Soda City Friends to hold first ever Gervais Street Bridge Dinner ticket pre-sale, February 1-4, 2018 online
January 31, 2018
General admission and VIP ticket options; 100% proceeds benefit The River Alliance, Canoeing for Kids, Harvest Hope Food Bank, West Columbia Beautification Foundation and Heroes in Blue; donations and sponsorships are tax deductible
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COLUMBIA, S.C. –Â Soda City Friends, the charitable arm of Soda City and a registered 501(c)(3), will announce the first ever ticket pre–sale for the annual Gervais Street Bridge Dinner from the Gervais Street Bridge on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at sunrise. Lou Kennedy of Nephron Pharmaceuticals, alongside Heather Cooper of Soda City and Soda City Friends, will do the honors.
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The Valentine’s/Galentine’s  Day promotion will run from 6 a.m. on Thursday, February 1, 2018 to 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, February 4, 2018, while supplies last. Only 100 General Admission tickets and 100 VIP tickets will be available at this time. General Admission tickets are priced at $99 each and VIP tickets are listed at $199 each. Come join us for the 2018 Gervais Street Bridge Dinner on October 21st (3:00PM-8:00PM SPONSOR and VIP ACCESS or 4:00PM-8:00PM GENERAL ADMISSION). Rain date October is 28th. Find additional details and updates on the 2018 Gervais Street Bridge Dinner event page. To purchase tickets visit http://www.gervaisstreetbridge
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In seven short years, Soda City Friends has raised over $325,000 via Mardi Gras Columbia and Gervais Street Bridge Dinner for the following local organizations: The River Alliance, Canoeing for Kids, West Columbia Beautification Foundation, Harvest Hope Food Bank, Heroes In Blue, Congaree Riverkeeper, and The Animal Mission of the Midlands. Thanks to the monetary donations of attendees and sponsors, Soda City Friends garnered and distributed a total of $50,000 for the selected 2017 beneficiaries. In its first three years, the Bridge Dinner raised over $125,000 for local charities with particular focus on those organizations working to improve the health and wealth of our protected rivers.
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About the Event
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Brought to you by Soda City Friends and approaching its fourth year, the Gervais Street Bridge Dinner has become a marquee celebration of the Columbia region. The 1,000-person event continues to draw much needed attention to the Congaree River and its vital importance to our area’s ecosystem.
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The Gervais Street Bridge Dinner is a seated sunset Sunday supper on the Columbia region’s most iconic landmark, featuring live music, thriving artists, Southern Lights, and a three-course dinner with cocktails, beer, and wine. It  was conceived as a celebration of two cities, distinguished by the powerful Congaree River, a waterway vital to the Midland’s ecosystem, and united by the most iconic landmark in the region, the Gervais Street Bridge.
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A slew of new features and innovative ideas will be unveiled at this year’s Gervais Street Bridge Dinner,  including the more traditional musical acts, vibrant artists, themed-drinks, and fresh food.
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About Soda City
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Soda City is an event company. The namesake, Soda City Market is meant to be a microcosm of Columbia. It runs year-round, rain or shine. Often times, Columbia is shortened to Cola, an abbreviation first created by the U.S. Postal Service. Emile DeFelice likes to joke that it’s because it’s too hot to write the entire word. From Cola came Soda City. It’s a moniker which has resonated well with locals and has recently inspired the name of a new city shuttle system dubbed Soda Cap Connector. The logo is a soda cap in part because of the name [Soda City] but also because Columbia is the capital city of South Carolina.
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