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Holiday fun includes Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Creole Christmas on Dec. 13, affordable events for families and a giftwrap workshop for adults. Plus, concert tickets and art classes are great gifts for all ages.
Reagan Martin, Austin Green and Sierra Frazier all plan to pursue graduate studies in music and music education.
As stage manager for Theatre UAB’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” Juliette Sosa Valle is responsible for every part of the show, before the curtain comes up until after it comes down, to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Families can enjoy photos with Blaze, a meet and greet with Santa Claus, games, crafts, hot chocolate bar, snacks, and more for $35, plus Growing Up Green and Gold members can have a VIP experience.
Theatre UAB is up for the challenge of this big, deceptively complex production, an electropop opera inspired by genres of music.
The 40th annual ArtBLINK Gala will be held Feb. 1, 2025, at the Kirklin Clinic at UAB Hospital.
For Pay What You Choose shows, donations are encouraged to help bring new entertainment to the community, but all are welcome to attend — just register online for tickets.
The Alys Stephens Center and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra offer discounted tickets to UAB students. Plus, check out free student rush tickets one hour before showtime, and the new Pay What You Choose series.
The event will feature a reception and a documentary screening followed by a panel discussion.
The 16th annual Uncork Education, with live and silent auctions, tastings, Blazer Plinko, and heavy hors d’oeuvres, will for the first time be at the historic Florentine Ballroom.
In this 2009 Tony Award winner for Best Play, two upscale couples meet to discuss a playground fight between their children; but as tensions emerge, their polite veneer begins to break down.
Undergraduate research will be highlighted at UAB’s 2024 Fall Expo.
Opera Birmingham’s “The Littlest Mermaid” and “Yuletide in Dogtown” from UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center and ArtPlay are Pay What You Choose shows this season, along with free Halloween and holiday family days.
The STARTALK Chinese language learning program, presented by the UAB Department of World Languages and Literatures for students in grades 9-14, includes online learning and a residential summer camp.
Theatre students from UAB take the show on the road and travel to schools around central Alabama to perform. See their free showcases Saturday, Sept. 28, or schedule a visit.
Decorated ethicist George Lucas will address the hopeful uses of emergent military technologies to promote stability, reduce human suffering, and counter the prevailing conflict and war tendencies.
Classes for all age groups this fall will include creative movement, visual arts, improv, hip-hop dance, ballet, writing, music and more.
An accomplished performer and devoted teacher, Smith is a UAB alumnus, graduate of the Eastman School of Music and associate professor of piano at Utah State University.
This season’s offerings will include the UAB Piano Series with alumnus Cahill Smith and “Gospel Goes Classical” with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, plus free recitals and concerts from faculty and students.
The 3,000-square-foot Dennis G. Pappas Historical Collections Gallery will house rotating exhibitions featuring the UAB Libraries’ historical collections.
For “Outside Lines,” AEIVA Curator Hannah Spears was inspired to select works that examine how artists’ use of color reflects broader shifts in society, technology and culture.
For her UAB residency, the artist is creating a two-part collaborative exhibition: “Manjari Sharma: तत् त्वम् असि (Tat Tvam Asi) The Universe is a Mirror” for the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts and "Looking for a Silver Lining" for UAB Arts in Medicine.
On Sept. 13, Odita will present a lecture on his work at 5 p.m., followed by an opening reception as part of the 2024 Arts Block Party. All events are free.
Theatre UAB will present “God of Carnage,” “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” “The Revolutionists,” and “She Kills Monsters,” with Disney’s “Freaky Friday” in collaboration with Red Mountain Theatre Company.
Cat Power pays homage to Bob Dylan’s iconic 1966 concert with soulful renditions of his timeless classics.
This free evening of art and music will now be held indoors at AEIVA and the Alys Stephens Center due to weather considerations, with a lecture by artist Odili Donald Odita and performances from Halo Wheeler, Swanglish, The BIG Reveal, and Steph and the Web.
For the 30th anniversary season, the band dug into the archives to craft a show of songs from different decades, including “Liberty Fanfare,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Thriller” and more.
Blazer fans can pick up their 2024 schedule posters and have them signed during the autograph-signing session with the football team.
This semester, at least 1,621 students are eligible to graduate, and 892 students are expected to walk in two ceremonies.
Summer doesn’t have to end yet: At Legacy Family Day, play games on the Campus Green, race rubber ducks in the Rec Center pool, dunk a UAB celebrity and more.