Art

Trenholm Artists Guild (TAG) and City Art will present the 24th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, April 7—16, at the City Art Gallery. A reception will be held on April 7 from 5:30—7:30 pm. The public is invited. http://promotions. yahoo.com/new_mail

On March 17, the Contemporaries of the Columbia Museum of Art will return with Third Thursday Art pARTies. This is the Contemporaries first band party on a Thursday evening and will be held on Boyd Plaza in front of the museum from 6—9 pm. There will be live music. The galleries will feature the Modern and Contemporary Collection, as well as the exhibition, Victorian Visions, and remain open until 7:30 pm. It is free with admission to the art pARTy. Admission is free for Contemporaries members. 343-0480

Church/Charity

Maple Street Church will have its spring revival April 17–May 5. 799-3646

St. Michael’s & All Angel’s Episcopal Church will hold its annual Booksale & BBQ on March 12, 9 am—1 pm. Proceeds support youth programs. 782-8080

Church of the Harvest Christian Ministries will have its Second Church Anniversary, March 18, 7 pm and Pastors’ Appreciation Banquet Celebration, March 19, 7 pm at Fort Jackson NCO Club. 782-7340 or 353-7187

Rehoboth United Methodist Church will be performing its annual Easter drive thru drama, The Week That Changed The World! on March 18 and 19 from 7–10 pm. 736-2220

Bethel A.M.E. Church will present Praise and Worship Conference to be held March 18—20. Early deadline registration is March 15. 750-0303 or 361-7772

The Lutheran Bach Choir will present the sacred cantata by J.S. Bach, Christ Lay In Death’s Dark Prison at the monthly meeting of the Columbia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, March 13 at 4 pm at Ebenezer Lutheran Church. The public is invited to attend.

Dance

The Greater Columbia Chapter of the US Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association will hold a St. Patrick’s Day Dance on March 12, 7:30—10:30 pm, at the Hugh Dimmery Memorial Center. A second dance will be held on March 26, 7:30—10:30 pm at the same center. A complimentary dance lesson will be offered from 7:40—8:30 pm. 796-8488

Meetings/Lectures

The SC State Museum will offer a variety of programs in conjunction with Operation Overlord; Breaking Through the Atlantic Wall, D–Day, 6 June 1944 on March 12. Beginning at 1:30 pm, Dr. Ed Beardsley will portray Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the museum’s auditorium. Following Beardsley at 3:30 pm, SC veterans of WW II will share their memories of D–Day with museum visitors at a veterans forum. Operation Overlord continues through June 12. 898–4921

The Richland County Public Library and the SC Bar’s Pro Bono Program will host a free legal clinic on family law issues at 6 pm on March 22 in the Bostick Auditorium of the Main Library. 799–4015, ext. 158.

Discover Richland and Lexington counties’ material culture at Historic Columbia Foundation’s Parlor Lecture Series . Plain and Fancy: the Decorative Arts of SC’s Fall Line Region will be March 13, 2 pm—4 pm, Clarion Town House Hotel. 252–7742, ext. 23

Anthropologist Napoleon A. Chagnon, whose studies have received international attention, will speak at 4 pm, March 23, at USC’s Belk Auditorium in the Moore School of Business. The lecture will focus on Chagnon’s 30–year career of research among the Yanomamo Indians. 777–5400

As a part of the commemoration of its 150th year, Columbia College will host Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African–American in space, for a presentation on March 15, 7 pm, at Tronco’s at the State Fairgrounds. The presentation is free and open to the public. 786–3649

The SC State Housing Finance and Development Authority will sponsor a Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME) Application Workshop on March 22, 8:30—4:30 pm and a Housing Trust Fund Application Workshop on March 23, 8:30 am—4 pm. These workshops will be held at the Columbiana Conference Center. Early registration is encouraged. For more information on the HOME workshop call 896–9248 or 896–9263 for the Housing Trust Fund workshop. Registration deadline is March 18.

A community forum to help set the agenda for the White House Conference on Aging will be held on March 14 at the Capital Senior Center, 9 am—12:30 pm. SC has scheduled its State White House conference on Aging for April 25—27 at Springmaid Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach. 376–5390

George Singleton, author of Why Dogs Chase Cars, The Half –Mammals of Dixie, These People Are Us, and soon–to–be–published Novel –– will serve as a visiting writer at Columbia College March 22, 1:30 pm. He will speak to an American Literature class in Breed Leadership Center Room 102, and at 7 pm, he will give a public reading in Breed 201–202. Both events are free and open to the public. The 7 pm reading will be followed by a book signing. 786–3649

Former defense secretary William Cohen will be the inaugural speaker March 23 at the Koger Center for a lecture series at USC called Spectrum. Cohen, whose talk is titled American Role in Today’s Global Society, will speak at 7 pm. A second discussion featuring USC faculty, will take place at 7 pm, March 24. The panel discussion will be held in the Russell House theater. The events are free to USC students, faculty, and staff, and $5 for general public. 777–7130

G. Edward White, a law professor at the University of Virginia, will deliver the 4 pm lecture “Historicizing Judicial Scrutiny” as part of the Charles W. Knowlton lecture series on how the US Supreme Court’s decision–making processes have changed over the years . The lecture will be held March 24, 4 pm at the USC School of Law . The lecture is free and open to the public. 777–5400

Nature

The dates for Congaree National Park’s Owl Prowls are March 18 and 25 at 7:30 pm; April 1, 8, 15, 16, 22, and 29 at 8 pm; May 6, 13, 20, and 27 at 8:30 pm; and June 3 at 8:30 pm. Reservations are required. 776–4396 (ext. 10).

Music

John Kenneth Adams, Professor Emeritus, USC School of Music will present a new Piano Portrait on the life of French composer Maurice Ravel, March 29 at 7:30 pm in the School of Music Recital Hall. Admission is free. 776–7019

USC School of Music will present violist Scott Rawls and pianist Phillip Bush of UNC Greensboro March 20, 7:30 pm in the School of Music recital hall at USC. 777–5702

Theatre

Dance Theater has announced the upcoming production of Alice in Wonderland at the Town Theater: March 18, 8 pm; March 19, 3 pm and 8 pm; and March 20, 3 pm. Proceeds benefit Camp Kemo. 788–7517

Main Street United Methodist Church will present Godspell, a musical based upon the teachings and passion of Jesus Christ, on March 18—20. All performances begin at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm. The show is suitable for all ages. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. 779–0610