Every featured event of the week, past and present
The 6th Annual Blythewood Fall Championship Rodeo brings IPRA cowboys, cowgirls and bucking stock to Prisma Health Arena in Blythewood, SC on October 23 and 24, 2026.
South Carolina Ballet's gothic rock-and-jazz Dracula, premiered in 1991, returns to the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia on October 23 and 24, 2026.
The South Carolina Military Museum in Columbia hosts its Ooky Spooky Tour on October 23, 2026, an evening of living historians, pirate tales, and eerie artifacts paired with a National Guard Trunk or Treat.
The Nightmare in Elmwood 5K and Kids Fun Run returns to Columbia's historic Elmwood Park neighborhood on Saturday, October 24, 2026, with a costumed course, decorated houses, and proceeds for the neighborhood association.
Dogs in costume take over Sesquicentennial State Park near Columbia, SC on Sunday, October 25, 2026, for games, giveaways, a pet costume contest and photoshoots.
The SCNPS Midlands Chapter's Fall Native Plant Market returns to Hunter-Gatherer Brewery at the Hangar in Columbia on October 25, 2026, with South Carolina-grown natives, gardening books and craft beer.
Ross McElwee's 1986 Sundance-winning documentary Sherman's March screens in a 4K restoration at Charleston's Terrace Theater on Oct. 18, part of the 13th Charleston Film Festival.
Richland and Lexington county residents can tour Columbia's 1823 Robert Mills House free on Sunday, October 18, 2026, with semi-guided tours at 1, 2, and 3 p.m.
Barktoberfest doubles as the grand opening of Leisurehound Athletic Club, Columbia's first off-leash dog park and biergarten, on October 17, 2026 at 2801 Drayton St.
Art historian Erin Kuykendall and local birder John Tjaarda team up at the Columbia Museum of Art on October 18, 2026, to look at the birds hiding in the museum's paintings.
Steel Hands Brewing in Cayce, SC hosts its free Car Cruise-In & Cookout on Oct. 18, 2026, with hotrods, classics, muscle cars, live music, and a cookout.
The free Trunk-or-Treat & Outdoor Movie Night returns to Duke Energy's World of Energy in Seneca, SC on October 16, 2026, with face painting, pumpkin painting, games, and a film under the stars.
A tamada-led wine tasting at Keipi brings an 8,000-year-old Georgian tradition of feasting, toasting, and radical hospitality to a converted cotton warehouse in Greenville.
A free hip-hop dance fitness class brings Adrenaline's judgment-free party to Camperdown Plaza, on the ground where a cotton mill once spun thread.
Every Saturday through mid-December, rotating local makers set up outside Columbia's Visitors Center in the Vista, a free walk-up showcase run by the city's arts agency.
For three decades, a Greer farm has turned the first weekend of October into a bluegrass reunion where strangers leave as kin.
Jack Brown's turns its Augusta Street burger bar into Beetlejoint, a month-long Beetlejuice takeover that ends with a Halloween costume party on the patio.
For three decades, Charleston County Parks has turned Wannamaker's woodlands into a daylong celebration of Latin music, dance and food.
A free comedy night lands inside Hangar 28, the new airport restaurant and event space built on the bones of a beloved Greenville diner.
A nonprofit Georgian restaurant in Greenville's Hampton Station is bringing the ancient supra feast—and its toastmaster, the tamada—to a communal table of strangers.
Traci Wright Martin's 'Curiosities' opens at Spoonbill Gallery with an artist reception during First Fridays in the Village of West Greenville.
The Nickelodeon Theatre, South Carolina's only nonprofit art house, hosted the world premiere of the Columbia-made feature film 'Right In Front of You' with a meet-and-greet with its creators.
At the fall Sprout Style Swap, the youngest entrepreneurs of the Midlands set up their own booths, learning to earn, haggle, and shine as the adults shop the consignment floor around them.
The Columbia Tango Marathon, a Labor Day tradition since 2016, returns to West Columbia's historic Hugh Dimmery Memorial Center with its first-ever professional tango show, live orchestra, and a weekend of milongas and workshops.
Greenville's Saluda Lake Landing caps its summer Float-a-Palooza series with three days of floating, music, and luau fun on Labor Day weekend.
Before the Columbia Museum of Art closes its Jasper Johns: All Familiar Things exhibition, trustee Joseph Bruce leads a final guided tour through the autobiographical Four Seasons, bringing the story of America's most private art star back to the South Carolina city where he first learned to make art.