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To: xzins; MHGinTN
Found this ... it's part of U.A.B. campus:

The Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center (ASC) is a state-of-the-art performing arts facility located on the campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). It hosts over 250,000 people for more than 300 diverse events annually. The ASC is the center for entertainment and arts education in Birmingham and Central Alabama. The facility houses 4 performance venues including the 1,330-seat Jemison Concert Hall, the 350-seat Sirote Theatre, the intimate 170-seat Reynolds-Kirschbaum Recital Hall, and the flexible black-box Odess Theatre.

The ASC hosts a wide variety of events each year, in every field of artistic endeavor, from Classical music, to Jazz, to Theatre Arts and Visual Arts. Jazz fans enjoy to a wide diversity of programing offered by the ASC, from Diane Schuur or Branford Marsalis, to the Count Basie Orchestra or Ellis Marsalis with the SuperJazz Big Band. Classical afficianados can hear concerts by world-class performers such as Itzak Perlman or major European orchestras. Also, the ASC is the official home of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. The ASC often collaborates with other local arts organizations, such as the Birmingham Music Club and the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame to present concerts and educational programs.

The Alys Stephens Center has also become a popular venue in the Southeast for live recordings. Two examples of notable live recordings done at the ASC are "Gospel Goes Classical," produced by UAB music professor Henry Panion, and "UAB SuperJazz, featuring Ellis Marsalis," co-produced by Henry Panion and former UAB Director of Jazz Ensembles, Ray Reach.


12 posted on 09/18/2007 8:42:50 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support. Defend life support for others in the womb.)
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To: xzins
Also found this:<p>

The God Delusion Debate

at The Alys Stephens Center

Remaining true to our goal of engaging secular culture on critical issues in a thoughtful, respectful manner, Fixed Point Foundation will sponsor a debate on what is arguably the most critical question of our time: the existence of God. The decision one makes regarding this question has implications that reverberate throughout eternity to be sure, but it also affects temporal existence from government policy to the individual. Historically, man's belief in the transcendent has served as a restraint on his conduct and provided hope for his future. Now, it is argued, "God is dead", and man can do very well without him.

The debate will feature Professor Richard Dawkins, Fellow of the Royal Society and Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University and Dr. John Lennox (MA, MA, Ph.D., D.Phil., D.Sc.), Reader in Mathematics and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, Green College, University of Oxford.

Dawkins, voted by Europe's Prospect Magazine as one of the world's most important intellectuals, is regarded by many as the spokesman for the "New Atheism." BBC has labeled him "Darwin's Rottweiler." He has written numerous best-sellers, most notable among them, his recent book, The God Delusion. TGD has been on The New York Times List of Best-Sellers for over thirty weeks. It is a no-holds-barred assault on religious faith generally, and Christianity specifically. According to Dawkins, one can deduce atheism from scientific study; indeed, he argues that it is the only viable choice.

Lennox, a popular Christian apologist and scientist, travels widely speaking on the interface between science and religion. Like Dawkins, he has dedicated his career to science, but he has arrived at very different conclusions. "It is the very nature of science that leads me to belief in God," he says. Lennox possesses doctorates from Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Wales. He has written a response to the notion that Science has exposed the Bible as obscurantist in a book titled God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
(http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Undertaker-John-Lennox/dp/0745953034)
The book will be published this fall.

The debate will center on Dawkins' views as expressed in his best-seller, The God Delusion and their validity over and against the Christian faith. This will be the first significant discussion on this issue in the "Bible Belt." Consequently, we believe that it will focus much public attention on this important issue.

Tickets will be availiable through either the Fixed Point Foundation at
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=2706
or the Alys Stephens Center box office on Wednesday, August 1st.
http://main.uab.edu/sites/ASC/buytickets/


13 posted on 09/18/2007 8:47:17 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support. Defend life support for others in the womb.)
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