September 21, 2007...

Enjoy a night of entertainment and good food Friday, Oct. 12 while supporting the Charleston Clemente Course at Trident Technical College, a free college-level humanities course for poor, homeless and otherwise disadvantaged people in the Charleston area. Doors open for the Clemente Cabaret at 5 p.m. and the entertainment begins at 6 p.m. Entertainment will be provided by TTC employees and students as well as Charleston Clemente Course participants. The cabaret will be held in the College Center (Bldg. 920) on TTC’s Main Campus, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. Tickets are $10.

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 people 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.