Around Columbia
What's Happening This Week: September 19-25
COLUMBIA, SC - September 19-25, 2012 - This week is full of art and theater. There are ongoing exhibits at the galleries and shops around town. The Rothko exhibit is open at the Columbia Museum of Art and V Gallery in 5 Points opens Volumes: Women Bound by Art Exhibition. Nearly all of the theaters around town are presenting productions this week. Catch a show at Columbia Children's Theatre, Columbia Marionette Theatre, Town, Trustus, or Workshop Theatre. And of course, there's a whole list of other things to do as well.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
- 9:30am Mother Goose Storytime at RCPL
- 10:00am Abstract Art Lecture Series: "My Four-Year-Old Could Do That!"
- 3:00, 5:30 & 8:00pm Beasts of the Southern Wild at the Nick
- 3:30pm Preschool Storytime at RCPL
- 8:00pm Workshop Theatre presents Legally Blonde
Thursday, September 20, 2012
- 9:30am Toddler Storytime at RCPL
- 10:30am Family Storytime at RCPL
- 11:00am Garden Tour of the Robert Mills Grounds
- 3:00, 5:30 & 8:00pm Beasts of the Southern Wild at the Nick
- 5:00pm Volumes: Women Bound by Art Exhibition Opening at Gallery V
- 6:00pm Early Columbia Lecture Series: Part III, The Twentieth Century: Columbia Celebrates 200 years: Desegregation and Local Control
- 6:00pm Loading Dock Live with Danielle Howle & Fireworks Show with Finnegan Bell at the Township
- 7:00pm Think Jazz Orchestra in concert at the Village at Sandhill
- 7:00pm USC Symphony Orchestra at the Koger Center
- 8:00pm Town Theatre presents Music Man
- 8:00pm Trustus presents Next to Normal
- 8:00pm Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby with Daniel Machado of the Restoration at Conundrum
- 8:00pm Workshop Theatre presents Legally Blonde
- Evening - Art Bar Art Wall by Joanna Gardner Opening Reception
Friday, September 21, 2012
- 10:00am & 7:30pm Spirit of America, a FREE Patriotic Live Action Show
- 10:00am Read-to-Me at EdVenture
- 12:00, 3:00, 6:00 & 9:00pm The Master at the Nick
- 7:00pm Columbia Children's Theatre presents Goodnight Moon
- 8:00pm Town Theatre presents Music Man
- 8:00pm Trustus presents Next to Normal
- 8:00pm Workshop Theatre presents Legally Blonde
- 8:00 & 10:30pm Lavell Crawford at the Comedy Hosue Theatre
- 9:00pm Malcolm Tent, Hauswerk & Thighmaster at Conundrum
Saturday, September 22, 2012
- 10:30am Read-a-Rama in Your Pajamas! at RCPL
- 10:30am, 2:00 & 7:00pm Columbia Children's Theatre presents Goodnight Moon
- 11:00am Robert Smalls for Kids Day at the State Museum
- 11:00am & 3:00pm Columbia Marionette Theatre presents Hansel and Gretel
- 12:00pm HIGH NOON at City Art with Patrick Parese
- 12:00-2:00pm Weekend Workshop: Sculpting Scarecrows at Historic Columbia
- 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 & 9:30pm The Master at the Nick
- 1:00pm Lecture: Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade 1940-1950
- 2:00 & 7:30pm Spirit of America, a FREE Patriotic Live Action Show
- 7:00pm EXTRAVERSION: Post-Echo's Drift
- 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm Lavell Crawford at the Comedy House Theatre
- 8:00pm The Violent, Dear Blanca, Falling Off A Building & Trey Mumbles at Conundrum
- 8:00pm Town Theatre presents Music Man
- 8:00pm Trustus presents Next to Normal
- 8:00pm Workshop Theatre presents Legally Blonde
Sunday, September 23, 2012
- 3:00pm Master Class with Jaci Royal at Columbia City Jazz Dance School
- 3:00pm Columbia Children's Theatre presents Goodnight Moon
- 3:00pm Town Theatre presents Music Man
- 3:00pm Trustus presents Next to Normal
- 3:00pm Workshop Theatre presents Legally Blonde
- 3:00, 6:00 & 9:00pm The Master at the Nick
- 6:00pm Cabaret with the Columbia Classical Ballet
- 8:00pm Lavell Crawford at the Comedy House Theatre
Monday, September 24, 2012
- 10:30am Hello Baby! Storytime at RCPL
- 3:00, 6:00 & 9:00pm The Master at the Nick
- 6:00pm Teen Otaku Association at RCPL
- 6:30pm Reading Rumpus at RCPL
- 7:30pm USC Wind Ensemble performs Mozart's Concerto No. 2
- 8:00pm Workshop Theatre presents Legally Blonde
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
- 9:30am Hello Baby! Storytime at RCPL
- 10:00am Toddler Tuesdays at EdVenture
- 12:00pm The Nature of Things with Rudy Mancke
- 12:30pm Sew Devine: A Gathering of Crafters at RCPL
- 3:00, 6:00 & 9:00pm The Master at the Nick
- 6:00pm HEIST - Who stole the American dream? At Conundrum presented by the SC Progressive Network
- 8:00pm Workshop Theatre presents Legally Blonde
- 9:00pm Conundrum Jazz Sessions
- Ongoing Exhibits by the Trenholm Artists Guild
- Ongoing Ongoing arts, music, film and dance events for seniors at Capitol Senior Center
- Ongoing Afternoons - Art, Dance, Music and more at City of Columbia Parks and Recreation
- Ongoing Afternoons and Evenings - Art classes and workshops at Village Artists at the Village at Sandhill
- Ongoing Evenings - Ballroom Dance Classes at Vista Ballroom
- Ongoing Evenings - Le Cafe Jazz at Finlay Park
- September 4-29 - Meditations & Memories: Recent Clay Sculptures Exhibit by Richard Lund
- Through September 16 - 35th Annual SC Watermedia Society Annual Exhibition at City Art
- Until September 15 - Application Deadline for Crafty Fest Vendors
- Through September 16 - Born from Fire: American Studio Glass from the Collection at the Columbia Museum of Art
- Through September 29 - TAG Rosewood Arts Festival Call to Artists
- Through October 27 - Brick, Fire & Iron: The Highs and Lows of Carolina's Historic Wall
- Through October - Goodall Gallery at Columbia College: Artist Alejandro Garcia-Lemos
- Through early October - Frame of Mind's First Thursdays presents "Finding Common Ground"
- Through early October - Geek-Nit at The Courtyard! At Tapp's
- Through early October - Perpetuating the Myth at anastasia & FRIENDS
- Through early October - S & S Art Supply presents "Emptied" by Gwyn Pevonka
- Through early October - Wine Down on Main presents Lauren Maurer
- Through October 27 - Brick, Fire & Iron: The Highs and Lows of Carolina's Historic Wall
- Through November 15 - From Here to Timbuktu Returns at EdVenture
- Through December 14 - Get Cocky! The Significance of USC's Gamecock Culture
- Through January 6 - Mark Rothko The Decisive Decade: 1940-1950 at the Columbia Museum of Art
