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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The 5K starts promptly at 7:15am with staggered starts. The event will be held rain or shine.
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REGISTRATION:
Tuesday, March 15 – Friday, May 6 at 4:59pm
(Advance registration only. There will be no day-of registration. Limited capacity, tickets may sell out.)
Entry Fee: $35 Riverbanks members; $45 general public.
Includes a commemorative Riverbanks Run T-shirt*, drink ticket**, chip timing, and award eligibility.
*T-shirts are not guaranteed after 4/15/2022.
**Drink tickets are valid from 5/7/2022 through 5/15/2022.
In 2019, the Commandant of the Marine Corps issued guidance that will dramatically change how the Marine Corps organizes, trains, and fights going into the future.
LtCol Brian Riordan will give a presentation on Marine Corps Force Design and new warfare concepts evolving from the Corps’ shift to the Pacific and return to its traditional role in maritime operations.
LtCol Riordan also serves as a Marine civilian at the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA. One of its missions is to examine emerging concepts and technology to enhance operational readiness and interoperability in support of the Marine Air Ground Task Force.
The public is cordially invited to join us for this unique opportunity to hear about Marine Corps Force Design and new warfare concepts.
Tickets are $39 per person and include dinner. For details and reservation information, please go to: https://bit.ly/NavyLeagueDinner051022 or email [email protected].
The Navy League is a national civilian non-profit organization whose mission is to support America’s sea services: Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and US-Flagged Merchant Marine. It does this in the Upstate through informational dinner programs, support of sea service personnel and their families, and support of six Upstate high school Navy Junior ROTC units and the Upstate Young Marines youth program.
Please join us at the elegant Poinsett Club in Greenville for an informative and enjoyable evening.
Join a group of like-minded female paddlers for a three-day paddle festival, hosted by inspirational paddler Anna Levesque! This festival is all about fostering community by connecting, sharing, paddling, and supporting each other on the river. Trips will be offered on different rivers representing a range of skill levels, and are open to all women in all watercraft!
Donations and registration fees benefit the Shannon Christy Memorial Fund, an organization that supports non-profits focused on women’s empowerment, and also benefits the Live Like Maria Fund.
2022 EVENT SCHEDULE
Schedule is subject to change and will be updated here.
Join Speak for Animals and friends for a fun afternoon of cold beverages, live music with Bill and Tad’s Excellent Duo, amazing silent auction, trivia, Naked Vegan food truck and more – all to help Upstate animals in need! Presented by our partner, Animal Allies.
For information on sponsorships or to donate a silent auction item, contact Susan at [email protected] or 964-430-1142.
Each ticket includes 3 hours of gameplay, a t-shirt, full dinner buffet, free beverages
(alcoholic beverages included) and the option to bid for various silent auction items.
Medical crisis often takes families away from their own home in search of
specialized treatment. Establishing a second home near a treatment center
can create a great nancial strain. To lessen the burden, Open Arms provides
a home away from home at no cost to families facing this situation.
On Friday, July 8th from 11:00am-4:00pm stop by Village Kitchen at Hartness and roll up your sleeves to help save lives! We will proudly partner with The Blood Connection to hold what we expect to be the first of many blood drives.
All donors will receive: $20 e-gift card, Blood Connection T-shirt, and $10 Village Kitchen gift card.
We look forward to seeing you at the blood drive!
The Miss Collegiate USA & High School USA Pageant will be held Saturday, July 9, 2022 at The Greenville Theater in the historic city of Greenville, South Carolina.
The Miss Collegiate USA Organization celebrates and rewards young women 4 years ($32,000), to Marymount University, Arlington, VA. who are college-bound, current degree seekers with higher education exposure, or seeking help to pay student loan debt with career opportunities, cash and college scholarships. Every state delegate participating will receive an $8,000 scholarship, renewable for up to The two winners will receive $40,000 scholarships.
In addition to competing for the national title, the delegates will also have the opportunity to compete for academic achievement awards, community service awards, cash scholarships, additional scholarships to help in paying for higher education, and will be inducted into the MCU Class of 2022.
We invite you to come out and cheer on the state contestants as we crown the new titleholders for 2022. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR*.
*Show a valid SC state ID and get this discounted “resident” rate. Reg. $50-75
Headlined by the Boulevards, along with performances by Babe Club and Darby Wilcox, The Goodmood Fund’s fourth ‘Good Show’ is to be held at Radio Room on July 16th. All proceeds, go toward Goodmood’s artist relief fund, which provides financial aid to touring artists in need. The show is all ages.
What if we could replace the growl of empty stomachs with the growl of an audience for just one night? Join Loaves & Fishes Greenville as we rock out to reduce hunger on Saturday, September 10th, at the Radio Room.
Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm. Tickets available now. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Thanks to friends at the Radio Room Greenville, this year’s Rock Out Hunger benefit concert line-up is 100% local and 100% fresh. Featuring psychedelic songsters Brother Oliver, energetic rockers Her Pilots, and singer songwriters Barryle and Mourning Dove.
100% of the proceeds from Rock Out Hunger will be put to immediate use this year rescuing food in Greenville County. The 2022 Rock Out Hunger benefit concert is generously supported by our friends at the Radio Room Greenville, Dodge Industries, Iron Hill Brewery, Southern First, the Swamp Rabbits, and Piedmont Natural Gas.
Live music returns to the Old Rock Cafe with our new music series: Playing for our Partners. Come enjoy an evening of good food and good music on the deck overlooking the Rocky Broad River and support a good cause, too. A percentage of proceeds from each event in the series will benefit one of our local non-profit partners. The September event will feature musician Mike Pauer and support Appalachian Wildlife Refuge.
POSTPONED: Due to the expected impacts of Hurricane Ian, our Walk on October 1 has been rescheduled for Sunday afternoon, October 16.
The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research.
Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. This inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to join the fight against the disease! When you participate in Walk, your fundraising dollars fuel our mission, and your participation in the event helps to change the level of Alzheimer’s awareness in your community. The Alzheimer’s Association provides free, easy-to-use tools and staff support to help participants reach their fundraising goal. While there is no fee to register, we encourage participants to fundraise in order to contribute to the cause and raise awareness. Together, we can end Alzheimer’s disease!
We’re moving forward with plans to host in-person events this fall while keeping your health and safety as our top priorities. Registered participants who wish to Walk From Home can find more details in their Participant Center. Your health and safety are our top priorities. We will continue to closely monitor CDC, state and local guidelines to ensure Walk events adhere to the latest recommendations.
LINK TO REGISTER: act.alz.org/greenvillewalk
POSTPONED: Due to the expected impacts of Hurricane Ian, our Walk on October 1 has been rescheduled for Sunday afternoon, October 16.
The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research.
Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. This inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to join the fight against the disease! When you participate in Walk, your fundraising dollars fuel our mission, and your participation in the event helps to change the level of Alzheimer’s awareness in your community. The Alzheimer’s Association provides free, easy-to-use tools and staff support to help participants reach their fundraising goal. While there is no fee to register, we encourage participants to fundraise in order to contribute to the cause and raise awareness. Together, we can end Alzheimer’s disease!
We’re moving forward with plans to host in-person events this fall while keeping your health and safety as our top priorities. Registered participants who wish to Walk From Home can find more details in their Participant Center. Your health and safety are our top priorities. We will continue to closely monitor CDC, state and local guidelines to ensure Walk events adhere to the latest recommendations.
LINK TO REGISTER: act.alz.org/greenvillewalk
Art Auction & Community Conversation about Reclaiming Freedom – something important to us all whether due to physical constraints like incarceration, or mental, social, and/or political constraints.
How do we empower our community with the freedoms necessary to thrive?
Come out to support Soteria, engage, and make an impact that helps individuals thrive after incarceration.
Join a Greer Ghost Tour for a family-friendly frightfully good evening of fun and phantoms! Get your tickets at https://www.greerheritage.com/ghosts/.
Before enjoying an evening of beautiful music on our second masterworks concert of the season, consider bringing a canned item for the second of our community events, the Greer Community Ministries Food Drive
Foothills Philharmonic continues its 23rd concert season with our Annual Food Drive and Masterworks Concert II. Help Greer Community Ministries replenish their food pantry in preparation for the Thanksgiving season by bringing canned goods to the concert! Upon conclusion of the concert, we will have a reception in the fellowship hall to which all of our audience members are invited.
Come out and enjoy the fall finale of our 2022-23 concerts in Greer with our Christmas Pops Concert. The program includes seasonal favorites that will be guaranteed to help our audience get into a festive mood for the holiday season. Plan on bringing a toy to the concert to donate to our Toys for Tots Drive in an attempt to bring Christmas to a child that would not be able to celebrate it this Yuletide season. Upon conclusion of the concert, we will have a reception in the fellowship hall to which all of our audience members are invited.
Foothills Philharmonic continues its 23rd concert season with our Chamber Orchestra Concert. Tonight, Foothills Philharmonic explores smaller works for orchestra in a concert that has a more intimate feel than our normal orchestral concerts. Please plan on a fun day in the City of Greer! Tonight’s program features a brand new community event aimed at benefiting Miracle Hill Ministries Homeless shelters. Please feel free to visit their booth in the lobby to learn more about the work that they are doing to benefit our community. Upon conclusion of the concert, we will have a reception in the fellowship hall to which all of our audience members are invited.
This Black History Month, join the Southern Studies Fellowship in Arts and Letters Writer-in Residence Desiree S. Evans as she moderates a conversation on the power of the Black fantastic with speculative fiction writers Nicky Drayden, Ehigbor Okosun, and Suyi Davies Okungbowa.
Worldbuilding is a key part of creating fictional narratives, and it is a core element of storytelling found in the speculative fiction genre. Whether creating imagined futures or alternate universes, speculative fiction writers must be able to immerse readers into their new worlds on the page. The panelists will discuss how they build their own speculative worlds in their novels, and how they weave worldbuilding into every aspect of the story, from setting to plot to character arcs, from science to magic systems.
About the Panelists
Nicky Drayden is a Systems Analyst who dabbles in prose when she’s not buried in code. She resides in Austin, Texas where being weird is highly encouraged, if not required. Her award-winning novel THE PREY OF GODS is set in a futuristic South Africa brimming with demigods, robots, and hallucinogenic hijinks, and with her latest series ESCAPING EXODUS and its sequel ESCAPING EXODUS: SYMBIOSIS, she takes her weirdness off-world to a civilization living inside the gut of a moon-sized space beast. See more of her work at nickydrayden.com or catch her on twitter @nickydrayden.
Ehigbor Okosun is an Austin-based author who writes speculative fiction for adult and young-adult audiences. Her debut adult fantasy novel, FORGED BY BLOOD, is forthcoming from Harper Voyager in August 2023. A British private school survivor turned Nigerian-American immigrant, Ehigbor hopes to do justice to the myths and traditions she grew up steeped in, and to honor her large, multiracial and multiethnic family. She is a graduate of the University of Texas with degrees in Plan II Honors, Neurolinguistics, and English, as well as Chemistry and Pre-Medical studies. When she’s not reading, you can catch her bullet journalling and baking. Follow her on Twitter at @Ask_Heebs, and on Instagram at @okosunreads.
Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian author of fantasy, science fiction, and general speculative work. His latest novel is SON OF THE STORM (Orbit, 2021), first in the epic fantasy trilogy, The Nameless Republic (WARRIOR OF THE WIND, second in the trilogy, is forthcoming in 2023). His debut godpunk fantasy novel DAVID MOGO, GODHUNTER (Abaddon, 2019), won the 2020 Nommo Ilube Award for Best Novel. His shorter works have appeared in various periodicals and anthologies and have been nominated for various awards. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, and lives in Ontario, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Ottawa. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @suyidavies, or via his newsletter, SuyiAfterFive.com.
About the Moderator
Desiree S. Evans writes fiction for children, teens, and adults. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming young-adult fiction anthology THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE (Flatiron Books, 2024), and a contributor to the young-adult fiction anthologies COOL. AWKWARD. BLACK. (Penguin Teen, 2023) and FORESHADOW: STORIES TO CELEBRATE THE MAGIC OF READING AND WRITING YA (Algonquin Young Readers, 2020). Desiree’s creative writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and has appeared in literary journals such as Gulf Coast, The Offing, Nimrod Journal, and others. Desiree is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin, where she received her MFA in fiction. Visit her on the web at desiree-evans.com, and follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @literarydesiree.
On Saturday, February 18, 2023, Big Water Marina and Campground will host its second annual polar bear jump into Lake Hartwell to raise awareness and funds for the Anderson County Red Fez Shrine Club. Organizers hope to beat previous years’ fundraising efforts and generate a strong sense of community during the day’s event.
The day will kick off at 10:00 AM with day-of registration & check-in for the polar bear jump, and the participants will plunge into Lake Hartwell at 10:00 AM. Registration for the polar bear jump is $30, and the event is open to the public. Any interested participants may visit the link for the event waiver below and send a completed version, along with registration payment, to [email protected]. All polar jumpers will receive a complimentary t-shirt and medal to commemorate the event.
As an additional contribution from Big Water Marina and Campground, there will be a raffle for a free half-day pontoon rental. Anyone attending or participating in the event is eligible to participate in the raffle(s) by purchasing tickets for $1/each. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Anderson County Red Fez Shrine Club, and more event details can be found by visiting the Facebook event page linked below.
For questions or more information, please call 864-359-0216.
Visit the Facebook event page & RSVP here: https://fb.me/e/3cHESEx8E
Polar Bear Jump waiver for participants: bit.ly/PolarJump2023Waiver