Sneak Peek: Lissa Frenkel Podcast

Lissa Frenkel: The Gaillard Center Commission supports and presents multidisciplinary cultural programming across the genres. We have a gorgeous, acoustically stunning building here in Charleston, South Carolina that was just rebuilt in 2015… we are deeply rooted in the community here in South Carolina, and we're really committed to artists and partnerships locally, but mostly about our awareness of place. So the Gaillard sits blocks from Gadsden's Wharf, where 40 percent of enslaved Africans came in to this country for the first time and across the street from the Mother Emanuel Church. And of course, South Carolina is known for having a challenging history with civil rights. So we really feel obligated and really grateful to have a platform to have artists help us, guide us through some of these histories and be a place of substance and essential dialogue for our community to grapple with these histories and find our way forward.