Despite the City of Savannah’s moratorium of city event permits, anticipation still arises for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Mayor Van Johnson discussed the city’s plans to implement any further restrictions on business operations for the upcoming holiday.
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Drink local, drink festive
Whether you’re a Savannah resident or a guest of the Hostess City, let’s all drink local this St. Patrick’s Day. We’ve made a guide to drinking the best beers Savannah breweries have to offer. Cheers
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Ireland in Georgia
Many Savannahians, Irish and non-Irish alike, were disheartened at the news of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s cancelation for the second year in a row due to the ongoing pandemic. Savannah locals love decking out in every shade of green and playing host to more than 400,000 visitors from all over the world, joining together to celebrate the city’s Irish heritage and have a drink or 10. The biggest party of the year may have been cancelled but the Irish heart and history of Savannah can be found everywhere you look.
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‘Let’s have a parade!’
This year, Savannahians can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the inaugural Shamrock Ships Flotilla and complimentary Shamrocks Ships Soiree.
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World-famous Bananas pitch fun to fans
Bats cracking, beer tapping and the crowd clapping are all sounds you’d expect to hear at a traditional sports game, but what about chains on kilts jingling, Nanas laughing and the first base coach break dancing? These are the sounds and sights fans can look forward to if they’ve managed to snag a ticket for one of the four Savannah Bananas premier team games.
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Irish Everyday of the Week
Starland yard has quickly become a local favorite, rolling out a weekly rotation of food trucks and entertainment since the summer of 2019. And with St. Patrick’s day around the corner, they have zero intentions of slowing down.
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Celtic Heritage Festival hosts virtual event
The celtic Heritage Festival of Savannah will host a one-day virtual Celtic cultural festival March 13, which will be pre-recorded.
The link for the virtual celebration will be available through March 17, said Victoria Smith, board member and treasurer for the festival.
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Tybee Post Theater event hopes residents will ‘be the parade’
Tybee Island is going green in a different way this St. Patrick’s Day. With the annual parade down Butler Ave. cancelled and social distancing directives being advised, officials are encouraging participation in a unique addition to the event calendar this year: it’s called “Paint Tybee Ireland Green,” sponsored by the Tybee Post Theater.
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Artist’s dreams meet walls of local gallery
Coffee drinkers and art enthusiasts can spend enjoyable minutes taking in the 22 pieces of Aleman’s work which she spent anywhere between one to 30 precious hours painting so they could one day be displayed in the gallery she so admires.
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‘Let go of control, all of it’
Today, Schroeder works out of his sunlit, window-walled home studio in Savannah, also teaching painting at SCAD since 2005. Creating works with an inseparable synergy of painting as meditation in his at home-studio, a recent transition from his pre-pandemic studio at Southern Pine, and before that his space in Starland.
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New Savannah African Art Museum exhibit sheds light on various roles of hair
The new exhibition, ROOTS: Hair-Culture-History, Exploring the Hair & Cultures of West & Central Africa, will be on display until the end of January 2022, giving Savannahians plenty of time to discover how hair is engaged within different cultures. The exhibit aims to honor and explore the hair, culture, and history of West and Central Africa.
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New interactive theatrical experience is staging fright in Savannah
The city’s dark secrets of its oft-brutal history have been swept clean away to usher in the glamour and gentrification of the city’s modern-day scene, but Savannah’s untold horrors still lie just below its cobblestoned streets – and they are ready to be retold in a new and fascinating light.