Let's Do Lunch

Brown Bag Lunch Program

No reservations are needed.  Programs are free and open to the public. 

Birmingham Public Library — Central

These programs are held at 12:00 p.m. in the 3rd floor Arrington Auditorium of the Linn-Henley Building.  The library provides beverages. For additional information call (205) 226-3604

August 3 - USWorks Business Online

Rolanda Warren, with the Center for Workforce Development, will provide information about community agencies that offer direct services for businesses, job seekers, and economic developers. This state-of-the-art web application provides local labor market information, job posting, posting of job fairs and upcoming events, and an online Community Resource Guide at no cost to you!

What is a living will and do I really need one? Lynn Campisi, a local attorney and member of the Birmingham Bar Association, will help us understand what a living will is and does for ourselves and our families.

Babe Ruth played there, and so did Willie Mays, Piper Davis, and Ty Cobb. For lovers of baseball, stadiums are more than just fields where a game is played. Baseball stadiums are temples, museums and second homes. As historic stadiums around the country were lost to the wrecking ball, the Friends of Rickwood helped save and breathe new life into Birmingham's Rickwood Field. Join us as David Brewer explores the history and romance of America's oldest baseball park.

Many people have ideas for ways to solve problems that they encounter in daily living. What is involved in converting an idea into a product? Can I make money from the idea? What's it going to cost me to develop the idea? What resources are available to me? This program will answer all these questions and many more.

Join us for a viewing of the winner of the Best Short Documentary at the 2004 Birmingham Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. Meet Bo Hughins and Neil Kirkpartick, the filmmakers, and hear their experience creating this winning movie.

It’s time to preview the upcoming Festival - join us for a look at this year’s schedule of events.

Future scientists from the Alabama School of Fine Arts will be presenting a program on Albert Einstein, his theories and what these discoveries mean in our daily life. Who knows, maybe these students will even build a time machine for us!

The McWane Center will present two programs about its Einstein Exhibit opening September 3. Join us for two very informative programs on the man and his work.

Have you ever understood what it really meant? Join us as we preview the new Nova series that will highlight the World’s Most Famous Equation.

Hear the exquisite sounds of these talented instrumentalists as they bring us musical fare from the late Renaissance through the twentieth century.

Earth Day is not the only time of the year to think about ecology and issues that involve our lives and the world around us. Join us for a look at our world.

Charles Linn, one of Birmingham's founders, famously said,"Bury me on the high promontory overlooking the city of Birmingham." Now, anyone strolling across the promontory that became Linn's final resting place, Oak Hill Cemetery, will find not only the graves of the city's founders, of generals and political leaders, but also forgotten paupers, the victims of the great cholera epidemic, and Birmingham's most famous madam. Join us as Stuart Oates, director of Oak Hill Cemetery, explores the history of Birmingham's oldest burial ground.

Emmet O’Neal Library (Mountain Brook)
The Brown Bag Lunch Series is held every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. Bring a sack lunch. Beverage and dessert provided by the Library. Call (205) 879-0459 for program details.

Aug. 3 - Speaker - Dr. Susan Hagen on Chaucer’s World

Aug. 10 – Speaker - Author Helen Scully on her new novel, In the Hope of Rising Again, a novel set in Mobile after the Civil War

Aug. 17 – Video - The Story of Longitude (pt.2)

Aug. 24 – Video - Philosophy of the Western World (pt.2)

Aug. 31 – Video - The History of the British Isles (pt.3)

Sep. 7 – Video - Bill Bryson on Britain (pt.3)

Sep. 14 – Video - The 1950’s (pt.6)

Sep. 21 – Speaker - Jeannine O’Grody, curator of European Art and Old Masters, Birmingham Museum of Art

Sep. 28 – Video - Philosophy of the Western World (pt.3)

Oct. 5 – Speaker - Cathy Pagani on Zen and Art

Oct. 12 – Video - Philosophy of the Eastern World (pt.1)

Oct. 19 – Video - Philosophy of the Eastern World (pt.2)

Oct. 26 – Video - Philosophy of the Eastern World (pt.3)

Homewood Library
Brown Bag Film Series – These programs are held on Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m., Sept. 6 - Oct. 26. Bring a sack lunch. Beverage and dessert furnished by Friends of the Library. Call (205) 332-6600 for program details.