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VOL. 12, NO. 4 dot  November, December, January dot 2002-2003

 
 

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 Hoover’s Library Theatre
 

happy, sad masks

For more information call
The Library Theatre Box Office at (205) 444-7888.

    Kate Campbell - In Concert
November 15, Friday, 8 p.m., November 16, Saturday, 8 p.m.
Drawing her inspiration from the people, places and culture of the modern South, Kate Campbell is an eloquent storyteller who has been compared with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith, Lucinda Williams and has opened for Emmylou Harris. "One of the most innovative and fresh songwriters around."
Tickets $15

Holiday Cabaret
December 12, Thursday, 8 p.m., December 13, Friday, 8 p.m., December 14, Saturday, 8 p.m.
"Zany, irreverent, totally entertaining...the perfect holiday break!" Join us as some of Birmingham's best comics and musicians take aim at sacred Southern traditions. Enjoy the best of barbershop quartet and cabaret music, too, with Jim Aycock and "Loose Change." Jack Mann, Suzanne Mann, Randy Marsh, Jan Hunter and Roy Hudson star.
Tickets $15

 

Gallery Exhibits

  
Birmingham Public Library
 Central 
Gallery 		November 3-December 31
Birmingham Historical Society – "Maps: 1540 to Today"
With over 60 fine maps in the exhibit, view Birmingham’s development through early exploration maps to satellite imagery. The exhibit features maps donated to the library by Rucker Agee. Visitors will enjoy early French and Spanish explorations maps, a "holster atlas" carried by British officers in 1776, the first geological map of Alabama, and various maps of Birmingham and it’s suburbs from the 1870s to today.

January 15-March 30
Looking Back at Gee’s Bend: The Photographs of John Reese
After touring the United States for six years, one of the Birmingham Public Library’s most successful exhibitions has come home. Focusing on an isolated African-American community, the exhibition highlights a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
Homewood
 Gallery 		November 3 - 30
Bruce Dupree, Local Author/Illustrator

December 3 - 30
Seasonal
Hoover
 Friends Gallery 		November 1-30
Marcia R. Leornard

December 1-31
Tim Henderson

 

Save this date!
Saturday, April 26, 2002
 Alabama Bound
Celebrating Alabama Authors and Publishers
Birmingham Public Library
Central Library
2100 Park Place
   
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