Can’t Miss Alabama: Welcome autumn at the Birmingham Food + Culture Festival, state fair

By: Shirley Jackson

Birmingham Food + Culture Festival
Celebrate “the year of Alabama” featuring guest chefs from out of town at the Birmingham Food + Culture Festival Sept. 19-22. Experience cuisine, heritage, culture, character and traditions that make Birmingham a food destination. The four-day festival will feature more than 100 chefs and mixologists, 10-plus collaborative dinners and five signature events. Chefs include Carla Hall, Timothy Hontzas, Rob McDaniel, Adam Evans, Kelsey Barnard Clark, Gregory Collier, Cheetie Kumar and Michelle Wallace. Follow this link for the complete lineup and venues.

– Sept. 19: Food + Frank: The Frank Stitt Award for Industry Excellence, Birmingham Museum of Art, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

– Sept. 20: Food + Heritage, Streets of Pepper Place, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

– Sept. 21: Food + Market Mix, Market at Pepper Place, 7 a.m. to noon.

– Sept. 21: Food + Fire, Sloss Furnaces Historic Landmark, noon to 5 p.m.

– Sept. 22: Food + Funk: Grits + Grooves, Sloss Furnaces Historic Landmark, Water Tower, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Throughout the week and weekend, restaurants will host out-of-town guest chefs for one-night-only collaborative menu offerings at the Food + Friends Dinner Series. The dinners will not be ticketed, allowing the community to get a taste of Food + Culture Festival and driving traffic to area restaurants.

Human Rights New Works Festival
Red Mountain Theatre will host its annual Human Rights New Works Festival Sept. 20-22. Readings of four plays will cover challenging topics such as art, grief, race relations, immigration, intolerance and addiction through the lens of emerging theater works. The festival will feature four pieces – two musicals and two plays – in various stages of completion. The simply staged readings are paired with artist talkbacks, which include nonprofit community groups working in each area.

Performances are:

– Sept. 20: “The River.” Set in the late 1800s, this coming-of-age musical sees a mysterious doctor arrive in a rural town just ahead of a plague that will redefine a girl’s life.

– Sept. 21: “Dissonance.” Can a Black woman and a white woman have a candid discussion about race without destroying their friendship? Writer/actors Marci J. Duncan and Kerry Sandell bring their two-woman show about racial differences in the American experience to the festival.

– Sept. 21: “Fountain of You.” A dark musical comedy that takes on the preoccupation with youth and beauty, through the voice of a 30-something actress who will risk a pact with evil to get her old life back.

– Sept. 22: “The Garment.” The newest work from Southern playwright Audrey Cefaly tackles gender and generational dynamics in the art world in this tragicomedy about marginalization, fashion and a woodpecker.

For the complete details and ticket information, visit the website.

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