Community Calendar

City Center Art is Space One Eleven’s afterschool studio art program for students of all skill levels and is designed to build visual communication skills and foster creative thinking. Throughout the semester, young artists learn the elements of art and principles of design, strengthen foundation skills, and further their understanding of art criticism, art theory, and art history.

Teaching artists balance instruction between creating and responding—young artists make, discuss, and write about their work—thereby facilitating a transformative learning experience for young artists. All skill levels are welcome!

Grades 2-3
Young artists in grades 2-3 explore a variety of artistic mediums, practice creative thinking and problem solving, develop new tools for self-expression, and, most importantly, have fun making art! Our teaching artist will guide young artists through projects tailored to their age and skill levels to help them develop as artists and build important creative skills.
Dates: Tuesdays, September 2 – December 16, 2025 (13 class sessions)
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
$427.00 – All materials are provided.

Grades 4-5
Young artists in grades 4-5 work in a variety of mediums such as paint, clay, charcoal, and ink. They will practice and expand on their skills in drawing, color theory, art history, studio maintenance, and how to formally evaluate their own artwork and the artwork of others.
Dates: Mondays, September 8 – December 15, 2025 (13 class sessions)
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
$427.00 – All materials are provided.

Grades 6-8
Young artists in grades 6-8 continue to improve upon their art-making skills with a focus on foundations and conceptual thinking. Young artists who wish to apply to the Alabama School of Fine Arts will receive guidance during the application process including portfolio review and development.
Dates: Wednesdays, September 3 – December 10, 2025 (13 class sessions)
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
$427.00 – All materials are provided.

Grades 9-12
City Center Art for high school students is a rigorous multi-media art class with a balance of foundations/essential skills and independent projects. With guidance from the teaching artist, students will increase their observational drawing skills, further their technical control of various mediums and develop and execute individually conceived projects to further their technical control of various mediums and strengthen their conceptual skills. In addition, students will learn about art-related careers and opportunities.
Dates: Saturdays, September 6 – December 13, 2025 (13 class sessions)
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
$478.00 – All materials are provided.

🐶 Vino to Host Pooches on the Patio 🐶

It’s pawty time! Bring your furry friends and enjoy an evening of delectable Mediterranean cuisine, Tito’s Handmade Vodka cocktails, and heartwarming fun—all while supporting the Greater Birmingham Humane Society (GBHS). Pooches on the Patio, hosted by Vino, will be Thursday, Sept. 18th from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

🐾Sponsored by Tito’s Handmade Vodka, we can’t forget about the cockTAILS that will be debuting at this event! The Barkarita and The Cranberry American Mutt both made with Tito’s.

🐩Meet adoptable pups from GBHS and enter to win exciting prizes like a $100 Vino gift card.

🍸Before you leave, don’t forget to grab your complimentary goodie bag from Vino and check out Tito’s Vodka for Dog People merchandise.

For reservations and more information, visit www.vinobirmingham.com or call 205-870-8404.

Bone appétit!

Art Show for Dan Bynum! Art will be up through the month of September with his art opening on Thursday, September 11 from 4-8pm!

City Center Art is Space One Eleven’s afterschool studio art program for students of all skill levels and is designed to build visual communication skills and foster creative thinking. Throughout the semester, young artists learn the elements of art and principles of design, strengthen foundation skills, and further their understanding of art criticism, art theory, and art history.

Teaching artists balance instruction between creating and responding—young artists make, discuss, and write about their work—thereby facilitating a transformative learning experience for young artists. All skill levels are welcome!

Grades 2-3
Young artists in grades 2-3 explore a variety of artistic mediums, practice creative thinking and problem solving, develop new tools for self-expression, and, most importantly, have fun making art! Our teaching artist will guide young artists through projects tailored to their age and skill levels to help them develop as artists and build important creative skills.
Dates: Tuesdays, September 2 – December 16, 2025 (13 class sessions)
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
$427.00 – All materials are provided.

Grades 4-5
Young artists in grades 4-5 work in a variety of mediums such as paint, clay, charcoal, and ink. They will practice and expand on their skills in drawing, color theory, art history, studio maintenance, and how to formally evaluate their own artwork and the artwork of others.
Dates: Mondays, September 8 – December 15, 2025 (13 class sessions)
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
$427.00 – All materials are provided.

Grades 6-8
Young artists in grades 6-8 continue to improve upon their art-making skills with a focus on foundations and conceptual thinking. Young artists who wish to apply to the Alabama School of Fine Arts will receive guidance during the application process including portfolio review and development.
Dates: Wednesdays, September 3 – December 10, 2025 (13 class sessions)
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
$427.00 – All materials are provided.

Grades 9-12
City Center Art for high school students is a rigorous multi-media art class with a balance of foundations/essential skills and independent projects. With guidance from the teaching artist, students will increase their observational drawing skills, further their technical control of various mediums and develop and execute individually conceived projects to further their technical control of various mediums and strengthen their conceptual skills. In addition, students will learn about art-related careers and opportunities.
Dates: Saturdays, September 6 – December 13, 2025 (13 class sessions)
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
$478.00 – All materials are provided.

The Mobile Arts Council turns 70 this year, and we're celebrating in style with our friends at Braided River Brewing Co.!

To honor this milestone, Braided River has crafted a special limited-edition brew just for us - and it's ready make its debut. Join us on Friday, September 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM for the official release party of this p"ART"icularly good beer!

Here's what's on tap:
First pours of MAC's custom 70th birthday brew, 70's vibes - (if you're inspired wear your best retro threads!)

Grab your Throwdown tickets (our biggest fundraiser + birthday bash!)
A toast to 70 incredible years of art, community, and creativity in Mobile

Let's kick off the Throwdown season with good friends, good beer, and groovy fun. We can't wait to celebrate with you - see you at Braided River!

Come get a dose of some hard driving, melodic Rock and Roll with Pandora’s Box: “The Ultimate Tribute to Aerosmith”. It would be hard to find a more qualified group of Veteran Stage Performers to bring you this mesmerizing, high energy journey through 40 plus years of the top power hits from one of rocks’ most influential bands.

Set in Montgomery in 1959, this play delves into the heart of Alabama's history, exploring themes of belonging, identity, and the fight to protect one's home and heritage. When a state senator discovers The Rabbit’s Wedding, a children’s picture book, is about a black rabbit and a white rabbit getting married, he sets out to fire the state librarian protecting it. Meanwhile, a chance meeting between childhood friends, one white and one black, forces them to recall, confront, and reconcile their complicated past.

It's time to go outside with family and friends to gather and participate in the annual Alabama Coastal Cleanup. Be a part of the state's largest single-day volunteer cleanup event. It happens every year on the third Saturday of September, rain or shine. Since 1987, more than 110,000 volunteers have removed over 889 tons of trash from our valued coastline and waterways. There are multiple zones in which to participate. Find one near you and help keep Alabama beautiful by "getting the Trash out of the Splash".
Conditions can change. Please keep up to date by visiting www.AlabamaCoastalCleanup.com or liking us on Facebook.

Nature’s Garden for Victory & Peace (NGVP) proudly announces the 9th Annual Healing Arts in Nature Festival (HAIN Fest), taking place September 19–20, 2025, at NGVP’s sacred grounds in Tuskegee, Alabama. This year’s gathering marks the 10th anniversary of NGVP’s founding and celebrates a decade of community-rooted service in healing, culture, and Earth stewardship. FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, HAIN Fest is a multigenerational celebration of the Fall Equinox, bridging ancestral memory with ecological vision through two full days of dialogue, music, ceremony, and collective joy.

FRIDAY 5:30PM-8:00PM - Friday evening’s program, “Bridging the Gap: Honoring Black Belt Farmers and Urban Gardeners,” will convene voices from both rural and urban food justice movements. Set in NGVP’s Center for Transformative Learning and Change, this dialogue will feature Ras Kofi, an urban gardener from Atlanta, alongside Black Belt farmers Marie McGruder of McGruder Farms and Kelvin Scott of Rooted Farms in Greene County, Alabama. Together, they will explore the roots of food insecurity and highlight pathways toward food resilience and food security through storytelling, cooperation, and shared visioning.

SATURDAY 10:00AM-8:00PM - Saturday’s festivities will take place on NGVP’s festival grounds beginning at 10:00 AM with DJ Aba Shaka, followed by a Drum Call and Opening Ceremony led by cultural elders including Norma Iyabode Jackson, Rev. Jacquetta Parhams, Ivory Keenan, Afriya Wekandodis, Baba Ras D, and Dr. Muhjah Shakir. The main stage will feature live performances by Zeph Embers, Baba Ras D, The MGM Drum Collective & Sohi Onko Djony, Bodile Balams with H20, EarKandy, and vocalist Zewdy Awalom, while the grounds come alive with sound healing, yoga, horseback riding, children’s drumming, and an Artist Village showcasing Alabama-based artisans.

The 9th Annual Healing Arts in Nature Festival is sponsored by Nature’s Garden for Victory & Peace (NGVP), We Tuskegee Ubuntu Collective, A Towne Builders LLC, The National Black Food & Justice Alliance (NBJFA), the City of Tuskegee, and Tuskegee University’s Carver Integrative Sustainability Center. WorldBridge Media serves as media and outreach partner.

All events will take place at Nature’s Garden for Victory & Peace, 1370 County Rd 36, Tuskegee, AL 36083. For more information, visit www.ngvp.org.

The Second Annual Tuscaloosa Record Show features hand-picked record dealers from around the region, DJs, and live music.

All ages.
Free admission.
Rain or shine.