Bookmaking Workshop + Potluck Pop Start Community Space 211B Broad Street (AL -17) Saturday, March 23, 2019 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Everyday Bookmaking Workshop + Potluck Join the Coleman Center Arts for a bookmaking workshop’ and community celebration send-off for Curator of Education Boo Gilder. This ‘make & take’ workshop will focus on simple […]
Pop Start Community Space 211B Broad St., York, AL Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:00pm – 6:00pm Join the Coleman Center for the Arts and Pop Start Art Apprentices for a presentation and celebration of final projects by talented Sumter County youth. High school Art Apprentices have been working with Artist Mentors since November of 2018. […]
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 from 6-7pm Coleman Center for the the Arts in partnership with the York Housing Authority will host a FREE introductory yoga class. Curious about yoga? Looking for new ways to be active and practice self-care? This beginners’ class will introduce basic building blocks of yoga and show you how yoga can […]
Coleman Center staff and Panola community members are developing placemaking and memory-keeping projects that center the North Sumter School in the Panola Community of Sumter County. The North Sumter School was established in 1933 and was built primarily for the education of African-American children in the then legally segregated Alabama Black Belt. In January […]
Have you seen our new space? Since 2014 we developed one of our two downtown storefronts. Co-Directors Emeritus Shana Berger and Nathan Purath imagined them as venues for collaboration between local makers, contemporary artists, area citizens, professionals, and students. In the winter of 2016, Pop Start’s HVAC system failed precipitating the space’s already planned […]
January 18, 2019 Filmmaker Fraser Jones and members of the Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice shared Uniontown, a documentary film that weaves together the untold narratives of local heroes in nearby Perry County. The long-silenced southern city is continuously polluted with industrial waste and environmental racism according to devoted residents. Driven by the story […]
Saturday, January 12th 9:00 a.m – 4:00 p.m. Panola Community Enrichment Center 5816 Claude Jackson 35 Aliceville, AL 35477 Join North Sumter community members, artist Linda Muñoz, and Coleman Center for the Arts for a community art workshop celebrating the history and legacy of North Sumter Junior High. Please join us at the Panola Community […]
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