Calendar of Events

Chapin Labor Day Festival: "Let Freedom Ring"

• September 04, 2010 - September 06, 2010
• Location: Historic Downtown Chapin

Saturday, September 4, 2010 Run or Walk A Crooked 5K for Meals on Wheels at Crooked Creek Park.  Registration at 7 AM. Race at 8 AM.  For Information call: (803)345-6181.  Entry Forms may be downloaded from www.chapinsc.com,   Fax:  803-345-6112. Chapin Area Firefighters Appreciation Day   10 AM – 2 PM.   Corner of US 76 and Murray Lindler Road.  Live demonstrations. Trucks & Equipment on display, food, drinks, Children's activities, face-painting.  DJ TJ McKay.   For information call Chapin...

Lavell Crawford

• September 04, 2010 - September 05, 2010
• Location: Comedy House Theatre

Lavell is known as the comedy energizer bunny, his jokes and the laughter he creates keep going and going and going! From BET, HBO, NBC, and UPN you don't want to miss hime LIVE! Rated R 

SC Pride 2010 Parade + Festival

• September 04, 2010
• Location: Main Street & Finlay Park

SC Pride 2010 Parade down Main Street and Festival in Finlay Park - the largest annual gathering of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender South Carolinians featuring live performances by Taylor Dayne, Janice Robinson, Pandora Boxx, Danielle Howell, Cris Williams, and local entertainers. Admission to the Parade and Festival are FREE and open to all regardless of sexual orientation.

White Mule presents An Evening w/ Shane Perlowin of Ahleuchatistas

• September 04, 2010
• Location: The White Mule, 1530 Main Street

Shane Perlowin, born 1978, is a guitarist and composer residing in Asheville, North Carolina. He is an active live performer, both on solo guitar and with ensembles, and has released five albums with his experimental project Ahleuchatistas, which has albums out on John Zorn's Tzadik record label and Cuneiform Records. His debut solo album, The Vacancy in Every Verse, was self-released on his own independent label Open Letter Records.

White Mule presents Tom Conlon Don Russo, & Jesse Isley

• September 04, 2010
• Location: The White Mule, 1530 Main Street

"Countdown to Zero

• September 04, 2010 - September 09, 2010
• Location: Nickelodeon Theatre

Conventional wisdom has it that the prospect of nuclear war subsided with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, but filmmaker Lucy Walker illustrates how the nuclear threat has only grown in unexpected ways and moved in new directions in this documentary. There are 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world today, a number of which are unaccounted for (when the USSR split into a handful of separate states, some of their bombs went missing), and as the technology becomes simpler,...

"Museums on Us" Free Weekend

• September 04, 2010
• Location: EdVenture Children's Museum, 211 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201

Museums on Us is a Bank of America program that offers its card-holders free admission to more than 70 museums nationwide.  EdVenture Children's Museum is the only museum in SC chosen to participate in this program. Take advantage of the "Museums on Us" program on the first full weekend of every month--all for free and all just for being a customer. Each cardholder gets free general admission to more than 100 museums nationwide.Upcoming Eligible Weekends:February 6 & 7March 6 &...

"The Art of Environmental Awareness, 'Batiks' by Mary Edna Fraser

• September 04, 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 04, 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 04, 2010 - September 07, 2010
• Location: Vista Studios Gallery 80808

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Blooming Butterflies

• September 04, 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 04, 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 04, 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.

Columbia Marionette Theatre Presents "Puss in Boots"

• September 04, 2010
• Location: Columbia Marionette Theatre

Forgotten Stories: South Carolina Fights the Great War

• September 04, 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...