There is a LOT going on in Columbia in the next few days...I will probably be adding to this list later in the week, but here goes:
February 23rd (today): At a
City Hall Press Conference scheduled for 4 pm today, Mayor Bob Coble and animal advocates will proclaim
Spay Day! National Spay Day is an initiative that promotes the importance of spaying and neutering pets, which significantly decreases the high population of stray animals. The Humane SPCA, Animal Mission, and other local animal shelters are all in support of this initiative. (More on Spay Day events later in the week...see below).
Tonight- go see
A Single Man at
The Nickelodeon. This Golden-Globe nominated film starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore (swoon) will only be playing through Thursday.
Friday, February 26th: Go to the
Spay Day Benefit Concert at
Elbow Room in 5 Points. Show starts at 8 pm and tickets are $5 in advance from
Sid & Nancy, or $7 at the door. Artists include:
Kenley Young & the Open Fires,
Mean Weiner,
Todd Mathis,
The Thirsties, and
Josh Roberts & Leslie Branham. All proceeds benefit the local Humane Society.
Saturday, February 27th: The
SC Book Festival is this weekend--February 27th-28th at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center and admission is FREE! I plan to go Saturday to check out some of the presentations by authors of cookbooks. There will be all kinds of authors on hand to speak about their books, sell you their books, and sign them too--children's books, arts books, history books, you name it! [For those of you who are big fans-
Dorothea Benton Frank will be at the Festival discussing
Return to Sullivans Island at 12:45 on Sunday]. Click
here for the full Saturday and Sunday schedules.
Also on Saturday- ride your bike, skate, walk or ride the bus to the State House at 2 pm to attend the
Transportation Transformation event, DJ Chris Wenner will be spinning. This event has been organized by
Aaron Johnson and Grant Robertson, who are running for Columbia Mayor and City Council, respectively. According to the Facebook invitation, "the purpose of this rally is to draw together disparate groups in order to improve Columbia's transportation system." I for one love public transportation--in other cities. It sucks in Columbia. And I work with a population that has no choice but to depend on our broken and embarrassingly under-funded system...we should all care about this issue. "The problems with our transportation affect our safety, our environment, our health, our economy, and our quality of life."
So, what's on your agenda this week and weekend?
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