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Teen Glass Blowing

Teen Glass Blowing

April 24, 2024 - May 15, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Ages 13 – 18
Instructors: Muffinjaw Designs

In this 4-week introductory class with the talented folks at Muffinjaw Designs on our 3rd Floor teens will journey into learning the captivating art of hot glass work!

How to Paint

How to Paint

April 25, 2024 - May 16, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Instructor: Colleen Comer

In this 4-week workshop, artist Colleen Terrell Comer introduces participants the building blocks of visual art: mark making, composition and color. This course is structured to provide students with the skills and techniques necessary to create their own paintings and help develop their personal painting style.

Artist Dinner: Pinky/MM Bass

Artist Dinner: Pinky/MM Bass

May 9, 2024
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

In honor of the tremendous work mounted by artist Pinky/MM Bass and friends featured in Threads of (dis)Integration, join us for an intimate exhibition preview and dinner, featuring live music and meaningful discussion.

Yoga on the Terrace

Yoga on the Terrace

May 25, 2024
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Kindred Yoga will join us on the terrace at ACAC on the last Saturday morning of every month, from 9-10 a.m. This drop-in session will feature a 45-minute yoga flow followed by 15 minutes of mingling with fresh, cold-pressed juices for sale from Ginger & Spice.

Reimagine the Landscape: Art and the Environment

Reimagine the Landscape: Art and the Environment

June 10, 2024 - June 14, 2024
8:30 am - 3:00 pm

SUMMER CAMP
Ages 11-14
Instructor: Cheryl Ankrom

In this camp, we’ll delve into the intersection of art and nature with everything from vibrant mixed media projects to traditional painting methods. Campers will explore their role as stewards of the environment, forging a deeper connection with the world around them.

MAFF: The Wild Ones

MAFF: The Wild Ones

June 14, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us for the first Mobile Animation Film festival pre-screener of 2024! This screening of experimental and a little bit out there animated short films will feature 9+ national and international shorts in varying mediums.

Art Sampler

Art Sampler

June 17, 2024 - June 21, 2024
8:30 am - 3:00 pm

SUMMER CAMP
Ages 6-10
Instructors: Monica Beasley & Pame Cevallos

Students will explore different art mediums, including paint, collage, color, mixed media, watercolor, drawing, and movement.

Beginner Wheel Throwing

Beginner Wheel Throwing

June 19, 2024 - July 31, 2024
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Instructor: Jenny Williams

Have you ever wished you could create your own set of bowls and mugs to share delicious meals with family and friends? Learn the basics of wheel-throwing in this 6-week beginners’ ceramics class.

Clay & Caricatures

Clay & Caricatures

June 24, 2024 - June 28, 2024
8:30 am - 3:00 pm

SUMMER CAMP
Ages 11-15
Instructor: Anne Hemphill Carr & Zak Todd

Get your hands dirty! Draw your own characters from scratch, learn the basics of sketching and illustration, then make it 3D. Campers will experiment with wheel throwing and create their own ceramic sculptures using clay. 

Watercolor, Clay and Bubbles

Watercolor, Clay and Bubbles

July 8, 2024 - July 12, 2024
8:30 am - 3:00 pm

SUMMER CAMP
Ages 6-10
Instructor: Tori Caldwell & Mary Ashley Hand

The best of both worlds: campers will experience watercolor painting and make playful sculptures out of clay with local artists Tori Caldwell and Mary Ashley Hand. Campers will create mixed media sculptures and take home their personalized stained glass, making memories that shine brightly all summer long!

Soynika's Art Camp

Soynika's Art Camp

July 15, 2024 - July 19, 2024
8:30 am - 3:00 pm

SUMMER CAMP
Ages 6-10
Instructor: Soynika Edwards-Bush

Students will explore different art mediums, including portrait painting, collage, mixed media, watercolor, drawing, and movement with local artist Soynika Edwards-Bush.

Theater & Costume Making

Theater & Costume Making

July 15, 2024 - July 19, 2024
9:00 am - 3:30 pm

SUMMER CAMP
Ages 11-15
Instructors: Courtney Matthews & Nadine Andrews

This camp will focus on exploring emotions through theatrical exercises and creating fun costumes. Students will create their own authentic character, and imagine their wardrobe, make-up and staging.

Artwalk at ACAC

Artwalk at ACAC

September 13, 2024
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Alabama Contemporary Art Center is open every second Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. with entry by donation for Downtown Mobile’s monthly LODA Artwalk, and we almost always have a special visitors, programs, exhibitions, and/or activities to celebrate creative thinking. The Member Bar is also available to our adult members during each Artwalk while they enjoy all artist talks, exhibitions, and programs.

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Remembering the Avenue
October 4, 2023 - December 31, 2024    
Remembering the Avenue is a civic practice exhibition curated through Alabama Contemporary's Guest Curator Program that enlists the local community in mapping the history, legacy, and possible futures for historic Davis Avenue.
A Feast to Remember
December 8, 2023 - February 29, 2024    
In this installation, Jenny Day’s raucous use of materials – blown glass, mirrors, wood, fiber, fur, semi-precious stones, beads, bits and baubles – establishes a sculptural feast of celebratory chaos. Drawing on her deep concern for the planet’s ecological health, Day invites us to see that what we build eventually falls down and what we attempt to discard may return to haunt us.
Hurricane Party
January 12, 2024 - April 20, 2024    
Since the mid-1980s, Mobile, AL has been home to a growing punk cultural scene. Transitory in nature, as with any punk scene, the scene in Mobile has cycled over the decades through fleeting phases and times of burgeoning richness. Through a partnership with 309 Punk Project (Pensacola, FL), this exhibition aims to collect, archive, and preserve some of that lightning in a bottle.
Wata Ways
March 8, 2024 - July 20, 2024    
This exhibition explores the interconnected waterbodies of the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf as fluid sites of memories and pathways for the Caribbean diasporic people. Artists Keysha Rivera, Trecha Gay Jheneall, and Keiaria Williams use textile works, installations, photography, and mixed media to represent the prevalence of water as a form of remembrance through the process of creation.
Dangerous Landscapes
March 8, 2024 - July 20, 2024    
Climate Change—the largest environmental challenge of our time—is the result of a vision of progress forged in the nineteenth century when fossil fuels spurred industrialization on a global scale. Picturesque America, published in 1872, captured the beginning of US industrialization in lush illustrations that placed railroads and factories in expansive horizons that symbolized boundless possibility. This exhibition places these nineteenth-century views of progress in dialogue with Allison Grant’s contemporary photographs of the chemical and fossil fuel industries in West Alabama.
Artwalk at ACAC
March 8, 2024    
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Alabama Contemporary Art Center is open every second Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. with entry by donation for Downtown Mobile's monthly LODA Artwalk, and we almost always have a special visitors, programs, exhibitions, and/or activities to celebrate creative thinking. The Member Bar is also available to our adult members during each Artwalk while they enjoy all artist talks, exhibitions, and programs.
Yoga on the Terrace
March 30, 2024    
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Kindred Yoga will join us on the terrace at ACAC on the last Saturday morning of every month, from 9-10 a.m. This drop-in session will feature a 45-minute yoga flow followed by 15 minutes of mingling with fresh, cold-pressed juices for sale from Ginger & Spice.
Events on February 25, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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A Feast to Remember
8 Dec 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on February 26, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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A Feast to Remember
8 Dec 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on February 27, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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A Feast to Remember
8 Dec 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on February 28, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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A Feast to Remember
8 Dec 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on February 29, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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A Feast to Remember
8 Dec 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on March 1, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on March 2, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on March 3, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on March 4, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on March 5, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on March 6, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on March 7, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Events on March 8, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Artwalk at ACAC
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 9, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 10, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 11, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 12, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 13, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 14, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 15, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 16, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 17, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 18, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 19, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 20, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 21, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 22, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 23, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 24, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 25, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 26, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 27, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 28, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 29, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on March 30, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Yoga on the Terrace
30 Mar 24
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Events on March 31, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on April 1, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on April 2, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on April 3, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on April 4, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on April 5, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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Events on April 6, 2024
Remembering the Avenue
4 Oct 23
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Hurricane Party
12 Jan 24
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Wata Ways
8 Mar 24
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Dangerous Landscapes
8 Mar 24
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