Events Calendar
Explore family friendly events, theatres, galleries, concerts, nightlife, things to do, and more in the Greenville, SC and Upstate areas.
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Join us Saturday, October 27th 2018 for our annual Fall Festival!
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Come out to the Town of West Pelzer/Pelzer’s Pumpkinpalooza. Free trick or treating from community organizations and local churches, free bounce houses, food trucks, dancing, and a costume contest for adults, children, and pets!! It’s another fun filled Main Street event you will not want to miss!!
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Fall Festival 2-6pm
Free Hot Dogs, Beverages, Cotton Candy, Popcorn, Funnel Cakes, Caramel Apples
Balloons, Face Painting, Yard Games, & Bounce House
Bake Sale & Cake Walk
Music & Devotion
Trunk-Or-Treat 6:30-8:00pm
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Watch the leaves change in the Great Smoky Mountains while surrounded by the uplifting sounds of Southern Gospel. Stick around when the sun goes down for an even larger Great Pumpkin LumiNights experience during this season’s Harvest Festival presented by Humana.
? Great Pumpkin LumiNights: The largest addition ever made to Dollywood’s fall festival, Great Pumpkin LumiNights features artistic sculptures, whimsical scenes and delightful, family-friendly fun. Learn more here: https://www.dollywood.com/themepark/Entertainment/GreatPumpkinLuminights
*Great Pumpkin LumiNights is included with your regular Dollywood admission.
? Southern Gospel Jubilee: More than 500 free concerts throughout the festival are included with your admission! Learn more here: https://www.dollywood.com/themepark/Festivals/Southern-Gospel-Jubilee
? World-Class Artisans: Unique artisans from around the country share their beautiful handmade crafts with Dollywood. Learn more here: https://www.dollywood.com/themepark/Crafts/Harvest-Festival-Crafters
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Ober Gatlinburg is celebrating fall with a fantastic festival featuring Bavarian-style food, drink and music.
One of the highlights of OktOBERfest is the food. Cuisine includes schnitzel, bratwurst, strudel, turkey legs, pretzels and sauerkraut. An Outdoor Bier Garten is open for beer sampling for festival-goers. Along with the authentic German cuisine and beer, you can also look forward to outdoor games and the Bavarian Fun Makers Oompah Band.
https://www.facebook.com/events/335926470483039/?event_time_id=335926513816368
Asheville Outlets will host a weekend of free family fun from Friday, October 26, through Sunday, October 28, 2018. Ingles Ultimate Air Dog Competition (UAD), always a crowd favorite, will be held all three days. A Health Fair for People & Pets, Cover Dog Competition and Junior League of Asheville Touch-A Truck round out the weekend activities.
Weekend Schedule of Activities:
Friday, October 26, 2018 through Sunday, October 28, 2018
Ingles Ultimate Air Dog Competition
Dogs will compete in a 90’ pool constructed in front of Field & Stream. Ultimate Air Dogs is one of the country’s premiere dock jumping organizations and features both novice competitors and seasoned jumpers.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Touch-A-Truck Family Festival – 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 pm.
The event will be held in the parking lot behind the food court from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Kids and kids at heart will have the opportunity to see, touch, climb and learn about vehicles of all types, even a helicopter! Parental supervision required. Admission is $5 in advance and at the door. Children 3 and under are free.
Health Fair for People & Pets – 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 pm.
Asheville Outlets will team up with CarePartners Foundation and Critter Magazine to host a Health Fair for People & Pets with a variety of health-related booths and displays, demonstrations and entertainment. For pets and their families you’ll find educational advice, obedience tips, pet adoptions and much more! A portion of the proceeds from the Health Fair for People & Pets will benefit CarePartners Foundation and local spay/neuter organizations and rescue transport programs.
Bring the whole family for a day of fun at Birds Fly South Ale Project!
Join us for live bluegrass from 2 For The Road, food truck service by GB&D and interactive activity stations that are fun for adults and kids alike! Learn more about Greenville’s trees, forests and water, as well as the innovative ways local organizations are working to keep them healthy.
• Sample “water flights.” Can you pick out Greenville’s award-winning water?
• Try on firefighting gear!
• Much more
This is a FREE event.
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Fall Festival is a wonderful event for the whole church family and community! This year we are inviting even more people to get involved, especially the people in the church that don’t have young children. This way families can enjoy time together as well a fellowship with the rest of the church family.
https://www.facebook.com/events/374322523106370/
Fall Festival – Free Food, Fun & Fellowship. Fun for all ages. Join us for hot dogs, chicken stew, cotton candy, popcorn, nachos, sno cones and much more.
https://www.facebook.com/events/245764186280582/
The Spartanburg Festival Chorus’ fall concert will feature 4 “choral gems” from 4 different centuries. In chronological order, the program will begin with G. Gabrieli’s, “In ecclesiis” (In the churches), written most likely as a thank offering from deliverance from the plague.
The second piece on the program is Bach’s Cantata #106, “God’s Time Is Best”. It was originally intended as music for a funeral. Textual themes include: the finite nature of life and getting one’s house in order.
The third piece on the program was written by American composer, Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008). “A Jubilant Song” celebrates the “uncaged spirit” appreciating the beauty of life and the lofty ideal of universal love.
Our program concludes with British composer Bob Chilcott’s 5-movement work, “Five Days that Changed the World”. It celebrates the invention of printing, the abolition of slavery, the first powered flight, the discovery of penicillin, and the first man in space.
https://www.facebook.com/events/246722719527773/
Enjoy local and regional craft beer, oysters, authentic Bavarian food, and live music at the 7th Annual Tryon Beer Fest presented by New View Realty. Come “Tap Into Tryon” from 12pm until 6pm on Saturday, November 3, 2018, and see all the beauty, culture and shopping this mountain town has to offer.
The Spartanburg County Democratic Party is going to be involved in A LOT of events in the next few months and we need YOUR help! Please take a look at the events below and click on the link to sign up to help at an event!
Inman Harvest Festival (9/29/18)
We will be hosting a table at the Inman Harvest Festival. We need volunteers to man the table and share candidate and party information and help register voters. Please click the link below to sign up for a time :)
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4aa9ae2ca0fb6-inman2
Spartanburg International Festival (10/6/18)
We will be hosting a table at the Spartanburg International Festival. We need volunteers to man the table and share candidate and party information and help register voters. This will be the LAST event we will participate in, prior to the voter registration deadline, so come out and help us! Please click the link below to register for a time to volunteer!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4aa9ae2ca0fb6-spartanburg3
Piedmont Interstate Fair (10/8/18 – 10/14/18)
The Spartanburg County Democrats are a fixture at the Piedmont Interstate Fair! We need local Dems to help man our table and hand out information about the party as well as some Krispy Kreme doughnuts! Please click the link below to sign up for a shift at the fair!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4aa9ae2ca0fb6-piedmont2
Upstate Pride March & Festival (11/3/18)
The Spartanburg County Democratic Party is excited to honor and celebrate our fellow LGBTQ+ humans during the Upstate Pride March and Festival. We need local Dems to help man our table (along with our friends from the Greenville County Democratic Party). Please click the link below to sign up for a shift!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4aa9ae2ca0fb6-upstate2
https://www.facebook.com/events/747423822284881/
Join us for an adventure of international proportions as we celebrate our school’s diversity! There will be food from all over the world, music, live performances, a silent auction, bounce houses, face painting, and tons of fun for the entire family! Admission is $10, kids 10 and under are free. Kids will receive a passport and can have it stamped throughout the festival.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1046375655532542/
Enjoy FREE general admission all weekend and help us celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the State Museum’s opening in 1988! Experience Fall Festival fun on Sat., Nov. 3, with barbecue and live music. Then enjoy Celebracíon de la Herencia Hispana on Sun, Nov. 4, featuring authentic Latin cuisine, performances and more. Sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.
Please note: activities marked by ($) carry an additional cost.
– Schedule –
Saturday, Nov. 3
Open until 10 p.m.
Fall Festival and Pickin’ Party
Starts at 10 a.m.
We’re saying Happy Anniversary with our annual Fall Festival and Pickin’ Party!
Live music and performances
Capital City Cloggers 10:45 a.m. I Carolina Rebels 11:30 a.m. I Palmetto Blue 12:30 p.m. I Willie Wells and Blue Ridge Mountain Grass 1:30 p.m. I Matthew Dickerson and Matt Watson 3 p.m. I High Lonesome Mountain River Coal Train 4 p.m. I Stillhouse 5 – 7 p.m.
Delicious barbecue prepared by award-winning cookers from all over South Carolina ($)
Craft beer ($)
Opening parade
Artist and craftsmen demonstrations
Bed Turning Historic Quilt Program
See the NEW 30th Anniversary Juried Show art exhibit
Last chance to explore the “Magical Maze of Oz”
Lunar and night sky observing in the museum’s Boeing Observatory. (weather permitting)
And lots more!
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Sunday, Nov. 4
Noon to 5 p.m.
The fun continues all day with Celebracíon de la Herencia Hispana! A special event in partnership with Anglo-Latino Promotions.
Authentic Latin cuisine for purchase by Los Bellos Portas
Live music and dance performances
Salsa and Bachata classes
Cultural displays
Kids activities
“Unbreakable” Piñata
Kids activities
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PLUS, More Weekend Activities
Costumed interpreters throughout the museum galleries
An up-close look at fossils with our Natural History curator
“How Did It Get Here?” museum gallery tour
4D Theater and Planetarium Shows ($)
Last chance to explore the “Magical Maze of Oz.”
And lots more!
https://www.facebook.com/events/548719932254998/
The 23rd Annual Green River Narrows Race. Come be part of the greatest show in all of sports!
New for 2018! We are finally going to have a proper Saturday night awards festival after the race. We’ll announce winners, show the race highlight video, have a food truck, beer, camping, music, campfire, the whole enchilada all down in the gorge. The venue is about a mile downstream from the takeout of The Narrows just past the bridge on river left. It is perfect because spectators can park there and hike in to watch and paddlers never have to leave the river.
racer & spectator information: https://greenrace.us/
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Shakespeare’s Classic Love Story Set in Appalachia
William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. MTP’s unique production be inspired by the Hatfield-McCoy feud of the late 1800s in rural Kentucky and West Virginia. Featuring Shakespeare’s language, stage combat, live blue grass music, and Appalachian dialects, this is Romeo and Juliet like you’ve never experienced it before! The production will also be featured in the SC Theatre Association Community Theatre Festival state competition in November in Anderson.
https://www.facebook.com/events/348259722577258/
Oakland Elementary community event including auctions, cake walks, rides, and much more.
https://www.facebook.com/events/357248831702294/
West Pelzer is a charming and flourishing town, hosting several festivals in 2018 from Dog Days of Summer, Pumpkinpalooza, to the upcoming Beard and Biceps. Expanding our reach, we are partnering to offer the First Annual Mistletoe on Main in Chapman Park.. Featuring local crafts, gifts, and home and holiday decor, this is new annual event you will not want to miss.
If you’d like to be a vendor, please contact Heather Holcombe at [email protected] or by phone at 864-556-4303.
https://www.facebook.com/events/856363971419287/
Gowensville Community Center sponsors an annual Fall Festival with music, food, crafts, tractors, and more.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2197179407217891/
LOCAL Visual Artists and Musical Talent own the night once again!
Bringing folks together and enjoying the evening, with many pieces to sell, fantastic food and drink, and great music!
https://www.facebook.com/events/554724881648856/