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UAB graduate and award-winning composer Eric Mobley and Gospel Choir Director Reginald Jackson, Ph.D., will perform works in response to Kwame Brathwaite’s photography exhibition at UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.

Wooten has been called the most influential bassist of the last two decades and one of the Top 10 Bassists of All Time by Rolling Stone Magazine.
A 10-time Grammy nominee, Ndegeocello is a composer, a producer and a virtuoso on the electric bass guitar. She is a featured artist for the MUSE musicians conference.
Audiences are in for an unconventional experience in this brisk 90-minute show, which uses citizenship and documentation to speak on identity, belonging and privilege and is shaped by the actors’ own heritage.

Professor Emeritus Michael Flannery will talk about five native Alabama plants with curative powers Feb. 27, and work with students researching botanicals for an art exhibition later this year.

Hosted by the UAB Department of Biology, Darwin Day 2023 will be an opportunity to explore current research and will feature an in-depth lecture that dives into the compelling self-destructive nature of human behavior.
Grammy Award winners Ranky Tanky, from South Carolina’s West African-rooted Gullah community, combine songs carried down through generations with their own original compositions.
UAB Blazers will live the tenets of Creed Week by packing meals for the hungry, engaging in social justice discussions and more.
Summer camps at UAB provide working parents child care opportunities while school is out of session.
The MUSE Conference, created by jazz guitarist Eric Essix and UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, features music industry professionals who will provide musicians with the tools to succeed.
Acclaimed as a post-modern dramatic masterpiece, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play.
Registration is open now for the 17th annual UAB National Alumni Society Scholarship Run, and runners can choose the virtual option or run in person.
Classes are available for babies to adults, from creative movement and music to acting, tap and hip-hop dance, creative writing, standup, and sewing.
Black History Month at UAB brings everyone together for explorations of history, language and Gullah culture, and see “Black Is Beautiful,” Will Downing with Maysa, and Ranky Tanky.
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center has your Valentine’s Day plans covered with Will Downing’s Sophisticated Soul Explosion featuring special guests Maysa and poet Hank Stewart.
UAB National Alumni Society supports scholarship fund through a bingo night series featuring prizes, food and more.
Brathwaite deployed his photography from the late 1950s through the 1960s as an agent of social change, and his collective popularized the transformative idea “Black Is Beautiful.”
Photographer Harper Nichols, a 2022 UAB graduate who focused on her own disability for a photographic series while in school, hopes the exhibition opens conversations.
In addition to NELLE’s usual annual compilation of diverse, risky, smart writing from women writers, the new edition features a special folio by writers who are Ukrainian, Ukrainian American or who live in Ukraine.
In 2022, American pianist Clayton Stephenson became the first Black finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
This beautiful, fresh stage adaptation is told with stunning life-sized puppetry through the eyes of the beloved characters, in a new story from the Hundred Acre Wood. 
Blood supplies continue to be low nationwide.
On the schedule are pianists Clayton Stephenson and Rachel Breen, guest artists, plus a variety of faculty recitals featuring art songs, chamber works and more.
Guitarist Gareth Pearson will open for Emmanuel, who is considered one of the world’s greatest guitarists.
Alabama Dance Festival and UAB’s Alys Stephens Center present choreographer and 2021 Guggenheim fellow Helen Simoneau’s investigation of command without force.
Works by art students chosen by guest juror and artist Donté K. Hayes will be on exhibition at UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts from Jan. 13-March 25, 2023.
The sessions, Artful Healing and Mindful Movement, are presented by UAB Arts in Medicine and the Birmingham VA Health Care System’s Whole Health initiative.
Tune in as leading professionals offer informative sessions on trending topics in wellness, finances, sports, psychology, nutrition and more.
Hayes is also the juror for the 47th annual Juried Student Exhibition, which is on display alongside his exhibition. A free opening reception for both exhibitions is Friday, Jan. 13.
Hersch, called by The New Yorker “a living legend,” and Grammy Award winner spalding celebrate the release of their album “Alive at the Village Vanguard” with a performance at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
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