Sweetgrass T
Cultural Arts Festival
This event features an assortment of unique handmade arts and crafts, paintings, live performances and documentary films. Enjoy a day filled with entertainment that includes gospel songs and praise dance, storytelling and Gullah-Geechee skits, and live basket-making demonstrations.
he Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival provides an excellent opportunity to take advantage of great food and entertainment and a vast array of the Charleston area’s signature souvenir, all the while enjoying coastal Carolina’s near-perfect late-spring weather. But
the event, held each year in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, also can be a learning experience, a chance to delve deeply into the history of a
BY BRIAN SHERMAN
people and an art they have practiced for more than three centuries on two continents. “The festival serves as a venue to educate locals
as well as tourists about the heritage of the Gullah-
Geechee people, their culture and traditions,” according to Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival Project Director Thomasena Stokes-Marshall. “We also have entertainment, gospel songs, folklore, arts and crafts, and, of course, the largest display of sweetgrass baskets anywhere in the Lowcountry.” A growing Charleston area tradition beginning in 2005, the festival is now held each June at Mount Pleasant’s Memorial Waterfront Park, in the shadow of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. Named a Top 20 Event for 2010 and 2011 by the Southeast Tourism Society, the festival offers Gullah cuisine cooked up by Lowcountry restaurants and food vendors, family fun and games, music, performances by the Adande African Drummers and Dancers, basket-making demonstrations and, of course, the opportunity to admire and purchase a wide range of sweetgrass baskets and other products created by local artists and crafters.
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