Events

Local equestrian/yogini Jennifer Cohen Harper joins the 13 Hands Equine Rescue team to introduce tyros to the joys of interacting with equines, not necessarily while astride them.

This year's festival, honoring Emmy-nominated actor and area resident Walton Goggins, will feature 47 exceptional new films and shorts you won't see in wide release until later this fall and winter, including: Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen's WWII drama, Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and

Click the link below to view the 2024 Film Columbia schedule! https://crandelltheatre.org/filmcolumbia/schedule/

Cottagecore enthusiasts can sign up for workshops ranging from fiber crafts (felted pumpkins) to basket-weaving and spoon-carving. Unmissable: the livestock demos, including “leaping llamas.”

Kids are born fauvists, and Béla Bartók Bartok’s wild music can leave them classical- curious. At this family-friendly show, Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri promise to riff and transport.

Fresh from a bracing free sail aboard the Woody Guthrie, dive into hot pumpkin soup and fresh-baked pie while taking in live music emanating from two solar-powered stages.

Test your pickle face with the Pickle Triathlon (eating, juice-drinking, tossing). Among the more esoteric offerings from 100-odd vendors: pickle empanadas, pasta, cupcakes and ice cream.

The endless corridors of this sprawling 1869 resort can be Shining-scary in their own right. Throw in “ghostly games,” an escape room mystery, and a Monster Mash Party for kids, and every generation will be appropriately amused and spooked.

Conceived by playwright Kate Douglas, composer Matthew Dean Marsh, and singer Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez, this immersive folk/chamber/soul concert addresses the relational challenges of a changing world.

Every fall, the arts nonprofit, lodged in a towering grain elevator, invites creators to engage in a “terrible takeover” of its galleries. On Saturday night, the gathering segues into a Monster’s Ball at the nearby Lantern Inn.

The arts park invites families to improvise a tall, collaborative sculpture by knotting colorful swatches. If captivated, head back November 10 to go horizontal with a woven canopy.

The timing couldn’t be better to catch the irreverent successors of the Capitol Steps (1981-2020). These “equal-opportunity offenders” promise song parodies and assorted “foolish reflections.”