JULY: BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE
(520 16th St. North, Birmingham, AL 35203; phone 866-328-9696.
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Admission: Adults $10; Seniors $5 (65 and over); College Students $4 (with student ID); Children 17 and under free.)
July 1-Aug. 24 –
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI), 520 16th St. North, Birmingham, AL 25203
“5 Days in July: The Newark Riots” — Odessa Woolfolk Gallery. This multiscreen video presentation chronicles the unrest in Newark, N.J., during the summer of 1967. Edited by Chuck Schultz. Admission required; Sundays free.
July 1-Aug. 24
“Passions: Works by Komeh Ottison” — David J. Vann Gallery. Exhibition of paintings by local artists. Admission required; Sundays free.
Thursdays
“Heritage Alive!” — Scheduled on Thursdays in July and August by request only. Rev. Abraham L. Woods Jr. Community Meeting Room. Recommended for grades K-5. Please call 866- 328-9696, extension 228, for more information and reservations.
July 11-12,
University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences
Multicultural Journalism Program’s 25th Anniversary Reunion. Events include a Friday banquet at 6:15 p.m. at Sheraton Four Points Hotel Ballroom featuring Mervin Aubespin, retired editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. For information, call 205-246-3334; e-mail lemullins13 (at) aol.com; Web site www.ccom.ua.edu.
July 22-27 — NABJ
Unity ‘08 Convention of journalists in color, in Chicago, Ill. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama will speak. For information, visit www.2008unity.org, or www.nabj.org.
July 25 — BCRI, 6-8 p.m.
“Heritage Alive Community of Readers” Summer Family Reading Program. Fun, food and movies. Free admission. Call 866- 328-9696, extension 228, for information and reservations.
AUGUST
Aug. 29 — BCRI, 6-8 p.m.
“Heritage Alive Community of Readers” Summer Family Reading Program. Free admission. Call 866-328-9696, extension 228. for information and reservations.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 2 -Oct. 26 — BCRI
“Darkness into Life”: The Birmingham Area Holocaust Survivors Through Photography and Art, Works by Becky Seitel and Mitzi Levin — Odessa Woolfolk Gallery. Exhibition includes paintings and photographs accompanied by text explaining the struggles of nine individuals and memories of their lives before Nazi occupation, to imprisonment and their current lives in Birmingham. Admission required. Sundays free.
Sept. 4, 11, 18 and 25 — BCRI, 10 a.m.
“Heritage Alive!” —Rev. Abraham L. Woods Jr. Community Meeting Room. Recommended for grades
K-5. Registration required. Call 866-328-9696, extension 228, for information.
Sept. 9-Dec. 31 — BCRI
100th Anniversary Birmingham Art Association — David J. Vann Gallery and Milestones Hallway Gallery.
Exhibition is a commemoration of the 100-year history of the organization encompassing nearly 100
works of art. Admission required. Sundays free.
Sept. 13 — BCRI, 10 a.m.
BCRI Docent training program begins. Lecture Room. Registration required. Call 205-328-9696, extension 204.
Sept. 15 — BCRI, 7:30 a.m.
Annual Birmingham Pledge Teen Conference. Registration required. Call 866- 328-9696, extension 234, for information.
(Community and civic organizations are welcome to submit items to BABJ Newsdesk’s calendar. Send items to president (at) babj.net. Please include your telephone number.)
