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-AEIVA Presents Erin Jane Nelson: Living and Working
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, May 21, 5-7 p.m. AEIVA presents Living and Working, a survey exhibition of work by Erin Jane Nelson made between 2015 and 2025 while she...
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-AEIVA Presents In the Moment: Recent Acquisitions to AEIVA’s Permanent Collection
Opening: May 21, 5–7pm AEIVA presents In the Moment: Recent Acquisitions to AEIVA’s Permanent Collection, featuring work by seventeen artists acquired over the past three years, much of...
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ArtPlay Presents The One and Only Me
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby wants to be an artist!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program...
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ASC Presents Vishnu, Davis & Haleigh
Join us for a pay-what-you-choose performance this summer featuring Indian artist Vishnu Ramprasad on his self-invented instrument dubbed NAVTAR® alongside Birmingham-based guitar-and-violin duo Davis Little and Haleigh Black. Haleigh serves as a beloved Violinist-in-Residence with UAB Arts in Medicine. Vishnu, Davis...
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ArtPlay Presents The One and Only Me
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby wants to be an artist!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program...
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UAB Department of Music and UAB Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts Presents Chamber Music @ AEIVA
Join us for Chamber Music @ AEIVA, a free evening where chamber music meets contemporary art. Dr. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk curates this chamber music concert connected to the AEIVA...
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UAB Center for the Arts Presents 2026 Arts Block Party feat. Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience
Mark your calendar for September 18 at 5 p.m. and join us for the biggest arts celebration of the season! The UAB Center for the Arts Block Party is a free, family-friendly evening filled...
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ArtPlay Presents Apples All Around
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby has a big apple tree!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program...
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Masterworks Series Thief, Poet, & Songs
With special guest pianist Dina Kasman, Christopher Confessore leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a program that moves from Rossini’s brilliant comic overture (La gazza ladra) to one...
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ArtPlay Presents Secrets About Spiders
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby has a new friend!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program is...
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UAB Center for the Arts Presents 2026 VIVA Health Gala feat. Bernadette Peters
The 2026 VIVA Health Gala, honoring Dr. and Mrs. Ray L. Watts, will be a spectacular night supporting UAB Center for the Arts, which encompasses the Alys Stephens...
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ASC Presents Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart
Experience bluegrass at its most daring, joyful, and virtuosic. The legendary Béla Fleck returns with his acclaimed My Bluegrass Heart tour for an electrifying evening that celebrates the...
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ArtPlay Presents Secrets About Spiders
Beep! Beep! Join Vocabby™ and ArtPlay friends as they learn the Secrets about Spiders! Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement,
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ASC Presents Black Violin
Genre-defying duo Black Violin takes the stage at the Alys Stephens Center on October 18 for an electrifying performance that reimagines the possibilities of classical music. Black Violin’s...
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Masterworks Series Requiem
Ming Luke conducts the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in one of classical music’s most enduring and mysterious works: Mozart’s Requiem, left unfinished at the composer’s death and completed by...
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ASC Presents Moonlight Princesses: A Tribute to Demon Hunters
Share a magical evening at Moonlight Princesses: A Tribute to Demon Hunters, an all-ages experience, a tribute to the vibrant music and imaginative world of Demon Hunters. Thoughtfully designed...
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Masterworks Series Levity
With violin virtuoso Tessa Lark as our guest, Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a program that balances celebration with substance. Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst opens with...
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ASC Presents Hanzhi Wang & Anthony Trionfo
Join us for a pay-what-you-choose performance presented as part of the Alys Stephens Center’s 30th Anniversary season, featuring two extraordinary artists: accordionist Hanzhi Wang and flutist Anthony Trionfo. Celebrated for her staggering virtuosity...
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UAB Center for the Arts and UAB Arts in Medicine Presents AIM After Hours
Join us for the latest AIM After Hours, an ongoing member-exclusive series. This event will explore National Arts in Health Month. More details to come. Become an Arts Member today...
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Masterworks Series English Light
Molly Turner leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in an all-English program anchored by two of the repertoire’s most beloved works. Elgar’s Enigma Variations is a musical portrait gallery...
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ArtPlay Presents Dinosaur Discovery
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby is going to the museum!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program...
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UAB Center for the Arts and UAB ArtPlay Presents ArtPlay After Hours
Join us for ArtPlay After Hours, an ongoing members-exclusive series. This special event will feature a guided tour of the historic ArtPlay House, beautifully decorated for the holidays,
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ArtPlay Presents Space
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby is studying space!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program is designed...
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ArtPlay Presents Space
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby is studying space!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program is designed...
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ArtPlay Presents Transportation
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby loves to travel!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program is designed...
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Masterworks Series Cave to Palace
The Alabama Symphony Orchestra performs one of Beethoven’s most underappreciated symphonies — the Fourth, a work of wit, elegance, and surprising emotional depth that often gets overshadowed by...
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ASC Presents Blind Boys of Alabama
Six-Time GRAMMY® Winners | Gospel Music Hall of Fame Inductees The gospel legends Blind Boys of Alabama return to the UAB Alys Stephens Center for a powerful, once-in-a-lifetime...
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ASC Presents Chaeyoung Park
Join us for a “Pay What You Choose” performance presented as part of the Alys Stephens Center’s 30th Anniversary season, featuring pianist Chaeyoung Park. Praised as an artist who “does not play a single...
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Masterworks Series American Ground
Christopher Confessore leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a program devoted entirely to American voices. Copland’s Appalachian Spring is the cornerstone of the evening — a ballet score...
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ArtPlay Presents Measurement
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby likes to measure things and make labels!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This...
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ASC Presents An Evening with Audra McDonald
/assets/2026/05/Audra-McDonald-Web-Video.mp4 Emmy, Grammy & Six‑Time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald is a once‑in‑a‑generation artist—and Birmingham audiences have a rare opportunity to experience her live. Making her highly anticipated debut at UAB’s Alys Stephens Center, Audra McDonald...
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ASC Presents Step Afrika!
Feel the rhythm and experience the energy of Step Afrika! live in Birmingham, AL, the world’s first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping, a powerful form of percussive...
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Masterworks Series Seven
Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a program unified — perhaps not so subtly — by the number seven. The evening opens with Arturo Márquez’s Danzón...
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ArtPlay Presents Play it Again Sam
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby loves music!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program is designed for...
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Masterworks Series Rivers
Mozart specialist Evren Ozel joins the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, led by Kensho Watanabe, in a program inspired by Europe’s rivers. Schumann’s Third Symphony — the “Rhenish” — was...
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ArtPlay Presents Down by the Pond
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby takes a trip to the pond!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE...
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Masterworks Series Planets
Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in one of the most spectacular works in the orchestral repertoire: Gustav Holst’s The Planets, a seven-movement suite that travels from...
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ArtPlay Presents The 5 Senses
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby likes to feel the texture of sand under his tires!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and...
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ASC Presents Eric Essix 30: A Retrospective
Celebrating the Alys Stephens Center’s 30th Anniversary, Eric Essix returns for a landmark concert that honors past, present, and future. This special evening marks the release of Essix’s...
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Masterworks Series The Emperor & the Revolutionary
Welcoming back Birmingham’s favorite pianist, Joyce Yang, to the stage with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra for a season finale led by Resident Conductor Christopher Confessore, pairing two of...
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ArtPlay Presents Mad Scientist
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby likes to dress like a mad scientist when he cooks!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and...
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ArtPlay Presents Desert
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby took an early morning ride in the desert!” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play.
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ArtPlay Presents Me and My Shadow
Beep! Beep! “Vocabby loves his shadow.” Join Vocabby™ and your ArtPlay friends as you explore new vocabulary through song, movement, and creative play. This FREE program is designed...
