Arts & Culture
Mills Lecturer at UA to Speak on Art, Technology Entrepreneurship
Doug McCraw, art collector and founder of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, arts district FATVillage, will discuss “The Creative Entrepreneur: The Nexus of Art and Technology” during the Helen Crow Mills and John Carroll Mills Lecture at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 21, in room 3111 of the Ferguson Center on The University of Alabama campus.
UA Center Produces Documentary on Bankhead Family
For three generations, one family from north Alabama – the Bankheads — became fixtures on the American landscape. Their improbable run to national prominence is traced in The University of Alabama’s Center for Public Television’s documentary “The Bankheads.” “The Bankheads” will air statewide on Alabama Public Television at 8 p.m. Thursday Oct. 13, and 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16.
UA’s Huxford Symphony Orchestra to Perform Oct. 13
The University of Alabama School of Music’s Huxford Symphony Orchestra will perform in its second concert of the 2016-2017 season Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Moody Music Building Concert Hall.
UA Chess Club Contributes to Food Drive
The University of Alabama Chess Club is doing its part to checkmate hunger in West Alabama. The club will host a chess tournament t from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 8, in the Ferguson Center. Participants will contribute three cans as a tournament entry fee for the Beat Auburn, Beat Hunger food drive.
Broadway Producer to Present UA Lecture on Musicals
Noted theatrical producer Jack Viertel, who has shepherded numerous shows to Broadway including “The Piano Lesson,” “Angels in America,” “City of Angels” and “M. Butterfly,” will speak about “The Secret Life of the American Musical” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at the Marian Gallaway Theatre on The University of Alabama campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Hamlet on Jazz at UA
Hamlet is an age-old Shakespearean tale of revenge, betrayal, ghosts, incest, depression and murder. If that wasn’t enough to hold the interest of modern audiences of this more than 400-year-old legendary play, what if award-winning University of Alabama theatre and dance professor Seth Panitch jazzed it up a bit?
UA Gallery Features Photographs of American Landscapes
The photography of Ines Schaefer will be displayed from Friday, Oct. 7, to Friday, Oct. 28, at The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in downtown Tuscaloosa.
UA’s Moundville Park Hosts Native American Festival Oct. 5-8
The University of Alabama will host its annual Moundville Native American Festival Oct. 5-8 at Moundville Archaeological Park.
Welcome to my UA World: Student the Melody behind Chimes’ Music
University of Alabama graduate student Tyler Canonico has played the Denny Chimes modified organ for three years. He began playing while pursuing his master’s in music and organ performance.