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All are invited to the hour-long, free lectures and demonstrations of Irish dance, Indian dance and French language and culture, at noon each day in the ASC.
The UAB Gospel Choir will perform at free, public events in coming days, then present its own 18th anniversary fall concert Nov. 18.
The three-day festival of electronic music and art in Virginia will include works by more than 70 artists and composers from across the nation.
Smith, originally from Montgomery, will make his Carnegie Hall debut with a program dedicated to Russian composer Nikolai Medtner. Smith, originally from Montgomery, will make his Carnegie Hall debut with a program dedicated to Russian composer Nikolai Medtner.
Sedaris, an ASC favorite returning for the fifth time, will celebrate the release of his ninth book, “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls,” with the audience.
Shankar will perform songs from her latest CD, “Traces of You,” accompanied by her band. They will also conduct a free ArtPlay workshop.
Cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma will perform a program of Saygun’s “Partita,” “Appalachia Waltz,” George Crumb’s Solo Sonata and Bach’s Suites Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

A staged reading of the 2013 Apsey Play Search winner, presented by Theatre UAB, will be performed Nov. 2.

UAB singers will perform in concert; ticket sales will pay for the Concert Choir’s trip to Latvia for the July 2014 World Choir Games.

Birmingham native and comedy star Rickey Smiley returns to the ASC for a Magic City Classic weekend Friday night show Oct. 25.

Professor of Piano Yakov Kasman and his daughter, Aleksandra, a UAB freshman, will perform as a duo with Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra.

A show of Cracco’s new paintings, which focus on light, will open with a free reception Friday, Nov. 1, at beta pictoris gallery.

A modern treatment of the oldest known Greek play, “Big Love” explores justice, violence and the nature of love, with a student and faculty cast.
The ASC and ArtPlay will present their first season-long artist collaboration, which begins with an Ailey Revelations Residency Oct. 7-11 for middle school students and teachers.

Reichart will perform a program of sonatas by Beethoven and Scriabin in the first performance of this season’s series.

The Alys Stephens Center presents Natalie Merchant live with the ASO Oct. 18, in a program of her familiar hits plus new works.
Adelman will give a lecture Sept. 26 and will attend the exhibition’s opening reception Sept. 27; both events are free and open to the public.

Three electroacoustic compositions, “WOOSH,” “A Memory of Tomorrow 2.0” and “Spline,” were selected for inclusion in the national conference.

The ASC will present special programs commemorating the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 throughout September. This event is free and open to the public.
The new building will house UAB’s permanent collection of art, galleries and art history, time-based media and graphic design classes, and complete UAB’s cultural district.

“Posters without Borders” at Space One Eleven will include posters from designers from around the world.

This season Theatre UAB will present “Big Love,” “Twelfth Night,” “Rabbit Hole,” the Festival of Ten Minute Plays and “Urinetown: The Musical.”

Valerie Accetta, an Equity actress, will teach introductory tap dancing and musical theater this semester and direct a Theater UAB musical in April.

Learn about the ins and outs of copyright infringement and how to conduct business in the music publishing world when E. Michael Harrington presents a free lecture Aug. 28.

Enjoy a new season of musical performances, many of them free and all open to the public, presented by students, faculty and guest artists from UAB Music.

Experience the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin up close and personal in ArtPlay’s grand parlor, with a performance by Cicely Parnas Aug. 29.

Enjoy a series of free events, including lectures, screenings, exhibitions and performances, as part of the CAS 50 Years Forward commemoration in September.

The event is one of many during Welcome Week, celebrating students’ return to campus for the fall semester.

The new work by composer Yotam Haber will feature a short film, archival audio recordings, music performed by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and a female chorus.
Essix will perform new, original compositions and hand-picked covers which musically chart the growth and healing of his hometown 50 years on from 1963.
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