The Etherredge Center at the University of South Carolina Aiken (USCA) will host the 2024-2025 Cultural and Carolina series. This year’s themes include “Many Cultures, One World” and “Friends, Old and New.”
“The significance of ‘Friends, Old and New’ is that all the Carolina series artists this year are people that the Director of the Etherredge Center, Paul Crook, and I know,” said Kayla Gardner, assistant director of the Etherredge Center. “Geographically, this year we have performers coming all around the world and country: Texas, Japan, and the Northeast.”
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Shows will feature different cultures and time periods, including the Harlem Renaissance to the art form of Japanese Taiko drumming. A new play, Lobster Man, will debut during the Cultural and Carolina series, and it tells the story of two survivors in a post-apocalyptic world.
“I think it’s widely important to help make these different cultures and art forms accessible to people to help educate and broaden their world view,” said Gardner. “Often, the Carolina series features budding artists early in their professional career or artists who are only known in their corner of the state. In this way, we can give these artists a place to perform or showcase their work.”
Tickets will go on sale on Aug. 2. For more information about the Cultural and Carolina series, please visit https://www.usca.edu/etherredge-center/featured-shows/cultural-series/.
