Pride Festival, Color Me Rad 5K hit the streets
Columbia will be colorful in more than one way Saturday.
Starting the day bright and early at 8 a.m. is the Color Me Rad 5K, in which runners are pelted with five different colors of powdered paint. Runners can register the day of the event for one of the three races starting at 8, 8:20 or 8:40 a.m.
Participants will run from the Colonial Life Arena to the corner of Senate and Barnwell streets and back. While they’ll leave in plain white T-shirts, they’ll come back covered in a rainbow of colors.
But those aren’t the only rainbows you’ll see in Columbia on Saturday. At noon, the South Carolina Pride Festival kicks off in front of the South Carolina State House on Main Street.
The Pride Parade will start the day’s celebration, with performances from ’80s hitmakers Berlin, former American Idol contestant Kimberly Locke and former “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” contestants Mariah Balenciaga, Phoenix and Morgan McMichaels.
A free Family Pride area will be located on Washington Street between Main and Assembly streets. The area will have camel rides, crafts games and many more kid-friendly attractions.