Columbia Classical Ballet to Host Annual Cabaret Night Fundraiser
September 12, 2014Sunday, September 14, 2014 (6:00-8:30 pm) Who: Columbia Classical Ballet What: Columbia Classical Ballet invites you to meet our 2014-2015 company of dancers at their annual Cabaret Night and live auction.…
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DHEC coastal photography contest accepting entries
September 11, 2014
CHARLESTON, SC – Photographers of all ages and degrees of expertise are invited to ready their cameras and tripods to enter their best photographs of coastal South Carolina scenes in…
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USC’s Southern Exposure Music Series announces 2014-15 season
September 10, 2014The award-winning series of free, innovative concerts opens on Sept. 26 The University of South Carolina’s Southern Exposure Music Series season is a star-studded year filled with the superb artistic quality…
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701 Center for Contemporary Art Presents: The Birth and Rebirth Of A Museum
September 10, 2014
September 18 at 701 CCA, 701 Whaley St, 2nd Floor, YOU GOTTA MAKE SOME PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY! The Birth and Rebirth Of A Museum by Barry Gaither National Juror,…
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One Columbia Unveils New Public Art Piece on Main Street
September 10, 2014Unveiling Event on September 17 at 10:00am on 1400 Block of Main COLUMBIA SC – One Columbia for Arts and History and the City of Columbia announced the installation and…
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Jerryfest in Five Points: A Celebration of the Life and Art of Jerry Garcia
September 8, 2014October 5 at 3:30 p.m. ~ The Five Points Association, in conjunction with alternative clothing store Loose Lucy’s and Concert Promoter Listen Local, will be hosting this year’s Jerryfest,…
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Indie Grits Film Festival, “Future Perfect,” Announces 2015 Festival Dates, Call for Artists
September 5, 2014
COLUMBIA, SC – Indie Grits Film Festival, the Southeast’s premier film and culture festival in Columbia, S.C. for DIY media-makers, will take place April 15-19, 2015, and for the first time, the festival…
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Opening @ if ART Gallery Sept. 5th
September 5, 2014
[row] [col col=8] September 5 – 27, 2014 ~ ERIC MILLER: The Technology of Bricks & MARCELO NOVO: Paintings 2012 – 2014 Artists’ Reception: Friday, Sept. 5, 6 – 9…
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Local Initiative Teaches Teens to Challenge Racial Stereotypes Through Visual Storytelling
August 29, 2014The #NoFilter Project Encourages Empowerment Art In Traditional and Emerging Media COLUMBIA, SC – The #NoFilter Project and Reel2Real Productions are launching a three week youth workshop on the fundamentals of…
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Auditions Announced for Teen Production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
August 27, 2014CAMDEN, SC – Auditions for an exciting Teen Production at the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County (FAC) are fast approaching! William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been chosen as…
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August 19, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 6pm Memminger Auditorium, 56 Beaufain Street $50 Members, $60 Non-Members The Gibbes Museum Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by Charleston Magazine and PDA. On November 19, the Gibbes…
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USC Symphony Orchestra opens the season with the music of Russia
August 18, 2014The September Concert features Zuill Bailey, among the most sought after cellists today Donald Portnoy, music director Concerts take place at the Koger Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m.…
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Lucas the Beaver Brings Home First Prize
August 6, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Lucas the Beaver, star of an engaging children’s book about following one’s dreams, is now a first-place award winner. Lucas’s story recounts the journey of a youngster…
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Lucas the Beaver Brings Home First Prize
August 6, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Lucas the Beaver, star of an engaging children’s book about following one’s dreams, is now a first-place award winner. Lucas’s story recounts the journey of a youngster…
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University of South Carolina School of Music announces the 2014 Cornelia Freeman Concert Series
August 4, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – September 7 – October 5, 2014 ~ Spend your Sunday afternoons with the university’s renowned music faculty at the Cornelia Freeman Concert Series. This popular fall chamber music…
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Crafty Feast, Columbia, S.C.’s Largest Indie Craft Fair, Announces 2014 Date
July 23, 2014
COLUMBIA, SC – Crafty Feast, the Midlands region’s largest all-handmade indie craft fair, is set to take place on Sunday, December 14, 2014, from 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. at the Columbia Metropolitan…
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Greenville Businessman Elected Chairman of the South Carolina Arts Commission
July 21, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Greenville businessman Henry Horowitz has been elected chairman of the South Carolina Arts Commission Board of Commissioners. Horowitz is the co-founder, principal and managing partner of Oxford…
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Greenville Businessman Elected Chairman of the South Carolina Arts Commission
July 21, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Greenville businessman Henry Horowitz has been elected chairman of the South Carolina Arts Commission Board of Commissioners. Horowitz is the co-founder, principal and managing partner of Oxford…
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District Five Student Starts His Own Art and Apparel Business
July 16, 2014CHAPIN, SC – Joshua Smith always had a passion for creating artwork. But the recent graduate says he never imagined how drastic a role art would take in his life…
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New Biography Tells History of Bull Street’s Babcock Building
July 10, 2014COLUMBIA, SC —Historic Columbia is proud to host the debut of Dr. Charles S. Bryan’s newest book, Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra, with a special…
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Nickelodeon Theatre Hosts Celebration of Stanley Donen
July 8, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – July 26 -27, 2014 ~ The Nickelodeon Theatre, South Carolina’s only non-profit art house film theater, will host “A Lotta Talent and a Little Luck: A…
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Nickelodeon Theatre Hosts Celebration of Stanley Donen
July 8, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – July 26 -27, 2014 ~ The Nickelodeon Theatre, South Carolina’s only non-profit art house film theater, will host “A Lotta Talent and a Little Luck: A…
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State Museum Opens New Civil War Art Exhibit on Saturday, July 12
July 7, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – July 12, 2014~ The South Carolina State Museum presents a new temporary exhibit, Chapman’s Charleston, 1863-1864, which tells the story of the Civil War in Charleston from 1863-1864…
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Richard Buckner, Fulvia Zaninelli, and Family Fun
July 2, 2014
Richard Buckner LIVE! Thursday, July 10 Happy Hour at 7:00 p.m. Concert at 8:00 p.m. The CMA, in collaboration with The Whig, hosts a concert by critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Richard Buckner. The performance will…
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Columbia Museum of Art August 2014 Calendar
July 2, 2014
Major Exhibitions: Animal Instinct: Paintings by Shelley Reed On View in the Lipscomb Family Galleries through Sunday, September 14 The CMA is the first museum to present a career retrospective of American…
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Broadway Actress, Chryssie Whitehead, is Guest Artist at the Tri District Arts Consortium
July 2, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Star of stage, screen and TV, Chryssie Whitehead, a graduate of Richland Northeast High School, has returned to her alma mater this week to serve as a…
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Local Quilter Semifinalist in International Quilt Show
June 28, 2014CAMDEN, SC – Pearl Nester, a Camden resident has been chosen as a semifinalist for the 2014 American Quilter’s Society (AQS) QuiltWeek® in Charlotte, NC, July 30-August 2 at the…
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Local Quilter Semifinalist in International Quilt Show
June 28, 2014CAMDEN, SC – Pearl Nester, a Camden resident has been chosen as a semifinalist for the 2014 American Quilter’s Society (AQS) QuiltWeek® in Charlotte, NC, July 30-August 2 at the…
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Lexington Educator Named Winner of South Carolina First Novel Prize
June 24, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – The South Carolina Arts Commission and Hub City Press of Spartanburg announce James Edwin McTeer II of Lexington as the winner of the 2014 South Carolina First Novel Competition. McTeer’s novelGrave…
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The Columbia Museum of Art Presents Richard Buckner LIVE!
June 24, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – July 10, 2014 – The Columbia Museum of Art, in collaboration with The Whig, hosts a concert by critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Richard Buckner on Thursday, July 10, 2014, at 8:00 p.m. in…
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USC Ph.D Student Launches Photography Camp and Responsible Social Media Initiative for Teen Girls
June 23, 2014The #NoFilter Project Encourages Empowerment Art In Traditional and Emerging Media COLUMBIA, SC – For concerned parents, there is now an added layer to keeping children safe in an increasingly…
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Mary Alice Monroe – Book Signing, The Summer Wind at Opera House
June 5, 2014NEWBERRY, SC – June 16, 2014 – It’s not unusual for an animal to be mixed among the cast of characters in a Mary Alice Monroe novel. It’s become part…
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SC Watermedia Exhibit
June 5, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – The Lancaster County Council of the Arts is hosting the South Carolina Watermedia Society’s 36th Annual juried Watermedia Exhibition in the Springs House Galleries for the month…
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One Columbia for Arts and History
June 5, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Best Kind of Busy This week, the Southern Guitar Festival and Competition will be bringing world-class guitar performers and talented young guitarists to Columbia to compete. Not only…
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Loggerhead Apparel partners with Renowned Wildlife Photographer to raise funds for Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts
June 3, 2014
GREENVILLE, SC – Loggerhead Apparel, based in Greenville, S.C., has partnered with renowned wildlife photographer Ben Hicks, based in Boca Raton, FL, to raise much needed funds for the Gumbo…
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Loggerhead Apparel partners with Renowned Wildlife Photographer to raise funds for Sea Turtle Conservation Efforts
June 3, 2014
GREENVILLE, SC – Loggerhead Apparel, based in Greenville, S.C., has partnered with renowned wildlife photographer Ben Hicks, based in Boca Raton, FL, to raise much needed funds for the Gumbo…
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Columbia Museum of Art July 2014 Calendar
June 3, 2014MAJOR EXHIBITIONS Animal Instinct: Paintings by Shelley Reed On View in the Lipscomb Family Galleries through Sunday, September 14, 2014 The CMA is the first museum to present a career…
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Bo Bartlett and Herb Parker Exhbitions at 701 CCA
June 3, 2014701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, S.C., presents: Two Exhibitions and Opening Receptions: Bo Bartlett June 12 – August 3, 2014 & Herb Parker: Olympia Dialogue June 12, 2014 – TBA Opening Reception for…
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The Columbia Museum of Art Reading and Art Program for Third-Graders a Success
June 3, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – The Columbia Museum of Art (CMA), in collaboration with Richland Library and the South Carolina State Library, provided a special arts and literacy field trip to more than…
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Summer Concert Series Heats Up Finlay Park Starting in June
May 31, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Beginning Saturday, June 7, 2014, the City of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department will be bringing the sounds of summer to Finlay Park, located at 930 Laurel St. The…
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Shubert Foundation, SCTA honor Trustus Theatre
May 29, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Trustus Theatre has received three major awards from prominent national and statewide arts organizations: a national grant award from the Shubert Foundation, the South Carolina Theatre of…
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A Sense of the Midlands
May 29, 2014By Tom Poland If you missed the South Carolina Book Festival earlier in May, you missed a good time. The festival yields insight into authors, their books, and why and…
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The Columbia Museum of Art Reading and Art Program for Third-Graders a Success
May 29, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – The Columbia Museum of Art, in collaboration with Richland Library and the South Carolina State Library, provided a special arts and literacy field trip to more than 500 third-grade…
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Southeastern Piano Festival brings Leon Fleisher to South Carolina’s capital city
May 28, 2014Legendary pianist, a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, is the special guest for 2014 COLUMBIA, SC – The 2014 Southeastern Piano Festival kicks off June 15 for a week…
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Conductors Institute of South Carolina brings renowned maestros and composers to USC
May 28, 2014The International program provides participants the benefit of more than 300 years of combined experience COLUMBIA, SC – The esteemed Conductors Institute of South Carolina, in its 30th year,…
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Nickelodeon Theatre Hosts Come Around My Way: A Youth Media Project
May 27, 2014
COLUMBIA, SC – The Nickelodeon Theatre, South Carolina’s only non-profit art house film theater and its Helen Hill Media Education Center, will host Come Around My Way: A Youth Media…
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Newberry Opera House Guild to Host Shag & Line Dance
May 21, 2014Music by THE HEADLINERS! The Newberry Opera House Guild is delighted to announce that it will host a Shag and Line Dance on May 31st. The public is invited to participate in this…
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City of Columbia Art Center Announces New Summer Classes
May 20, 2014
COLUMBIA, SC – The City of Columbia Art Center is offering three new classes this summer on jewelry making, quilting and basket weaving. The Steam Punk Jewelry Box Workshop will…
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University of South Carolina home to Pat Conroy’s archive
May 19, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Pat Conroy’s archive, which includes handwritten manuscripts of his 11 books, family scrapbooks and personal diaries packed with story ideas, poems and musings, now belongs to the University…
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Reunion of Friends at SC Book Festival
May 14, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – When the South Carolina Book Festival begins on May 16, there were be a reunion of two friends who haven’t seen each other in forty-four years. “It was…
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