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Featured Events
Winnie the Pooh has been charming children of all ages for nearly 100 years, and now the gentle, honey-craving bear gets a fresh take. Disney’s Winnie the...
Celebrate the power of young Black voices in film during the film festival, supported by UAB Student Media. The Black Focus Film Festival is a film...
As one of Birmingham’s premier events, the 38th annual ArtBLINK Gala includes a silent auction featuring one-of-a-kind pieces created live by local artists,...
Featuring a special performance by Eric Essix at 6:00 pm. Known as the “keeper of the images,” Kwame Brathwaite deployed his photography from the late...
Students are invited to enter the 2023 Spark Your Fire Arts Competition hosted by the Blazer Spirit Council. Sign up to showcase what the Blazer Way means...
Featuring special guests Maysa and poet Hank Stewart.
Join ArtPlay and the Student Arts Council for a viewing of the documentary 20 Feet of Stardom, featuring Ranky Tanky's Quiana Parler. A film short will also...
Mary Miller grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Big World (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2009) and...
Ranky Tanky has achieved many firsts for South Carolina’s West African-rooted Gullah community since their formation, earning yet another milestone at the...
Featuring Meshell Ndegeocello and Wictor Wooten. Created by UAB Alys Stephens Center’s own Eric Essix, MUSE Conference is FREE and created for new,...
Upcoming Events
Works by students, chosen by artist and guest juror Donté K. Hayes, will be featured in the Annual Juried Student Exhibition at the University of Alabama at...
Donté K. Hayes’ work is inspired by researching traditional African heirlooms, initiation rites of birth, adulthood, marriage, eldership, and ancestry which...
Winnie the Pooh has been charming children of all ages for nearly 100 years, and now the gentle, honey-craving bear gets a fresh take. Disney’s Winnie the...
Performances by the faculty members of the UAB Department of Music.
Join us for the first film in Palomitas's Coming of Age Film Series. Perla is obsessed with her two daughters, and she pins them against each other in the...
This class is for former students of "Write Your Life" or "Creative Nonfiction" with Audrey Atkins. This class will take you further along the path to...
Patrick Evans, baritone; Yakov Kasman, piano; with James Zingara, trumpet, and Mary DelGobbo, cello. Oratorio arias by Bach, Handel, and Mendelssohn,...
Known as the “keeper of the images,” Kwame Brathwaite deployed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an agent of social change....
Join ArtPlay over Zoom during your lunch break and learn more about South Carolina's Gullah culture and the educational efforts being made to preserve it....
Featuring a special performance by Eric Essix at 6:00 pm. Known as the “keeper of the images,” Kwame Brathwaite deployed his photography from the late...
Clinics, Honors Ensemble and the Festival of Brass Concert
High school choral students from all over the state work with clinicians and perform together. Public Concert: 4:30pm
Featuring special guests Maysa and poet Hank Stewart.
Student music majors in performance
A day of clinic, masterclasses, and performances in percussion. Jim White, featured clinician. Contact Dr. Gene Fambrough at gfambro@uab.edu for...
Korean Tapestry: Art Songs Composed by Korean Women Won Cho, bass Kyoung Cho, soprano Eun-Hee Park, piano
Guests will discuss the history of healing rituals and community healing practices with roots dating back to human’s Paleolithic ancestors and explore some...
Join ArtPlay and the Student Arts Council for a viewing of the documentary 20 Feet of Stardom, featuring Ranky Tanky's Quiana Parler. A film short will also...
Mary Miller grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Big World (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2009) and...
The second film in the Palomitas's Coming of Age Film Series. The year is 1970, and Mauro (Michel Joelsas) is taken to live with his grandfather while his...
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view...
Ranky Tanky has achieved many firsts for South Carolina’s West African-rooted Gullah community since their formation, earning yet another milestone at the...
Emily Jaworski Koriath, mezzo-soprano. 21st century chamber works for mezzo soprano, with UAB faculty and members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
Presented by visiting speaker Dr. Michael Flannery.
Get a move on! Young movers and shakers will explore creativity through movement to music and rhythms. Activities in this class will promote body and sensory...
In this class built for children, we will practice mindfulness and stress reduction through both stillness and movement. As a group, we will practice both...
Learn more about yourselves and others through movement! Creating a nurturing space together, we will use improvisation and different movement techniques to...
This wonderful dance class infuses the newest moves with classic steps. Join Jarvis as he uses his training in hip hop explore one of the dance world’s most...
This is a intermediate hand stitching quilting workshop. In this class, students will practice the tools of the trade, piecing techniques, quilting and...
This class is an intro to writing and performing stand-up comedy with a focus on finding the funny in everyday life situations, finding your unique comedy...
Join Director of UAB's Arts in Medicine, Kimberly Kirklin, and teaching Artist Alecia Martinez as we explore our emotions through visual art. Each week will...
Whether you want to document your family's history, publish a memoir, or start a blog, this class will give you the tools you need to write your stories with...
We’ve got the rhythm. Do you? ArtPlay is excited to offer this beginning tap class for you with musical theatre dynamo, Reid Watson. If “flap,” ‘buffalo,”...
Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist and educator. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media in the School of Art at...
Join ArtPlay teaching artist, Jennifer Salvant as you discover the wonders of acting. This class is for those that have always wanted to try acting class but...
Actor and educator Jennifer Salvant will guide participants through the basics of theatre. Students will learn theatre games, improvisation, monologues,...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright returns with an unforgettable account of two young immigrants fighting to establish a place for themselves and each...
The third film in the Palomitas's Coming of Age Film Series. A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant in Buenos...
Featuring Meshell Ndegeocello and Wictor Wooten. Created by UAB Alys Stephens Center’s own Eric Essix, MUSE Conference is FREE and created for new,...
“Chamber Music @ AEIVA” is a free concert series that aims to present quality chamber music in an engaging, inviting environment. The series offers...
Meshell Ndegeocello’s music twists and turns through so many genres – R&B, pop, jazz, hip-hop – that it’s hard to put a finger on just where she wants to...
Victor Wooten, is a five-time Grammy winner and a founding member of the super-group Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Continuing to blaze a musical trail with...
Beautiful does not begin to describe the incomparable force known to the world as Patti LaBelle. As time continues to evolve, the soulful songbird’s name has...
Prema Bhat, Indian Classical Vocalist
After two blockbuster seasons in North America, Taj Express returns to the Jemison Concert Hall with a brand-new show: “Bollywood Jukebox.” Taj Express:...
The fourth and final film in the Palomitas's Coming of Age Series. Guie’dani is dragged to Mexico City by her mother to help in her work as a housekeeper...
Imagine an evening immersing yourself in exciting entertainment presented by award-winning artists, without having to figure out childcare! We have you...
Four-time Grammy Award-winning artist, formerly half of The Civil Wars, John Paul White joins the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a unique crossover...
Rachel Thomas, mezzo-soprano
