The events listed in gold are open to the public.
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January 26 through February 11: Take a Ride on the Reading. Terrific New Theatre.
Sidetracked, derailed, and 800 miles from home. A new, true story about growing up, getting lost, and leaving home ... not necessarily in that order. Written and performed by Dolores Hydock.
A big-number reunion sparks a search for people and places that are long gone – or are they? Cough drops, Saint Anthony, Santa Claus, a linebacker named Crusty Morelli, and a 5-foot-tall top hat all show up in this funny, from-the-heart swirl of stories about one memorable weekend.
Click here to read Alec Harvey's 5-star review in the Birmingham News.
The show is at Terrific New Theatre, 2821 2nd Avenue South. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinee on February 5th at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $20, except Thursdays, when you pay what you can afford. For reservations, call 328-0868.
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Sunday, January 29: Starch in Their Petticoats: Stories of Strong Women Who Settled the West. Noon - 2 p.m. Lunch and program. Part of the Annual Soup and Stories for a Woman's Soul series, Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church. $15 for lunch and the program. All are welcome! Call the church at 822-9631 for reservations.
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Tuesday, February 14: Starch in Their Petticoats: Stories of Strong Women Who Settled the West. 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. South Highland Presbyterian Church Highlanders. 2035 Highland Avenue South. Visitors welcome! Sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation. For info, call the church at 939-1210.
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Thursday, Febuary 16: Footprint on the Sky. Centerpoint Chamber of Commerce awards dinner.
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Saturday, February 18: Through the Back Door ~ The Music that Bridged the Bayou. Blount Springs Arts and Historical Foundation. Sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
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Tuesday, February 21: Pennies, Perfume, and Potato Salad ~ Stories of friendship and womanly advice. Newcomers of Birmingham.
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Saturday, March 3: Footprint on the Sky. With the music of Flying Jenny. Phenix City Performing Arts Center.
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Tuesday, March 6: Soldiers in Hoop Skirts ~ Spies, Nurses, and other Fighting Women of the Civil War. 7 - 8 p.m., Hoover Public Library Theatre, Hoover, AL. Free.
Women on both sides of the conflict did their part for the war effort – as spies, soldiers, nurses, and supporters from the home front. Beloved author Louisa May Alcott was one of these “soldiers in hoop skirts,” and this program tells about her war efforts and those of other intrepid women who fought, snooped, toted, and nursed, risking their life and fortune for a cause they loved.
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Wednesday, March 7: Novel Destinations - Stories of Side Roads and Speed Bumps. Noon - 1 p.m., Sylacauga Public Library, Sylacauga, AL. Part of the library's Brown Bag Series. Bring a lunch, if you like -- beverages and snacks available at 11 a.m., with the story program to follow at noon. Free and open to all! For more info, call the library at 256-249-0961 or visit http://www.sylacauga.net/library/
Come for a ride of the imagination, with stories of wanderlust and the wide-open road. In one story, two women find a startling surprise hidden in the hills of Rome. In another, travelers share secrets on a Spanish train. The final story takes a curious route back home.
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Friday - Sunday, March 9 - 11: Beaufort Storytelling Festival, Beaufort, SC. Sponsored by the Arts Council of Beaufort County.
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Monday, March 12: Dishing the Dirt ~ Stories of spring. Vestavia Hills Seniors, Vestavia Hills, AL.
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Tuesday, March 13: Starch in Their Petticoats ~ True Stories of Strong Women Who Settled the West. With Bobby Horton. Metropolitan Club of Birmingham.
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Friday, March 16: Through the Back Door ~ The Music That Bridged the Bayou. 10 a.m. Gulf Shores Adult Activity Center, Gulf Shores, AL. Free and open to all. Sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
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Wednesday, March 21: Soldiers in Hoop Skirts ~ Nurses, Spies, and Other Fighting Women of the Civil War. Noon - 1 p.m. Pell City Public Library, 1923 1st Avenue North, Pell City, AL. Free; sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation. For info, call the library at 201-884-1015 or visit www.pc.lib.al.us
Women on both sides of the conflict did their part for the war effort – as spies, soldiers, nurses, and supporters from the home front. This program shares the true stories of a few of the sisters, wives, mothers, and daughters who snooped, smuggled, sewed, nursed, and risked their lives, health, and fortunes for a cause they loved. The program includes photographs, letters, journal entries, and excerpts from memoirs written by these women after the war.
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Friday, March 23: Dishing the Dirt ~ Garden Stories. Alabama Master Gardeners Conference.
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Sunday, April 1: Fool for Love ~ A Deeper Look into Lovers' Eyes. Birmingham Museum of Art, 3 - 4 p.m. Part of the museum's exhibit of The Look of Love: Lovers' Eyes.
The desperate gaze of an impetuous prince, the demure glance of a reluctant beauty, the hint of a tear for a lost child -- what longing of the human heart can the eye reveal only to one who knows how to read it? This program brings to life the stories of passion, intrigue, romance, and remembrance hidden within this exquisite collection of Lovers' Eyes -- miniatures of eyes painted onto brooches, pendants, and other ornaments as a remembrance of a secret or departed love.
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Thursday, April 5: Money Talks ~ Stories about Cold, Hard Cash. 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., Pelham Senior Center, Pelham, AL.
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Sunday, April 22: Money Talks ~ Stories about Cold, Hard Cash. 2 - 3 p.m., Pelham Public Library, Pelham, AL.
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Thursday, May 17: On a Spree ~ More Stories about Money. 6:30 - 8 p.m., Emmet O'Neal Library in Crestline.
What happens when a young man ignores every bit of money advice his father ever gave him? And just how much happiness can money actually buy? Find out in these stories about throwing financial caution to the wind!
This free story concert at the Emmet O'Neal Library closes out the library's "Smart Investing @ Emmet O'Neal" series on personal finance, and will be different stories from the ones told at the start of the series (in September 2011), or the ones told in Pelham in April. The event is free and open to all. Refreshments at 6:30 p.m., program from 7 - 8 p.m., at the Emmet O'Neal Library, 50 Oak Street, Crestline Village.
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Saturday, March 9, 2013: Story Concert, Indiana History Center, Indianapolis, IN. Sponsored by Storytelling Arts of Indiana. For information, visit www.storytellingarts.org/
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October 10 - 11, 2013: Fall Conference for ECW of the Diocese of Alabama.
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