We bought a few new prints at this year’s Magic City Art Connection. The three-day event was packed with a lot of new artists that hadn’t shown in Birmingham before.
We did miss the Indian Classical-Folk Fusion Dance performance (I can’t imagine what that was like), but the puppet show was pretty funny and the fried turkey legs were worth standing in line for 15 minutes. Here are a few pics from the weekend.
It looks like we may have missed our chance to vote in a design for this year’s City Stages T-shirt. But it looks like there’s still time to vote in a “Runner Up” design. I’m not sure why we’re re-voting to pick a “runner up” or what a “runner up” wins… but it’s neat to see all the other submissions that didn’t make the cut.
This year City Stages is…
We took the C to his first Do Dah Day. He loves dogs and there are doggies-a-plenty at Do Dah Day. Unfortunately, the nice folks from Benjamin Franklin Plumbing were handing out balloons.
And, well, C was so taken with his balloon, that he missed all of the dogs. Fortunately for him, I guess he was too distracted to notice the overwhelming smell of poo and the absence of bras on 85% of the ladies there.
Guess, T and I should’ve picked up one of those balloons.
It’s this Saturday!
9 am to 4 pm at Old Alabama Town in Montgomery, AL. There’s a big long list of authors this year and a few other exhibits. Should be good fun. We’ll see you there!
If you’re in the ‘ham this weekend you’ll want to swing by the Vestavia Hills library. Their BIG annual book sale kicks off this afternoon at 5pm and runs through Tuesday. The library opens at 9am on Saturday and 1pm on Sunday.
I’m thinking about taking elbow pads and a helmet, in case it’s anything like last year’s sale. Some people are CRAZY about $1 books and I always seem to be in their way!
The Chad Fisher Group has wrapped up recording on their 3rd album, Cinematic. To help promote the new tunes they have two local gigs lined up.
Print artist Charles Buchanan’s latest work will debut tonight at Naked Art. He’ll be at the gallery 5pm-9pm and then again tomorrow 1pm-6pm.
We’ve been keeping up with Charles over on his blog, and can’t wait to see what he brings to the show.
You’ll also be able catch him on HGTV’s “That’s Clever” the season.