New Savannah Cultural Arts Youth Puppetry workshop coming after Thanksgiving

Combine the worlds of visual and performing arts in a puppetry workshop.

On Sat. Dec 4, the Savannah Cultural Arts Center is hosting a Youth Puppetry Workshop for ages 10-15. In the first half you will create your own marionette puppet using polymer clay, felt, and fabric, and the second half cover character creation, voice work, and basics of how to use a puppet like a real puppeteer.

No arts experience necessary, space limited, sign up today! Watch a behind the scenes video here.

Dec 4 from 12:30 to 2:00pm. Pre-registration requested. $20 ($15 for City of Savannah residents). Register online here.

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Join Kindermusik with 88 Keys Piano every Monday afternoon at 4:00pm for a special class just for children ages 4-7.

Kindermusik offers a small group setting where children move, dance, play instruments and learn all about music in a joy-filled and fun environment. First trial is free!

Text FREE CLASS to 912-432-5885 or visit kindermusikwith88keys.com for more info.

Enroll online: kindermusikwith88keys.com

Kindermusik…A Good Beginning Never Ends.

Location: Kindermusik with 88 Keys, 183 Deerfield Rd W, Bloomingdale GA 31302

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Savannah Santa Train
Sat. Dec. 18, 2021, 9AM-5PM
@ Georgia State Railroad Museum, 655 Louisville Rd., Savannah
Featuring a holiday-themed diesel locomotive train ride experience, live demonstrations by Lowcountry Turners artfully hand-crafting toys available for purchase, caroling by Savannah Stage Company, and merry dancing with Minick Family Music. Decorate a holiday card to send to families at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire, or enjoy complimentary donuts and coffee provided by The Salvation Army’s Mobile Canteen. Santa Claus will visit with the children to hear their Christmas wishes.
Tickets
Members of Coastal Heritage Society receive a discounted ticket rate of $12 per person. Train rides are available every twenty minutes, but seats are very limited, so please select a time to reserve your spot on the train.
Buy tickets online here.

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Savannah Santa Train, one of the largest annual holiday events in the lowcountry, will take place on Sat. December 18, 2021 from 9AM-5PM at Georgia State Railroad Museum, located at 655 Louisville Rd., Savannah, GA 31401.

Festive activities and entertainment include a holiday-themed diesel locomotive train ride experience, live demonstrations by Lowcountry Turners artfully hand-crafting spinning tops and dreidels available for purchase, caroling by Savannah Stage Company, and merry dancing with Minick Family Music. Decorate a holiday card to send to families at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Lowcountry, or enjoy complimentary donuts and coffee provided by The Salvation Army’s Mobile Canteen. Santa Claus will visit with all the children and hear their Christmas wishes.

Gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches from The Big Cheese food truck and frozen sweet treats from Leopold’s Ice Cream will be available for purchase.

Savannah Santa Train is hosted each year by Georgia State Railroad Museum and Savannah Children’s Museum. Tickets are $15 per person for all guests eighteen months and up and pre-registration is required. Parking at Georgia State Railroad Museum is limited.

Pre-registration is required and opens on Mon. Nov. 22 2021. Register online here.

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SouthCoast Health General Physician Dr. Keith Cobb in Savannah offers tips on how to make mental health a priority this holiday season.

“Mental health should be one of the biggest priorities for everyone in the season,” SouthCoast Health General Physician Dr. Keith Cobb stated. “But it’s vital to keep moving forward and progressing with our lives and our mental health. Just because it’s the holiday doesn’t mean your needs should take a back seat.”

Learn more here. 

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Breakfast with Santa 2021 @ Tanger Outlets, Savannah

Come to Metro Diner @ Tanger Outlets Savannah for Breakfast with Santa this Thurs. Dec. 2 2021 @ 9am.

RSVP online here by Nov. 30th. Space is limited.

Price includes holiday themed pancake breakfast, gift mug with hot chocolate, craft, train ride, Elf on the Shelf Scavenger Hunt, Santa hat pop-it prize, and selfies with Santa.

St. Andrew’s Watts named GISA Teacher of the Year

St. Andrew’s School teacher Alexis Watts has been named the Georgia Independent Schools Association (GISA) Middle School Teacher of the Year.

On Mon. Nov. 15, GISA Vice President Stan Whitlock presented Watts with the award at the annual conference in Atlanta.

Alexis Watts is the Middle School Dean of Students and teaches 8th grade English at St. Andrew’s. She graduated with her B.A. in English and French and certification in secondary education from the University of Michigan and earned her M.A. in Liberal Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. She has been a part of the St. Andrew’s faculty since 2014.

GISA is a non-profit association of private, independent, and parochial schools throughout Georgia. With 165 schools under GISA, the GISA Teacher of the Year Award is given to a teacher that has demonstrated outstanding teaching and service in the upper school, middle school, or lower school.

St. Andrew’s is an International Baccalaureate World School inspiring young people age 3 through grade 12 in Savannah. For more information, visit https://saslions.com

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School searching in Savannah? Visit Savannah Christian Preparatory School, an independent, non-denominational PK-12 college prep Christian school, during a Welcome Home Wednesday open house this fall.

Welcome Home Wednesdays

Open House 2021: December 1
9:30AM
Reservations are required.
Register for Welcome Home Wednesdays online here.
For more information on this event or admissions at Savannah Christian Preparatory School, please email Kathi Strickland, Director of Family Relations, at kstrickland@savcps.com or call the admissions office at 912.629.5544.

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Fun comes in all shapes and sizes and the ukulele is proof of that!

This weekend the Savannah Cultural Arts Center is offering a ukulele workshop for ages 10 to 15. This is a great chance to try out a musical instrument, expand your music skill set, and just have fun with rhythm and sounds. No experience necessary, open to all levels.

Sat. Nov. 20 2021 @ Savannah Cultural Arts Center (201 Montgomery St)

Pre-register online here.

Cost: $10. ($5 for City of Savannah residents)

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Holiday Family Movies @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts & Trustees Theatre, Savannah 

Holiday classic movies @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts in downtown Savannah during December are a fun family tradition. See the schedule & purchase tickets online here. 

Also, a Saturday showing of FREE Christmas cartoons and FREE Polar Express Party will be @ Trustees Theater on Broughton Street in downtown Savannah on Sat. Dec. 18

HOME ALONE @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
SAT. DEC. 4,  3PM
$5 ticket gets you a “Little Neros” PIZZA gummy giveaway and other fun surprises.
Tickets: $5. Purchase tickets online here.

WHITE CHRISTMAS @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
SAT. DEC. 4, 7PM
Tickets: $5. Purhase tickets online here.

NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION @ Lucas Theatre for the Arts
THURS. DEC. 9, 7PM
Tickets: $5. Purchase tickets online here.

CLASSIC CHRISTMAS CARTOONS @ Trustees Theater (FREE)
SENSORY FRIENDLY SCREENING
SAT. DEC. 18, 11AM
Sing “Fah who Foraze, Dah who doraze” and welcome Christmas by bringing your cheer to an hour of treasured family holiday cartoons — “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” — on the big screen. Complete with festive giveaways for young moviegoers.
At this sensory friendly screening, audience members can enjoy a positive, stress-free matinee at the movies in a safe and accepting environment — lights turned up slightly, sound turned down slightly, attendees can make noise and move about the theater, and no sssshhhing.
Admission is FREE with a donation of a non-perishable food item for Second Harvest.
AT THE TRUSTEES THEATER

THE POLAR EXPRESS PJ PARTY @ Trustees Theater  (FREE)
SAT. DEC. 18, 3PM
You’ll be able to watch it with a special sleigh bell to ring while wearing your most comfy Christmas jammies.
Admission is FREE with a donation of a non-perishable food item for Second Harvest.
AT THE TRUSTEES THEATER

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE @ Trustees Theater  (FREE)
SAT. DEC. 18, 7PM
Ring your bell when an angel get his wings and enjoy this quintessential holiday classic with your family, friends, and neighbors.
Admission is FREE with a donation of a non-perishable food item for Second Harvest.

Details on all of the above here. 

Come shop @ High Cotton Kids Winter Sale, Nov. 17-20th, 2021

Parent-and-me Kindermusik Savannah Class for ages 4-7

Join Kindermusik Savannah every Monday afternoon with your 4-7 year old for music making and group instruction!

Your first trial class is FREE! Meets Mondays at 4PM – text 912-432-5885 for more info.

November 2021 Monthly Musical Playdate

There are just a FEW spaces left for this Saturday Nov. 20’s monthly musical playdate: “Oh So Thankful!” Each child receives an instrument, 10 Kindermusik songs and a special coupon to apply to future classes.

Enroll online before the spaces fill: kindermusikwith88keys.com

Kindermusik…A Good Beginning Never Ends.

Location: Kindermusik with 88 Keys, 183 Deerfield Rd W, Bloomingdale GA 31302

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Teen ornament making workshop @ SCAD Museum of Art, 4-6PM Fri. Nov. 19

Teens take over SCAD MOA at these artist workshops.

Supplies included. All skill levels welcome. Boxed dinner provided.
4-6PM
$10 ADMISSION

Sign up!
Email: kpoitras@scad.edu
Kristin Poitras
Coordinator of museum visitation

See teen night dates and listings on the museum event calendar.

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Nov. 19
Glam up the holidays
Adorn a custom-beaded ornament inspired by Christian Siriano’s showstopping designs in People Are People and avant-garde rings in
Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection.

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Dec. 10
Conjure kami spirits at LARP workshop
Tour Japanese artist Izumi Kato’s exhibition Stand By You. Then inhabit Kato’s spectral creatures at this live-action role playing workshop.

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Dec. 17
Make cookie-cutter cool
Customize cookies styled like works on view, with Brittany Richmond, SCAD MOA assistant curator

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WHERE
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, Ga.

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Walk with a Doc, Nov. 27 2021, Savannah 

Walk off that Thanksgiving Dinner while getting to know a Savannah pediatrician.

Join pediatrician Dr. Yolanda Rivera-Caudill of The Tiny Beet on Sat. Nov. 27 2021, 9-10AM to walk towards a healthier you @ Walk with a Doc in Savannah’s Daffin Park.

Free and family friendly!

This a free event meant to encourage the community to live active and healthier lives.

Why do it alone when you can have a local doc by your side?

Walk with a Doc
9AM Sat. Nov. 27 2021, 9-10AM Daffin Park, Savannah (between playground & fountain)
Free & open to the public
EMAIL: thedoctorbeet@gmail.com

The Tiny Beet is a general pediatric direct primary care (DPC) practice specializing in Lifestyle Medicine in order to focus on the root cause of patients’ health.

Dr. Caudill is on a mission to help her patients develop and maintain healthier lifestyles through general pediatrics and lifestyle medicine.

Learn more about Walk With A Doc here. 

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Homeschooler’s Spelling Bee with Advanced Academics, Pooler 

Advanced Academics is partnering with the Lions Club to host a spelling bee for homeschool students in the Coastal Empire.

Sponsored and judged by The Lions Club of Pooler, which will send representatives as impartial judges, pronouncers and record keepers.

​Study resources are available at spellingbee.com. Participation is limited to twenty spellers per grade level.

REGISTER ONLINE HERE. 

Organizers will email participants in the near future with times for each grade level etc. Questions? Please email Ms. Evelyn at adv.aca.evelyn@gmail.com.

Homeschooler’s Spelling Bee
Sat. Dec. 11 2021
For grades 1-8
405 W. Hwy 80, Pooler
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Advanced Academics in Pooler

Advanced Academics is a microschool, which does mean a small campus, but also means that Advanced Academics can customize education for each child. Face-to-face customized learning on a small campus provides an enriched learning environment.

Tutoring for K-12 is also offered as well as full & half day learning.

Learn more here.

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Advanced Academics
email: adv.aca.mail@gmail.com
912-348-2017
405 Hwy 80, Suite 104
Pooler, GA 31322

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently identified the southern United States as a “Diabetes Belt,” meaning that those who live in our area are more likely to have type 2 diabetes than anyone else in the United States.

“This is a concerning discovery,” Internist and Primary Care Physician Dr. Douglas Perry said. “Those who live with diabetes often have difficult daily routines to manage, which can quickly become overwhelming. They have to be extremely vigilant in watching what they eat, how active they are, what medicines they’re taking, and how they’re taking them.”

SouthCoast Health offers Diabetic Self-Management Training Sessions, designed to teach the skills necessary for managing diabetes, such as creating meal plans and how to check blood pressure.

Learn more here.

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Pediatrician searching in the Savannah-Pooler area? See the patient family review above of Coastal Pediatrics  which has offices in Savannah & Pooler.

If you would like to join the Coastal Pediatrics practice, but are unsure if they are participating providers with your insurance, check their list of accepted insurances here.

If you do not see your insurance on their list, please contact their office and check with the receptionist to see if they accept your insurance before making an appointment.

If you already know that Coastal Pediatrics accepts your insurance and you would like to make a new patient appointment, please call 912-353-7744 to schedule the appointment.

Learn more here.

Coastal Pediatrics- Savannah
2 Wheeler Street
Savannah, GA 31405

Coastal Pediatrics- Pooler
1000 Towne Center Blvd
Building 1000B
Pooler, GA 31322

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Millions of twinkling lights are strung across 5 acres @ Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens in Savannah. This year’s event will be held as a drive thru beginning Fri. Nov. 26 and continuing on select nights through Christmas Eve.

Also, drop your Letters to Santa off @ the special Letters to Santa mailbox @ Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens.

Learn more here. 

The 2021 Holiday Lights are as follows: Nov 26th &27th, December 3rd & 4th, December 10th & 11th, and Dec 17th through Dec 24th.

Tickets

The easiest way to purchase tickets is upon entry as you enter the display on Highway 17. Cash and cards accepted. If you would like to pre-purchase tickets, please visit the gift shop during regular business hours.

Location

The Coastal Gardens (not to be confused with the Savannah Botanical Gardens on Eisenhower) are located at 2 Canebrake Road in Savannah. The entrance to Holiday Lights is located on the westbound lane of Hwy 17 just before Canebrake Road.

The gardens staff will post any cancellations on their website and send notifications to Facebook.

You’re invited this Sunday for The Sandbox Children’s Museum Author series @ 3PM this Sun. Nov. 14 with Ellen Giordano as she reads her book The Best Day Ever.

Free with Admission. Make sure you have a spot and reserve your tickets online @ www.thesandbox.org

Sandbox Interactive Children’s Museum
80 Nassau St
Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
(843) 842-7645

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Savannah Classical Academy now accepting 2022-23 lottery applications

Savannah Classical Academy is free, public K-12 charter school with an entirely open enrollment.

Savannah Classical Academy’s annual lottery is now open for all students from kindergarten to twelfth grade for the 2022-23 school year.

Don’t miss the deadline for your family to enroll in this free public charter Savannah school.

Apply for the lottery now. Learn more and apply online here. 

The Mission of Savannah Classical Academy is to provide every child with a classical and academically rigorous education while instilling a commitment to civic virtue and moral character.

Savannah Classical Academy
705 East Anderson Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
(912) 395-4040
SavannahClassicalAcademy.org

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Open House @ St. Andrew’s School (ages 3 to 12th grade)

School searching in Savannah?

Learn more about St. Andrew’s School, a private, independent, college preparatory Wilmington Island school, ages 3-12th grade @ one of the school’s upcoming open houses:

Open House
JAN. 18 2022
8:30AM Grades 5 – 12
9:30AM Pre-K 3 through Grade 4
Register online here.

St. Andrew’s (age 3 to grade 12) is an independent International Baccalaureate World School inspiring young people each day in the area of academics, arts, and athletics.

St. Andrew’s School, 601 Penn Waller Rd, Savannah, 31410. 912.897.4941 ext 452, www.saintschool.com , email hellew@saintschool.com On Facebook here.   On Twitter here. St. Andrew’s is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser.

Walk with a Doc, Nov. 27 2021, Savannah 

Walk off that Thanksgiving Dinner while getting to know a Savannah pediatrician.

Join pediatrician Dr. Yolanda Rivera-Caudill of The Tiny Beet on Sat. Nov. 27 2021, 9-10AM to walk towards a healthier you @ Walk with a Doc in Savannah’s Daffin Park.

Free and family friendly!

This a free event meant to encourage the community to live active and healthier lives.

Why do it alone when you can have a local doc by your side?

Walk with a Doc
9AM Sat. Nov. 27 2021, 9-10AM Daffin Park, Savannah (between playground & fountain)
Free & open to the public
EMAIL: thedoctorbeet@gmail.com

The Tiny Beet is a general pediatric direct primary care (DPC) practice specializing in Lifestyle Medicine in order to focus on the root cause of patients’ health.

Dr. Caudill is on a mission to help her patients develop and maintain healthier lifestyles through general pediatrics and lifestyle medicine.

Learn more about Walk With A Doc here. 

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Teens take over SCAD MOA at these artist workshops.

Supplies included. All skill levels welcome. Boxed dinner provided.
4-6PM
$10 ADMISSION

Sign up!
Email: kpoitras@scad.edu
Kristin Poitras
Coordinator of museum visitation

See teen night dates and listings on the museum event calendar.

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Dec. 10
Conjure kami spirits at LARP workshop
Tour Japanese artist Izumi Kato’s exhibition Stand By You. Then inhabit Kato’s spectral creatures at this live-action role playing workshop.

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Dec. 17
Make cookie-cutter cool
Customize cookies styled like works on view, with Brittany Richmond, SCAD MOA assistant curator

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WHERE
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, Ga.

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New 2-day (2 Saturdays) writing & art workshop for teens @ Savannah Cultural Arts Center

Let’s change everything you thought you knew about poetry, shall we?

This 2-day workshop for teens (taking place over 2 Saturdays) will focus on the rupture of form as well as genre. In other words, this is a hands-on workshop where we will be making things as well as writing them. As a group, we’ll observe and discuss collage, erasures, experimental and found poetry, playing with books that don’t look like books, and reading work that leaps off the page, literally. As individuals, students will be blacking out words, cutting things up, and plastering things together. Students are encouraged to get funky and think outside the box in this class. As a group, we’ll think about and define, for ourselves, what combining visual art, poetry, and storytelling can accomplish.

@ Savannah Cultural Arts Center (201 Montgomery St)

For ages 13-17

Sat. Nov 13 and Sat. Nov. 20 – 11:30AM-1:30PM

Parents – does this sound like fun? Join us in December for the adult creative writing workshop!

Ready to register? Sign up online here.

Want to see all the workshops at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center? Find them here.

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Frogwarts 2021 in Savannah

Frogwarts: A Magical Adventure is back!

Georgia State Railroad Museum and Savannah Children’s Museum will transform into a magical Harry Potter-themed experience during “Frogwarts” on Sunday, Nov. 14 from 11AM-3PM.

This year’s classes will include Wand Making, Potions, Fortune Telling, Defense Against the Dark Arts: Glow in the Dark Fun!, Care of Magical Creatures with Georgia Reptile Society, Quill Writing, Herbology, Muggle Studies and Quidditch. Attendees can also take a ride on our diesel locomotive, the Frogwarts Express or visit Gringotts Wizarding Bank.

Some CHS community partners will also be leading workshops, including Memorial Health Dwaine & Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital leading aromatherapy and Herbology activities, Front Porch Improv performing some Harry Potter-themed skits, Dogwood Pediatric Dentistry sharing the art of Charms, The Lowcountry Turners will be creating unique wooden wands and Leopold’s Ice Cream will be on-site serving Harry Potter inspired sweet treats.

This event is $12 for all participants, ages eighteen months and older.

Pre-registration is required. Pre-register online here.  

Coastal Heritage Society members receive access to early registration, an express check-in line and priority boarding for the Frogwarts Express train ride.  Become a member here.

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