Brown Bag Lunch program at Birmingham Public Library to tell the story of our very own Vulcan.
Wednesday, July 22, noon
The Seasoned Readers is a spin off from the local acting troupe The Seasoned Performers. They will be reading/performing "The Tale of the Iron Man," the “up and down and all around” saga of Vulcan's first 100 years. The story is an original creation by local author and storyteller Lee Shackelford.
For more information, go to http://bplolinenews.blogspot.com/2009/07/brown-bag-lunch-program-tale-of-iron.html
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Clover Crawl Green Expo March 21st @ Vulcan Park
Come to the Clover Crawl green home/garden expo, hosted by the Green Resource Center for Alabama and Vulcan Park and Museum. Come learn about green products and services that will help you make your home and garden beautiful and lasting while saving you money, reducing energy and water usage, and reducing waste. There will be kids activities, food and entertainment, free electronics recycling and a silent auction benefiting the nonprofit Green Resource Center.
Location: Vulcan Park and Museum
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Event Website: http://www.greenalabama.org
Price: Free
Location: Vulcan Park and Museum
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Event Website: http://www.greenalabama.org
Price: Free
Monday, February 23, 2009
Art, Science To Unite At Vernal Equinox
Samford's Christenberry Planeterium will host a combined poetry reading and astronomy presentation at 7 p.m. on March 20--the astronomical vernal equinox, marking the arrival of spring.
The event, Vox Equinox, will feature Birmingham's Big Table Poets reading work from their forthcoming anthology Einstein at the Odeon Caf. Planetarium director George Atchley will place the vernal equinox in its astronomical perspective, inviting an exploration of the common obsession of art and science beneath a dome of stars.
The Big Table Poets take their name, literally, from the large table at a Birmingham bookstore where they meet to critique their work and, figuratively, from the wide range of approaches to poetry their work represents. The "Big Table" accommodates free verse and poetry in traditional forms, the lyrical, the meditative, and the narrative, low humor and high seriousness, all drawn from the diverse lives, experiences, interests, and even obsessions of the Big Table Poets themselves.
The Vox Equinox event is free of charge and open to the public.
The event, Vox Equinox, will feature Birmingham's Big Table Poets reading work from their forthcoming anthology Einstein at the Odeon Caf. Planetarium director George Atchley will place the vernal equinox in its astronomical perspective, inviting an exploration of the common obsession of art and science beneath a dome of stars.
The Big Table Poets take their name, literally, from the large table at a Birmingham bookstore where they meet to critique their work and, figuratively, from the wide range of approaches to poetry their work represents. The "Big Table" accommodates free verse and poetry in traditional forms, the lyrical, the meditative, and the narrative, low humor and high seriousness, all drawn from the diverse lives, experiences, interests, and even obsessions of the Big Table Poets themselves.
The Vox Equinox event is free of charge and open to the public.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Get in Touch with the Universe: Public Viewing of Space Images Feb. 17
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) selected Samford University's Christenberry Planetarium as one of 100 sites in the United States to display two spectacular images Feb. 17 from its Great Space Observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope, The Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
This selection is in response to the United Nations declaring 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy, and is in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first observance of the solar system through a telescope.
The Birmingham Astronomical Society will host the free event with live presentations and telescopes for people to look through at 7 p.m. that night. Spectacular globular star clusters and star-forming regions called nebulae will be visible, according to George Atchley, Samford planetarium director.
This selection is in response to the United Nations declaring 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy, and is in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first observance of the solar system through a telescope.
The Birmingham Astronomical Society will host the free event with live presentations and telescopes for people to look through at 7 p.m. that night. Spectacular globular star clusters and star-forming regions called nebulae will be visible, according to George Atchley, Samford planetarium director.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Celebrate Chinese New Year in Birmingham!
Celebrate Chinese New Year in Linn Park and Boutwell Auditorium with Chinese Food, Music, Art, Crafts and Games
Follow the Dragon Team from Linn Park into the Boutwell Auditorium for one of the southeast's largest celebrations of Chinese New Year. Sample authentic Chinese food, play games, take pictures in luxurious silken robes and try your hand at ancient Chinese games of skill and luck. See the best in local, regional and international Chinese entertainment including singing, dancing and acrobatics.
Date: January 31, 2009
Location: Linn Park and Boutwell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Event Website: http://www.bhmchinesefestival.org/
Price: Free
Follow the Dragon Team from Linn Park into the Boutwell Auditorium for one of the southeast's largest celebrations of Chinese New Year. Sample authentic Chinese food, play games, take pictures in luxurious silken robes and try your hand at ancient Chinese games of skill and luck. See the best in local, regional and international Chinese entertainment including singing, dancing and acrobatics.
Date: January 31, 2009
Location: Linn Park and Boutwell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Event Website: http://www.bhmchinesefestival.org/
Price: Free
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
New Hands, Native Lands
Sunday Topic Tour, January 11 @ 2pm
Birmingham Museum of Art
BMA is offering a 30-minute highlights tour of the New Hands, Native Lands exhibition, which presents recent Navajo pictorial textiles and Pueblo pottery from the American Southwest as a compelling blend of tradition and innovation in both craft and design.The Pueblos are a group of 30 Native American villages,including the well-known Hopi, located primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The ceramics tradition in the Pueblo area began more than 2,000 years ago.For the Navajo people, who live adjacent to the Pueblos, weaving is an important part of their identity, history, culture, and economy. Traditional weavings include blankets and robes featuring geometric motifs, but weavers responded to the new market opened up by the railroad and began to create pictorial textiles. Once created for tourists, pictorial textiles have become their own important Navajo tradition, and their subject matter reflects all aspects of Navajo life.
For more information, see http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/new-hands-native-lands
Birmingham Museum of Art
BMA is offering a 30-minute highlights tour of the New Hands, Native Lands exhibition, which presents recent Navajo pictorial textiles and Pueblo pottery from the American Southwest as a compelling blend of tradition and innovation in both craft and design.The Pueblos are a group of 30 Native American villages,including the well-known Hopi, located primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The ceramics tradition in the Pueblo area began more than 2,000 years ago.For the Navajo people, who live adjacent to the Pueblos, weaving is an important part of their identity, history, culture, and economy. Traditional weavings include blankets and robes featuring geometric motifs, but weavers responded to the new market opened up by the railroad and began to create pictorial textiles. Once created for tourists, pictorial textiles have become their own important Navajo tradition, and their subject matter reflects all aspects of Navajo life.
For more information, see http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/new-hands-native-lands
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