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  • Project Threadways Symposium

    Alabama Chanin - The Factory Florence, AL, AL

    Join us as we explore how textiles are used as a vehicle for expression, how the act of making supports community organization & how material culture documents activism and movements […]

  • Village One Schoolhouse Work Day

    Village One School Sheffield, AL

    Join us from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 7, as we help the Village School Foundation restore the schoolhouse of U.S. Nitrate Plant Village One. We'll learn about the history of Village One -- built during WWI in 1918 in the design of the Liberty Bell -- and continue renovating the schoolhouse's main hallway. […]

  • Shoals Storytelling Festival

    Shoals Theatre 123 N. Seminary St., Florence, AL

    The Shoals Storytelling Festival, a Top 20 Events in the Southeast, began in 2011 as the Front Porch Storytelling Festival on the campus of the University of North Alabama. In 2017, the Festival moved to the historic Shoals Theatre in downtown Florence & was renamed The Shoals Storytelling Festival, acknowledging its home in an area […]

  • Guided Tour: History of the Civilian Conservations Corps

    TVA Reservation Florence, AL

    Join us as we tour the First Quarters & Reservation Road Trails in the TVA Reservation Complex, 10-11:30 a.m. & learn about the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama and the Shoals! Carolyn Barske Crawford, Ph.D. & MSNHA director, will lead our approximately 2-mile hike along both flat paved trails & uneven dirt […]

  • Young Learner’s Series — Food

    Florence Indian Mound and Museum Florence, AL

    Florence Indian Mound Museum's Young Learner's Series on Southeastern Foods is 10 a.m. Saturday, July 16. The program will focus on foods grown & made by the Southeastern peoples in our area. Students will create an exhibit about what they have learned. Sign up at www.florencealmuseums.com/young-learners. YLS is a series of elementary-age programs for students […]

  • Handy Party

    Soul Wingery Florence, AL

    Join us for the second annual Handy Street Party, 7 p.m., Saturday, July 23, in front of Soul Wingery on Poplar Street in Florence. We've got an awesome line up - JRNL, Thad & Company and Billy Allen & the Pollies. DJ Kylo will be on stage between sets. Food from Soul Wingery and All […]

  • W.C. Handy Music Festival — Percy “Sledgefest”

    Main Street Leighton, AL

    You're invited to Leighton's first Percy Sledge-W.C.Handy Music Festival performance, Saturday, July 30. Free admission! Bring chair & cooler and enjoy historic downtown Leighton. Schedule: 2:30 p.m. - Taylor Grace, Shoals Singer-Songwriter 3:45 p.m. - BlueWater Whiskey 4:45 p.m. - Pat Jamar, smooth southern R&B! 6 p.m. - Travis Wammack & the Snakeman Band! 7 […]

  • Trail Care: TVA’s Native Plant Garden

    TVA Reservation Florence, AL

    Join us at the TVA Reservation in Muscle Shoals, 7-10 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 6, as we help restore the reservation's Native Plant Garden. The garden was started in 2002 by the Shoals Wildflower Society. Volunteers from SWS & other local groups have maintained it for two decades, but help is needed! We will prune along […]

  • Operation Pollination — Leafcutter bees and building your own bee hotel

    Florence Indian Mound and Museum Florence, AL

    Operation Pollination, a program focusing on bees and other pollinators through hands-on experiences, begins at the Florence Indian Mound Museum, 9 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 13. Participants will learn about the leafcutter bee, one of Alabama’s most important summer pollinators, and will build and take home a bee hotel for their home gardens. Pollinators are responsible […]