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Calendar of Events
Welcome to the Official Columbia Calendar of Events managed by the Columbia Regional Visitors Center. Events are searchable by date, keyword and category, with ongoing events listed on the lower portion of the page. If you would like your event to be considered for a listing on our calendar, please review our calendar criteria and submit the details of your event.
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Wednesday Jun 19, 2013
Between the Springmaid Sheets
- June 19, 2013
- Location: South Carolina State Museum
- Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: South Carolina State Museum
- Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday 1 - 5 pm; Open Mondays for the month of December and Memorial Day through Labor Day 10 am-5 pm
The daring and controversial advertisements that rescued a struggling South Carolina textile business and made Springs Cotton Mills one of the giants of the industry are examined in this fascinating art exhibit. Through dozens of works of art, original illustrations and advertisements, museum guests will learn the story of dashing Col. Elliott Springs, a World War I flying ace. Springs inherited his father's textile mill in 1931 and used racy images, innuendo-laced text and savvy business moves...
Blooming Butterflies
- June 19, 2013
- Location: Edventure
- Address: 211 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: EdVenture Children's Museum
- Times: Monday-Saturday: First entry is at 9:30 a.m. Last entry is at 4:30 p.m. Sunday: First entry is at 12:30 p.m. Last entry is at 4:30 p.m.
Come explore the world of the butterfly! Visit EdVenture's living exhibit, Blooming Butterflies, and explore the world of these fascinating insects! This 2,500 square foot exhibit is filled with dozens of species of trees and plants to showcase the lifespan of more than 20 species of butterflies native to the Southeast. Be sure to check out the Bloom Room and observe chrysalises and emerging butterflies. Admission is free with general museum admission.
Football, the Exhibit
- June 19, 2013
- Address: 211 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: EdVenture Children's Museum
- Times: Monday – Saturday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m; Sunday: Noon – 5 p.m.
Score a touchdown with Football! This popular traveling exhibit from the Museum of Discovery opens May 18 through September 22 at EdVenture Children's Museum. Aside from being a competitive sport, Football is a 3,000 square foot exhibit that introduces visitors to the science, mathematics and technology behind the popular sport.
Found in Translation: The Geometric Abstraction of Steven Naifeh
- June 19, 2013
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
- Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Times: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday Noon - 5 pm
Pulitzer Prize winner and South Carolina resident Steven Naifeh is simultaneously fascinated with the history of Western art and with motifs derived from Islamic art. He combines these influences in his powerful, large-scale and colorful abstract art. This exhibition of Naifeh's art shows visitors that what we share culturally is perhaps greater than what separates us. Abstract art is capable of expressing complex ideas like unity and continuity. "We all need to understand more about the wo...
From Backrooms to Battlefields: The Buying and Selling of the Confederacy
- June 19, 2013
- Location: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum
- Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum
- Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; First Sunday 1 - 5 pm
Based on the discovery of rare Confederate purchasing receipts, this exhibit takes the visitor on a journey from the smoke-filled backroom deals of England, through the thrill and danger of blockade running in exotic foreign ports, to the Southern soldiers in the field. Learn how Confederate government used their lifeline to Europe to keep the Southern war machine running until Lee's surrender at Appomattox that ending this nation's greatest conflict.
Geometric Visions
- June 19, 2013
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
- Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
- Times: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday Noon - 5 pm
Inspired by the exhibition Found In Translation: The Art of Steven Naifeh, Eau Claire community members, CMA Passport to Art participants and CMA Spring Workshop students created paper and tile mosaics based on the concepts of simple geometry. Their finished works are on view beginning Tuesday, June 11.
ONEx100: Creating within Constraints
- June 19, 2013
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
- Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
- Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
- Times: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday Noon - 5 pm
This is not a typical community gallery exhibition. The pieces in ONEx100 all fit within a 1x1x1 foot space and demonstrate enthusiasm for contemporary, minimalist or conceptual art practices. Artists were encouraged to find freedom within limitations and create within constraints.
Paddle to see Rare Endangered Spider Lily
- June 19, 2013
- Location: Near the Zoo
- Address: 208 Candi Lane, Columbia, SC 29210
- Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
- Times: 11 am, 3 pm
Paddle through one of the largest colonies of the rare Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies It is a candidate for State endangered listing and is a Federal species of concern This is a unique opportunity, and only for a limited time. Blooming period ends in early June This trip is on sale - 30% 0ff
Picasso: Master Prints
- June 19, 2013
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
- Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
- Times: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday Noon - 5 pm
This small, but luxurious exhibition is a rare opportunity for South Carolinians to marvel at the graphic work of one of the 20th century's greatest artists up close. As an artist, Picasso is hardly in need of introduction. He was arguably the most influential painter, sculptor and printmaker of the 20th century. Included in Picasso: Master Prints is a portfolio of 10 color pochoirs made in the early 1920s and selections from Picasso's best-known etchings, The Vollard Suite. "Pochoir"...
Richland Library Friends' Summer Reading Challenge
- June 19, 2013
- Address: 1431 Assembly St., Columbia, SC 29201
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Times: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
The Richland Library Friends’ Summer Reading Challenge encourages kids of all ages to read their way through the summer! Join the more than 22,000 children, teens and adults who shared their love of reading with their friends, family and neighbors in 2012. Stop by any library location through August 17 to register. For more information, visit our website or call.
Thursday Jun 20, 2013
"Ain't Misbehavin'"
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Trustus Theatre
- Address: 520 Lady Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Trustus Theatre
- Times: Thursday - Saturday 8 pm; Sunday 3 pm
SPONSORED BY TREE OF LIFE CONGREGATION "Trustus Theatre was the first in Columbia to produce this show in 1987, and we happily bring a newly imagined production back to the Capital City this summer. Sometimes sassy, sometimes sultry, with moments of devastating beauty - TRUST US, AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' is simply unforgettable." Winner of Tony awards and The Drama Desk award - the outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930's Harlem lives on in this rollicking, swinging, finge...
Back Porch 7 Days a Week
- June 20, 2013
- Address: 1616 Gervais St., Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Back Porch on Gervais
- Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Thursday
- Times: 5pm until Close
Every Thursday night the back Porch is hosting the Mad Men and Women Young Professional's night. Join us and let the madness of the 9-5 grind wash away with whiskey, wine, and great music.
Between the Springmaid Sheets
- June 20, 2013
- Location: South Carolina State Museum
- Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: South Carolina State Museum
- Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday 1 - 5 pm; Open Mondays for the month of December and Memorial Day through Labor Day 10 am-5 pm
The daring and controversial advertisements that rescued a struggling South Carolina textile business and made Springs Cotton Mills one of the giants of the industry are examined in this fascinating art exhibit. Through dozens of works of art, original illustrations and advertisements, museum guests will learn the story of dashing Col. Elliott Springs, a World War I flying ace. Springs inherited his father's textile mill in 1931 and used racy images, innuendo-laced text and savvy business moves...
Blooming Butterflies
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Edventure
- Address: 211 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: EdVenture Children's Museum
- Times: Monday-Saturday: First entry is at 9:30 a.m. Last entry is at 4:30 p.m. Sunday: First entry is at 12:30 p.m. Last entry is at 4:30 p.m.
Come explore the world of the butterfly! Visit EdVenture's living exhibit, Blooming Butterflies, and explore the world of these fascinating insects! This 2,500 square foot exhibit is filled with dozens of species of trees and plants to showcase the lifespan of more than 20 species of butterflies native to the Southeast. Be sure to check out the Bloom Room and observe chrysalises and emerging butterflies. Admission is free with general museum admission.
Chapin Community Theatre presents "Mama Won't Fly"
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Midlands Technical College Theatre - Harbison Campus
- Address: 7300 College Street, Irmo, SC 29063
- Venue: Midlands Technical College - Harbison Campus
- Times: Thursday - Saturday 8 pm; Sunday 3 pm
An outrageously hilarious race against the clock begins when Savannah Sprunt Fairchild Honeycutt agrees to get her feisty mother all the way from Alabama to California in time for her brother's wedding. The problem? Mama won't fly. With only four days to make it to the ceremony, Savannah has no choice but to drive cross-country with her equally willful mother in Mama's vintage Buick. However, the journey is filled with mishaps and hilarious detours!
Football, the Exhibit
- June 20, 2013
- Address: 211 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: EdVenture Children's Museum
- Times: Monday – Saturday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m; Sunday: Noon – 5 p.m.
Score a touchdown with Football! This popular traveling exhibit from the Museum of Discovery opens May 18 through September 22 at EdVenture Children's Museum. Aside from being a competitive sport, Football is a 3,000 square foot exhibit that introduces visitors to the science, mathematics and technology behind the popular sport.
Found in Translation: The Geometric Abstraction of Steven Naifeh
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
- Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Times: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday Noon - 5 pm
Pulitzer Prize winner and South Carolina resident Steven Naifeh is simultaneously fascinated with the history of Western art and with motifs derived from Islamic art. He combines these influences in his powerful, large-scale and colorful abstract art. This exhibition of Naifeh's art shows visitors that what we share culturally is perhaps greater than what separates us. Abstract art is capable of expressing complex ideas like unity and continuity. "We all need to understand more about the wo...
From Backrooms to Battlefields: The Buying and Selling of the Confederacy
- June 20, 2013
- Location: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum
- Address: 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum
- Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; First Sunday 1 - 5 pm
Based on the discovery of rare Confederate purchasing receipts, this exhibit takes the visitor on a journey from the smoke-filled backroom deals of England, through the thrill and danger of blockade running in exotic foreign ports, to the Southern soldiers in the field. Learn how Confederate government used their lifeline to Europe to keep the Southern war machine running until Lee's surrender at Appomattox that ending this nation's greatest conflict.
Garden Tours
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Robert Mills House & Garden
- Address: 1616 Blanding Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Robert Mills House & Gardens
- Times: 11 am Third Thursday of each month
This 60-minute guided tour features the gardens of the Robert Mills House. Guests can compare and contrast the visual aesthetics of the late 18th and 19th-century landscape gardening to an earlier styled English Boxwood garden based on formal French gardens.
Geometric Visions
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
- Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
- Times: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday Noon - 5 pm
Inspired by the exhibition Found In Translation: The Art of Steven Naifeh, Eau Claire community members, CMA Passport to Art participants and CMA Spring Workshop students created paper and tile mosaics based on the concepts of simple geometry. Their finished works are on view beginning Tuesday, June 11.
Live Jazz at Speakeasy 5 Pts
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Speakeasy 5PTs
- Address: 711 Saluda Ave, Columbia, SC 29205
- Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Thursday
- Times: 10 pm - 1 am
"Ease into the weekend" with live jazz at Speakeasy every Thursday evening.
ONEx100: Creating within Constraints
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
- Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
- Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
- Times: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday Noon - 5 pm
This is not a typical community gallery exhibition. The pieces in ONEx100 all fit within a 1x1x1 foot space and demonstrate enthusiasm for contemporary, minimalist or conceptual art practices. Artists were encouraged to find freedom within limitations and create within constraints.
Paddle to see Rare Endangered Spider Lily
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Near the Zoo
- Address: 208 Candi Lane, Columbia, SC 29210
- Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
- Times: 11 am, 3 pm
Paddle through one of the largest colonies of the rare Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies It is a candidate for State endangered listing and is a Federal species of concern This is a unique opportunity, and only for a limited time. Blooming period ends in early June This trip is on sale - 30% 0ff
Picasso: Master Prints
- June 20, 2013
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
- Address: 1515 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Venue: Columbia Museum of Art
- Times: Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 5 pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday Noon - 5 pm
This small, but luxurious exhibition is a rare opportunity for South Carolinians to marvel at the graphic work of one of the 20th century's greatest artists up close. As an artist, Picasso is hardly in need of introduction. He was arguably the most influential painter, sculptor and printmaker of the 20th century. Included in Picasso: Master Prints is a portfolio of 10 color pochoirs made in the early 1920s and selections from Picasso's best-known etchings, The Vollard Suite. "Pochoir"...
Richland Library Friends' Summer Reading Challenge
- June 20, 2013
- Address: 1431 Assembly St., Columbia, SC 29201
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Times: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
The Richland Library Friends’ Summer Reading Challenge encourages kids of all ages to read their way through the summer! Join the more than 22,000 children, teens and adults who shared their love of reading with their friends, family and neighbors in 2012. Stop by any library location through August 17 to register. For more information, visit our website or call.
