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Calendar of Events
Welcome to the Official Columbia Calendar of Events managed by the Columbia Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau. 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 submit the details of your event.
Thursday Sep 02, 2010
Film: Craft in America: Landscape
- September 02, 2010
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
This film focuses on the groups that give strength to craft artists and their work such as schools, religions, and societies. (60 minutes)
"The Art of Environmental Awareness, 'Batiks' by Mary Edna Fraser
- September 02, 2010 - December 14, 2010
Fraser's art expresses issues of climate change and the long-term effects on the environment Working from topographical viewpoint, her large-scale works use geological and geographical studies to document the changing face of the landscape.
"The Girl Who Played with Fire"
- September 02, 2010 - September 09, 2010
- Location: Nickelodeon Theatre
In THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE – the second installment in the “Millennium” trilogy following THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Mikael Blomkvist is about to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society. On the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander. 2009. In Swedish with...
2010 - 2011 Vista Studios - Gallery 80808
- September 02, 2010 - September 07, 2010
- Location: Vista Studios Gallery 80808
if Art Gallery
Blooming Butterflies
- September 02, 2010 - October 10, 2010
- Location: EdVenture Children's Museum
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 enclosed structure was designed just for butterflies. It is filled with dozens of species of trees and plants that support hundreds of butterflies from more than 20 different species native to the Southeast United States. Be sure to check out the Bloom Room and observe chrysalises and emerging butterflies.
Blue Man Group: Making Waves
- September 02, 2010 - September 18, 2011
- Location: Edventure
Clap, snap, whistle, and whir. Children and adults will have a BOING of a BLAST when the Blue Man Group: Making Waves exhibit rumbles into EdVenture, June 19 -September 19. Investigate the possibilities of sound-making with instruments you can make from found objects. Learn how sounds can convey emotion through pitch, volume, and vibration. See how combining unusual sounds in rhythm can create new kinds of music. Even the human body becomes a music machine in this fun excursion into the science ...
Columbia Green: Year of the Tree
- September 02, 2010 - September 12, 2010
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
In partnership with Columbia Green, this student exhibition is based on a connection between science and art. Participating schools include Hand Middle School, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School and Center for Inquiry.
First Thursdays on Main
- September 02, 2010 - August 04, 2011
- Location: Downtain Main Street
On the First Thursday of eachmonth, business in downtown Columbia keep their-doors open late, offering a mix of specials, events, entertainment and more!
Forgotten Stories: South Carolina Fights the Great War
- September 02, 2010 - September 18, 2010
- Location: SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum
April 2007 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the United States’ entry into the Great War. In recognition of this, the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum has partnered with six historical and educational institutions in Columbia to develop a multi-venue project (titled “Forward Together: South Carolina in World War I”) on the participation of South Carolina citizens during the First World War and its effects on the state. The partnership consists of Historic Columbia Fo...
From Here to Timbuktu: A Journey through West Africa
- September 02, 2010 - January 02, 2011
- Location: Edventure
From Here to Timbuktu takes visitors on a journey through West Africa’s spectacular and diverse geographic regions. Along the way children and adults alike are immersed in an adventure of discovery as they learn about the rhythm of West African life. In each geographic region children are introduced to the foodways, customs and culture of the people who call that region home. Travel from the coastal cities, through the treetops of mountain rainforests and make your way to the open-air family com...
Get Cocky: Students and Athletics at the University of South Carolina
- September 02, 2010 - December 18, 2010
- Location: McKissick Museum
Sports are a large part of Southern life - baseball and football are the primary sports. At the University of South Carolina, athletics have played an evolving role in student life. Intramural sports were popular in the late 19th century. Football became popular at the turn of the 20th century, reaching a pinnacle in the past twenty years. With the passing of the Title Nine in 1972, women's athletics has grown substantially. Other sports such as baseball, basketball and soccer have become import...
Imperial Splendor: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna
- September 02, 2010 - September 19, 2010
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
Royal Renaissance tapestries from one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world, the Kunsthistorisches of Vienna, will be on view in South Carolina’s capital city. The richness and artistic quality of the tapestries make the collection one of the most important tapestry collections in the world and one of the most magnificent of its kind. Each of these eight exquisite tapestries, intricately crafted, measures from 11- to 12-feet high and from 12- to 18-feet long. The t...
Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the Ceramics Research Center
- September 02, 2010 - September 05, 2010
- Location: Columbia Museum of Art
This exhibition highlights 75 masterworks by many of the leading international ceramic artists of our day, offering a panoramic survey of the potential of clay as an expressive art form. The objects on view range from functional ware for everyday use to more expressive sculptural forms. The exhibition features works by such prominent artists as Rudy Autio, Hans Coper, Rick Dillingham, Ken Ferguson, Shoji Hamada, Ewen Henderson, Asger Jorn, Karen Karnes, Bernard Leach, Michael Lucero, Maria Marti...
Lexington Farmer's Market
- September 02, 2010 - September 30, 2010
- Location: The Shoppes at Flight Deck, 109 Old Chapin Road, Lexington
Find Local produce, SC Foods, Plants, Candles, Baked goods, Dairy, and Lotions at the Lextington Farmer's Market. Support Meals-On-Wheels by bringing a canned good.
Palmetto Portraits
- September 02, 2010 - January 09, 2011
- Location: South Carolina State Museum
The purpose of this multi-year collaboration of the South Carolina State Museum, the Medical University of South Carolina, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston and noted and emerging photographers from throughout the state was to create a collection of art to display in MUSC’s education and clinical buildings to remind students, faculty and staff of those they serve throughout South Carolina. The collection portrays South Carolinians in the Lowcountry, the Piedm...
