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South Carolina Cornbread Festival 2023

South Carolina Cornbread Festival 2023

Presented by NCBA/NOMA District

Sunday, April 30th
11am-6pm
2847 N. Main Street, Columbia, SC
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The South Carolina Cornbread Festival Returns After a 3-Year Hiatus!  

After a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the North Columbia Business Association (NCBA)/North Main (NOMA) District is pleased to announce the return of the South Carolina Cornbread Festival on Sunday, April 30, 2023 from 11am-6pm at 2847 N. Main Street. The NCBA/NOMA District hosts South Carolina’s only event dedicated to the love of cornbread. 

The mission of the South Carolina Cornbread Festival is to provide the North Columbia community the opportunity to be a part of the NCBA/NOMA District’s tradition and cultural pastime that brings people together for a fun-filled family experience.

The South Carolina Cornbread Festival welcomes approximately 8,000 attendees annually to the City of Columbia and Richland County. The festival proceeds enable the NCBA/NOMA District to market the corridor throughout the Midlands and host events throughout the year showcasing its merchants. The festival is a destination event that attracts attendees from around the region with over half of attendees between the ages of twenty-five and sixty, sixty percent female, forty percent male and eighty-five percent African American.

This year’s festival will take place at 2847 N. Main Street in Downtown Columbia in the grassy area in front of the NOMA Community Garden bordered by Anthony Avenue, Drayton and Newman Streets and River Drive.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the gate. Festivities will include live music, cornhole and bingo games, the Cornbread Alley, the Cornbread Cook-Off, the Cornbread Eating Competition, the Corn Muffin Playland, the Little Miss Muffin Pageant, craft vendors, food trucks and exhibitors.

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Sponsorships will be accepted through Friday, March 31st.

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Vendor applications will be accepted through Friday, April 21st.

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Volunteers

We are looking for 130 volunteers. If you or your group is interested, please reach out!

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Light Up NOMA Cookie Crawl 2022

Come out and enjoy delicious treats, participate in the Cookie Crawl and enjoy a night of festivities!

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Allergy Warning
The cookies you receive may contain, or be created in a location that contains, the top nine allergens:

  • Milk
  • Eggs
  • Fish
  • Shellfish
  • Tree nuts/nuts
  • Peanuts
  • Wheat
  • Soybean
  • Corn

The NOMA Business District’s “Light Up NOMA Cookie Crawl” is back on Saturday, December 10th from 3-6pm!

Join us this year in the bustling NOMA District on Saturday, December 10th, 3-6pm, for the 3rd Annual NOMA Cookie Crawl. You will receive a professionally designed cookie tin and crawl to thirteen locations to pick up freshly baked holiday cookies from the district’s merchants. Pick up tins between 3pm-4:30pm at Main Street Bakery located at 3307 N. Main Street.

The Cookie Crawl is in conjunction with the Light Up NOMA holiday event peppered throughout the NOMA District. Merchants will open their doors and offer samplings of products, show off their goods and invite the public in for a festive afternoon! Santa Claus will be at NOMA Mediterranean Bistro by Al Amir, located at 2431 N. Main Street, at 3pm for pictures. The NOMA Christmas Tree Lighting and The Christmas Story reading will be at Gardener’s Outpost, located at 1211 Franklin Street, at 6pm.

Tickets
Light Up NOMA is a FREE event. The NOMA Cookie Crawl is $20 per cookie tin, in advance. Cookie tins will be $30 on the day of the crawl. Please be aware there are only 250 tins available, and this event sold out early in its first year. You must pick up your cookie tin between 3pm-4:30pm at Main Street Bakery, located at 3307 N. Main Street, but you can continue the crawl at participating locations until 6pm.
Buy tickets here.

You can also purchase cookie tin tickets in advance at the following locations:

  • Cromer’s P-nuts, 3030 N. Main Street
  • Indah Coffee, 2238 Sumter Street

Cookie Crawl Locations and Light Up NOMA Specials:

  1. Main Street Bakery, 3307 N. Main Street
    Gingerbread men, hot chocolate, cider, macarons, holiday cookies and cashew brittle available
    Start the Cookie Crawl here by picking up your tin between 3pm-4:30pm!
  2. Carolina Imports, 2965 N. Main Street
    20% off home accessories
  3. b. mod, 2965 N. Main Street
    modern. original. design. vintage furniture and décor
  4. Cromer’s P-nuts, 3030 N. Main Street
    Get your pre-sale cookie tin tickets here!
  5. The Vino Garage, 2501 N. Main Street
    10% off wine retail
  6. NOMA Mediterranean Bistro by Al Amir, 2431 N. Main Street
    Buy one signature pizza, get the second half off and live music
    Santa Claus will make an appearance at 3pm for pictures!
  7. Rambo’s Fat Cat Biscuit, 2430 N. Main Street
    Seasonal mimosa specials and live music
  8. Pelican’s SnoBalls, 2404 N. Main Street
    SnoBall cornhole game
  9. Palmetto Payroll, 9 Belleview Circle
    Law enforcement safety tips and childrens’ activities
  10. Gardener’s Outpost, 1211 Franklin Street
    Happy Hour specials, 10% off one item w/cookie tin and live entertainment
    The NOMA Christmas Tree Lighting and the reading of The Christmas Story will take place at 6pm!
  11. Indah Coffee, 2238 Sumter Street
    Live entertainment
    Get your pre-sale cookie tin tickets here!
  12. NOMA Warehouse, 2222 Sumter Street
    Beer, wine and champagne available and Christmas Market and Merchandise Fair
  13. Chiropractic Professional, 1301 Elmwood Avenue

Transportation

Transportation will be provided directly to many of the cookie crawl locations to make it as convenient as possible. The crawl will begin at Main Street Bakery located at 3307 N. Main Street (only check-in location). There, you will show your tickets from your phone to a volunteer and they will provide you a cookie tin, list of participating cookie locations and transportation for the crawl. We encourage participants of the Cookie Crawl to park at Earlewood Park, 1113 Parkside Drive, and walk over to Main Street Bakery. From there, you will be able to crawl to the participating locations at your leisure.

Sponsored By:

  • Prisma Health
  • The COMET
  • Gardener’s Outpost
  • Free Times
  • Grace Outdoor
  • b. mod

 


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Light Up NOMA Cookie Crawl 2021

Come out and enjoy delicious treats, participate in the Cookie Crawl and enjoy a night of festivities!

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Back by popular demand! Please join us this year on a Saturday in the bustling NOMA District, December 4th, 3-4:30PM, for the 2nd Annual NOMA Cookie Crawl. The Cookie Crawl is in conjunction with the annual Light UP NOMA event which will run from 3-6PM. You will receive a professionally designed cookie tin and crawl to nine locations to pick up freshly baked holiday cookies from the district’s talented bakeries and merchants.

The Cookie Crawl is in conjunction with the Light Up NOMA district-wide event in the heart of the North Main District. NOMA will officially kick-off the holiday season. Merchants will open their doors and offer samplings of products, show off their goods and invite the public in for a festive afternoon. The NOMA tree lighting will occur at 6PM and Christmas Story reading will be at the NOMA Warehouse location, 2222 Sumter Street. During the Light UP NOMA event, Santa Clause will be at the NOMA Bistro.

Light Up NOMA is a free event. The NOMA Cookie Crawl is only $20 per ticket. If there are any tickets available they will be $30 day of. Please be aware there are only 250 tickets and this event sold out early in its first year in 2019. You must pick up your Cookie tin between 3-4:30PM but you can continue the crawl at participating locations until 6PM.

Cookie crawl locations
(More to come):

  • Main Street Bakery
  • Carolina Imports
  • Cromer’s P-nuts
  • Vino Garage
  • NOMA Bristo
  • Palmetto Payroll
  • Temptation Bakery
  • Indah Coffee
  • Noma Warehouse
  • Chiropractic professional
  • Rambo’s Fat Cat Biscuit
  • J.Brown Studio

*Allergy warning: the cookies you receive may contain or be created in a location that contains the top 9 allergens: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts/nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and corn*

Transportation will be provided directly to many of the cookie crawl locations to make it as convenient as possible. The crawl will begin at Carolina Imports- 2965 Main Street (the check-in location). There you will show your tickets from your phone to a volunteer and they will provide you a cookie tin, list of participating cookie locations and transportation for the crawl. We encourage participants of the cookie crawl to park at Earlewood Park, 1113 Parkside Drive, and catch transportation to Carolina Imports. From there you will be able to crawl to the participating locations at your leisure.

 

Sponsorships are Available:

-Presenting Level: $2,000 (only 1 sponsorship available)

-Sponsor will have the opportunity to speak at the podium on stage during the event; Sponsor will have prominent placement for table set up at NOMA Warehouse during event; name on Sponsor logo on Billboard, Free Times Insert and website.

-Tree Lighting Sponsor: $1,500 (only 1 sponsorship available)

Sponsor will be thanked at the podium on stage, help light the tree during the event; prominent placement for table set up; logo on marketing and website.

-Cookie Crawl Sponsor: $1,000 (SOLD OUT to Woodforest National Bank)

Business name listed on cookie tin, logo on eventbrite page and on main website.

-Business Sponsor: $500 (only 5 available))

On site table during event and logo on website, marketing materials.

*All tables at NOMA Warehouse (up to 10 spots available) / Indah Coffee (up to 3 spots available) – table is provided by venue, Sponsors need to bring linens*

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2019 SC Cornbread Festival

Announcing the 7th Annual South Carolina Cornbread Festival presented by North Columbia Business Association in partnership with the City of Columbia, Richland County, Woodforest National Bank and numerous community businesses and organizations throughout the Columbia area. The event is Saturday, March 23, 2019 from 11am-6pm at 2024 Main St, Columbia, SC 29201

The event will feature an entire day of entertainment, food, fun for every family member, Visitor and every community! The kids will love the Corn Muffin Play land and with FREE carnival rides, plus bounce houses, face painting, balloon animals, karaoke, lots of mascots, their own DJ, and more!

The Cornbread Classic Corn Hole Tournament will return as one of the festival highlights with competitors from across the country. Of course it wouldn’t be the South Carolina Cornbread Festival without the Cornbread Cook Off, Cornbread Eating Contest, Cornbread Alley, and crafty vendors and great food trucks

The South Carolina Cornbread Festival benefits the Buddy & Benjamin Literacy program and the North Columbia Revitalization Project. NCBA Executive Director Sabrina Odom states: “The South Carolina Cornbread Festival has a vital purpose which is to help build up the CHILDREN of our community as well as existing and new BUSINESSES in our community. If we continue to come together to support the festival and each other, we can make a difference for both!”

NCBA would like to thank the following sponsors for their efforts in making the South Carolina Cornbread Festival a success: The City of Columbia, Richland County Woodforest National Bank, and SC Experience.

First Tuesday Music Night

Join us in Earlewood Park at the Amphitheater for May’s concert! Come drink cold beer, listen to live music, and socialize with your NOMA neighbors plus their four-legged friends!

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Indie Grits Festival Sunday Dinner

Hosted by resident Hip Hop hero, Fat Rat Da Czar, Sunday Dinner brings out a grade-A block party to close out the festival right. The unique blues of Amythyst Kiah headlines, supported by the Grammy Award winning folk star and founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dom Flemons. This packed afternoon opens with the top-shelf jazz and hip hop stylings of The Beast out of Durham, NC. Come, grab some delicious grub from local vendors, and enjoy a Sunday the only way anyone should–with friends, food, music, and unmistakably buoyant vibes.

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NOMA After Work Social

Come relax after work with your NOMA neighbors! Enjoy light appetizers and a drink at The War Mouth while getting to know other business owners. After Work Socials will be held every 3rd Wednesday of the month!

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12th Annual Indie Grits Festival

The Indie Grits Festival is a four-day event that celebrates gritty, contemporary culture of the South through film, art and music. Twice named one of the 20 “Coolest Film Festivals” in the world by Moviemaker Magazine [2012 & 2014], this year’s festival offers 83 films, a full lineup of musical performances, visual art interventions, Indie Bits(an indie video gaming showcase), Kindie Grits(filmmaking basics for children), a puppet slam and exclusive evening parties each night!

For a full schedule of the events go to: http://indiegrits.org/festival/schedule/

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NOMA Social Mixer

Come socialize with us! Every 3rd Wednesday of each month the NCBA will be hosting a monthly social for NOMA members to mingle and get to know each other. Great networking opportunity too!

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First Tuesday Music Series

Come enjoy music from Two For the Road and food from The Wurst Wagen and Crepes and Croissants! Sponsored by the Vino Garage. Admission is FREE