✨🎩 Calling all young magicians! 🎩✨

For the 6th year, UAB Arts in Medicine & the Department of Occupational Therapy are bringing the magic back with Every Day Magic Camp! 🎭

This FREE camp, designed for children with disabilities (ages 9-18), is led by illusionist Kevin Spencer and the Hocus Focus program. Campers will learn 2-3 magic tricks each week, building confidence, motor skills, and c#everydaymagic

🔮 Virtual Camp 1: May 26 - June 27
🔮 Virtual Camp 2: July 7 - August 1
🔮 In-Person Camp: July 11 - August 8 (at UAB)

Each camp ends with a magical performance for friends and family! ✨

📩 Spots are limited! Email artsinmedicine@uab.edu to register today!

#MagicCamp #6YearsOfMagic #InclusiveArts#UABArtsInMedicine #HocusFocus #EveryDayMagic

Improv Camp 3rd-5th Grade, Improv Camp 6th-12th Grade, Harry Potter Camp, Disney Mini Camp, Musical Theatre Bootcamp, and Mini Production Camp!

There is something for everyone this summer at Homewood Theatre!

(All Ages) Does your kiddo love to move and groove? Come join us for a dance party to shake your sillies out to all your favorite songs.

Featuring work by 19 artists from across the state, the Alabama Triennial 2025: Currents explores questions of place and identity. Through work that emphasizes movement, journey, mapping, exchange and transference, the exhibition complicates notions of Southern identity as something static or unitary, instead viewing it as a confluence of various currents, constantly in motion, made and remade in relation to what came before.

Currents are directional movement and energy. As natural phenomena in our oceans and atmosphere that gave rise to trade routes and transit corridors, they are reminders of the inextricability of history and culture from the material conditions of place. Yet they are also immaterial, invoking spiritual practices such as channeling, as well as the amalgamation of religious influences common in this region. As directional movement, currents call to mind lineages – of ancestry or heritage – as well as the belief systems that have shaped our environment and material existence. One question guiding this exhibition is: How do we position ourselves in relation to what we inherit?

Finally, although far from comprehensive, the Triennial is intended as a survey of current artistic practices in Alabama. It's of a time and place washed ashore by the past, with one eye fixed on the horizon.

Participating artists are Douglas Pierre Baulos, Daphne Burgess, Merrilee Challiss, E L Chisolm, Soynika Edwards-Bush, Valerie George, Allison Grant, Arielle Gray, Darius Hill, Helga Mendoza, Micah Mermilliod, Joe Minter, Bethany Moody, Celestia Morgan, Miriam Omura, Celeste Amparo Pfau, Millian Giang Pham, Rial Rye and Jennifer Wallace Fields

The Alabama Triennial 2025 was curated by elizabet elliott, Executive Director of Alabama Contemporary Art Center in Mobile; Sydney A. Foster, Montgomery-based creative director and community architect; and AEIVA Curator Hannah Spears.

(Rising 6-12 Grade) The Teen Advisory Board is a volunteer group of 6th-12th graders who are dedicated to serving the Homewood Public Library. Want to make a difference and offer your voice in the library and in the community? Consider applying for TAB! Applications available online at homewoodpubliclibrary.org/tab-application.

The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl’s childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town. Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they’ve known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in the mountainside villages of Puerto Rico and promises to return. A heartfelt, evocative portrait of another side of life in 1950s America, The Things We Didn’t Know establishes Elba Iris Pérez as a sensational new literary voice. Place the book on hold at hpl.pub/catalog.

Join us for our exclusive Thunder on the Mountain Viewing Party at Vulcan Park & Museum on July 4, 2025! For the first time ever, we are inviting guests to enjoy Alabama’s largest and most spectacular Independence Day celebration from the best vantage point in the state. 

Thunder on the Mountain lights up Birmingham’s skyline with an unforgettable pyrotechnic show set to patriotic music. Be part of an exclusive and intimate gathering to enjoy this breathtaking fireworks show from the premier vantage point at Kiwanis Centennial Park, located within the scenic grounds of Vulcan Park and Museum. Don’t miss your chance to celebrate Independence Day in style with the best view in Alabama!  
Guests will enjoy an all-inclusive evening featuring: 

The BEST VIEW of Thunder on the Mountain from the Kiwanis Centennial Park
CATERED Dinner
Open BAR
RESERVED PARKING with shuttle to and from your vehicle

Event Details
LOCATION  Vulcan Park & Museum (1701 Valley View Drive, Birmingham, AL 35209)

INDOOR  Electra Event Space
OUTDOOR Kiwanis Centennial Plaza

DATE  Friday, July 4, 2025
TIME  6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

SCHEDULE

6:30 PM  Doors Open
7:00 PM  Dinner Served
9:00 PM  Fireworks Show Begins (20 minutes in length)
9:30 PM  Event Concludes

TICKET PRICES
Space is extremely limited, so secure your ticket now for this first-ever exclusive celebration! 

SINGLE TICKET

$250 each

PAIR OF TICKETS (2)

$500

(0-18 Months) Babies and caregivers are welcome to a lap sit storytime filled with early literacy tips, baby-friendly songs, and bubbles.