Art On The Rocks Event Schedule

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August 19th  ||  E v e n t s

BROMBERG’S CONTEST #TAG YOU’RE IT:

This year you have 2 chances to win BIG with Bromberg’s!

FIRST: Stop by the Bromberg’s table and register to win a Tag Heuer Aquaracer watch valued at $1500!!  The winner will be chosen after the August Art on the Rocks.

SECOND: Visit performances and activities throughout the entire museum for the chance to win a $500 gift card from Bromberg’s! Snap photos and share them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using both #ArtOnTheRocks and #Brombergsjewelry. Snap. Share. Cha-ching. The more you post, the more chances you have to win. One lucky winner will be chosen Monday after the event based on the creativity of posts.

FEATURED EVENTS:

ALL NIGHT || OSCAR’S CAFE- DJ HOLLY WAXWING

Summer is almost over, but there’s still time to squeeze in one last wax. DJ Holly WAXwing that is. What did you think we meant? Come listen and move as DJ Holly Waxwing lights your fire. Your wax candle fire. Minimal risk of burns. Don’t want the fire to die after one night? Be on the lookout as DJ Holly Waxwing lives and works in Birmingham as a co-owner of the label ‘Noumenal Loom’ with partner Isabel Barnes.

ALL NIGHT || OSCAR’S CAFE- PHOTO BOOTH

Welcome to ART-lympics 2016, Birmingham. If you build it, they will come. And we built it, an Olympics-themed photo booth. You can’t spell United States of America without ART! We promise, it’s in there somewhere. Gather your team and show us your best moves. Or compete in individuals all-around. Going, going, GOLD.  #ArtOnTheRocks

8, 9, & 10 PM  || Contemporary Gallery- TACTILE TASTE TEST- A SENSORY ILLUSION WITH JEANETTE ANDREWS 

Create an illusion in your own hands… Join Chicago-based sensory illusionist Jeanette Andrews to create an abstract olfactory feast! Visit her in the Contemporary Gallery between 7-10 pm to create your custom scent recipes. Then visit her again  at 8:00, 9:00, or 10:00 pm to use your scent recipes for a guided interactive performance and accomplish an impossible feat!

8:30 PM || Departing from Kress Gallery- AUDUBONANZA TOUR

Flutter from gallery to gallery with a special tour sponsored by the Birmingham Audubon Society. ART: We put a bird on it.

7:45, 8:15, and 8:45 PM || Upper Plaza- AROVA CONTEMPORARY BALLET

Red Rover, Red Rover, we call AROVA over! Witness new work from AROVA Contemporary Ballet and dance the night away to a new beat.

9:15, 9:30, 9:45, 10:00 PM || Departing from outside Yellow / Hitt Gallery – LIGHTS. CAMERA. DRAG.

WHAT? There’s a dragon in the galleries? No, there’s DRAG in the galleries, and it’s going to be just as feisty, fiery, and fabulous. Tag along with Birmingham’s finest Sharon Cocx to learn about things they didn’t cover in your college art history class.

8.30 & 9.45 PM || AUDITORIUM- SIDEWALK FILM FEST SHORTS

Alabama’s own Sidewalk Film Fest will be hosting screenings of their shorts in the Auditorium on the lower level! The 18th annual Festival will take place August 26th-28th in the Downtown theatre district. Lucky for you, in between the two screenings, you can hear more about all of the fun to be had!

7:30-9 PM || OSCAR’S CAFE- CRAFTS ON THE ROCKS

We can’t stop the AUDUBONANZA. Origami. Stencils. Tattoos. Need we say more? No birds were harmed in the making of these crafts.

All Night || SCULPTURE PIT- LIVE MURAL INSTALLATION

Calling all painters, non-painters, half-painters, and ‘I don’t want to get paint on my outfit, but I want to take a cool picture’ – painters. Join us in the pit and color outside the lines with Birmingham’s own Rob Clifton.   

9 PM || UPPER SCULPTURE PLAZA- SKYBISON

Feel sky high jamming to Skybison imagining yourself under Van Gogh’s starry night sky. Skybison creates sounds, dodging genres and preconceptions, striking every color on the musical spectrum.

10 PM || UPPER SCULPTURE PLAZA- SWEET CRUDE

Oh How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By Sweet Crude. These creatives flaunt their Louisiana lineage in the context of 4-part harmonies, tribal rhythms, and pop hooks. Awards. Festivals. And Award Winning Festivals. They’ve done it all. Sweet Crude’s music has even been featured in FX’s American Horror Story. They have tested their frenetic sound on the road, packing venues from New Orleans to New York and now New Birmingham. Well, Birmingham.

ALL NIGHT || UPPER SCULPTURE PLAZA- JUNIOR PATRONS AREA

You can find Junior Patron members in a prime location – in a tent right next to the band! Become a Junior Patron member and enjoy all the benefits such as free beer from Ghost Train Brewing Company and samplings from Tito’s Handmade Vodka!

#AFTERROCKS

The party isn’t over yet! Three downtown bars will host the official #AfterRocks party sponsored by H2 Real Estate. Head to Carrigan’s Public House, The Collins Bar, or Paramount Bar for drink specials when you show your Art On The Rocks wristband!