Calendar of Events

"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

• February 04, 2012
• Location: Town Theatre
• Address: 1012 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Town Theatre
• Recurance: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Based on the popular 1988 film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels centers on two con men living on the French Riviera.  The first is a suave and sophisticated type who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money.  The other, a small-time crook, more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health.  The pair soon discovers that the town isn't big enough for two swindlers.  As such, they agree on a sett...

4th REEL Black Pix: Global Afrikan Film Series

• February 05, 2012
• Location: See Schedule for Daily Events
• Recurance: Recurring daily

HeTePu Productions, a non-profit Arts & Cultural Education Organization produces a Pan-African Film Festival in Honor of Black History Month on the first weekend of February. The Festival screens films by or about African and Black people from across the globe. REEL Black Pix opens with a Reception featuring Live Entertainment and a film on Gullah Culture. This Weekend Film & Arts Festival provides a Filmmakers Forum; Screenings; Arts Education Workshops; as well as, Q&A Panels w/Di...

BODY WORLDS Vital

• April 15, 2012
• Location: South Carolina State Museum
• Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: South Carolina State Museum
• Recurance: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

  In its southeastern premiere, BODY WORLDS Vital celebrates the potential of the human body and the body in motion. Featuring authentic, donated human bodies, the exhibition shows the body in health, distress and disease and tells the pressing story of how best to defeat life-threatening diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart ailments through informed choices and healthy lifestyle changes.  

Brevard Music Competition Recital

• February 03, 2012
• Location: Wood Auditorium, Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County
• Address: 810 Lyttleton Street, Camden, SC 29020

  A concert showcasing the talented young musicians who participated in an earlier competition for a scholarship to the prestigious Brevard Music Camp. The winner of the scholarship will be announced at the end of the event.  

City Art presents Brian Rego

• February 25, 2012
• Location: City Art Gallery
• Address: 1224 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: City Art Gallery

City Art presents Rodney Wimer

• December 31, 2012
• Location: City Art Gallery
• Address: 1224 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: City Art Gallery

Free Fridays at the Zoo for Residents of Richland and Lexington Counties

• February 24, 2012
• Location: Riverbanks Zoo and Garden
• Address: 500 Wildlife Parkway, Columbia, SC 29210
• Venue: Riverbanks Zoo & Garden

Combat those winter blues with Free Fridays!  Residents of Richland and Lexington counties receive free admission to Riverbanks Zoo and Garden on Fridays during January and February.  Bring a valid driver's license for proof of residency.

Jen Pepper Exhibit

• February 29, 2012
• Location: Bassett Gallery, Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County
• Address: 810 Lyttleton Street, Camden, SC 29020

The Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County is proud to bring you the fabulous work of Jen Pepper. Opening Reception: 6:00-7:30 p.m. Bassett Gallery Light hors d'ouevres and cash bar Born in Toronto Ontario, Jen Pepper is an artist who lives in Central New York. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in 22 solo exhibitions to date and has participated in over 55 group exhibitions since 1990. Her work has been seen in international and national venues including the UK, Japan, Canada, N...

Jen Pepper Exhibit: Dwell

• February 29, 2012
• Location: Bassett Gallery
• Address: 810 Lyttleton Street, Camden, SC 29020
• Recurance: Recurring weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

The Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County is proud to bring you the fabulous work of Jen Pepper. Opening Reception: 6 - 7:30 pm Bassett Gallery Light hors d'ouevres and cash bar Born in Toronto Ontario, Jen Pepper is an artist who lives in Central, New York. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in 22 solo exhibitions to date and has participated in over 55 group exhibitions since 1990. This exhibit runs through February 29, 2012.

Larry Hembree Puts the Fun in Fundraising for the Nickelodeon Theatre

• February 03, 2012
• Location: Capital Senior Center
• Address: 1650 Park Circle, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Capital Senior Center

WHAT: After many months of planning, Larry Hembree is staging a wedding to end all weddings that will help raise money for the Nickelodeon Theatre. The “show,” will take place at the Capitol Senior Center. “It’s somewhat rehearsed, but you never know what happens at the real event when you put very strange performers in front of a room full of people,” says Hembree. Since Hembree himself prefers context when viewing art that is abstract, contemporary or just plain ...

Luminous Landscapes

• April 01, 2012
• Location: Columbia Museum of Art, Wachovia Education Gallery
• Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Columbia Museum of Art

Students from Saluda River Arts Academy for the Arts and East Aiken School of the Arts show offer their artistic side by creating landscapes based on the concepts of the Hudson River School painters. Both ABC schools, (Arts in Basic Curriculum) these schools exemplify the concept of integrated learning.  

Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters

• April 01, 2012
• Location: Columbia Museum of Art
• Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
• Recurance: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Forty-five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New-York Historical Society will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art next fall, beginning November 17, 2011, in a major traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters. Though individual works are very seldom loaned, these iconic works of 19th-century landscape painting are traveling on a national tour for the first time and are circulating to four museums around the ...

One Book One Columbia

• February 29, 2012
• Location: Richland County Public Library, Main Branch
• Address: 1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Richland County Public Library
• Recurance: Recurring daily

One Book, One Columbia encourages all area residents to read the same book at the same time. Saints at the River, by Ron Rash is the book selection for the 2012 One Book, One Columbia initiative. The book is set in South Carolina and explores the compelling themes of the protection of scenic rivers, the role of the media and family relationships. The reading period continues through February 29. Get the book today and start reading! Rob Rash will be at RCPL on February 1 to discuss his novel!

Open Call Auditions for Film

• March 02, 2012
• Address: 1320 Main Street (Suite 300), Columbia, SC 29201
• Recurance: Recurring weekly on Thursday, Friday

FREE OPEN CALL AUDITIONS FOR FILM Deep Productions & Film will be holding open call auditions for several film projects at the Lena C Agency School of Arts & Fashion on Thursdays and Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Lena C Agency School of Arts & Fashion is located in downtown Columbia in the heart of the City, at 1320 Main Street, Suite 300, Columbia, South Carolina 29201. We are looking for talent of all ages. For more information on our open call auditions or classes for ta...

Our Time, Our Place: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts

• April 29, 2012
• Location: Columbia Museum of Art
• Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Columbia Museum of Art

This installation features 24 photographs selected by the board of the Friends of African American Art and Culture membership affiliate group. South Carolina photographer Richard Samuel Roberts captured some of the most realistic collective images of African-American life in the early 20th century, especially the rise of the economically secure middle class. Roberts' photographs comprise a stunning visual history of the African-American community in Columbia. He frequently took his camera into t...

Religion in the Civil War

• May 12, 2012
• Location: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum
• Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum

With over 600,000 dead during the Civil War, the most American casualties in any of our nation's conflicts, religion played a critical role with both soldiers and civilians during the Civil War. Items belonging to chaplains and wartime religious texts, including a Bible struck by a bullet, will be on exhibit.

The Civil War in South Carolina: Soldiers of the Palmetto State, 1861 - 1865

• May 01, 2012
• Location: South Carolina State Museum
• Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: South Carolina State Museum
• Recurance: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

The second installment of the Museum's series of exhibits focusing on the sesquicentennial of the Civil War will examine the early formations of military units in South Carolina and how the state's soldiers served the Confederacy from the spring of 1861 to Appomattox, four years later.

The Great Charleston Earthquake, 1886

• April 29, 2012
• Location: South Carolina State Museum
• Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: South Carolina State Museum

  This new exhibit tells the story of the second biggest earthquake in U.S. history, which occurred in Charleston, on Aug. 31, 1886. More than 100 people were killed, almost every building in Charleston was damaged, and the effects of the quake were felt as far away as Maine, Iowa and Louisiana. The exhibit is co-produced with the South Carolina Emergency Management Division and features photographs of the destruction as well as period artifacts.  

The Pitchforks - Duke University's All Male Acapella Ensemble

• February 03, 2012
• Location: Wood Auditorium, Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County
• Address: 810 Lyttleton Street, Camden, SC 29020

  The Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County is proud to announce the return of The Pitchforks of Duke University, a nationally acclaimed collegiate a cappella group, and a past winner of the SoJam Southeast Collegiate A Cappella Festival.  

The Trustus Black Box presents "Amazons and Their Men"

• February 04, 2012
• Location: Trustus Theatre
• Address: 520 Lady Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Trustus Theatre

The Frau used to direct beautiful films for a fascist government.  Now she's trying to make a film that's simply beautiful.  The Frau casts herself in the lead role of the Amazon Queen Penthesilea, who falls in love with Achilles on the battlefield of the Trojan War.  She recruits a man from the Jewish ghetto to play her Achilles.  Her own sister, a long-suffering extra, plays all the nameless Amazons killed in the background.  With chariot crashes and adoring close-ups,...

Yansi Fugel Spring Trunk Show

• February 04, 2012
• Address: 2818 Devine Street, Columbia, SC 29205
• Venue: Brittons

Please join us for our YANSEL FUGEL Spring Trunk Show - 10% off special orders.

Arts & Draughts: Art, Drink and Be Happy!

• February 03, 2012
• Location: Columbia Museum of Art
• Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Columbia Museum of Art

Arts & Draughts celebrates the Hudson River Valley with a unique perspective tour through the exhibition, Nature and the Grand American Vision, led by Congaree National Park Ranger David Shelly. This party boasts performances by Those Darlins, beer tastings, DIY art projects, interactive performances and many surprises. Arts & Draughts is an interactive party brought to you by Free Times, Earth Fare, WXRY and The Whig. Art, drink and be happy!  

Bold Banners: Early Civil War Flags of South Carolina

• September 29, 2012
• Location: SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum
• Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum
• Recurance: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Rich. Colorful. Bold. Words that may not initially evoke images of Civil War flags but the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum's upcoming exhibit shows that many of the earliest Civil War flags were hand-crafted works of art and not simply "stars and bars." Bold Banners: Early Civil War Flags of South Carolina will be exhibited at the Relic Room from May 6, 2011 through September 29, 2012. The exhibit will display some of the earliest flags representing units fr...

Columbia City Ballet presents "Romeo & Juliet"

• February 04, 2012
• Location: Koger Center for the Arts
• Address: 1051 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Koger Center for the Arts
• Recurance: Recurring daily

Keith Sweat: The Mixed Music Tour

• February 03, 2012
• Address: 801 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC 29208
• Venue: Colonial Life Arena

The Mixed Music Tour featuring Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, Mint Condition and Ledisi is this Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7:30 pm at Colonial Life Arena. Don't miss your chance to see the best R&B from the 80's to today right here in Columbia, SC. Tickets are $51.50, but will increase $10 the day of the show to $61.50. Additional fees may apply. Tickets can be purchased online at LMCtix.com, by phone at 1.855.4.LMC.TIX (1.855.456.2849) or in person at the Lexington Medical Cent...