Festivals & Events

Grab your mask and snorkel and come on an unforgettable adventure to the Great Barrier Reef!

Narrated by acclaimed Australian actor Eric Bana, Great Barrier Reef captures the natural beauty and exquisite strangeness of the world’s largest living wonder and introduces us to the visionaries and citizen scientists who are helping us better understand and protect this awesome, bizarre, and vibrant living world. Meet reef native Jemma Craig on an expedition to document efforts to preserve the reef and swim with giant mantas, sea turtles, sharks and Minke whales as you explore this awe-inspiring natural wonderland on the world’s largest screens!

Samford faculty are working artists and this January they will share some of their recent works in an exhibit in the Samford Art Gallery.

Voices So True: New Native American Art from the Clyde Oyster Bequest features the work of seven contemporary Native American artists, whose vision gives voice to Native American perspectives, past and present. Ranging in medium from photographs, prints, painting, and basketry, the works in the exhibition explore subjects including history and identity, environmental justice, healing from illness and violence, and giving voice to the voiceless. The seven featured artists—Kay WalkingStick, Wendy Red Star, Norman Akers, Eugene Tapahe, Zoe Marieh Urness, Shan Goshorn, and Larry McNeil—are affiliated with many different tribal nations, including Cherokee, Navajo, Osage, Crow, Tlingit, and others.

Explore a world of good taste. Hoover has created a restaurant week to feature special offers from eateries that focus on international cuisine.
This event will emphasize international restaurants with Indian, Pakistani, Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese food. Sponsors of the event hope this week also showcases the cultural food heritage of local family-owned businesses.
Participating restaurants include Bayleaf, Kabob-Licious Indo-Pak Grill, La Brisa, La Conchita, Los Pedros, Miami Fusion Cafe, Parce, The Pita Cafe, Saigon Noodle House, Teriyaki Madness, Unagi, Wasabi Juan's, Silver Coin Indian Grill and Hunan Cuisine.

Space One Eleven is pleased to announce that registration for City Center Art 1 and 2 art classes is open! We are very excited about our classes this year! Through the generosity of foundations and private contributors, families may qualify for free or reduced tuition.

City Center Art teaches young artists in grades 2 through 8 will learn the elements of art and the principles of design through individually conceived projects and student collaborations. Space One Eleven’s philosophy is to facilitate the needs of young artists on a concept by concept basis, providing an environment in which young artists can learn, create, explore, and forge their own path into the world of art. Students work in a variety of mediums such as paint, clay, charcoal, and ink. In City Center Art each young artist will learn:

Drawing skills
Color theory
Conceptual thinking skills
Art history
How to formally evaluate their own artwork and the artwork of others
Studio maintenance

Each student will work at their own pace and improve their art making skills. Students who wish to apply to the Alabama School of Fine Arts will develop portfolios for their applications.

Currently all classes in the fall will be held in person. All City Center Art classes follow the COVID-19 procedures put in place by Space One Eleven when attending classes in person. These include but are not limited to: wearing a facemask when inside the building, maintaining social distancing of 6 feet where possible, regular temperature monitoring before and during class, answering daily check-in questions about health of student, family, and house hold members.

Teaching Artist: Tyler Carlisle

City Center Art 1 (Grades 2 – 5)
Dates: Monday, 1/10 to 4/25
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm

City Center Art 2 (Grades 6 – 8)
Date: Wednesday, 1/12 to 4/13
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
$395 per student or $33 per class
All materials and supplies will be provided to students

Students are welcome to join the class at any time during the school year as long as seats are available. Class cost will be pro-rated for those who join later in the semester.

The Falcons host the University of West Alabama

Women at 5:30pm / Men at 7:30pm

Basketball events are held in the Robert M. McChesney Student Activity Center/Trustmark Arena located at 75 College Drive on the University of Montevallo campus.

Beginner class – Tues, 6:30-7:30 with Krista Bostany
for adults who have no or very little previous experience in tap.

Attire: comfortable clothes, tap shoes.

Intermediate class – Mon, 12:00-1:00  with JJ Butler
for adults who have some experience in tap.

Attire: comfortable clothes, tap shoes.

Advanced class – Wed, 7:00-8:00  with JJ Butler
for adults who have a solid foundation of experience in tap.

Attire: comfortable clothes, tap shoes.

Join us in the Taproom for 'donate to play' bingo every Wednesday. This month all proceeds from the game and a portion of our Wednesday Taproom sales (to-go and in-house) will be donated to the Freshwater Land Trust.

Freshwater Land Trust conserves, connects, and cares for land and water in Central Alabama, creating dynamic green spaces for future generations. In the simplest terms, we conserve land and build trails so that Alabama’s communities are healthier and happier.

You can find more info here: https://freshwaterlandtrust.org/

Winner of 6 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2018 Grammy Award®, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.The Washington Post calls DEAR EVAN HANSEN “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history.”

At this time, all patrons are required to wear masks when attending DEAR EVAN HANSEN and are encouraged to wear masks while inside the BJCC Concert Hall and throughout the duration of each Broadway performance for remaining series shows, regardless of age and/or vaccination status. More information regarding the BJCC Concert Hall’s safety measures can be found on their website.

All health and safety policies are subject to change. Please check the website frequently for the most up-to-date information.

Declared “One of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by the Washington Post’s Peter Marks, DEAR EVAN HANSEN opened at the Music Box Theatre to rave reviews on December 4, 2016, where it’s broken all box office records and struck a chord with critics and audiences alike. It went on to win six 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical Production, two Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Helen Hayes Awards.

You are invited to participate in a moderate but leisurely-paced, fun Southeastern Outings short dayhike in the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve near Pinson.  There will be some gradual climbing for a while at the beginning.

Come walk with us through this heavily-wooded area.  We’ll hike on a new trail on which we have only hiked once previously.  The trail extends through the woods from the parking lot at the main park gate.  Along the way we will stop to enjoy our lunches by a large creek with a beautiful, long, sloping waterfall in the middle of the preserve.

Note-To view photos of what we will see on this trip, please click on this link:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/QeGUuDxRv6fHzVFt2

Please be sure to click on the link and view the photographs.

Total hiking distance is about 3.2 miles.  Please bring picnic lunch and drinking water with you.

Please meet 9:45 a.m. at the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve Main Gate parking lot on Turkey Creek Road.  We plan to depart from there at 10:00 a.m.

Please note that this is a different parking lot from where we have always parked on all but one of our previous hikes in the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve.  Share an adventure.  Bring a friend or friends.

Info. and trip leader: Bonnie Black, 205-994-5434

DIRECTIONS TO MEETING PLACE

Turkey Creek Nature Preserve Main Gate Parking Lot-3906 Turkey Creek Road, Pinson, Alabama.  Please note that this parking lot is a different parking lot from the lot where we have always parked on most of our previous hikes in the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve.  From Birmingham drive to Exit 128 on I-20/I-59.  This is one exit west of the Birmingham Airport exit off I-59/I-20.  It is marked Tallapoosa Street which IS AL Highway 79.  Coming from downtown Birmingham, as you get to the bottom of the exit ramp, get in the right lane.  The ramp curves to the right and then actually merges with AL Highway 79 headed north towards Pinson.  So bear slightly to the right at the end of the ramp.  If you are coming westbound from the Birmingham Airport area to exit 128, you will make a right turn onto Tallapoosa Street at the light at the end of the exit ramp.  Regardless of the direction from which you come, PLEASE STAY ON THE VERY WIDE, MAIN CITY STREET WHICH IS TALLAPOOSA STREET.  In either case, do not make any turns off of Alabama Highway 79 until you get to Pinson.  Take AL 79 about 12 miles to the traffic light in Pinson, Alabama at intersection with AL 151 and ¼ mile west of intersection of AL Highways 75 and 151 where 75 turns right going away from Birmingham towards Oneonta.   There is a Shell service station at far left of intersection of Alabama Highways 79 and 151.  This is 12 miles north of the Tallapoosa Street (which IS AL Highway 79) exit #128 off I-59/I-20.

Turn left at this traffic light and intersection onto Narrows Road and drive to Turkey Creek Road which you will see on your right just 2/10 miles after you have turned onto Narrows Road.

Turn right on Turkey Creek Road and drive 463 feet.  Drive through the main gate to the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve and then park in the parking lot immediately after you pass through the gate.  Our hike will start from that parking lot.

DESCRIPTION OF SOUTHEASTERN OUTINGS

Do you wish you had friends who share your active lifestyle and enjoyment of outdoor activities?  Then become active with Southeastern Outings (SEO), a nonprofit organization committed and created to serve people who enjoy being active in the outdoors.  The organization plans, organizes and leads outings such as dayhikes, easy kayak and canoe trips, stream and waterfall walks, bicycle rides, lake events and other fun activities to beautiful sites in our natural environment.  From time to time we also sponsor potluck suppers and other socials.  All events and activities of the group are open to the public.  Participating in SEO activities is a splendid, simple way to make congenial new friends who enjoy the outdoors.

NO DOGS OR SMOKING ALLOWED, PLEASE, ON ANY SOUTHEASTERN OUTINGS EVENTS.

The organization currently has about 280 members.  We have scheduled seventy-nine fun events for you to enjoy in calendar year 2021.  This is an average of SEVEN fun outdoor events per month.  We enjoy the outdoors in all seasons throughout the year.

SEO does not charge for participation in any of its outings.  You do not have to be a member to participate in one or two SEO activities.  Dues are only $10 per family or household.  Please contact Dan Frederick, President, 205-631-4680, or seoutings@bellsouth.net for more information and to obtain three free monthly newsletters with membership application and a complete description of all our outdoor events.

Southeastern Outings now has a website.  Just go to seoutings.org to find announcements of all our upcoming outings scheduled plus some brief, general information about Southeastern Outings, a membership application and 1500 lovely photographs from most of our outings.

Thank you.

This mid-day class includes ballet barre exercises, center combinations and choreography with live piano accompanied by Steve McKinney. Boost your mind, body and spirit and improve posture, muscle strength, flexibility and balance.

Beginner class – Thurs, 12:15-1:15
for dancers with little or no experience in dance.

Attire: comfortable clothes, socks or ballet shoes.

OLLI of Greater Birmingham presents Classic Film Series with a different movie each session. January20, "Breakfast At Tiffany's" (1961) with Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.  You may bring your own brown bag lunch to eat while the movie is showing (lunch will not be provided). A discussion of the movie will follow the showing. Free admission.

An upbeat class set to fun, popular music that combines the basics of hip hop and jazz dance and focuses on learning short routines each week.

Attire: Express yourself in any age-appropriate style (i.e. leggings or pants and t-shirt or tank top) and flat bottom CLEAN sneakers that you do NOT wear outside. The oils from outside can damage our floor. Some movements may be done on the knees; therefore, pants that cover the knees or knee pads are recommended. Dancers also need full coverage of their back.  If the dancer has another dance class right before/after, bring something that can be pulled over their dance clothes.

Session 3: Jan 6-Feb 17
Session 4: Feb. 21-April 15

Discover how to use movement for personal expression, engage your creativity and build confidence through the practice of creating movement spontaneously. Students explore elements of shape, energy, space, and time with prompts and guidance from the teaching artist. Students will also, learn to respond to each other’s imagination, intelligence, styles and energy through movement choices made in the moment. Physical involvement and mental awareness are central to dance improvisation; therefore we recommend that students have experience in dance, gymnastics, karate, yoga or other movement practice. Attire: girls – leotard with footless tights or leggings; boys – fitted shirt with pants or leggings

Session 3 for 3rd-5th grade: Jan 6-Feb 17
Session 4 for 6th-8th: March 3-April 21

The Cathedral Choir, under the leadership of Frederick Teardo, Director of Music and Organist, and Charles Kennedy, Associate Director of Music and Organist, sings monthly Choral Evensong services throughout the program year. The service of Choral Evensong uses the Order for Evening Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer. Each service includes an Introit, the Canticles, and an Anthem, and is framed by hymns sung at the opening and close of the service. The Canticles sung are the Magnificat (Song of Mary) and Nunc Dimittis (Song of Simeon). In addition to two lessons read from the Bible, the clergy officiant gives a short homily reflecting on the readings of the day.

The Bulldogs host Wofford College from Spartanburg, South Carolina.

staibdance is an Atlanta-based contemporary dance company that values the provocative power of movement. Through performances, workshops and intensives, we celebrate our dynamic cultural ecosystem, and ignite conversations to foster community. Throughout our 13-year history, staibdance has been an ever-evolving organization that consistently asks: who were you? who are you? who will you become? Our performances and classes ask participants to lose themselves and find themselves through evocative imagery both on the stage and in the studio classroom. We meet, head-on, the joys, challenges, curiosities and beauty that contribute to our dynamic, universal experience – that which make us human – to ignite conversation and re-reveal the sublime and  transformative effects of truthful human interaction.

9 to 5 The Musical, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Set in the late 1970s. this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic. Pushed to the boiling point, three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss.

Professional bull riders from across the country roll into Columbiana to battle for the buckle! Home of the Shelby County Extreme Bulls, Columbiana, Alabama is stop #1 on the Southern Extreme Bull Riding tour. 35 of the top bull riders in the country will compete for thousands of dollars and a gold buckle! Each cowboy will attempt to ride their bull for 8 seconds. If they do, they will be awarded a score. The top 8 scoring cowboys will get on an additional bull in the short round and a go round champion will be crowned after the top scores are totaled!

Each night will start with an action packed light show filled with pyrotechnics as each bull rider is introduced into the arena. The bull riders will be paired with the best bucking bulls in the country as they try to conquer these beast for a heart pounding 8 seconds of action.  Professional Rodeo Funny Man, Colt 45, will also keep you entertained with funny jokes, tricks, acts, and sing a longs that will have the whole family laughing and crying.

Get ready Shelby County!!!! This is gonna be good.