Arts & Culture

Franklin, Quiñones Headline Realizing the Dream Events at UA

Franklin, Quiñones Headline Realizing the Dream Events at UA

Legendary gospel artist Kirk Franklin will headline the 2017 Realizing the Dream Concert at The University of Alabama’s Moody Music Concert Hall on Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. John Quiñones, a veteran ABC news figure and host of the highly rated hidden camera ethical dilemma news program “What Would You Do?,” will be the keynote speaker at the Jan. 13 awards banquet.

UA Offers Creative Writing Club for Teens

UA Offers Creative Writing Club for Teens

The University of Alabama invites local high school students — freshmen through seniors — to sign up for the Spring 2017 Creative Writing Club.

“Freedom and Fire!: A Civil War Story”

“Freedom and Fire!: A Civil War Story”

Five days before the war ends, The University of Alabama’s campus is obliterated. A trio of scholars set out to tell the old story in a new way.

Next Steps Planned for UA Performing Arts Academic Center

Next Steps Planned for UA Performing Arts Academic Center

The University of Alabama is in the final stage of planning a new $60 million Performing Arts Academic Center.

UA Students to Demonstrate Medieval Architecture Techniques

UA Students to Demonstrate Medieval Architecture Techniques

In a demonstration of how art and mathematics work together, University of Alabama art history students will show how the scale plan of the Cathedral of Amiens was laid out using simple tools, such as wooden mallets, stakes, string and a mason’s square, on the Quad from 9 a.m. to noon Friday, Nov. 4.

The homepage of the new online database “‘To See Justice Done’: Letters from the Scottsboro Trials.”

UA Launches Website for Studying Scottsboro Trials

The Alabama Digital Humanities Center is launching a new online database called “‘To See Justice Done’: Letters from the Scottsboro Trials,” at noon Monday, Oct. 24, in room 109a of Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus.

Reed to Sign, Discuss New Book About Former UA President Denny

Reed to Sign, Discuss New Book About Former UA President Denny

Tuscaloosa-area residents will have the opportunity to purchase discounted copies of “Mike Denny: The Shadow of a Single Man,” a book that chronicles the life of former University of Alabama president Dr. George H. Denny, at a pair of events on the UA campus.

Reed to Sign, Discuss New Book about Former UA President Denny

Reed to Sign, Discuss New Book about Former UA President Denny

Tuscaloosa-area residents will have a pair of opportunities to purchase copies of “Mike Denny: The Shadow of a Single Man,” a book that chronicles the life of former University of Alabama president Dr. George H. Denny, and have the copies signed by author Delbert Reed.

A Look at the Traditions of The University of Alabama’s Million Dollar Band

Mills Lecturer at UA to Speak on Art, Technology Entrepreneurship

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.