nearly 80-page...

Free

Conroy Festival: Silhouette Cuttings with Clay Rice

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Clay Rice is a third-generation multi-award winning silhouette artist and children's author. This rare art form is a Rice family tradition spanning three generations and two artists...

Friends of the Beaufort Library Annual Book Sale – November 3/19

Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park - Beaufort, SC Beaufort, SC, United States

This special event is a full day event. Please visit and support our library. 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m: Friends of the Beaufort Library Annual Book Sale, Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park (Open to the public)...

RECEPTION: 2023 Wrap Party

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Wrap Party at the Pat Conroy Literary Center and preview of the Witness Tree Park, with guest MCs Jeanne Meserve and Jeffrey Blount, with a musical performance by the Beaufort Mass Choir.

$35

Canceled POSTPONED TO 2024: WITNESS TREE PARK RIBBON CUTTING

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Featuring public remarks and a musical performance. Free. (across King Street from the Pat Conroy Literary Center, 601 Bladen St., Beaufort)

Free

2024 Festival

The ninth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival will be held November 1-2, 2024, in beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina. Join us as we honor Pat Conroy’s legacy as student, teacher, and mentor through our 2024 festival.

Presented by the Pat Conroy Literary Center the annual festival will be held as a series of author presentations and panel discussions, writing workshops, exhibits, and virtual tours.

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