The winners and finalists were announced for the The Connect Savannah 2022 Best of Savannah.
Kareem McMichael was a finalist in the categories 'Best Local Actor' and 'Best Local Theater Director'. The play 'Ida B. N' The Lynching Tree', which McMichael performed in was a finalist as well. "I would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote for me but more importantly for being encouraging and a supporter of my work. That is truly a blessing," said McMichael. People cast their votes on the best places, people, and things they love in Savannah. From music and the arts, to restaurants, nightlife, shopping, and the people that make our city a better place to live and work, it’s your votes that determine The Connect Savannah 2022 Best of Savannah winners! List of winners at connectsavannah.com
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Click HERE for more. Deep Center presents The Village Project: Developing and Discovering How to Build Community in the 21st Century. The Village project will focus on creating and developing communities specifically within BIPOC spaces in the Savannah-Chatham County area through conversation and action.
“We greatly encourage everyone in the community that is new or old to Savannah to attend. This is a chance to create community and to change the community for the better. This event is centered around the experiences of BIPOC youth in Savannah, but we are encouraging members of our community to come out,” said Martina Yvette, Youth Community Organizer at the Deep Center. The Village project will be presented every Thursday from May 12 to June 2 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The series will open up community driven conversations pointed at advocating, encouraging, and allowing youth and adults the opportunity to understand and affirm each other, as well as understand and advocate for issues impacting their day to day lives. “We want to hear from our young people who are affected the most. By addressing the effects of long-standing adversity and how it contributes to insufficiency in our culture, systems, mental health, and ideologies, we can better organize to build a thriving society,” said Yvette. The following topics for the Village Project include: The effects of gang violence on community, self-esteem/self-discovery, LGBTQ+ youth advocacy, mental health, and pre-trial detention and incarceration in the Black and Brown community. “These subject matters were selected through feedback from our young people at the Deep Center, touching on the recent onset of violence our communities are facing, policies enacted and voted upon by our government, to personal experiences through our identities and how it impacts the way we walk through the world,” said Yvette. Deep Center is working closely with several community leaders and organizations to support this effort. It is Deep Center’s hope that by eliminating silos, they are able to pinpoint resources in the area that many families and communities are able to benefit from. “We have found that the youth that we serve have been greatly affected by their communities through their identities and representations in the world and in an effort to build a stronger community, we want to address these matters head-on and allow our young people to lead their own conversations to better their futures,” said Yvette. The series kicked off on May 12 with the Discovering Self-Identity workshop. It will continue on May 19 with The Scars We Don’t See: Addressing the church, LGBTQ Black and Brown youth, and Mental Health, May 26 with the Addressing Gangs and Violence in Savannah discussion and concluding June 2 with the Incarceration and the Costs of Pretrial Detention discussion. “Registration is required to attend, the link will lead you to a prompt that asks essential questions mostly pertaining to our young people. Though we encourage adults to also attend, we ask that adults please use the same registration prompt. Adults only need to provide their age and which two project dates are most interested in attending,” said Yvette. Register for The Village Project at https://tinyurl.com/mmp3tcvf 5/19/2022 The Hostess City Hoedown: A Celebration of the Performing Arts by Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque RevueRead NowThe Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue is celebrating the performing arts with the Hostess City Hoedown. The three-day festival will be May 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. and May 21 at 6:30 p.m. at Savannah’s very own Club One, and will highlight talent local to the Savannah area, while featuring guest performers from across the entertainment industry.
“This festival was created because we do have a lot of talent in Savannah. Also, as far as the kind of industry that I work in with the performing arts I found there to be a blind spot in our area for drag, burlesque and cabaret so that inspired me to create something to make people aware,” said Rita D’LaVane event producer and performer. Known as the Witchy Hoe of the Hostess City and the Creole Queen of the C-port, D’LaVane has been preaching the importance of BIPOC representation in burlesque since they first stepped out on stage. Magnolia Minxx and Cassie Caddel are producing the show along with D’LaVane. They have over 15 years of combined expertise in production and event planning. Their drive behind the Hoedown is to create a diverse entertainment experience, with a focus on honoring our local arts community. “People come from around the world to Savannah and it really is romanticized in the books and movies but we have the opportunity with this festival to show and entertain audiences with our great local talent,” said D’LaVane. “The Hostess City Hoedown’s mission is to produce an event that brings diversity to the forefront in the performing arts community that is unique to Savannah. We have a unique kind of swagger here in Savannah.” Performers from all over the coastal empire and low country will come together for this festival which will showcase burlesque, drag, cabaret, dance, spoken word and all other forms of the performing arts. This three-day festival starts on Thursday with “Local Honey” a showcase highlighting performers local to the southeast with a few extra special guests. This was important for D’LaVane being a Savannah native and making sure there was night celebrating local performers. Friday night will continue with “The Southern Glamour Get Together” which will shine the spotlight on some of the best acts coming from near and far for this glittery gala. The festival ends on Saturday with the Hoedown Throwdown Competition Night. “At the throwdown Performers will go head-to-head to be crowned the Supreme of Savannah. I kind of wanted to make it a witch theme because that's also part of my branding but the completion will be friendly but there is still a crown to claim,” said D’LaVane. The festival will take place at Club One. Club One is a pillar in the community and the home of the Club One Cabaret. The show bar in Club One is also the home of the Lady Chablis, who became notable in the early 1990s when she was featured as one of Savannah’s intriguing characters in John Berendt’s book “Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil” based on a true crime story. Chablis would go on to portray herself in the hit film version of the book. “I feel like one advantage essentially, by working at Club One, especially because Club One is so rooted in the queer community, and the queer community is also so rooted in the performing arts itself,” said D’LaVane. “Working there has allowed me to network with many people. Like Chi Chi Bonet Sherrington who is very rooted in the queer performing arts, especially drag related and also other portions of black queer drag culture that a lot of people don't even know about.” The festival has a roster of headlines. National Headlining acts include Dax ExclamationPoint from RuPaul's Drag Race (DC), Konchinita from the House of Gunt (Savannah) Nox Falls of the Dark Diamonds (Seattle) cosplayer May Hemmer of the Haus of Mayhem (Greensboro), Tre Da Marc the Noire Pageant King (Minneapolis) an all BiPoC burlesque pageant hosted by burlesque legend Perle Noir, King Perka Sexxx (Charlotte) and Hank E Panky (Kansas City) 2017 King of the San Antonio Burlesque Festival and Mr. Leading Man 2017 of the Hollywood Burlesque Festival. D’LaVane also hopes this festival is a chance for local artists to network with the national and international artists. “A lot of the artists that are coming are from the Southeast region, but we also have people that are coming from all over as well, sort of as a way to show everyone these kinds of events can be great for networking among us,” said D’LaVane. Some of the local artists performing include Sallie Just Sallie, Pussy Galore, BA$Q!AUT, Amara Fiyera, Mighta Chondra, Ginger Von Bleu, Lavon Chi, DeCeption Theater, Corbin Monoxide and more. There are even more performers coming from cities like Atlanta, Jacksonville, Augusta, and Greensboro. For a full line-up and more about the performers visit hostesscityhoedown.com VIP tickets: single day $40 weekend pass $100 General Admission: single day $30 weekend pass $80. Tickets can be purchased by visiting ClubOne-online.com. 5/18/2022 Big Business for Local Businesses: How Your Business Can ComeA Film Friendly VendorRead NowSavannah has graced the big screen and television in numerous projects over the years. In 2021 Savannah received $114 million in direct spend from film and television production making film big business in Savannah. This means big opportunities for local small businesses.
Now local businesses can take advantage of a free class on Thurs., May 19 from 9 a.m. to noon called ‘Becoming a Film Friendly Vendor’ offered by UGA’s Small Business Development Center at Georgia Southern (SMDC), the Savannah Regional Film Office, and Savannah Economic Development (SEDA). Attendees of this educational class will learn how to become a vendor for film and TV productions. “The ‘Becoming a Film Friendly Vendor’ class will provide information to local businesses so they can successfully market their goods and services to the industry, and also understand how this industry may be different from traditional customers,” said Beth Nelson, Film Commissioner and Executive Director, Savannah Regional Film Office. The Savannah Regional Film Commission markets Savannah to the film and television industry to provide jobs for local crew and economic benefit to local businesses. There is a strong list of crew and vendors on the film office website. “We encourage all local crew and businesses to create a free listing at filmsavannah.org. When a production is considering Savannah, they can search this database from anywhere in the world and see the crew and vendors we have available locally,” said Nelson. The Savannah Regional Film Office is proud of the database because it not only benefits crew and businesses by directly connecting them to production personnel, but it also shows that Savannah has great resources available which helps attract productions to our region. It is highly possible your business and service you offer qualifies for one of the many thing’s production’s needs. Production companies need supplies for their show for everything from lumber, paint, furniture, fabric, costumes, plants, and essentially everything you see on the screen. “The entertainment production industry uses a wide variety of goods and services so almost any business qualifies,” said Nelson. They also need support services during production, including caterers, cranes, generators, portable restrooms, vehicles, tents, tables/chairs, and medical supplies. Finally, the out-of-town crew needs services for daily life, such as accommodations, food, pet supplies, yoga and exercise studios, doctors, dentists, massage therapists, and almost everything our residents need. The course Instructors are Becky Brownlee (Area Director, UGA SBDC Savannah Office), Valerie McElveen (Area Director, SBDC Statesboro Office), Beth Nelson (Film Commissioner and Executive Director, Savannah Regional Film Office), and Katie Scuck (Location Specialist, Savannah Regional Film Office). In addition to learning how your business can benefit by marketing goods and services to film and television productions in the Savannah region, businesses will learn how to handle purchase orders, invoices and payments from a film production accountant. They will also learn how to enhance their vendor profile and online presence to attract the appropriate decision makers. Another way to stay connected in addition to the film office website is their social media pages where a multitude of what is happening and upcoming is shared. “We post crew and casting calls, and other information productions would like shared with the community. There are many opportunities for extras casting in the Savannah region, and we post these details online as well,” said Nelson. The Becoming a Film Friendly Vendor workshop will take place at the Savannah Theatre on 222 Bull St. For a course outline and to register visit ugasbdc.training/sav/film |
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