Calendar of Events

Benedict College Tigers Men's Basketball vs. Miles College

• February 07, 2012
• Location: HRC Arena, Benedict College
• Address: 1600 Harden Street, Columbia, SC 29204
• Venue: Benedict College

Benedict College Tigers Women's Basketball vs. Miles College

• February 07, 2012
• Location: HRC Arena, Benedict College
• Address: 1600 Harden Street, Columbia, SC 29204
• Venue: Benedict College

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.  

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

EngenuitySC Science Cafe - EnGenCore: Next-Generation Sequencing

• February 07, 2012
• Location: Capital City Club
• Address: 1201 Main Street, Suite 2500, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Capital City Club

Join John Busch and Joe Jones from EnGenCore as they discuss their work sequencing the human genome. Learn more about EnGenCore at EnGenCore.sc.edu. Register to attend at www.sciencecafecolumbia.org.

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.

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!

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.  

Woodrow Wilson Hard Hat Tour

• December 04, 2012
• Location: Woodrow Wilson Family Home
• Address: 1705 Hampton Street, Columbia, SC 29201
• Venue: Woodrow Wilson Family Home

Phase 1 of the Woodrow Wilson Family Home rehabilitation is complete. This tour allows guests the opportunity to visit the stie which is currently under construction and review the significance of this historic house and what is being done to preserve it from additional deterioration. Guests will also learn about the progress made during the first phase of the project then walk inside the house to gain a better understanding of the work that lies ahead.

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...