Arts and Culture Community Service Program
The GFWC Arts and Culture Community Service Program encourages members to promote and support art and cultural programs in their clubs and communities, and to expand understanding on every level, from local and regional to national and international. Our goal is to create projects that include crafts, dance, drama, food, music, and other manifestations of art and culture that develop skills, awareness, and appreciation. It is designed to inspire clubwomen and ignite within them a desire to make the world a more beautiful, thoughtful, and caring place.
St. Patrick’s Day Parade
The Woman’s Club partners with the North Strand Optimist Club to create and ride on a float during the Annual St Patrick’s Day Parade in North Myrtle Beach.
GFWC-SC Christmas Stocking Extravaganza
The Stocking Extravaganza is a GFWC-SC annual fundraiser to raise money for the repairs of the Sims Stackhouse Mansion in Columbia. Each year, the North Myrtle Beach Woman’s Club contributes by donating a decorated Christmas stocking filled with gifts, which is auctioned off on-line. The event takes place at the Mansion where attendees can participate and purchase raffle tickets. The proceeds of the auction and raffle tickets support the upkeep of the historic mansion.
Festival of Trees
Our club participated in the Festival of Trees at the North Myrtle Beach Historical Museum in December. This will be an annual event featuring beautifully decorated trees, each representing a different service organization in our city. Our first challenge was to create a design that uniquely identified our club. Two of our artistic members designed and crafted custom circular ornaments featuring our logo, North Myrtle Beach Woman’s Club, adorned with red ribbons for easy hanging. Other ornaments used, reflected the club’s signature colors red, blue and gold. This year seven members joined in the fun of decorating the tree sharing their creativity as the design was brought to life. The tree remained on display throughout the month of December.
