Rush hour traffic jams and interstate gridlock frustrating travelers and hindering commerce.

Join S.C. Deputy Secretary of Transportation Jim Feda for an overview of our transportation challenges. Feda's responsibilities including leading the creation of the state's priority list for transportation projects and developing the DOT's 10-year plan.

The panel discussion will include input from Ten at the Top's Dean Hybl and MIchelin North America's Leesa Owens, who will help GSA Business Report evaluate our transportation and mobility challenges and solutions.

5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Registration, networking, food and beverage

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Moderated panel discussion, Q&A

Wake Forest vs Furman Baseball Game

Clemson vs Furman Baseball Game

Ohio State vs Furman Baseball Game

Furman vs MSU Baseball Game

Ohio State vs App State Baseball Game

Learn the aspects of writing a Small Business Innovation (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant including: history, eligibility, sources of funding and agency differences, understanding what reviewers look for and writing instructions. With over 50 years of technology commercialization expertise, the 3Phase team specializes in assisting entrepreneurs like you and go beyond just the technical requirements.

The Simpsonville Area Chamber of Commerce co-hosts Business Before Hours events like this one with a different Chamber member each month. Events typically fall on the third Wednesday, unless otherwise noted in the event information. BBH events provide a valuable opportunity for our members to highlight their offices, shops, and products through facility tours and peer engagement. Guests enjoy the opportunity to learn about new businesses, expand their network, and discover potential partnerships with others throughout the community. Contact Chamber staff if you would like information on hosting a Business Before Hours at your business!

The Simpsonville Area Chamber of Commerce co-hosts Business After Hours events like this one with a different Chamber member each month. Events typically fall on the fourth Thursday, unless otherwise noted in the event information. BAH events provide a valuable opportunity for our members to highlight their offices, shops, and products through facility tours and peer engagement. Guests enjoy the opportunity to learn about new businesses, expand their network, and discover potential partnerships with others throughout the community. Contact Chamber staff if you would like information on hosting a Business After Hours at your business!

Science fairs provide an opportunity for students, 3rd through 12th grades, who are interested in science and technology to pursue their personal areas of interest and to display their research as a presentation in a public competitive forum. The Regional Science Fair at Southern Wesleyan University serves the counties of Anderson, Abbeville, Laurens, Greenville, Greenwood, Oconee, and Pickens and works to create enthusiasm in science and technology through project-based inquiry. The fair gives area students the chance to compete for cash awards and other prizes.

Western Carolina vs App State Baseball Game

Ohio State vs MSU Baseball Game

App State vs MSU Baseball Game

Furman vs Western Carolina Baseball Game

UCONN vs Michigan State Baseball Game

Registration is open for a Clemson Cooperative Extension forestry program aimed at providing education for both landowners and professional foresters.

Space is limited, so those interested should preregister by March 1 to secure a spot. Thanks to the event sponsors, the registration fee is only $10, with lunch included in the registration fee.

The program, presented by the Newberry County Forestry Association and Clemson Extension, offers 4.5 hours of Category 1 Continuing Forestry Education credits.

Please join us for the 4th Annual Tajh Boyd Foundation Gala on March 15, 2019. We are excited to be returning to The Loom at Cotton Mill Place in Simpsonville. If you have ever been to this event you know that it is one that cannot be missed. Make sure to get your tickets early as seating is limited. We will have a live auction and a silent auction at the event. Can't make it to the gala? Don't worry. This year you will be able to bid on silent auction items online from anywhere. Just register for the event and you will be able to place your bids when the silent auction opens.

The Members’ Market is GCCA’s inaugural art sale which gives our supporting members the opportunity to sell their artwork to the public.
Invite your friends and family to come shop at the Market. There is no entrance fee. (Donations to the Art Center are always welcome!)

Please join us as we host our ARTalk for the Flight Pattern exhibition. This ARTalk will feature a demonstration from artist, Monika Meler. She will be demonstrating her printmaking technique “Pressure Printing Using Hand Cut Stencils”.

This event is free and open to the public.

Anthony Ray Hinton will speak about his nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Furman University’s NAACP, Religious Council, Poverty Awareness Committee, Student Diversity Council and St. Joseph’s Catholic School.

Hinton was wrongly convicted for two capital murders in 1986. He was exonerated in 2015 after more than a decade of litigation by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).

Hinton now travels the world speaking about his experience and serves as EJI’s community educator. Recently he authored a memoir, “The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row,” which Oprah Winfrey selected as her Book Club Summer 2018 Read.

Come on out and enjoy the fresh air, nice people, and great tea! The work is appropriate for ages 10+ (we will be transplanting seedlings in the greenhouse). This event replaces the one we had posted for Feb 23 since the seedlings weren’t quite ready. Feel free to pop in even if it’s only for an hour. See you on the farm!

Two years ago, Spartanburg came together around a common vision and a five year plan known as OneSpartanburg. Year two is in the books. Thanks to the work of many partners, we have much to celebrate - and celebrate we will.

We will celebrate two years of accomplishments through the release of the OneSpartanburg Scorecard - Year Two. We will also celebrate as we reveal a major community announcement that promises to benefit Spartanburg's bright future. Please join us for both.

Mary P. Nichols, author and Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science at Baylor University, will speak on the campus of Furman University Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101.

Her talk, “Friendship in Aristotle’s ‘Ethics’,” is free and open to the public. The lecture is the fourth in the five-part Tocqueville Lecture Series “Love, Friendship and Politics.”

The Kruger Brothers’ remarkable discipline, creativity, and ability to infuse classical music into folk music has resulted in a unique sound that has made them a fixture within the world of acoustic music.

Edvard Tchivzhel, conductor for the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, will lead the Furman Symphony Orchestra (FSO) in a Concerto Concert Friday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus.

A Sound Quality Series event presented by the Furman Department of Music, the concert is open to the public. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors 60 and older, and $5 for students.

Presented biennially, the Furman Symphony Orchestra Concerto Concert features student soloists selected by competitive audition who will perform concerto movements from the standard repertoire. Maestro Tchivzhel, who takes the podium while FSO conductor Thomas Joiner is on sabbatical, will also lead the FSO in Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.”

Oyster Roast and blues show featuring Seattle native David Jacobs Strain and his Harmonica man Bob Beach. This show will benefit the non profit organization OPUS Trust. Opus' mission is to help protect and conserve natural and historic places in Oconee, South Carolina. Your ticket gets you one dozen oysters, a pint of beer, and your seat to the house concert. Concert will start at five.

Join us on Thursday, March 7th from 7:30 – 9:00 AM at Anderson University’s New Student Center.  Make your reservation now.
Speaker will be announced soon!

netWorks is our new and improved Biscuits 2 Business (B2B), which is a FREE leads group. netWorks will be held at the Holiday Inn on Clemson Blvd. There is LIMITED seating and a RSVP is required! Each attendee will be given an opportunity to speak about their business and listen to our keynote speaker! Join us for coffee, patstries & networking!
March Speaker: Chunsta Miller - Anderson Mall

Looking for a prom dress? Come shop with the Cinderella Project! Dresses, jewelry and shoes will be available at no cost to high school students with a valid high school ID!

Donate your dresses at McIntosh Sherard Sullivan & Brousseau, 138 N. Main St., Anderson 29621.

Enjoy a day of FREE family fun! Celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday! Reading! Games! Snacks! And more! Great for grades K4-2 (siblings and friends are welcome!)

Meals on Wheels – Anderson is excited to announce that this annual New Orleans themed event featuring a dance-party band, fun silent and live auctions, cold beverages, and delicious food from favorite local restaurants will be a true Fat Tuesday celebration in 2019. On Fat Tuesday, March 5, along with Mardi Gras beads, masks and boas, guests will enjoy “street vendors” reminiscent of those in the popular Jackson Square district of New Orleans. Street Vendors will include a magician, fortune teller, and caricaturist. The event will once again be held at the Anderson Sports and Entertainment Center. Meals on Wheels is currently seeking sponsors as well as restaurant and catering partners for the event. Tickets will be available in January 2019. For more information, call 864-225-6800.

Firmly rooted in traditional Irish folk music, Clemson's own Emerald Road combines perfect fiddling, free-styling blues guitar, and jazz groves with Celtic rhythms to create common threads for lovers of all musical genres. Kick off your St. Patrick's Day celebrations!

Come join Spartanburg Area Conservancy on Saturday April 20th from 9:00am-11:00am for a fun community stream cleanup! Registration will begin at 8:30am. Parking for the event will be at the Spartanburg High School tennis courts, where we will meet as a group before convening to the trail.

Don't forget that we will be getting quite wet during this cleanup. Make sure to bring close toed shoes, gloves, and clothing that can get wet.

We are so excited to help the community in which we live be a little more clean, so mark your calendars for the 20th folks, and we hope to see you there!

OFFICIAL RAIN DATE: April 27th, 2019 from 9am-11am.

Join an audience that loves talking back to history to discuss the revolutionary Malcolm X with Cynthia King, PhD chair of the Department of Communications at Furman University whose current research explores the rhetoric of African American thought.

Malcolm X is still seen as one of the most controversial figures — from one of the most highly charged periods in American history. His assassination and those of JFK, MLK and RFK rocked the nation. There is nothing more powerful and revolutionary than a martyr’s cause. Who was this ghetto hustler turned human rights activist? – Black nationalist? Freedom fighter? Racist? Demagogue? Religious zealot? – Let’s talk about it.

This event is NOT a costumed performance. Malcolm X will be performed by Darrick Johnson in the Chautauqua History Alive Festival (June 14 - 23) Free event and parking.

The Southern Home & Garden Show is the largest and most popular home and garden event in South Carolina. Whether you are building a new home, considering a kitchen remodel or installing your dream outdoor living space, the Southern Home & Garden Show is the ideal venue for inspiration with thousands of square feet of exhibits, featuring landscape design, lawn and garden equipment, interior design, windows and window treatments, flooring, decking, outdoor living, home entertainment and automation, and much more.

Conducted by Hugh Ferguson Floyd, music professor and director of the Furman Singers, the 50-voice ensemble continues a tradition of performance over 70 years old. The Furman Singers perform a diverse program of sacred and secular music for a cappella choir and in combination with Furman’s commanding Fisk organ. The concert features the music of Anglican composers Benjamin Britten and Herbert Howells, classic works of Palestrina, Mozart, Brahms and Fauré, and a selection of African-American spirituals by widely-published composer William L. Dawson.

The Singers are accompanied by Furman music professor and university organist Charles Tompkins, and student pianist, Robert Cushing of Decatur, Georgia.