Shannon Thomason

Shannon Thomason

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Public Relations Specialist

thomason@uab.edu • (205) 975-8858

Specific beats include: The Arts at UAB; Alys Stephens Center ; AEIVA; ArtPlay ; Arts in Medicine; Student Affairs and Student Life; Career & Professional Development Services; Veterans Services; Lecture Series; Homecoming; Issues management ; Administrative News; College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Art and Art History; Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Department of Music; Department of Theatre; Department of Communication Studies; Institute for Human Rights; WBHM; National Alumni Society; The Graduate School; Development

UAB Music plans summer concerts for all on campus

UAB Music plans summer concerts for all on campus
Enjoy free summer band concerts outdoors on campus and a performance from the UAB Gospel Choir this summer.

ArtPlay to present staged reading of “Home,” in partnership with Project1VOICE, AIDS Alabama and Alabama State University

ArtPlay to present staged reading of “Home,” in partnership with Project1VOICE, AIDS Alabama and Alabama State University
UAB’s ArtPlay will join Project1VOICE and companies around the world in readings of the play on June 15 to preserve the legacy and tradition of American theater, especially of African-American playwrights.

Boston Pops, Blind Boys of Alabama to perform orchestral arrangements by UAB’s Henry Panion

Boston Pops, Blind Boys of Alabama to perform orchestral arrangements by UAB’s Henry Panion
Panion’s arrangements of the works “People Get Ready,” “This May Be the Last Time,” “Amazing Grace” and “If I Had a Hammer” will be performed in concert June 6.

Alys Stephens Center’s big new season: jam, jazz, folk, fusion, dance and classical

Alys Stephens Center’s big new season: jam, jazz, folk, fusion, dance and classical

Indigo Girls, Chick Corea and Béla Fleck, Kathleen Battle, Chris Thile, George Benson, and a season 6 sneak peek of “Downton Abbey” top the list for fall 2015 at UAB’s Alys Stephens Center.

UAB’s AEIVA presents works from private Birmingham collection in new “FOCUS” series

UAB’s AEIVA presents works from private Birmingham collection in new “FOCUS” series
“FOCUS I: IDENTIFIED” will feature a selection of works by contemporary artists from the collection of Jim Sokol and Lydia Cheney, major cutting-edge contemporary collectors in Birmingham.

UAB students create “legacy” work of art with students from The Bell Center

UAB students create “legacy” work of art with students from The Bell Center
Seven Department of Art and Art History students drew silhouette portraits of each child and invited them to fill the silhouettes with color, then printed the final artwork onto canvas.

Alys Stephens Center donors invite 60 veterans for Jay Leno show

Alys Stephens Center donors invite 60 veterans for Jay Leno show
ASC donors Mac Fairley and Jim Stroud have reserved a block of tickets to the June 7 show for veterans from the Birmingham VA Medical Center.

Make Music Alabama finalists to perform at LOCAL festival June 20

Make Music Alabama finalists to perform at LOCAL festival June 20

The ASC asked musicians for original songs about Alabama for the competition, and six finalists were chosen from 45 submissions. Now they will perform live at a free festival that is all about Alabama.

Kasman to perform Medtner’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra

Kasman to perform Medtner’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra

Kasman will perform the little-known masterpiece, which is extremely difficult, with the country’s leading orchestra and conductor, Volodymyr Sirenko.

City of Birmingham, with UAB’s AEIVA, presents “The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle” from June 5-Aug. 8

City of Birmingham, with UAB’s AEIVA, presents “The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle” from June 5-Aug. 8
This display of the Civil Rights photographs of Spider Martin and Peter Magubane at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts explores images of American segregation and South African apartheid.
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