Seasonal Changes to Georgia State Railroad Museum and Old Fort Jackson’s Operating Hours

Georgia State Railroad Museum and Old Fort Jackson will have a seasonal change in operating hours beginning Mon. Dec. 6 2021 for the Winter season.

The new hours will be Wednesday through Saturday, 9AM-4PM with the museums being closed on Mondays and Tuesdays through February.

Both sites will have a special opening after Christmas from Dec. 26 through Dec. 31; Martin Luther King, Jr Day (Jan. 17), and President’s Day (Feb. 21).

Georgia State Railroad Museum will have blacksmithing demonstrations Wednesdays and Thursdays and will welcome visitors to take a Site Tour by Train on Fridays and Saturdays through December.

Old Fort Jackson will continue to have cannon firings at 11AM and 2PM on all operating days.

Georgia State Railroad Museum and Old Fort Jackson feature large, open-air spaces and employ enhanced sanitizing and distancing protocols.

Admissions information and online ticket sales are available online here.

Site Tours by Train are limited and boarding passes are issued on a first come, first served basis.

As always, Coastal Heritage Society Members receive FREE admission. Please visit www.chsgeorgia.org for operating hours.

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Nurture your talent at SCAD MOA drawing workshop for teens in Savannah

Let your creativity flow at this weekly drawing workshop for teens 4-5PM on Wednesdays during December 2021 at SCAD MOA. Museum educators, SCAD students and faculty, and special guests offer tips and tutorials to perfect your drawing skills.

This workshop is free for teen museum members and teen SCAD students with a valid SCAD Card. Open to the teen public with the cost of museum admission.

To register, contact Kristin Poitras, coordinator of museum visitation, at kpoitras@scad.edu or 912.525.7145.

Upcoming teen drawing workshop dates:

WHEN
Wednesdays Dec. 8, Dec. 15, Dec. 22, Dec. 29 2021. Sign up for just one or more.
4-5 p.m.

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

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Make cookie-cutter cool at SCAD MOA Teen Night decorating workshop

Cookies that imitate art. Customize cookies-styled like works on view with Brittany Richmond, SCAD MOA assistant curator.

Admission to the workshop is $10. Supplies included. All skill levels welcome. Boxed dinner provided.

To sign up, email Kristin Poitras, coordinator of museum visitation, at kpoitras@scad.edu.

Fri. Dec. 17 2021, 4-6 p.m.
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah

Learn more here.

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Enrollment for the Soccer Shots Winter Season is now open for children ages 2-8!

Savannah Soccer Shots is kicking off the season and invites your child to Soccer Island!

Coaches will continue to take a variety of precautions to keep both children and staff safe.

Visit Soccershots.org/savannah to learn more about the program! Or go straight to our enrollment page and sign up for a location near you that meets at a time that fits your schedule at savannah.soccershots.com. Soccer Shots has locations all throughout Savannah, Wilmington Island, Pooler, Richmond Hill, Rincon and Bluffton!

Want to try the program and meet the awesome coaches before you enroll? There will be a free soccer day at Forsyth Park on Jan.8 2022 for all children ages 2-8! You must preregister for this free event! Visit savannah.soccershots.com and search by the keyword “free” to be directed to the registration page.”

Enrollment online here.

Questions? Contact Rachel Wright, 762.333.1177, rwright@soccershots.com

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Youth Basketball 2022, Savannah

Registration is open for Coastal Savannah 3 v 3 Basketball.

The program is open to all children in grades 1-4. (Players do not need to attend Calvary Day School)

Follow this link for more details.

Registration includes a game jersey and 8 guaranteed games. Maximum rosters of 5 so that all kids will play

The deadline is Dec. 8. Questions? Contact Ken Shaw at kshaw@calvarydayschool.com.

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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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Teen Nights @ SCAD Museum of Art

Teens take over SCAD MOA at these artist workshops. Supplies included. All skill levels welcome. Boxed dinner provided.

$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.

Upcoming teen nights include:

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Fri. Dec. 10, 4-6PM
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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Fri. Dec. 17, 4-6PM
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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Lowcountry Friday Night Football has come to Savannah!

ALL ARE WELCOME

Registration is now open for boys and girls grades K-8th online here. 

*PLAY WITH FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, CLASSMATES
*6V6* – 8/9 PLAYERS/ROSTER
*5 DIVISIONS (K, 1ST/2ND, 3RD/4TH, 5TH/6TH, 7TH/8TH)
* NO CONTACT = FEWER INJURIES
*SKILL POSITIONS – QB, WR, RB, DB
*ONLY 1 PRACTICE PER WEEK
*EVERYONE PLAYS IN 3 OUT OF 4 QUARTERS
*GAMES ON FRIDAYS
*PROFESSIONAL – PAID GAME OFFICIALS
*TROPHIES
*FOOD TRUCKS/VENDORS/MUSIC
*GAMES @ ST. ANDREW’S SCHOOL ON WILMINGTON IS., SAVANNAH

*REGISTRATION: $150

St. Andrew’s Varsity Football Coach Blake Henry is bringing the largest Flag Football operator in the nation to Savannah. Lowcountry Friday Night Lights is for boys and girls of all different skill levels who are in grades K-8. Online registration for the SPRING season is now open, $150 per player.

Practices begin in late January 2022 with opening night scheduled for Feb. 25 2022. One hour practices followed by one hour games are played on Friday nights on beautiful St. Andrew’s campus. Register at www.lowcountryfnl.com!

Lowcountry FNL
(912) 333-9160
lowcountryfnl@gmail.com
Follow on Instagram @lowcountryfnl

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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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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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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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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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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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Monthly storytime at SCAD Museum of Art

Treat your young art lover to SCAD MOA Story Time on the first Saturday of each month.

Next Monthly Story Hour: Sat.  Dec. 4 2021 at 11AM. Enjoy exciting tales and fun activities.

Story Time is programmed for children ages 3 and older.

To ensure the health and safety of all museum patrons and staff, touchless temperature checks are required prior to entering the galleries and face coverings are mandatory. Be mindful of your fellow patrons by social distancing. Maintain 6 feet of space between you and other guests.

See all tour dates and listings on the museum event calendar.

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

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Join The Sandbox Children’s Museum on Hilton Head Is. this Friday Nov. 5 2021 5-8PM for their monthly FREE Family Fun Night.

This month please bring a canned good for The Deep Well pantry, come make a lantern for the Hilton Head Lantern Parade, and get your vision screening by the Lions Club.

Reserve space at www.thesandbox.org and click Book Now, then click on HHI General Admissions, then on the calendar image, click Fri. Nov. 5.

Free for all!

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

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Fall Harvest Festival 2021 @ Oatland Island Wildlife Center, Savannah

Due to COVID-19, this year’s Cane Grinding we will be implementing measures to support social distancing guidelines.

Please check back for the updated schedule of events.

​​​​​Celebrate Georgia’s diverse agricultural traditions during Oatland Island Wildlife Center’s annual cane grinding event. Centered around Oatland’s 1800’s Heritage Homesite, history comes alive with old-time music, demonstrations and cane-boiling. See how “it was back then” amidst the sights and sounds of an old-fashioned fall gathering.​

Children young and old will enjoy social distance conscious demonstrations, take home crafts, live music and other fun presentations as you venture back through history.​

Oatland Island’s Fall Harvest and Cane Grinding Festival is Nov. 13 2021, 10AM-4PM.

ALL DAY Special Event Pricing
Adult Admission $7
Child/Senior/Military Admission $5

Learn more here. 

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2021 Autumn Encampment – A Meeting of Nations – @ Fort King George Historic Site, Darien, Ga.
Saturday, Nov 13, 2021, 9AM-5PM
Sunday, Nov 14, 2021 9AM-5PM

For Fort King George Historic Site’s special Tricentennial anniversary, the annual Autumn Encampment will include reenactors from the three nations: England, France, and Spain. Join us for activities, demonstrations, and historical crafts. Festival includes a ceremonial parade procession and musket firing salute to honor the soldiers whose graves are marked at our historic cemetery.

Cost is standard admission.
Adults: $7.50
Seniors (62+): $7.00
Youths (6-17): $4.50
Under age 6 is free entry.

For 18th century reenactors and vendors looking to participate as a volunteer/camper, please call and register at 912-437-4770.

Admission: $4.50-$7.50
Event Phone: 912-437-4770

Fort King George Historic Site
302 McIntosh Road SE
Darien, GA 31305

Calvary Day School Open House, Sunday, Nov. 7 2021, 2PM

Are you interested in seeing all that Calvary Day School in Savannah has to offer?

Come get a glimpse into Calvary on Sun. Nov. 7 2021.

You & your family are invited to get a first-hand glimpse of all the amazing opportunities available for students in Pre-K through 12th grade through private tours of Calvary Day School in Savannah 

Calvary Day School private tours are the perfect chance to see what today’s learners are doing to become tomorrow’s leaders.

Learn more here

Calvary Day School, 4625 Waters Ave, Savannah

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Open Houses 

Calvary Day School Open House dates are listed under the “Visit Us” tab of the Admissions section.

The next open house is Sun. Nov. 7 2021, 2PM.

Please contact the Admissions Office at (912) 351-0700 to register for this event.

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Campus Tours

Campus tours are offered Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the school year by appointment only. Please call Calvary’s admissions department at (912) 351-0700 or email admissions@calvarydayschool.com to schedule your tour.  Scheduled assessment and shadow days will be on Wednesdays by appointment.

Upon completion of the open house or a campus tour, an admissions checklist will be emailed to the family. All items must be presented in completion on the day of the Admissions assessment.

Learn more here.

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Art Class for the Homeschool Student @ Scribble Art Studio, Savannah

Join Scribble Art Studio in Savannah each week in the studio for ongoing art classes for your homeschool learner.

Classes will begin Oct. 25, 2021. Learn more and register online here. 

Homeschool Art Class
Scribble Art Studio
212 E. 37th St.
Savannah, GA 31401
info@scribbleartstudiosav.com
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Performing Arts, Visual Arts Classes for Kids @ Savannah Cultural Arts Center

End the year on a creative note!

Classes at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center begin Nov. 1 2021 for ages 6 and older. Learn more about the classes and register online @ Savannahga.gov/artsclasses

Youth Classes (Ages 6 & older)

Adventures in Art (Ages 9-12) and Discovering Art (Ages 6-8)
Young artists are invited to expand their creativity with a variety of fun art projects. Both 2-D and 3-D mediums will be covered, including working with clay, making drip paintings, and creating mixed media artwork.
Homeschool Art (Ages 6-12)
Each session will offer a different creative and educational activity to foster artistic expression. Parents are encouraged to join in on the fun for free.
Youth Clay (Ages 9-12)
Discover a mix of skill-building and experimental projects, both handbuilding and on the wheel.

Register online @ Savannahga.gov/artsclasses

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Teen Classes (Ages 13 and older)

An Actor Prepares: Auditions (15+)
For actors of all levels! This class covers monologues, resume creation, warm-up techniques, audition room etiquette, and more!

Basics of Choreography (14+)
Study the history and various styles of choreography from conceptualization and the first step to a completed piece.

Brazilian Drumming (14+)
Learn Brazilian percussion and rhythm while growing as a musician individually and as a group.

Character Development Through Movement and Imagination (13+)
Learn to develop your characters for performance and gain confidence for the stage.

Intro to Guitar (Ages 10-15)
From the basics of the instrument to strumming your first chords, this is the perfect class to begin your musical journey.

Teen Clay (13+)
Discover a mix of skill-building and experimental projects, both handbuilding and on the wheel.

Register online @ Savannahga.gov/artsclasses

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Creative Classes- drama, art, ceramics – start Nov. 1
Savannah Cultural Arts Center
201 Montgomery St.
Savannah Ga. 31406

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Toddler Tuesdays nature program @ Oatland Island Wildlife Center in Savannah

Toddler Tuesday is a program for 1-4 year old children and their caregivers that focuses on one of Oatland’s animals, or a relevant nature theme. The program  includes: singing, fingerplay, a story, an encounter with one of our animals, and a take-home craft.

UPDATE: Cost for the program is $5 for children and $5 for adults.

Registration is required and there are a limited number of spaces so reserve early.

Registration is made online, but the program fees will be paid at the front booth on the day of, and not in advance, so please, if you know you won’t make your reservation, please call and cancel so organizers can open the space for someone on the waitlist.

See the 2022 Toddler Tuesday Schedule and register online here.

All adults are asked to please wear a mask at all times when indoors.

Questions about the program? Call 912-395-1517, or email michelle.kelly@sccpss.com

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Art Class for the Homeschool Student @ Scribble Art Studio, Savannah

Join Scribble Art Studio in Savannah each week in the studio for ongoing art classes for your homeschool learner.

Classes will begin Oct. 25, 2021. Learn more and register online here. 

Homeschool Art Class
Scribble Art Studio
212 E. 37th St.
Savannah, GA 31401
info@scribbleartstudiosav.com
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