It’s been a year since Nickelodeon Board of Directors announced that Sumner Bender was coming aboard as executive director. She joined the team as it was facing a trio of big challenges: It still was far from fully open after more than two years of pandemic. Many doubted the future of the whole industry in […]
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For Charmaine Clowney, chairing The Nick’s board is ‘just the thrill of my life’
October 19, 2022
When Charmaine Clowney was growing up in Columbia, she developed an early love of music. She saw her first performances of opera and jazz. She saw the great Dizzy Gillespie play in person, right here it her hometown. “The arts were a way of escaping, living in the segregated South,” she recalls. But here in […]
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Sumner Bender named executive director of The Nickelodeon
April 28, 2022
Sumner Bender, an educator in Lexington-Richland School District 5 and president of the board of Trustus Theatre, will become the new executive director of The Nickelodeon arthouse theater on June 6. She is the first named permanently to the position since last August. The Columbia native has been the theater teacher at Spring Hill High […]
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The Nickelodeon board has a change of leadership
April 20, 2022
Due to unavoidable but exciting developments, The Nick has just experienced a change in board leadership. Our president since August 2021, Xavier Blake, started a new job in the Albany, NY, area on April 18 as Content & Engagement Manager for WMHT Public Media, the public broadcasting outlet for eastern New York state and western […]
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Annual Meeting Is Now Available
October 28, 2021
If you missed the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 26th, no worries! You can now view the meeting HERE. Passcode: p22HSI.k
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CFS Elects New Board President | Begins Search For New Executive Director
August 6, 2021
Columbia Film Society elects new board president, launches search for Executive Director. The Columbia Film Society’s Board of Directors elected South Carolina ETV executive Xavier Blake as President of the Board. In addition, it announced the launch of a national search for a new Executive Director at a meeting on Thursday, Aug. 5. Blake is […]
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The Columbia Film Society Welcomes New Board Members
June 2, 2021
THE COLUMBIA FILM SOCIETY WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBERS Annually, the Columbia Film Society membership elects members to the Board of Directors. Board members serve for three-year terms and a maximum of three terms. The CFS election in the fall did not garner enough participation to validate the election. CFS reopened the election in May after […]