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An exhibition of video art presented by Vinegar at the Media Window in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

Between a Love and a Hard Place
An exhibition of video art presented by Vinegar at the Media Window in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.

We temporarily have the wrong venue listed here. The Media Window is at 101 23rd St. S. https://www.mediawindow.space/

Featuring Roger Beebe, Kellie Bornhoft, Barry Jones, and Julie Lee

September 28 – November 28, 2024

On view 24/7 (tech permitting!) with audio during waking hours.

Between a Love and a Hard Place is Vinegar’s first exhibition in a new collaborative venue, the Media Window , which is both an art gallery and a work of art.

In February 2024, Vinegar stepped away from its indoor gallery space and transitioned to a new phase of site-responsive and publicly accessible exhibitions.

In response to this circumstance, artist and Vinegar curator Melissa Yes created the Media Window (read more here). Between a Love and a Hard Place is the inaugural exhibition at this site.

101 23rd St. N Birmingham

A champion comic of screen and stage Whenever he has the chance, Ferguson likes to return to his stand-up roots. Let loose from the constraints of network television, Ferguson's random brain is allowed free reign over topics like his former drug addictions, sex and the stars who appear on his show. Ferguson performed his Hot and Grumpy Tour since 2013, which continued through 2014, before handing over the reigns to The Late, Late Show to fellow Brit James Corden in 2015. Don't miss this most excellent stand-up comic live on stage when he performs at near you soon! One of Scotland's best exports (after whisky) One of Scotland's most acclaimed comedians, Craig Ferguson first became known to American audiences as Nigel Wick, Drew Carey's evil boss on The Drew Carey Show. A fixture of the series from 1995, Ferguson won over film audiences four years later with his portrayal of indefatigable hair stylist Crawford Mackenzie in The Big Tease. He became a household name when he took over as host of CBS's Late Late Show in 2005, replacing Craig Kilborn. His show was a noticeably more anarchic and free form version of the standard late night talk show format. In addition he has lent his voice to several top animated movies including How to Train Your Dragon and HTDYD2 as the irrepressible Gobber and Disney Pixar's Brave as a fiesty Celtic clan leader.

Parking Info: The Lyric Theatre is not responsible for parking and does not provide any free parking for concerts. Parking meters are free after 6pm on weekdays and all day on Saturday and Sunday. Please be aware of tow-away zones. Lots marked “permit parking only” are tow-away zones and they will tow your vehicle at your expense.

Get ready for the holiday season with Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's annual Santa's Wonderland experience! Bring your family to your local Bass Pro Shops store to join over two million kids and families in taking a photo with Santa.

Enjoy a complimentary 4x6 photo with Santa and a shareable video of your visit. Photo sessions begin on Sunday, November 3. Reservations are highly recommended, so book your spot online at www.basspro.com/santa.

Manjari Sharma is a Mumbai-born, LA-based artist exploring ritual, identity, memory, and mythology. Sharma’s 2023 exhibition Expanding Darshan, which combined the diverse historic collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art and the artist’s ongoing Darshan series, a photographic re-imagining of Hindu deities, received wide critical acclaim. In 2024, Sharma will create a two-part collaborative exhibition between AEIVA and UAB’s Arts in Medicine. While one exhibit follows her family’s decade-long battle with Frontotemporal Dementia, the other is a speculative fiction-based project that collages spiritual concepts of the Hindu rituals of death and the afterlife with mankind’s scientific curiosity and exploration of the Universe. These two exhibitions will open at AEIVA and UAB’s Brain Aging and Memory Clinic in 2024.

Sharma’s work can be found in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, and NPR, to name a few, and projects have been published and exhibited in galleries, museums, and festivals worldwide. Sharma is a proud recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2024), and her works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Carlos Museum, and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

AEIVA presents a mid-career survey exhibition by internationally acclaimed Nigerian-American artist Odili Donald Odita. Odita is an abstract painter whose work explores color in both the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. Most of Odita’s work is inspired by the vibrant textiles of his home country Nigeria, mixed with patterns from Western modernity.

Outside Lines explores the dynamic relationship between color and line in works from AEIVA’s permanent collection ranging from the 1950s to 2020. Bringing together works highlighting the visual and optical effects of color, as well as color’s ability to convey meaning, the exhibition challenges the supremacy of line and likeness, and celebrates color’s associations with the everyday, from popular culture and mass media to femininity and kitsch.
Artists included are Joseph Albers, Willie Cole, William Cushner, Tomory Dodge, Howard Finster, Sam Gilliam, Peter Halley, Pamela Jorden, Sharon Louden, Sally Mann, Jiha Moon, Odili Donald Odita, Sheila Mae Pinkel, Letitia Quesenberry, Sonja Rieger, Bob Thompson, and Juan Uslé.

(6th-12th Grade) This bi-monthly program will focus on teaching the performing arts to aspiring teen thespians with assistance from the Red Mountain Theatre. Register online at homewoodpubliclibrary.org.

Ring in the holidays at Lane Parke! Join us as we light our holiday tree and have a visit from Santa!

Attendees can enjoy drinks, pop-ups, DJ and kids' activities to get everyone in the holiday spirit!

Join us as September Reed shows you how easy it is to paint your own masterpiece on a mini- canvas and easel. We will provide all you need to paint your own masterpiece. Register online at homewoodpubliclibrary.org.

Jelly Roll|ERNEST|Shaboozey|Allie Colleen

Free music show at Rojo in the Side Room by Kate Hollingsworth on Thursday, November 21 at 7pm in the Side Room.  She will be playing new songs too 🙂

Info about Kate:

Kate Hollingsworth is a Birmingham native whose deep-rooted connection to music was cultivated in a family where harmonies and melodies were as commonplace as conversations. As a seasoned musician, Kate is no stranger to the stage, having spent years performing with her husband, Taylor, in their critically acclaimed band, Dead Fingers. Their unique blend of Americana and rock earned them a devoted following and a reputation for soulful, raw performances.

In addition to her work with Dead Fingers, Kate toured extensively with her siblings, including her sister, Maria Taylor, a well-known name in the indie music scene. Together, they brought a familial warmth and dynamic energy to audiences across the country.

CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one showstopping song after another and the most astonishing dancing you’ve ever seen.

In the whirlwind of Chicago’s Jazz Age, two of the Cook County Jail’s most notorious murderesses—vaudeville star Velma Kelly and chorus girl Roxie Hart—become fierce rivals as they compete for headlines amidst a media frenzy.

Broadway’s longest-running musical has been razzle dazzling audiences for 27 years, and after more than 10,000 performances, 6 Tony Awards®, 2 Olivier Awards, and a Grammy®, we’re just getting started.

Come on, babe! Head to CHICAGO!

We’re hotter than ever.

Stephen Wilson Jr.

Shannon Ford isn’t here to inspire you or help you better yourself in any way… but she can guarantee you’ll laugh.. either with her or at her. She covers everything from her year-long stint as a reality TV “villain” to pop culture to what happens when you have everything in your life going great and then the bottom drops out and you gotta figure it the fuck out. Buckle up and come along for the ride!

Connor Kelly & The Time Warp

Skatenigs, The Paper Army & Mara Nagra

Late Night Thursdays Preparty with Ashtronic

The Good Girl Tour & The Alive And Unwell tour! If you've ever had the pleasure of seeing an episode of Comedy Central mainstay 'Not Safe with Nikki Glaser', then you'll be well acquainted with her unapologetic, no-holds-barred comedy style, but you may still blush when confronted with her racy live stand-up routine. Leaving no stone unturned when it comes topics including sex, relationships, the single life, Target fashion triumphs and invasive TSA practices, Glaser spreads her mischievous glee around venues across North America on 'The Good Girl' tour and 'The Alive and Unwell Tour' (which will commence from 14 September 2024) - no matter which tour you get, it's bound to have all of the comedy wit and genius that Glaser is known for! Not only has Glaser tickled the nation's funny bones on the small screen, but also appeared alongside Amy Schumer in feature film Trainwreck and produced a popular podcast in which she honed her oversharing, top notch comedy skills. Whilst she's at her razor-sharp best when getting way too personal, her hilarious rage also brings the belly laughs when she tears into vapid celebrity culture. Charismatic, consistently charming and constantly balancing frankness with neuroses and self-deprecation, Glaser's clearly on path to legend status.

The orchestra will play Bartok’s Concerto for orchestra. Bartók makes extensive use of classical elements in the work; for instance, the first and fifth movements are in sonata-allegro form. The work combines elements of Western art music and eastern European folk music, especially that of Hungary, and it departs from traditional tonality, often using non-traditional modes and artificial scales. Conductor Carlos Izcaray. Program to include BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra.

Join The Literacy Council for an Inspiring Thanksgiving Event with Birmingham’s First Poet Laureate, Salaam Green!
Friday, November 22
11:30 am - 1 pm
Homewood Public Library, Room 116

Kick off the holiday season with a soul-stirring poetry reading by Birmingham’s own Poet Laureate, Salaam Green! Known for her work as a writer, educator, and community leader, Salaam will share powerful poetry that celebrates healing and transformation. Afterward, engage in a creative activity to inspire gratitude and gift-giving ideas just in time for Thanksgiving!
Salaam Green, a proud daughter of Alabama’s Black Belt, is the founder of Literary Healing Arts and a certified “Write to Heal” workshop leader. She’s also a Road Scholar for the Alabama Humanities Alliance, where she teaches communities to use poetry and storytelling for empowerment. Her work, featured in the Alabama Arts Journal and the book Peaches the Perfect Poet, touches on social justice, environmental healing, and personal growth.
Sponsored by Alabama Humanities Alliance, this event is an opportunity to reflect, create, and connect with the power of poetry to uplift the spirit. Light refreshments will be provided.
Seats are limited! Please RSVP by emailing Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Moreman at semoreman@literacy-council.org.

Friday, November 22
11:30 am - 1 pm
Homewood Public Library, Room 116

Don’t miss this chance to be inspired and uplifted by the art of poetry!