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Very few singers over the last 50 years have matched the “Empress of Soul” Gladys Knight’s unquestionable artistry, with honors including No. 1 hits across many genres, seven Grammy Awards and a Legend Award.
Human bodies are made to move, says UAB Arts in Medicine artist-in-residence Melissa Turnage, and “magical” energy can happen in the brain. Here are her tips for adding dance to your day.
Featured are “A Night of the Arts” fundraiser, concerts by artists Keb’ Mo’, Eric Benét and Trombone Shorty with Orleans Avenue, and a free performance by tenor Daniel McGrew and harpist Parker Ramsay.
UAB’s ArtPlay Community Education presents Vocabby’s World, a vocabulary program offered free for families each month, made possible by the PNC Foundation and Hugh Kaul Foundation.
Experience a full night of the arts, while supporting the arts, at the VIVA Health Gala, the largest annual fundraiser for UAB’s AEIVA, Alys Stephens Center, ArtPlay and Arts in Medicine.
Bailey Rae shot to stardom in 2006 with the global hit “Put Your Records On” from her No. 1 debut album. Her new single, “New York Transit Queen,” ushers in a new era of music for her.
Folds, whose genre-bending piano pop helped define an entire era of alternative rock, is presented by UAB’s Alys Stephens Center.
Venture into the wild world of Wonderland when MOMIX performs its magical show “ALICE,” a sensory overload and feat of astonishing artistic achievement.
Surdell’s “Adoration Garden” and Dixon’s “The Undeniable Blackness Between Us” will open at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25 (with a cash bar), kicking off the UAB Arts Block Party arts and music event.
Party with the arts at UAB and dance to hard-driving world music by Brooklyn brass band Red Baraat, in a free concert presented by Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
Four seating levels will be available for the 7 p.m. performance, which is set for the BJCC Concert Hall. Tickets range from $42-$82 and are on sale now.
After being burned in an explosion three years ago, Delrico Gibson thought he would never use his hands again. Now, see the artworks he created for his first responders, surgeons, therapists and caregivers in the exhibition “Strings of Gratitude.”

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded UAB Arts in Medicine a research grant to study whether magic arts training can help improve motor and social-emotional function.

Classes are available for babies to adults, from creative movement and music to acting, tap and hip-hop dance, creative writing, standup, and sewing.
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.
UAB’s Employee Assistance and Counseling Center is home to 14 clinical team members, a variety of counseling options, and programming such as support groups, workshops and seminars, yoga classes, suicide prevention training courses, and more.
ArtPlay’s Kids Night Out provides fun and enriching hands-on arts activities for children ages 5-12 — while the adults enjoy select performances at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
During the event, visitors can take tours of the Solar House and Solar Community, plus shop a vintage market, purchase plants from local shops and more.
From a lunch and learn to a screening of APT’s “Monograph” with newly discovered footage of Dial, “Chamber Music @ AEIVA” and a spoken word evening, join AEIVA for free events this fall.
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