Festivals & Events

All Things Bright and Beautiful brings together works primarily from the Museum’s permanent collection that look at themes of power and agency. This exhibition takes its name from a painting by Amy Sherald, whose portraits depict Black sitters with pride, dignity, and joy, representation historically only afforded to white people. Some artists in the exhibition look towards power in other creative endeavors, like music. Others contemplate the hidden potential of everyday objects by transforming them into works of art. Several artists engage the representation of space and architecture–including museum spaces–to discover the dynamics of power. Considered together, these works illustrate the importance of being seen, choosing how to be depicted, and telling one’s own history.

We will have SUPER limited edition merch available for purchase. See you then!

Sing and dance with us on RRPH’s Facebook every Monday through Friday at 3:00PM ET. Want to keep the fun going on the weekend? Tune into our livestream at 1:00PM ET on Saturdays on Industry City’s Facebook and at 11:00AM ET on Sundays back on RRPH's Facebook.

The Rock and Roll Playhouse is a family-friendly rock concert series that has hosted shows in over 28 cities at 35 venues across the country and welcomed special guests such as Warren Haynes, Phil Lesh, George Porter Jr, Questlove, Anders Osborne, Holly Bowling, and more. We're now bringing live music to your homes with our livestream series Live From The Playroom! Live From The Playroom offers kids and families delightfully bite-sized programs featuring 20-minutes of music that the whole family can dance and sing to.

Much of the magic of Live From The Playroom lies within our star-powered musical guests! Special guests such as David Shaw (The Revivalists), Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers), Kyle Hollingsworth (The String Cheese Incident), Kanika Moore (Doom Flamingo), and Joe Russo (Further, Joe Russo's Almost Dead) make regular appearances on Live From The Playroom! Tune in every day to rock out with new and exciting musicians!

Check out our website for more info at bit.ly/therockandrollplayhouse and make sure to subscribe to our YT channel for more videos and livestreams: bit.ly/RRPH_youtube

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Who will reign supreme in this battle royale of epic proportions? Dominate the competition and win an Amazon gift card! Snacks served. For Teens Grade 6-12

** Pre-order and pick-up available**

The goal of the Ross Bridge Farmers Market is to provide fresh foods and products to the people of the local community in a fun and inviting atmosphere. The market is located in front of the Ross Bridge Welcome Center and will take place every Friday afternoon May 15th - July 31st from 4-8pm. Join us to shop local produce and artisan goods while enjoying local artists, kid's activities, food trucks and more!

Featuring Eric Church, Luke Combs, Brothers Osborne, Ashley McBryde, Diamond Rio, Tracy Byrd, and more.

April 27, 2011 was a day nobody in this area will ever forget. Tornadoes ripped across our great state and took precious lives and ripped apart everything familiar. Since then, our area has grown together and brought out the best in all of us. Originally intended to be a one-year celebration of recovery from that horrific day, Rock the South has continued to expand to become a massive celebration of this area and what it has to offer. Since the first event in 2012, Rock the South has given over $639,000 to multiple community partners including Cullman City Parks and Recreation, The Link of Cullman County, Cullman Caring for Kids and many more.

Even though Billboard rates Rock the South as the 6th Best Country Music Festival in the United States, Rock the South will always be a festival about two things- giving back to the community we love and celebrating the Southern Culture we all know and love.

Join Sean and Melanie Fridays at 7pm on HPL’s Discord server to discuss the movie of the week! Movie selections are available for free streaming with your Hoover Public Library card on Hoopla or Kanopy. Stream the movies on your own and then discuss with us.

First up is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (here) and then Across the Universe.

A Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox since 1986, the Barons have been a staple in the Birmingham community since 1885.

This outing will be exciting, scenic and lots of fun!  Those who participated in this outing in years past found it to be one of the most beautiful natural areas we have ever seen anywhere!  There are numerous (about twelve) beautiful, small falls in Quillan and various side creeks.  We can actually walk up and right through an extensive, gently sloping cascade easily.  Quillan Creek is located in a heavily-forested area with hemlock trees and high banks alongside.

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

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wMwvP5J0QPKNHFkh2

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

Participants on this hike must: be able and willing to walk at least 4 ½ miles off trail over rugged terrain including wading 1½ miles in a creek which is sometimes knee deep, wear hiking boots and long pants to hike to and from the creek, and bring and wear shorts or swim suits and wading shoes for the creek wade.  Sturdy foot protection is required.  Old sneakers work fine, but please no bare feet, flimsy beach shoes, flip flops or loose slip-ons!  Please don’t come if you are unwilling to get wet!  Also please do bring a large plastic bag with twist tie or large Ziploc bag in which to put your wet shoes and also bring a hand towel to dry your feet before putting your socks and hiking boots back on for the walk out.  Hiking poles are strongly recommended!

Please bring picnic lunch, drink, and daypack.  A change of clothes (dry underwear also advised) to be left in the car is also recommended.  Rated moderately strenuous due to the entire hike being off trail, some elevation gain, and the need to walk in the creek a good portion of the time.  Well-behaved, carefully supervised children age 10 and over welcome.  Showers available for $2.00 per person before dinner.

Please come with us May 30 and help count waterfalls.

Reservations Required: If you wish to participate in this outing, you are required to call Dan Frederick, 205/631-4680 or email seoutings@bellsouth.net by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 28.  Please do not try to reserve a place on this outing after 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 28.  When you contact Dan, please be sure you leave your phone number and email address.  This outing is limited to 10 people in order to comply with U.S. Forest Service regulations.  We hope the limitation will not prove to be a problem.  At a later date leader will advise meeting time and place only to those who are confirmed for this trip. 

Please observe the following policies and procedures regarding this outing:

Anyone who wants to come on this outing MUST make a reservation with the leader by Thursday, May 28 at 5:00 p.m.

You are welcome to invite friends or family, but you are required to request and receive approval from the leader to bring any guests with you BEFORE you tell those you invite that they definitely may come. Please make this policy clear to those you invite when you invite them.  Please do NOT just show up with additional people not cleared in advance.  They will be sent home.  If you want to bring people other than yourself on this outing, please give Dan Frederick the NAMES of those other people.

If you or anyone you want to bring with you is placed on the wait list, you are required to give the leader a telephone number where they can be reached in the event that they are transferred from the wait list to the list of approved participants as a result of cancellations.  On a previous outing five people who were so transferred did not check their email notices that they were approved for transfer and thus did not show up.  As a consequence they deprived others on the wait list from coming on the outing.

Please note that if you or anyone you invite who is approved cancels, please do not substitute, try to substitute or think you can substitute a family member or friend in place of a previously registered participant who has cancelled. When you register, you are not reserving a place for anyone but yourself or those people coming with you who are initially registered.  All substitutions will be made BY THE OUTING LEADER from the wait list in the order in which they are received.  It is unfair to those on the wait list for you to fill a vacancy with a friend when others asked the leader to participate before you informed the leader of your cancellation.

If you decide to cancel, if you do not inform the leader of your cancellation, and if you are just a no-show, you will not be permitted to participate in any future Southeastern Outings events where the number of participants is limited.

Please do not register yourself or any guests unless you are absolutely certain that they are free on May 30 and they definitely want to come on the outing. In the past we have had as many as 22 people cancel participating in a single outing after they signed up for an outing where the number of participants was limited.  We don’t want “possibilities,” “undecideds,” or “might comes” to register for ANY Southeastern Outings event for which the number of participants is limited!

If you make a reservation with Dan to come on this trip and then for any reason decide later to not come on this outing, please telephone Dan, 205/631-4680 right away. If we have 10 people signed up on the day of the hike and say, we have two people on the waiting list and then two people who signed up don’t show up for the hike, those two no-show people have in effect deprived the two on the wait list from participating. Please don’t be a no-show.  If you aren’t coming after making a reservation, please call Dan.

Information and trip leader: Dan Frederick, seoutings@bellsouth.net or 205/631-4680

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 over 300 members.  We scheduled eighty-seven events during calendar year 2019 for an average of 7 fun 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.  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.

Write Club offers the opportunity for burgeoning writers to share a five-minute selection from their current endeavors (novels, short stories, memoirs, poetry, plays, script, articles, essays, etc.) and then receive feedback from their peers. Write Club provides a friendly and welcome atmosphere to discuss different topics concerning the craft of writing. This event is open to everyone and no registration is required.

Join the meeting on Zoom.
Meeting ID: 967 5632 4848
Password: 730638

Alabama Adventure Amusement Park & Splash Adventure Water Park offers something for everyone. Miles of slides, thousands of gallons of water, exciting waves, lazy rivers, Rampage Roller Coaster, and lots of rides for all ages. Ride, Slide & Relax with us!

Great for the family or a larger group outing.

Dr. Dudney is whitening teeth to raise money for seriously ill, disabled, and underprivileged children in Alabama and around the world. 100% of the teeth whitening proceeds will go to children’s charities. Fifty percent of the donations will go to local charity “Smile A Mile” that serves the children of Alabama battling cancer.  The remaining balance goes to “Smiles for Life Foundation” to be distributed to worthy and approved children’s charities across the U.S., Canada and worldwide.  When you pay for your discounted teeth whitening you’ll write a check directly to the Smiles for Life Foundation, not to the dental practice.

Dr. Dudney is a member of the Crown Council, an alliance of leading-edge dental teams that are passionately committed to promoting oral health,  fighting oral cancer and serving their local communities through charitable work. Since 1998, Dr. Dudney has participated in this whitening for charity fundraiser and The Smiles for Life Foundation has raised over $40 million, benefiting hundreds of children’s charities.

Dr.  Dudney has had a patient-center private practice in Alabaster since 1982 as a general dentist with focus on cosmetic dentistry. Dr. Dudney teaches hands on programs and has presented workshops and lectures at dental meetings and conferences around the world. In addition, he has authored several articles on aesthetic and restorative dentistry. Now is the time to schedule your teeth whitening for a good cause!

A weekly meeting, hosted by Create’s Director of Programs, Jessica Moody, via Zoom, helps local artists, small businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs start the week off with coffee and brainstorming.
This is a time to allow you to share recent challenges and concerns and discuss how to continue adapting their business, organization, or idea.

Space One Eleven is pleased to announce that the Summer Art Camps 2020 registration is open! We are very excited about our lineup this year! Through the generosity of foundations and private contributors, families may qualify for free or reduced tuition.

Summer Art Camps for students in rising grades 2-12 are the perfect way for young artists to learn a new art form or improve upon their art skills. These camps give young artists ample time to dive into their projects, make friends, and create several finished pieces of work that they will be proud of. All camps are taught by working artists in Space One Eleven’s professional art studios. To register, please visit https://spaceoneeleven.org/summer-art-camp-registration/.

We are excited that our summer camps will be held in person. We have developed a plan to open with lower enrollment than normal for proper social distancing, and have developed cleaning and disinfecting procedures based on CDC guidelines to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19. Upon registration, you will receive a more complete outline and guidelines for our procedures. For general questions about our response and preparations for COVID-19, please visit: https://spaceoneeleven.org/covid-19-response-and-preparedness/.

We look forward to seeing you this summer!

Workshop begins June 1, 2020 at 7:30pm

Session 1: June 1, 7:30pm
Session 2: June 8, 7:30pm
Session 3: June 15, 7:30pm

$40 for all three sessions (no a la carte registration)

In this Advanced Screenwriting Workshop intended for writers working on a script at any stage — from ideation to revision — we will explore the components that make up a strong feature screenplay through lecture, film examples, discussion, and writing exercises. Each of the three sessions will have an overarching theme -- beginning with structure (story/plot, three act structure, and sequences), followed by character (creating strong protagonists and antagonists through specificity, subjectivity, and access), and ending with story dynamics (emphasizing setting, conflict/obstacles, action, and theme).

Through this workshop, you’ll be provided with tools to help originate and sustain your story ideas, as well as think critically about storytelling and your individual writing process. There will be optional supplemental reading and homework assignments to deepen the learning experience, though outside work is not required.

Ursula Ellis is an LA-based writer/director and alumna of the Northwestern University undergrad & Columbia University MFA film programs. An Army brat with Appalachian roots, she was born in Germany and raised all over the US, though she spent her most formative years in Madison, Alabama. She is drawn to character-driven stories that explore gender, class, & agency, with a focus on regional settings & genre elements. Her short films have screened at festivals like Fantasia, Denver, Woodstock, Mill Valley, Indie Memphis, & Cucalorus and premiered online via Seed&Spark & NoBudge. Her award-winning MFA thesis, CRICK IN THE HOLLER, received an Alfred P. Sloan Production Grant. Her feature & episodic scripts have been acknowledged by the Academy Nicholls Fellowship, Sundance Institute, & Tribeca Film Institute and supported by the CATWALK Institute. Her pilot script, WAR IS KIND, was awarded the Lisa Rubin Award for Best Drama Teleplay & Faculty Selects at the 2019 Columbia University Film Festival of thesis and recent alumni work. While attending Columbia, Ursula was a graduate teaching fellow & taught a section of Andy Bienen's 1st year MFA course, "Elements of Dramatic Narrative" for two semesters. She was also teaching assistant to Alan Kingsberg and Charlie Rubin during Columbia's TV Writing Summer Intensive, a 6-week continuing education program. Most recently, she has spoken at Northwestern and Marshall Universities about filmmaking and the grad school decision. She is represented by Daniela Gonzalez & Antonio D’Intino at Circle of Confusion. Participants will be emailed a Zoom link 30 minutes before the workshop start time. Registration cuts off 30 minutes before workshop start time.

Sidewalk's educational programs are sponsored by Wind Creek Hospitality.

Our market along with many others around the State, has been determined to be an essential service and we do still plan be open every Wednesday from 10-1 beginning May 13. Our vendors will be selling fruit, vegetables, herbs, jellies, flowers, chicken meat, frozen Greek Food, olive oil and balsamic vinegar, casseroles, bread pudding and cheesecakes, pound cakes, prepared leaf teas, and other great items.

Led by Molly Hendry, Garden Assessment Project Leader, Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens

You have all the right ingredients, but how do you cook them up into a recipe that results in a fabulous design for your garden? Join Molly Hendry, Garden Assessment Project Leader with the Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens, as she explores the building blocks of captivating garden designs. You'll learn how to use structure in conjunction with more ephemeral plantings to create a framework that highlights the passing seasons. Then you'll discover how to choreograph movement through your garden by uncovering what draws us into some spaces and invites us to linger in others. Molly will also talk about the elusive quality of light and shadow and how to deploy plants to achieve that magical touch.

Hosted by the Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens, the webinar is part of the 2020 Brown Bag Lunch & Learn Series at Birmingham Botanical Gardens and is presented in partnership with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System; the Alabama Green Industry Training Center; the Jefferson County Department of Health; Jefferson County Commission; City of Leeds, Alabama; City of Birmingham Stormwater Management; and the Storm Water Management Authority, Inc.

After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions for joining the webinar. You will receive just one reminder the day of the event, so be sure to mark your calendar. Thank you for joining us for this fun virtual presentation!

Visit https://bbgardens.org/garden-design.php to register!

About Using Zoom
To join the webinar, download the Zoom app, which is free for iPhone or Android, or access the webinar via a Web browser on your computer or mobile device. We recommend using a computer or tablet for best views of the webinar slideshow.

In this Community Conversation, we will discuss assessing financial aspects of your business and how you can use numbers to make sound decisions.

About Darlene:

Darlene Wilson is a distinct representative of how Birmingham businesses operate given effective and efficient leadership of their organization. With more than twenty-five years in the corporate banking and public accounting industry, more than fifteen of those years as an entrepreneur in our city qualifies her as a leading entrepreneur in Metro Birmingham and many other regions and states.

Darlene received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Montevallo. She is honored for being recently named to the 2019 National List of the Top 100 Influential Execs in Finance. Her firm was also recently nominated for ICIC’s 2019 Inner City 100 Award. The Inner City 100 is a national ranking of America’s fastest-growing urban businesses in inner cities. She completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program at Babson College in the Fall of 2018 and Emerging Leaders through the U.S. Small Business Administration in 2017.

Darlene was selected to serve on Regions Bank Advisory Board for the Birmingham market in 2019 and is also a member of the Inaugural Small Business Council for the City of Birmingham where she serves as the chair of the City Services Committee. She was appointed by Mayor Randall Woodfin to Birmingham Airport Authority Board of Directors in 2018 where she serves as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee. Darlene also serves as Treasurer of The WellHouse and Alabama Women in Business. She is Immediate Past Board Chair of REV Birmingham where she continues to serve on the executive committee and Board of Directors. She is also a Member of Foundation Capital.

She has been a mentor for Bizwomen Mentoring Monday for the past four years. Darlene was recognized as BBJ’s Women to Watch 2017 and 2015 CEO Finalist of the year in the Small Business Category presented by Birmingham Business Journal.

As the Managing Principal of her firm she has learned the meaning of corporate culture and collaboration and understands why this is important for her team. She is the example of a true leader knowing how to empower all those she encounters on her journey.

Darlene is the mother of one son, Christian and he is Junior student/athlete in Denver studying accounting. As Darlene says it best, this is by far her greatest accomplishment in life and brings her the most joy! She is a native of Lake Charles, LA and has been in Birmingham, AL for thirty years and both are home to her. She enjoys cooking, wine tasting, traveling, flower gardening and reading. She simply loves life!

Join us on Zoom as we discuss The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai.

Link: https://zoom.us/j/95566989200
Meeting ID: 955 6698 9200

Synopsis:

The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Tran family, set against the backdrop of the Viet Nam War. Tran Dieu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Noi, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Ho Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just her beloved country but her family apart.

Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Viet Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. This is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyen Phan Que Mai’s first novel in English.

-From Goodreads

Registration for online workshops cuts off 30 minutes before the listed start time. Once registration has ended, participants will be emailed a Zoom Link. Any questions can be directed to Kiwi Lanier – kiwi@sidewalkfest.com.

This is a hands-on introductory course into Apple’s powerful Final Cut Pro X Software. This class will meet once a week over the course of three consecutive weeks for 1.5 hours. This class is suited for beginner editors, filmmakers, film hobbyists ,intermediate and experienced filmmakers who would like to learn the basics of how to edit in Final Cut Pro X. This software particularly excels in the area of editing short-form content such as music videos, commercials, tutorials, demo reels, etc. It is a tool that every filmmaker should have in his or her kit.

Footage will be provided to the students by the instructor in addition to helpful “take-home” handouts. Students are also permitted to edit own footage if they’d prefer. Over the course, students will complete two take-home exercises and one in-class exercise. If students are unable to complete the take-home exercises, that is acceptable, but they are encouraged to finish assignments if possible.
REQUIRED SUPPLIES 

—An Apple computer with a minimum of 8 gb of ram

—At least 50 gb of free space on the student’s computer

—Final Cut Pro X Final Cut Pro X can be downloaded for free for 30 days: https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/trial/

Instructor Bio: Dionna McMillian is a Los Angeles based producer, series-creator and director. She is a co-creator of the digital series “The Next Right Thing” (TNRT), which was recently licensed by iOne Digital. TNRT played at multiple film festivals and was nominated for Best Pilot at the 2018 NYC Webfest, and Best Dramedy at the 2019 Miami Webfest. Currently, Dionna is pursing a co-production deal for her network travel docu-series, “Maiden Voyage”.

As a director, Dionna is best known for her short comedy film,” Love, New York”. It screened at multiple film festivals and was distributed by Issa Rae Productions. She also directed season one of “Plant-Based by Nafsika”, which was distributed by the A&E Network. She is in post-production for her comedy film, “Such A Deal”, starring Ebony Obsidian of Hulu’s “Hunters”. “Such A Deal” was licensed by the digital streaming platform, A Space for Creators and will premiere in the Spring of 2020.

In addition to producing and directing Dionna works as an adjunct professor. She holds an M.F.A in filmmaking from American University. She teaches directing and editing at New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. She was previously Chair of Post-Production for New York Film Academy’s-NY campus. During her tenure as department chair, she was a guest lecturer for N.Y.F.A. at their Beijing, Mumbai and Doha workshops.

She also has several projects in development, including Season 1 of “The Next Right Thing” and a short drama, “Call Me Chad”. As well as two other dramedy series. Dionna enjoys creating projects that explore identity through a comedic and a dramatic lens.

Sidewalk’s Educational Programs are sponsored by Wind Creek Hospitality.

Join Sean and Melanie on Zoom to discuss Hearts Beat Loud (2018, PG-13). A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.

Watch the film on Kanopy or hoopla.

Join the discussion on Zoom
Meeting ID: 989 7901 0258
Password:138041