The Jasper Project is excited to announce the line-up for the Jasper Arts Fairway at West Columbia’s Kinetic Derby Day, Saturday April 21st including performing artists every 30 minutes featuring Columbia City Ballet, Cola City Jazz with Mark Rapp, alt folk music with Todd Mathis and Cully Salehi, and more, plus 13 tents packed with interactive visual, literary, and kinetic arts and demonstrations.

Beginning with a 10 am arts kick-off for the Kinetic Derby Day Parade, the Jasper Project has assembled visual artists Justin Vorhis, who is a blacksmith at Ammack Forge, Muddy Ford Press which will feature signings by their authors all day long, Abstract Alexandra, Cola Town Bike Collective, wood artisan Pat Harris, West Columbia Library and We Read SC, visual artist Thomas Washington, interactive tents with Indie GritsLabs and Columbia Arts Center, the Yarnbombers of Columbia, All In with Corey Davis, and visual artists Michael Krajewski and Lucas Sams.

Kristine Hartvigsen will be hosting a Local Literary Salon featuring readings from our local literati in an intimate courtyard behind Ed's Editions BookStore. (Stay-tuned for that schedule.)

Pop up performers include David West, Emma Kate McLain, Airport High School Choir, Monifa Lemons and The Watering Hole Poetry, Lucas Sams, Kristen Harris and Sean Thomson, Cully Mathis and Todd Mathis, Mark Rapp, and Columbia City Ballet.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information on the Jasper Arts Fairway at West Columbia’s Kinetic Derby Day go to www.JasperProject.org. For more info on West Columbia's Kinetic Derby Day in general please go to https://www.kineticderbyday.com.