Join us each week at Greenville Heritage Main Street Fridays, Fridays March - September! Don't forget to check out the Kid's Area while you're there. We also have a wide-selection of craft beers and wine on site each week. This is an event the entire family can enjoy!
About the band:
HOT Dance & Party Band! Classic through current hits - Rock, disco, funk, beach, Motown, pop, country.
Here is your chance to tour the 2019 Inspiration Home, crafted by Milestone Custom Homes. The I-Home is packed with advanced technological features and upgrades galore in literally every room of the home. See the Inspiration Home, plus several other beautiful custom homes, all while taking in all the natural neighborhood beauty that Hartness has to offer. We welcome anyone to attend this event and 100% of ticket sales goes back to A Child's Haven! Volunteers are also needed for this event. Click the registration link to buy tickets or volunteer.
Born out of friendship, passion for chamber music, and the vibrant musical community of Greenville, South Carolina, Ensemble 864 champions eclectic repertoire of the old and new. Clarinetist Cecilia Kang serves on the faculty at Furman University, while clarinetist Kyra Zhang serves on the faculty at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and pianist Lisa Kiser serves on the faculty at Anderson University.
For those of you heading to Charleston for Spoleto you may see Ensemble 864 in performance on May 30. Pianist Lisa Kiser and her husband, David, will be featured in the Le Organo Series, a piano and organ duo, at the Festival on June 7.
Members of the ensemble have performed at Spoleto Festival (Italy), Grumo Festival (Italy), Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (Germany), International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest (Belgium), Thy Chamber Music Festival (Denmark), Interflow Music Festival (Hong Kong), International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival (China), Seoul Arts Center (South Korea), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Milwaukee Artist and Ensemble Series, Bay View Music Festival, Castleton Music Festival, and Luzerne Music Festival in the US.
With only 80 seats available, we urge everyone to make their reservations early. $15 for adults, $5 for students with ID’s. Call 520-8807 to make your reservations.
Don’t miss your chance to attend the Upstate’s best Kentucky Derby Party this year! Get a taste of the Churchill Downs action without leaving the Upstate at The First Tee of the Upstate’s 5th Annual Kentucky Derby Party Fundraiser. Put on your best derby attire, tip back some mint juleps with us and root for your favorite horse all while raising money to help Upstate youth! Purchase your ticket today at www.thefirstteeupstate.org/derby
SCHA invites YOU to celebrate the completion of the restorations of Walnut Grove Plantation! ADMISSION IS FREE! One Day Only!!
Re-enactors, live music, games, food trucks, tours, and more!
*concessions and souvenirs are available for purchase.
Credit cards as accepted. Picnic lunches are welcome!
Join us for a day of celebration and living history Saturday, May 11 from 11am-4pm. Tour the historic spaces of Walnut Grove Plantation and learn about the restorative measures taken by SCHA over the 18-month, $300,000 project to ensure Walnut Grove will stand for generations to come!
Friday, May 3rd, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.
Gateway Park (Behind Sunrift Adventures)
115 Henderson Drive, Travelers Rest, SC
Get Driving Directions
You can register in person on the Thursday before the race at the Crowne Plaza Hotel from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. or at Gateway Park on Friday from 11:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Registration is $15 and can be paid by cash or card.
Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (View Map). ***Packet pickup is also Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. AT GATEWAY PARK***.
To save paper, pre-registration is online only (except day-of registration). The low $6 fee ($15 starting 4/28) includes processing fees, and the site is 100% secure. All online registrants receive a FREE Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit 5K T-shirt!
Electronic scoring is used for all runners and walkers to capture start and end times. Awards will be given for top finishers in each age group afterward.
After the race, enjoy FREE food, drinks and music. We also feature many children’s activities.
Race Director is Chad Carlson (chad@book-events.com)
Downtown Seneca comes alive with music & outdoor dining every Thursday April-October! Bands change weekly with different genres of music, so be sure to come by often! Bring a lawn chair and a picnic or enjoy great food and service at one of the downtown restaurants, many feature outdoor dining on Thursday evenings! Music starts at 6:30 but come early to check out the great shops and snag a table!
Hosted by the Mauldin Garden Club and the City of Mauldin, this spring festival is your chance to shop for everything you'll need for your garden and home, including one-of-a-kind Lumenbright artwork! Music, food, artisans and plants make for a fantastic festival!
Explore and Experience The Entire Festival & Bazaar
The Design Center
Spring/Summer Yard Design Makeover Ideas
Plant Sale
Flower Sale
Tree Sale
Ask A Master Gardener Booth
Thyme In Your Kitchen
Array of Spring Herbs for Purchase
Expert Growing Advise
Recipe Ideas
The Artisan House
Over thirty local and regional artists’ offerings to fit every budget from charming craftworks, to exceptional creations
Kid’s Bunny Trail
Kiddie Rides
Face Painting
Story Telling
Bluegrass Band
The Smokehouse
Henry’s BBQ Hog Hauler Truck
The SugarShack
Booths Featuring Mouthwatering Cakes, Pies and Candies
Start and finish of race located at Fr8 Yard in downtown Spartanburg. On-site registration opens at 9am with official start time at 10am. Awards and celebrations post race at 10:45 at Fr8 Yard. Register today at RunSpartanburg5k.com.
Join the Spartanburg community on May 18 in supporting Partners for Active Living and the Keep OneSpartanburg Beautification project. Your donations will help promote a healthy, vibrant downtown, increase visibility for PAL here in Spartanburg and ensure funds go towards helping beautify and revitalize our county.
During the summer, more than 70 regular farmers and vendors make the Travelers Rest Farmers Market the largest independently-run, nonprofit farmers market in the state.
Join us each Saturday for our regular programs, including Market Music, Market Talks, Market Cooks, Market Kids and Market Fitness.
The mission of the Clemson Farmers' Market is to provide healthy food options for the community, while promoting local agriculture. The Clemson Farmers' Market will feature fresh local produce and farm products, as well as handmade local arts and crafts.
Shop for fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables, beef, pork, and chicken, local honey, home-baked goods, farm-fresh eggs, olive oil, granola, goat's milk products, plants and herbs, natural bath and body products, boiled peanuts, dog treats, and handmade arts & crafts.
The Market takes place every Thursday from May thru September from 3-6 pm. The Market will be closed on July 4th.
Thanks to our partners at the City of Greer, we are able to gather together at beautiful Greer City Park at 301 E Poinsett St, Greer, SC 29651 in the heart of charming downtown Greer, SC every Saturday morning from May 11-October 8:30 am to 12:00 pm.
Rock and roll at Trailblazer Park! Enjoy free concerts every Saturday evening with a variety of local and touring bands. Recognized as one of the best outdoor music venues in South Carolina, Trailblazer Park is the place to be on Saturdays in the Upstate this summer. With Classic Rock, Retro 80’s, Rockabilly, Country, Rhythm and Blues and more we’ve got a little something for everyone. Bring a blanket or chair and relax in the park.
Exhibit Description: The South Carolina Festival of Flowers Juried Youth Art Show was established in 2015, as a sanctioned event in coincidence with the festival, with funding attributed to an established endowment in the name of the late, Virginia Self. The annual show will be on display in the Reception Hall at The Arts Center from May 23 - June 8, 2018 with an opening reception scheduled for Thursday, May 31 @ 5 - 6:30 pm for all included entrants. Entry forms will be posted here at a later date.
Exhibit Duration: May 23 - June 8, 2018
Exhibit Admission: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC| Business Hours: Mon-Fri (10 am - 5 pm) / Sat (10 am - 3 pm)
Exhibit Contact: Jennifer A. Smith, artscentergwd@gmail.com, 864.953.2462
Exhibit Reception: Thursday, May 31 @ 5:00 - 6:30 pm with Awards Ceremony @ 6:00 pm (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) - refreshments will be provided
On Tuesday, May 14th neighbors from the upstate will join us for breakfast and a discussion about Greer Relief. The purpose of the event is to educate the community on the mission and vision of Greer Relief and our focus on eliminating poverty and helping our neighbors overcome barriers for success.
CHILDREN’S SUMMER MUSIC CLASSES
This summer, give your children the opportunity to experience the colorful & diverse world of music through a series of four interactive classes at the Carolina Music Museum. Led by Jeff Holland, a renowned multi-ethnic percussion instructor, Our Musical Journey Around the World will explore music from various regions & cultures around the globe.
OUR MUSICAL JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD: AFRICA
SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH AT 3:00 PM
TICKETS $10 PER CLASS, OR $35 FOR SUBSCRIPTION TO ALL FOUR CLASSES
Seussical is a musical written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, based mostly on Dr. Seuss's beloved story, Horton Hears a Who, but with other Seuss works incorporated. Great fun for the whole family!
Sponsored by Bacot and Padgett
June 7, 14, 21, 22 @ 7:30PM
June 8, 9, 15, 16, 23 @ 2:00PM
Adults $25
Seniors/Military $24
Students $20
Children under 12 $15
Free event for rising K5 kindergarten students and families!
As they countdown the first day of school, your rising Kindergarten students will:
Kids will also have the chance to meet various community vendors and explore what they have to offer! A vendor list will be posted closer to the event.
May 19 marks ONE YEAR since TCMU-Spartanburg opened at 130 Magnolia Street! We are so grateful for the support of the Spartanburg community and hope that you can all celebrate with us.
May 14–19: Join us for birthday-themed programming all week during Story Time and More and art time.
May 18: TCMU-S Birthday Celebration
Live From the Fr8yard Stage! It's the Latest Thing in Spartanburg with Tim Giles!
The Latest Thing in Spartanburg is a live late-night talk show that celebrates (and pokes fun at) all things local! This high energy show keeps the laughs rolling with performances from Sparkle City Improv, hilarious mock-commercials, and interviews that show you the unseen side of some of Spartanburg's coolest residents. All that along with live music, audience participation games with prizes, and a silent auction filled with excellent items from upstate businesses make this a night not to be missed. Oh yeah, AND awesome food & adult-beverages...I mean, have you been to FR8yard??
PROCEEDS BENEFITING SCRAPPY SHAKESPEARE!
Venezuelan progressive metal guitarist Felix Martin “makes one of the most overwrought genres sound natural and digestible as ever, and through nothing more than ambitious-- but logical-- songwriting” (Sputnik Music) Martin (featuring Hedras) will be embarking on a national tour along with “progressive tech-metal master class”guitarist Sarah Longfield in celebration of the release of his new album, “Caracas!”
Please join us for one of the largest child-advocacy events in South Carolina—The 2019 Transformation Breakfast—which raises funds to support The Family Effect!
Each year, the Upstate’s most influential leaders come together in support of a common goal – to reduce addiction as a leading cause of family collapse and harm to children. When a community comes together to heal a family, we all get better.
We invite you to attend this year’s event to learn more about the important work being done for local children in crisis and hear first-hand about the collateral effects of substance use disorders and how they affect the community, including you as a resident and taxpayer.
Register today for this one-of-a-kind event!
Moviegoers can enjoy watching a variety of classic film favorites under the stars at the City of Greenville’s Fidelity Investments Moonlight Movies. The free series returns to Falls Park Wednesday evenings in May for a five-week run. The films begin at sundown, but moviegoers are invited to come early for prime viewing spots and to participate in movie-themed trivia. Food vendor Poppington’s Gourmet Popcorn will be on-site every Wednesday and food trucks will rotate throughout the season. Individuals consuming alcohol at the event must purchase a $1 wristband.
In the 1994 film, The Little Rascals, mischievous youngsters lead an anti-girl organization, and they pick their buddy to represent them in an all-important soapbox car rally.
Food vendors: Poppington’s Gourmet Popcorn & We Got the Beets
Moviegoers can enjoy watching a variety of classic film favorites under the stars at the City of Greenville’s Fidelity Investments Moonlight Movies. The free series returns to Falls Park Wednesday evenings in May for a five-week run. The films begin at sundown, but moviegoers are invited to come early for prime viewing spots and to participate in movie-themed trivia. Food vendor Poppington’s Gourmet Popcorn will be on-site every Wednesday and food trucks will rotate throughout the season. Individuals consuming alcohol at the event must purchase a $1 wristband.
In the classic film from 1939, Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.
Food vendors: Poppington’s Gourmet Popcorn & One Love Fusion Foods
Join us to learn about and discuss the importance of housing for all! At the Housing Summit, we will share information about local housing data, the social and economic impacts of housing, and innovative strategies for facilitating inclusive growth in the housing market. Lunch will be provided. Be sure to check back for more information as we get closer to the day of the Summit!
Agenda at a Glance:
8:30am: Check-In
9am: Welcome
9:15am: The State of Housing in the City and County of Spartanburg: Using Data to Understand Local Housing Needs
9:45am: Panel on the Social and Economic Impacts of Housing
10:45am: Break
11am: Housing Strategies for Inclusive Growth
11:30am: Legislative Update
11:45am: Lunch (provided)
12:15pm: Trends in Market Demographics/Housing Supply, MarketNsight
12:45pm: Missing Middle Housing, Opticos Design
1:45: Closing Remarks
Highlights:
Trends in Market Demographics/Housing Supply
John Hunt from MarketNsight will present data illustrating how first-time home-buying millennials and down-sizing baby boomers are more than willing to give up home and lot size in exchange for living closer to amenities. The presentation will include local and national data, and how developers and home builders can use this data to develop competitive products that meet the needs of the community.
Missing Middle Housing
Tony Perez from Opticos Design, a nationally recognized architecture and urban design firm, will share about missing middle home types, which can help build “hidden density” that supports local businesses and public transportation. The presentation will cover benefits and challenges of this housing strategy.
Special thanks to the Spartanburg Housing Summit Planning Committee: City of Spartanburg, Upstate Forever, Spartanburg Housing Authority, SC Community Loan Fund, TD Bank, and United Way of the Piedmont.
Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank’s Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan’s Island.
Queen Bee is a classic Lowcountry Tale—warm, wise and hilarious, it roars with humanity and a drop of whodunit added for good measure by an unseen hand. In her twentieth novel, Dorothea Benton Frank brings us back to her beloved island with an unforgettable story where the Lowcountry magic of the natural world collides with the beat of the human heart. Dorothea Benton Frank was born and raised on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. She resides in the New York area and South Carolina with her husband. Dorothea Benton’s Frank most recent bestseller, Same Beach, Next Year debuted at #4 on the New York Times list, where it remained in the top ten for three weeks. A contemporary voice of the South, Dorothea Benton Frank is beloved from coast to coast, thanks to her bestsellers including, Same Beach, Next Year, All Summer Long, All the Single Ladies, The Hurricane Sisters, The Last Original Wife, Porch Lights, Folly Beach, Sullivans Island, and Plantation.
Ticket price includes a signed copy of the book.
Hub City Bookshop will host an afternoon with James Beard Award-winning authors and culinary ambassadors Matt and Ted Lee to celebrate their new book, Hotbox: Inside Catering, The World’s Riskiest Business.
Tickets are $35 and include a signed hardback copy of the book, drinks (mimosas!), and canapés.
Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience.
Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have more in common with a mobile army hospital than a restaurant. Known for their modern take on Southern cooking, the Lee brothers steeped themselves in the catering business for four years, learning the culture from the inside-out. It’s a realm where you find eccentric characters, working in extreme conditions, who must produce magical events and instantly adapt when, for instance, the host’s toast runs a half-hour too long, a hail storm erupts, or a rolling rack of hundreds of ice cream desserts goes wheels-up.
Join us for a writing group held on the first Monday of each month for Hub City members and led by staff and local writers.
On June 3, author and USC Upstate professor Thomas McConnell will lead a session entitled "Writing and Paying Attention."
What distinguishes passable or tolerable writing from prose that excels? Partly it has to do with being alert to the pitfalls and promise of language. We'll examine particular passages from writers—famous and otherwise—who have a lot to teach us by example—for good or ill—about writing and paying attention.
This event is part of Upstate Writing Month. Look for other events on our calendar, or find them all here.
A free concert in McKinney Park by Noah Guthrie! Noah was a finalist on America's Got Talent as well as an actor on the hit TV show Glee.
Spartanburg Library Headquarters will host author Kristy Woodson Harvey. The first 100 guests will receive a free copy of Harvey's latest novel!
What goes into writing a beach read? Hear from Kristy Woodson Harvey, author of the novels Dear Carolina, Slightly South of Simple, and The Secret to Southern Charm. Southern Living has included Harvey's books on their Most Anticipated Beach Reads list. This is your chance to get beach ready too--the first 100 who come to the event will receive a free copy of Harvey's latest novel, The Southern Side of Paradise! There will be a signing after the event.
In "Writing Grants That Win: Secrets of Successful Grant Writing," George Williams, USC Upstate professor and incoming chair of the LLC department, teaches participants how to research and write effective grant applications for a wide variety of projects.
This event is part of Upstate Writing Month (#UpWriMo) and is free and open to the public. Registration is recommended but not required. All those who preregister get a free gift! Look for other events on our calendar, or find them all here.
Sometimes killing off our literary darlings is a necessity. Would Little Women be the same without Beth’s heart tending departure? Would Game of Thrones be as thrilling without the death of ....insert one of many, many names. It can be hard to do in your own creation, but if it advances your plot pick up the knife, the gun, the arsenic—or the pen. Author and professor Marilyn Reynolds discusses these themes and more in "Murder She Wrote: Why I Happily Kill My Characters."
This event is part of Upstate Writing Month (#UpWriMo) and is free and open to the public. Registration is recommended but not required. All those who preregister get a free gift! Look for other events on our calendar, or find them all here.
During this panel discussion, members of the Editorial Staff for writersINC, the USC Upstate student literary journal, will share readings from their original work and conduct a roundtable talk on how they make difficult editorial choices. Presenters will share their “diet” scale of evaluation for the magazine, and take questions from the audience. Award winning student writers from the 2019 writersINC publication will also join the staff to discuss their experiences getting published. This session will be of special interest to high school students and teachers, as well as college-age writers and anyone curious about publishing a literary magazine generated by student work.
This event is part of Upstate Writing Month (#UpWriMo) and is free and open to the public. Registration is recommended but not required. All those who preregister get a free gift! Look for other events on our calendar, or find them all here.
Memoirist and essayist Cinelle Barnes discusses the why, how, when, what, who and for whom of the genre/form, and the pre-publication, publication, and post-publication realities of authoring a memoir, and how her time in South Carolina served as an impetus for writing Monsoon Mansion. After the talk, she will lead the group in a short writing exercise.
This event is part of Upstate Writing Month (#UpWriMo) and is free and open to the public. Registration is recommended but not required. All those who preregister get a free gift! Look for other events on our calendar, or find them all here.
Refreshments will be provided. Books will be available for purchase through representatives of Hub City Bookshop. A portion of proceeds benefits the USC Upstate LLC Student Awards Fund.
Author Michael Parker will visit Hub City Bookshop to discuss his new novel Praire Fever.
Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the intense dynamic between the Stewart sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. The two are bound together not only by their isolation on the prairie but also by their deep emotional reliance on each other. That connection supersedes all else until the arrival of Gus McQueen.
When Gus arrives in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, as a first time teacher, his inexperience is challenged by the wit and ingenuity of the Stewart sisters. Then one impulsive decision and a cataclysmic blizzard trap Elise and her horse on the prairie and forever change the balance of everything between the sisters, and with Gus McQueen. With honesty and poetic intensity and the deadpan humor of Paulette Jiles and Charles Portis, Parker reminds us of the consequences of our choices. Expansive and intimate, this novel tells the story of characters tested as much by life on the prairie as they are by their own churning hearts.
Hub City Bookshop will host Kate Daniels who will be discussing and signing her new collection of poetry In the Months of My Son’s Recovery.
The moving poems in this collection take us on a journey through illness, grief, and the disappointment of unexpected jolts in life. With bold descriptions of medical processes, intense love, and the sometimes overwhelming feeling of despair buffeted by hope, Kate Daniels offers thoughts on how to navigate a world we didn't choose.
Join us for a special edition of Her Story on Wednesday, June 12. Author Deb Spera will visit the bookshop to talk about her new novel Call Your Daughter Home. There will be a wine reception from 5:30pm followed by a discussion and signing with the author at 6pm.
A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great Depression
It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family. Annie is the matriarch of the Coles family and must come to terms with the terrible truth that has ripped her family apart.These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to the terrible injustices that have long plagued the small town, they find strength in the bond that ties women together. Told in the pitch-perfect voices of Gertrude, Retta and Annie, Call Your Daughter Home is an audacious, timeless story about the power of family, deep-buried secrets and the ferocity of motherhood.
Hub City Bookshop will host New York Timesbestselling author Mary Alice Monroe for a 12 p.m. luncheon Monday, June 18, at the Piedmont Club.
Ticket price includes lunch and a signed hardback copy of Monroe's newest book, The Summer Guests (which takes place in Tryon!).
The Summer Guests is a heartwarming and evocative novel about the bonds and new beginnings that are born from natural disasters and how, even during the worst of circumstances—or perhaps because of them—we discover what is most important in life.
Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast—the peach trees are ripe, the ocean is warm, and the sweet tea is icy. A perfect time to enjoy the rocking chairs on the porch. But beneath the calm surface bubbles a threat: it’s also peak hurricane season.
On June 20 at 7pm, former Congressman Trey Gowdy will visit Hub City Bookshop to discuss his book Unified: How An Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope For a Divided Country. There will be a signing after the talk.
In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship--even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey Gowdy, a white US congressman, won't allow racial lines to divide them. They work together, eat meals together, campaign together, and make decisions together. Yet in the fall of 2010--as two brand-new members of the US House of Representatives--they did not even know each other. Their story as politicians and friends began the moment they met and is a model for others seeking true reconciliation.
In Unified, Senator Scott and Congressman Gowdy, through honesty and vulnerability, inspire others to evaluate their own stories, clean the slate, and extend a hand of friendship that can change your churches, communities, and the world.
