Date: December 1, 2008 – December 31, 2008
Full Description: Beginning April 2008 running through 2009. Avondale Library celebrates 100 years with creative inspiration & information. A monthly art exhibit & lecture by prominent creative professionals.
Phone Number: 205-226-4000
Location: Avondale Library
509 South 40th Street
Birmingham, Al 35222
Time: All-day event
Price: FREE
Description: Since 1999, Sidewalk has brought legions of acclaimed films and filmmakers to Birmingham, Alabama from across the country and around the world.
Date: September 26, 2008 – September 28, 2008
Full Description: The 10th annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, a celebration of new independent cinema in downtown Birmingham, is set to take place September 26-28, 2008. Since its debut in 1999, filmmakers from across the country and around the world have come to Birmingham to screen their work at Sidewalk and have been thrilled to discover fresh, enthusiastic crowds eager to devour new independent cinema.
With nine venues located within Birmingham’s historic Theatre District (featuring the newly restored Alabama Theatre, a 2,200 seat movie palace built by Paramount in 1927), spontaneity rules the schedule of Sidewalk attendees. Low-priced weekend passes provide easy access to Sidewalk venues, encouraging attendees to seek out new films and sample programming they may not otherwise see. The result is a crowd rich in diversity and united in a hunger for new film.
Phone Number: (205) 324-2488
Location: To be announced
Geographic Area: Birmingham Metro
Time: 7:00 PM
Event Website: http://www.sidewalkfest.com
Price: To be announced
Description: Artwalk is an arts festival that transforms Birmingham’s loft neighborhood into an arts district, featuring the work of more than 100 visual artists, live musicians, street performers, food and drink vendors, and children’s activities.
Date: September 5, 2008 – September 6, 2008
Artwalk is an arts festival that transforms Birmingham’s loft neighborhood into an arts district, featuring the work of more than 100 visual artists, live musicians, street performers, food and drink vendors, and children’s activities. The event is free to the public and in the last three years has become a much anticipated fall event drawing visitors from all over to downtown Birmingham. For the past two years, more than 10,000 people walked the streets of downtown during the two-day event.
Through the good will of area businesses and the work of a dedicated staff of volunteers, Artwalk hosts established and emerging regional artists in the unique and architecturally rich setting of downtown Birmingham. Art lovers will see original work in all mediums priced from the affordable to the extravagant. Participating artists are predominantly from Birmingham and surrounding communities, showcasing the wealth of regional talent. People of all ages can enjoy being downtown at a safe, family-friendly, community event. Friday night has been compared to a huge gallery opening with a street festival atmosphere, while Saturday afternoon caters more to the family crowd with special children’s activities.
Phone Number: 205.591.7708
Location: Artwalk takes place in downtown Birmingham in and around historic Morris Avenue, 1st and 2nd Avenues North between 22nd and 25th Streets.
Time: All-day event
Event Website: http://www.birminghamartwalk.org
Price: FREE
Description: Music, food, crafts, MOON PIE EATIN’ contest
Date: August 31, 2008 – September 1, 2008
Full Description: The Annual Celebration in the Historical Tannehill State Park and Ironworks. All tours and museums will be available, train and pony rides, fishing, food, music and more. The Headliner on Labor Day is the 18th Annual Moon Pie Eatin’ Contest with CA$H prizes. Camping is available and pleanty of activities for family and friends of all ages. Easy to get to: Just 2 miles of I-59 and 7 miles off of I-459. Time stands still but the activities will go on, rain or shine at Tannehill. Reservations for cabins or campsites are reccomended.
Phone Number: 205-477-5711
Location: Tannehill Historical State Park, McCalla, AL- just miles from Bessemer, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, everywhere!
Time: All-day event
Event Website: http://www.tannehill.org
Price: gate entry includes all activity $3 adults, $1 children
Location:
Birmingham Museum of Art
2000 Eighth Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama
Starts at: 5:00 PM
This is not an all day event
Description:
Phone Number: (205) 254-2565 Come back for Four May marks the start of this Art on the Rocks season, four summer Friday nights full of fun, music, world-class art, take home art activities, food, and drinks at the Museum. Each evening is themed around one of the exciting traveling exhibitions on view in our galleries. Admission to Art on the Rocks is $10 for members and $20 for general public. Tickets will be pre-sold on www.artsbma.org.
Celebrate the powerful combination of art and science in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. If you choose to take your flying machine for a test drive, please wait until you get home
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Date: Agust
Description: The Birmingham Folk Festival is an event for the whole family! Folk and bluegrass musicians perform, children’s area with activities for the whole family, food vendors offering local specialties and traditional favorite festival foods, a “rush tent” for musicians to meet, greet, and network, recreational activities, local artists offering unique handcrafted items for sale, and more!
Birmingham, Alabama is the largest city in the United States. In fact, the city is so big, that parts of it are classified as being in surrounding counties of Alabama.
The far-reaching city was recently voted as being one of the best cities in which to live. The economy is diversified, bringing together business and industry. Although manufacturing is the leading industry in Birmingham, medical research and publishing are strong competitors for workman and income.
Birmingham is most noted for being the location where the Civil Rights movement began in the 1960’s, making the Old and New South come together and form a diverse cultural backdrop for a nation quickly changing its ideology.
Famous Birmingham notables include Kate Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Fannie Flagg, Nell Carter, Courtney Cox, and Wayne Rogers.
Fast Facts
City population: 242,820
Metropolitan surrounding area: 1,079,089
States Nick Name: Cotton State, yellow hammer state, the heart of Dixie
Size: 151.9 miles
Median Household Income: $35,146
Average Annual Rainfall: 52.16 inches
Average Annual Snowfall: 2.1 inches
Average Temperature on January: 51 degrees
Average Temperature in July: 88 degrees
Economy
The 1970’s and 1980’s the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) biotechnology and medical research labs received investments that transformed the local economy. Today, the UAB employs more Alabamians then any other company or facility in the entire state, with a total workforce of more than 20,000 people.
Major banking industries and telecommunication industries are located in Birmingham as well, leading to overall state of economic prosperity in the greater Birmingham reaches.
Many notable construction and engineering companies also tap into the strong and dedicated Birmingham workforce, leading to the city’s reputation for providing a strong and well-rounded body of available workers.
