Performing Arts

Ashley M. Jones is the Poet Laureate of Alabama (2022-2026). She is the first person of color and youngest to hold this position (which was created in 1930) in Alabama's history. Jones is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Lullaby for the Grieving. She is the co-editor of WHAT THINGS COST: An Anthology for the People, and […]

S. Hazen Guthrie is the author of the newly released book, we held our breath, the birds and I (Finishing Line Press, 2024). She is also author and  lead artist of Shakespeare in the Classroom and a lecturer nationwide for the National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation: POETRY OUT LOUD. She was recently named a Belfast-Nashville Fellow at Queen’s & […]

JOIN US FOR A "WICKED" FREE MOVIE NIGHT! Cosponsored by Athens State University Student Activities and students renewing the charter for Alpha Psi Omega. Doors open at 6PM with refreshments The magic begins at 7PM FREE! No need to DEFY gravity to reach for your wallet! EVERYONE is POPULAR and welcome! Don't miss this OZ-some […]

ACA Jazz Festival ACA Performing Arts bldg. - Recital Hall & ACA Green All day events! See the schedule below. Free and open to the public! April 5th SCHEDULE: 11:00am-6:00pm - Performances outside of the ACA and inside the ACA (in the Recital Hall, Performing Arts bldg.) 2:30pm - Clinic/workshop plus Q&A with Delfeayo Marsalis […]

Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel are a husband-and-wife writing team. Their book, Glass Cabin (Pulley Press), chronicles the thirteen years they spent building their home out of secondhand tin, tornado-snapped power poles, and church glass on a ridge in rural Alabama. It is a meditation on hope, on frustration, and on people’s places in the wilder […]