The Venue
Zen is an event venue with the panache of a wine bar and the creative elegance of an art gallery. Formal or casual, you will find our space stylish, functional and efficient. Sliding glass walls and minimalist style allow the light open space to transform and adapt to your special event.
While you’re here, be sure to take a look at our spaces that are available for any kind of event, and - as always - feel free to contact us
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Greenville, SC
The arts
Greenville has a thriving arts community, with a number of venues to support performances. Greenville has been named one of the “Top 100 Arts Small Towns in the United States.” The Bi-Lo Center, constructed in 1998, brings national tours of many popular bands to downtown, and the Peace Center for the Performing Arts provides an excellent venue for orchestras and plays.
Visual art
A number of local artists operate studios and galleries in the city, especially the West End area of downtown. Greenville also provides some notable fine arts museums:
* The Greenville County Museum of Art, home of the Andrew Wyeth Collection, was founded with a significant contribution from local industrialist, Arthur McGill. Today it attracts art scholars from all over the country, and contains pieces by Jackson Pollock, Jonathan Greene, Georgia O’Keeffe and native South Carolinians such as Jasper Johns and William H. Johnson.
* The Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery contains one of the finest collections of European masterworks in the United States[citation needed] and is especially strong in the French and Italian Baroque. The collection includes more than 400 paintings from the 14th to through the 19th centuries, period furniture, and a notable collection of Russian icons. Included are works by Rubens, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Veronese, Cranach, Gerard David, Murillo, Mattia Preti, Ribera, van Dyck, and Doré. Seven very large canvases, part of a series by Benjamin West called “The Progress of Revealed Religion”, are displayed in the War Memorial Chapel.[3]
Music
Greenville has an active music scene, with frequent live performances in the downtown area by local Jazz, Country, and Rock bands.
The city is home to a number of local orchestras, including the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville County Youth Orchestra, Carolina Youth Symphony, and the Carolina Pops Orchestra. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Greenville native Keith Lockhart, regularly performs at the Bi-Lo Center. Furman and Bob Jones Universities offer courses in operatic singing, and BJU has staged a full-scale grand opera each March for more than fifty years.
Dance and theatre
The Carolina Ballet Theatre is a professional dance company which regularly presents programs at the Peace Center and elsewhere. Their major annual event is the presentation of Tschaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet. Centre Stage, Greenville’s Professional Theater is a year-round, 285-seat professional theater producing a full season of music, comedy, drama and special events. Other theatres in the area include the Greenville Little Theater, South Carolina Children’s Theater and the Warehouse Theatre.
Literature
A number of notable writers have lived in downtown Greenville or nearby. Internationally known author and composer William Rowland lives in the city, as does novelist and educator Robert Powell as well as New York Times best selling children’s author Melinda Long, and novelists Ashley Warlick and Mindy Friddle. Renowned playwright James Rasheed lives in Greenville, and the late Poet Laureate Carl Sandburg was a frequent visitor.
