Calendar of Events

"The Earrings of Madame de..."

• September 07, 2010
• Location: Nickelodeon Theatre

Max Ophüls' masterpiece stars Danielle Darrieux as the titular Madame Louise de..., who in the film's opening scenes is forced to discreetly sell a pair of earrings, a gift from her military officer husband Andre (Charles Boyer), in order to make good on her debts. After she claims the earrings to be lost, the story of their possible theft hits the newspapers, prompting the jeweler who bought them (Jean Debucourt) to secretly sell them back to Andre, who then gives him to his mistress Lola (Lia ...

"Countdown to Zero

• September 07, 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,...

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

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

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Blooming Butterflies

• September 07, 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 07, 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 ...

Forgotten Stories: South Carolina Fights the Great War

• September 07, 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 07, 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 07, 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...

Palmetto Portraits

• September 07, 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...

Pirates, Privateers & Buccaneers

• September 07, 2010 - September 19, 2010
• Location: South Carolina State Museum

In the heyday of piracy (approximately 1600-1718), the Carolina coast was ravaged by ferocious buccaneers such as Blackbeard, Anne Bonney and Stede Bonnet. This fascinating blockbuster exhibit brings the world of pirates alive with many artifacts and reproductions such as pirate weapons and “pieces of eight,” cannon balls, pewter plates, a ship’s bell and more. Hands-on elements heighten the pirate experience for guests as they handle reproduction clothing, swords, muskets and pistols; learn to ...

Sandhill Farmers Market

• September 07, 2010 - November 02, 2010
• Location: Sandhill Farmers Market

SilverYana: The Photography of Fredric Tobias Morris

• September 07, 2010 - December 18, 2010
• Location: McKissick Museum

The McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce SilverYana: The Photography of F. Tobias Morriss, a new traveling exhibition that will make its first stop at McKissick. Morriss was renowned for his skills as a machinist/mechanic and bricoleur, in addition to his stark and haunting images produced almost exclusively in black and white through the silver gelatin process. A remarkably popular professor and friend, Morriss mentored dozens of photography students who r...

South Carolina Silver: Varieties in Society 1750-1910

• September 07, 2010 - January 30, 2011
• Location: South Carolina State Museum

This exhibit will showcase a wide variety of silver pieces from the State Museum's collection, ranging from easily identifiable flatware, to unusual instruments like mustard spoons, fish slicers and tomato lifters.