SBCT Climbing The Ladder Gala Jan. 25
SBCT Climbing The Ladder Gala Jan. 25
Enjoy an evening of fun, food and entertainment at SBT’s Climbing The Ladder gala event benefiting the new costume department on Friday, Jan. 25 at 6:30 p.m. Help SBCT climb the ladder to success by bidding for delightful items and services, register to vote for costume fashion show, queen, and you might even take home a world-famous Gee’s Bend wall-quilt. Donors will receive their name on a beautiful plaque to be displayed permanently at SBCT. Tickets are $20 each or $30 per couple. South Baldwin Community Theatre is located at 2022 West 2nd St. in Gulf Shores. For more info, patrons can also visit sbct.biz, email tickets@sbct.biz or call 251-968-6721.
Radio Theatre Festival Feb. 23
The Radio Theatre Festival, scheduled at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 23, is a return to the Golden Age of radio, a time when the good guys were good, the bad guys were bad, and the jokes had to be genuinely funny. Local actors will perform these shows live, just as they were performed back in the day. You’ll cheer when frontier justice prevails. You’ll ride the edge of your seat as the intrigue builds. You’ll laugh at a couple who can’t go a single night without a fight. Tickets are $10 per show or $25 for all three shows. Schedule: Friday, Feb. 22 – The Maltese Falcon at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 23 – Casablanca at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 24 – Key Largo at 2:30 p.m.
Pictured: DeAnn Milly, SBCT’s costume mistress and Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective Director Mary Ann Pettway with the quilt being raffled at the Jan. 25 Climbing The Ladder Gala. The Gee’s Bend community has become famous for its quilts, hand made by generations of Boykin residents. This group of Alabama women has gained national and international acclaim for their work in carrying on the tradition of quilt making. Dozens of quilts, featuring the distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting style based on tradition American quilts, but with geometric simplicity, have toured America’s most important art museums, including Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, the Whitney Museum of America Art in New York and the museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Newsweek, NPR, PBS, CBS News Sunday Morning, and Martha Stewart Living are among the TV shows that have featured this Alabama treasure. Publications, such as House and Garden and Oprah’s O magazine are among the hundreds of print and broadcast media organizations that have celebrated the quilts.