September 22, 2008...

Enjoy a night of entertainment with special guest Kim Delaney of “Army Wives” Friday, Oct. 10 while supporting the Charleston Clemente Course at Trident Technical College, a free college-level humanities course for economically and educationally disadvantaged adults. The Clemente Course Cabaret will be held at 7 p.m. in the Complex for Economic Development/College Center (Bldg. 920) on TTC’s Main Campus, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door.

Featured acts include the Plantation Singers, storytellers, piano and vocals, poetry reading, dancers, bluegrass, jazz and blues, and other famous local artists as well as Charleston Clemente Course participants.

Funded in part by a grant from The Humanities Council SC, the Charleston Clemente Course is based on the Clemente Course in the Humanities developed by author and educator Earl Shorris in 1995. Shorris developed the course on the premise that studying great works of art, literature, history and philosophy can spur reflective thinking and give people the tools to gain control of their lives.

TTC’s course is the first Clemente course in South Carolina. The course is offered to disadvantaged adults in the Charleston area who are not currently enrolled in school, in the hope that a study of the humanities can offer a way out of poverty through intellectual freedom.

For more information, call Dr. Mary Ann Kohli at 843-720-5713.