Swinging for the stars. acnatta/Flickr
That’s what some of golf’s greatest legends will be doing next weekend during the annual Regions Charity Classic here at Birmingham’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge. The title sponsor has changed buildings downtown since last year’s event, now occupying space in the former AmSouth Building. Playing off of [...]

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[ May 10, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The advisory board of Bare Hands Gallery invites everyone to this community event to raise funds for the gallery’s public education initiatives, exhibits and events. “The Garden Party with A City View” is scheduled for Saturday from 7-10 p.m. at Jones Valley Urban Farm, located at the corner of 7th Avenue North and 25th Street [...]

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Artist Laura Lockhart will show her work for a fifth year at this weekend’s Magic City Art Connection. Her art is inspired by her travels - she uses the photos she takes on her trips abroad and combines the prints with painting. These works are created on masonite and involve an intricate process layering [...]

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[ March 9, 2008; 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Head on over to the Birmingham Museum of Art and hear master storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham today as she tells the tales behind the photographs in the current exhibition, Kathryn Tucker Windham: My Land, My People, taken over a 40 year span from the Great Depression through the civil rights movement. Using slides and her uncanny narrative [...]

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[ April 25, 2008; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. April 26, 2008; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. April 27, 2008; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] The ONB Magic City Art Connection (MCAC) celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. This free, outdoor art exhibition festival will take place in Linn Park in downtown Birmingham.

Recognized as one of the 12 best art shows in the country, MCAC features artists from all over the country exhibiting and selling their work. A special element [...]

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Joe Minter’s The Slave Ship. André Natta/The Terminal
This is one of the many pieces created by Joe Minter that will be discussed during the last installment of Vulcan Park’s Collective Perspectives series beginning with cocktails and socializing at 5 p.m. in their visitors center. This calendar listing provides additional information about Emily Hannah’s presentation about [...]

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[ February 16, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Eleven of Alabama’s most well-known artist, including Nall and Lonnie Holley, will come together for one night to help fund research at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. Each artist will have 90 minutes to finish an original work, which will be auctioned off to benefit cancer research and patient care. ArtBlink [...]

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