The Arts Center of Kershaw County is proud to announce the 2023 MAD Festival September 30 - October 8! The MAD festival is a 9-day festival celebrating music, art, drama, and dance with events throughout Downtown Camden and Kershaw County. This year’s schedule serves as a perfect launch point, including an incredible range of gospel, [...]

The Arts Center is proud to announce the 23/24 season! Below you can explore the full program listing for the Wood Auditorium, the Black Box Series, the Bassett Gallery, and our Theatre Productions. The Arts Center always brings the best of music, art, drama, and dance to Kershaw County, and we are so thrilled to [...]

June 10, 2023 Dick Goodwin's Big Band If you’ve ever seen a performance of the Big Band, you know it's an experience. Dick Goodwin is a talent of incredible range, having worked in virtually every idiom from jingle to opera, jazz band to orchestra. That mastery is brought to bare in the Big Band’s performances, [...]

As spring comes to Kershaw County there are so many great opportunities to engage with the Arts Center! April 25, 2023 High School Poetry Competition: Awards Ceremony This spring the Camden JWL, Camden Poets Society, the Arts Center, and KCSD hosted a poetry competition for high school students. The submissions were incredible. This awards ceremony [...]

The Arts Center is the perfect place to celebrate the holidays! We have a variety of events that will get you in the spirit. Mark Rapp's Christmas by Candlelight concert is sure to get your toes tapping, and Columbia Children's Theatre will have A Christmas Carol on our main stage, keeping the little ones entertained. [...]

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Irish Fest Camden for their generous donation of brand new mics. Ensuring that The SpongeBob Musical was a huge hit with audiences. The sound quality was fantastic, and we couldn’t have been more pleased. We are so grateful to have such a supportive community that believes [...]

Welcome to the BOTS Robotics Competition where teams and their (singing and dancing) robots are all vying for the top prize! Amidst the coding, building, and fierce competition, two members from rival teams befriend one another and throw everything off-balance. Will their collaborative spirit sabotage their teams’ chances of winning? This STEM musical invites humans [...]

The arts center is abuzz with activity this September! We have many social events to attend, and we're incredibly excited to be involved in the celebration of the City of Camden's cultural district. September 03, 2022 - September 10, 2022 Cultural District Celebration The City of Camden and the Arts Center of Kershaw County are [...]