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The UAB Maternal and Child Health Student Association will host a virtual seminar on child car seat and booster seat safety Jan. 27 from 5-6 p.m.
Discover the history and meaning behind the amabie, which legend says protects against plague and poverty, and learn to make your own at this workshop presented by UAB Arts in Medicine.
 
Pat Metheny — who has won 20 Grammy Awards — is presented by UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
ArtPlay provides a wide array of arts classes, including writing, dance, visual arts, music, acting and sewing. Classes will begin in March.
The Alabama Dance Festival and the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center will present dance companies staibdance and Bodytraffic.
Join the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB for a fun night of fellowship, recognition and art to continue support for cancer research.
Submitting work for shows is a must for artists, and the UAB Department of Art and Art History offers students two different opportunities to get their work out of the studio and into the gallery.
Join AEIVA this winter to see unique representations of art that highlight societal themes of personal relationships, human experience and therapeutics.

Simon Peeples is graduating from UAB with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and a Bachelor of Art degree in art history, connecting arts and sciences. 

Children will further their vocabulary through advanced, creative and hands-on programming with Vocabby’s World.
Join UAB Arts in Medicine for virtual art therapy aimed at helping people decrease stress and anxiety.
Atlanta super group Five Men returns to the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center stage by popular demand for an encore Holiday Soul performance on Sunday, Dec. 12, with a special “Meet the Artist” appearance for students on Monday, Dec. 13.
Kick off the holiday season with tickets for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis on Thursday, Dec. 2
Enjoy the sounds of the holiday season with UAB choral ensembles and high school choirs from the Greater Birmingham area on Nov. 30 at “Christmas at the Alys.”a

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance scheduled for Feb. 8, 2022, has been canceled due to the recent surge of COVID-19 cases and transmissibility in our community. 

Two senior Department of Art and Art History students have their research exhibited at UAB’s Art Lab from Nov. 16-19.
UAB’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is accepting submissions for the fifth annual “Word from the Mountaintop” MLK Oratory Contest.
UAB Department of History is hosting an event that will explore the French occupation of Syria and its impact on anti-Western radical Islamism.
Flutist Trionfo and pianist Cano Smit will perform together Nov. 18 at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
Thile, a master of the mandolin, is a member of Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek, a Grammy Award winner, a MacArthur fellow, and an ASC audience favorite.
Washington, author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,” will speak about how legacies of violence and exploitation impact the medical system today.
After a year of streamed performances due to the pandemic, the Department of Theatre is celebrating its return to live theater with comedy and laughs from one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies.
The final tag design, created by UAB graduate Sydney Williams, features a red-shouldered hawk in a long-leaf pine; both are native to Alabama.
The Alabama Department of Public Health is partnering with UAB Athletics as part of their KICK COVID program to host a vaccine clinic Saturday, Oct. 23, at Protective Stadium.
Art students from UAB partnered with art students from Hewitt-Trussville, Woodlawn and Mortimer Jordan high schools to create the works, which reflect on the monarch butterfly’s migration.
Enjoy a night of great music — new songs and classics — when Cray returns to the Alys Stephens Center, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9.
Enjoy dinner from Perry’s Steakhouse and Department of Music performances. Last year, the UAB National Alumni Society raised nearly $50,000 during its first-ever virtual Uncork Education.
UAB graduate students will work as yearlong service partners to implement self-developed projects dedicated to improving the health of vulnerable people.
UAB Institute for Arts in Medicine and Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater will present this original work created with Birmingham community members affected by cancer.
The Alys Stephens Center is celebrating its 25th anniversary season this fall. Tickets are on sale now.
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