INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC SERIES CONTINUES

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 5-7 PM / FREE

Join the Museum for an evening of classical Indian music, organized by the Indian Culture Society. The concert features award-winning artists Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Pandit Subhen Chatterjee, who will present a musical program on modified guitar and tabla.

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2nd Annual Sankofa Society Soirée

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2010 Soirée Weekend: September 11 and 12, 2010

Saturday, September 11
2nd Annual Sankofa Society Soirée
6:30 – 10:00 p.m.

SPIRAL: Moving Outward and Constantly Upward Join us for an evening of live music, dancing, delicious food, and a celebration of African-American art and culture.  Tickets $100 per person ($125 after August 18), contact Susan Powers at 205-254-2567 or spowers@artsbma.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or

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MyMuseum Latest Blog Post

By Jeanie Thompson

I am a poet, not a sculptor or a painter. But I have learned from the language of sculpture and painting how to be a better poet. Many years ago, I had the great fortune to walk among the forms that Barbara Hepworth sculpted and cast in bronze in Cornwall, England. In her sculpture garden and studio, I saw open forms, forms in movement, and two forms that captured my imagination and would not let go. Hepworth called this work “Two Forms in Echelon.”  I took away notes, postcards, and a book. I photographed my walk in detail and somewhere those Kodachrome slides are languishing in a box.  But the poem I knew I wanted to write would not come forth with all the material so raw. This was 1983.

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