GROW

Jazz Workshop
2025-07-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-03 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Every 1st and 3rd Thursday, Columbia musicians gather at GROW to play jazz. It is free and open to all. Anyone with talent is invited to sit in with the band for a tune or two.

Screening of 'Gaza, Doctors Under Attack'
2025-07-15 18:00 - 20:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Join us for GROW Movie Night: Gaza, Doctors Under Attack on Tuesday, July 15, at 6:30pm. Hybrid event: Online via Zoom or In-Person at GROW (Grass Roots Organizing Workshop), 1340 Elmwood Ave, Columbia, SC 29201. Screening the hour-long documentary Gaza, Doctors Under Attack produced but then canned by the BBC. Light refreshments. Free/donations accepted.

RSVP if plan to join us in person at info@carolinapeace.org

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GROW Night is the monthly education night on the 3rd Tuesday of each month sponsored by Carolina Peace Resource Center.

Jobs With Justice/CWA organizing meeting
2025-07-12 11:00 - 13:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
The SC Progressive Network is hosting a meeting about the opportunities and challenges of the SCOUT electrical vehicle plant being constructed in Blythewood. The state has offered SCOUT $1.3 billion in incentives for the facility that will take three years to complete, cover 1,100 acres and hire 4,000 employees.
Our members and allies in Blythewood and the adjoining communities who have questions, concerns, or may want a job, are invited to attend.
The meeting is organized by Jobs With Justice, a national organization the Network has along relationship with, that helps communities dialogue with huge corporations to identify and work to resolve problems before they happen.
The two-hour meeting will be facilitated by JWJ staffer Nichel Dunlap-Thompson, SC native and recent Modjeska School graduate. Contact Nichel for details at 704-890-7631.

Activist Fair
2025-07-11 16:30 - 19:30
The SC Progressive Network will be tabling at the Jasper Project’s Activist Fair on Friday afternoon. It is part of a four-day Degenerate Art Project at Stormwater Studios, 413 Pendleton St. in Columbia.
Stop by to say hello and get some free stuff.

Modjeska Simkins School Graduation
2025-06-28 15:00 - 19:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Students and their families will celebrate their matriculation from the spring session of the Modjeska Simkins School with a graduation ceremony and dinner. Students from across South Carolina have been meeting every Monday evening since March 3 at GROW and on Zoom. It’s been a wonderful session, and we look forward to seeing what the graduates do next.

United Campus Workers meeting
2025-06-24 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-27 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-13 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-04-22 18:00 - 19:30 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
United Campus Workers meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at GROW. Join union organizers for a monthly meeting to talk shop and plan actions.

Jazz Workshop
2025-06-19 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-06-05 20:00 - 22:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Every 1st and 3rd Thursday between 8 and 10pm, GROW holds a free jazz workshop to showcase local talent. It’s Columbia’s best-kept secret. All are welcome.

Peace for Palestine meeting
2025-06-17 18:00 - 20:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Join Carolina Peace for GROW Night: Cuba, Lift the Blockade this Tuesday June 17th 6:30pm, featuring speaker Ty dePass, founding member of Asere. Light refreshments. Free/donations accepted.

For six-and-a-half-decades the US has waged clandestine warfare on the island nation of Cuba. From the economic sanctions imposed by the Eisenhower administration, to the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion under Kennedy, to the Trump regime’s posting of Cuba on its list of state-sponsored terrorism (SST), Cuban has endured economic hardships, sabotage, assassination attempts and terrorist bombings intended to “bring about hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of [the Castro] government.”

Ty dePass is a founding member of Asere, a cadre formation reaching out to activists engaged in ongoing struggles for social justice and equity in the US. Tonight’s presentation is part of Asere’s living room outreach initiative.

RSVP if plan to join us in person at info@carolinapeace.org

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 836 3041 7746
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GROW Night is the monthly education night on the 3rd Tuesday of each month sponsored by Carolina Peace Resource Center.

United Campus Workers meeting
2025-06-10 18:00 - 19:30 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
United Campus Workers meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at GROW. Join union organizers to talk shop and plan actions.

Screening of Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre
2025-06-08 16:00 - 17:30 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
As part of its Deep Dive series, the Modjeska Simkins School will screen the 2014 film Scarred Justice, a 60-min. documentary about the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre.

The Orangeburg Massacre brings to light one of the bloodiest tragedies of the Civil Rights era after decades of deliberate denial. The killing of four white students at Kent State University in 1970 left an indelible stain on our national consciousness. But most Americans know nothing of the three Black students killed at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg two years earlier. This scrupulously researched documentary finally offers the definitive account of that tragic incident and reveals the environment that allowed it to be buried for so long. It raises disturbing questions about how our country acknowledges its tortured racial past in order to make sense of its challenging present.

Please invite anyone who might want to participate in Columbia at GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., or online. To join on Zoom, register HERE.

Teach Truth Day!
2025-06-07 14:00 - 14:30 | SC State House, 1100 Gervais St., Columbia, SC
We will mark the Zinn Education Project’s national Teach Truth Day on June 7 by gathering Modjeska Simkins School students and allies on the SC State House steps for a short speak-out. Come show your support for teaching a true people’s history in the Palmetto State.
Join us at 2pm for a brief program with the school’s lead instructor, Dr. Robert Greene II, and Brett Bursey, SC Progressive Network ED. Alumni and graduates will be invited to share a few words.
We will also use the occasion as a photo op to help promote the school’s 2026 session and our new satellite viewing sites.
Video from last year’s Teach Truth Day.

Monthly Network meeting
2025-05-28 19:00 - 20:30 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
We are suspending our regular public Network meetings to focus on our internal work for the coming months. We are working on some exciting projects, including GROW building expansion plans. We are also organizing our fall retreat at Penn Center. Stay tuned!

Carolina Peace Grow Night
2025-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Peace for Palestine monthly meeting (3rd Tuesdays), 6-8pm: Join Midlands peace activists working to educate the public and end the bloodshed in Gaza. Sponsored by Carolina Peace.

GROW street sweep seeks volunteers
2025-05-17 14:00 - 15:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Looking for a few volunteers! The Modjeka Simkins School participates in the City of Columbia’s Adopt-A-Street program by conducting a quarterly sweep of our neighborhood. We need help picking up trash on Marion Street between Elmwood and Taylor. We provide trash bags, gloves, pickers, and beverages. The sweep lasts about an hour. This month, folks who can stay longer are invited to help deep clean GROW: washing windows, sorting the pantry, etc. We will provide snacks and beverages.
To volunteer, please email gabbi@scpronet.com.

Field Trip to Civil Rights Museum
2025-05-17 09:30 - 14:00
Carpool to Orangeburg leaves from GROW at 9:30am. (NOTE: space is now full)

GROW jazz workshop
2025-05-15 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-01 20:00 - 22:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Every 1st and 3rd Thursday, GROW holds a free jazz workshop that is open to all. Join friends for a casual night of live music by some of Columbia’s finest. Got talent? Sit in with the band for a tune or two or take the mic at intermission to share a story or poem.

UFO at GROW
2025-05-10 19:00 - 23:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202

Deep Dive with Armand Derfner
2025-04-27 16:00 - 18:30 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Sunday, April 27, 4–6pm
Deeper Dive with Armand Derfner, nationally renowned civil rights attorney
Mr. Derfner, a Charleston resident, will discuss the US Supreme Court’s systemic betrayal of civil rights and the rulings favoring corporations’ rights over individual liberties. Derfner co-authored the recently released book Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court, with distinguished historian Dr. Vernon Burton.
This is a public program that is part of the Modjeska Simkins School’s spring session. Participants may attend online or in-person at GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave. in Columbia. To join on Zoom, register HERE.

Craft Circle
2025-04-26 13:00 - 17:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Craft Circle at GROW, 1–5pm. All are welcome to an afternoon of crafting and creating community.

Progressive Network meeting
2025-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Every 4th Wednesday at 7pm, members and allies of the SC Progressive Network meet online and in-person at GROW to network and share news of upcoming events. All are welcome.
To join on Zoom, register HERE.

Jazz Workshop
2025-04-17 20:00 - 22:00 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Join friends for a night of live music every 1st and 3rd Thursday at GROW, the HQ of the SC Progressive Network at 1340 Elmwood Ave. in Columbia. Folks with talent are invited to sit in with the Justus Band for a tune or two. During the 10-minute intermission, audience members can take advantage of the open mic to share a poem or short piece of writing. No cover charge.

Poetry for Palestine: Open Mic
2025-04-15 18:30 - 20:30 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202

Majority Rules screening and panel
2025-04-09 19:00 - 20:30 | GROW, 1340 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, 29202
Ranked choice voting has been used by millions of Americans. Join allies to watch this documentary and hear about the positive results that this election reform has brought to Alaska and beyond. Then stay with us afterwards to discuss the state of the movement in South Carolina.

This event is organized by Better Ballot South Carolina.

United Campus Workers meeting
2025-04-08 18:00 - 19:30
