Discover the best family-friendly events in Birmingham, Alabama! From day camps and mommy-and-me classes to exciting local attractions, find the perfect activities for your family.
Explore Birmingham family fun with our guide to kid-friendly events and experiences. Perfect for parents seeking fun and educational activities for children.
Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Concert Hall
1200 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United States
(Alabama Symphony Orchestra) Join the ASO as they record a concert to preserve the Alabama legacy as never done before. This once-in-a-lifetime concert will feature Brian Raphael Nabors’ Letters from Birmingham (2022), William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony (1934), and Stars Fell on Alabama (1934), arranged by ASO’s fourth music director Amerigo Marino.
Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Concert Hall
1200 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United States
October 30 at 7pm | UAB’s Alys Stephens Center Carlos Izcaray, conductor Amerigo Marino: Stars Fell on Alabama Brian Raphael Nabors: Letters from Birmingham William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony As the only full-time orchestra in the state, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is the arts organization with the artistic and organizational capacity to […]
Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Concert Hall
1200 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United States
In celebration of Carlos Izcaray’s 10 years as Music Director of the ASO, the orchestra will perform an anniversary program featuring works Maestro Izcaray conducted at his opening concert in 2013. La Péri, written in 1911, and was Dukas’ last published work is not as well known as The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, this ballet has […]
Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Concert Hall
1200 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United States
The orchestra will perform The Symphonie fantastique, a piece of music that tells the story of a gifted artist who, in the depths of hopelessness and despair because of his unrequited love for a woman, has poisoned himself with opium. The piece tells the story of the artist’s drug-fueled hallucinations, beginning with a ball […]
Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Concert Hall
1200 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United States
Join the Alabama Symphony Orchestra for a Hip Hop fusion show with local Birmingham talent Shaheed and D.J. Supreme! Perfect for all ages, this Young People’s Concert will fuse the orchestral artform with turntables, empowering messaging, and sick beats! Knowledge is power with the incorporation of STEAM components and a teacher guide for grades […]
Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Concert Hall
1200 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United States
Described by Shostakovich himself as “festive or celebrative in spirit,” The Festive Overture begins with a brass fanfare which later reappears before the work’s coda. The concert concludes with Saint – Saëns Organ Symphony No. 3. It is popularly known as the Organ Symphony, since, unusually for a late-Romantic symphony, two of the four […]