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07/25/2010 - 07/31/2010

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EXHIBIT: STAR WARS
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: 9 AM-9 PM Sun.-Thurs. & Fri.-Sat. 9 AM-11 PM
  • Address: One Tranquility Base Huntsville, AL 35805
  • Phone: (256) 837-3400
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: U.S. Space & Rocket Center

Enjoy that galaxy far, far away, where science meets imagination, along with original costumes & props from the six movies.  The exhibition includes a Jedi Experience camp (for kids & adults) as well as IMAX & Star Wars related films that focus on the science behind creator George Lucas's fantasy worlds.

Ongoing Events

IN PRAISE OF AMERICA: SELECTIONS FROM THE SELLARS COLLECTION
  • Recurring daily
  • 06/23/2010 - 09/05/2010
  • Address: 300 Church Street Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 535-4350
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Huntsville Museum of Art

Bringing a previously unseen facet of art history to life, the Sellars Collection offers a unique opportunity to discover contributions of women artists forged during a period of struggle and little recognition. The largest public collection of its kind, many of the artists represented in the Collection studied at major academies, received accolades and awards and pioneered the way for those who would follow.

In Praise of America features approximately 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and includes engaging florals, still-lifes, portraits, genre scenes and landscapes reflecting different regions of the United States.

BUTTERFLY HOUSE/NATURE CENTER
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Mon.-Sat. 9 AM-5 PM & Sun. Noon-5 PM
  • Address: 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue Huntsville, AL 35805
  • Phone: (256) 830-4447
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Huntsville Botanical Garden

This education center is home to the nation's largest open-air butterfly house.  Over 2,000 butterflies grace this 9,000 square foot structure.  The nature center is also home to an assortment of critters including snakes, quail, hummingbirds, frogs, fish & turtles.

EXHIBIT: ENCOUNTERS: KATHY CHAN
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Tues.-Sat. 10 AM-5 PM, Thurs. 10 AM-8 PM & Sun. 1-5 PM
  • Address: 300 Church Street Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 535-4350
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Huntsville Museum of Art

Featuring the multi-faceted work of distinctive Huntsville artist Kathy Chan, this exhibit will emphasize her exquisite jewelry, comprised of precious metals, gemstones & pearls & include examples of her painting & haute-couture fashion.

EXHIBIT: IMAGINE TOMORROW
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Tues.-Sat. 10 AM-5 PM, Thurs. 10 AM-8 PM & Sun. 1-5 PM
  • Address: 300 Church Street Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 535-3450
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Huntsville Museum of Art

What will the world look like in 50 years?  How about 1,000?  No matter what we may predict we know one thing for sure, life & art will be different.  This exhibit features selections from children, university students, art teachers/professors & professional artists from the Huntsville/Madison community.

EXHIBIT: SPACE: A JOURNEY TO OUR FUTURE
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Mon.-Thurs. 9 AM-7 PM, Fri.-Sat. 9 AM-9 PM & Sun. 11 AM-7 PM
  • Address: 102-D Wynn Drive Huntsville, AL 35805
  • Phone: (256) 837-0606
  • Venue: Sci-Quest Science Center

Through hands-on interactive displays & modules, visitors can design their own trip to Mars.  A 360-degree "Future Theatre" lets visitors look into the future of exploration & deep into space.  The exhibit includes artifacts from the past & present space programs including space suits, a lunar rover tire, a camera, early fuel cells & space shuttle tiles. 

EXHIBIT: TIME KEEPING THROUGH THE CENTURIES
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Tues.-Sat. 9 AM-5 PM & Sun. Noon-5 PM
  • Address: 3101 Burritt Drive Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 536-2882
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Burritt on the Mountain

Four main categories of clocks & watches from the 17th, 18th, 19th & 20th centuries will be representative of the major clock making countries of the world, both east & west.  Makers that will be included are Junghans, Gustav Becker & Seth Thomas.

HARMONY PARK ANIMAL PRESERVE
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: 10 AM-Sundown
  • Address: 431 Cloud's Cove Road Huntsville, AL 35803
  • Phone: (877) 726-4625
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Harmony Park Safari

Enjoy drive-through observation & feeding of free ranging rare & endangered animals. Your self-guided tour also includes reptiles & amphibians from around the world, as well as various species of fowl.

TREMENDOUS TREE HOUSES
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Mon.-Sat. 9AM-6 PM, Thurs. 9 AM-8 PM & Sun. Noon-6 PM
  • Address: 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue Huntsville, AL 35805
  • Phone: (256) 830-4447
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Huntsville Botanical Garden

HUNTSVILLE STARS VS MISSISSIPPI
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/28/2010 - 08/01/2010
  • Times: Wed.-Fri. 7 PM, Sat. 6 PM & Sun. 1 PM
  • Address: Joe Davis Stadium, 3125 Leeman Ferry Road Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 882-2562
  • Admission: Admission charged

PLAY: THE SOUND OF MUSIC
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/28/2010 - 08/01/2010
  • Times: Wed.-Fri. 7:30 PM, Sat. 2 & 7:30 PM & Sun. 2 PM
  • Address: 2304 Billie Watkins Avenue Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 536-0807
  • Location: Huntsville High School
  • Admission: Admission charged

SOCCER WARS
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/29/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Thurs.-Fri. games at 5:30 & 8 PM, Sat. 5 & 7:30 PM
  • Address: 211 Celtic Drive Madison, AL 35758
  • Phone: (256) 461-0925
  • Location: Madison City School Stadium
  • Admission: Admission charged to register for the race

Soccer Wars LogoEnjoy the Kid Zone with rock climbing wall, infatables, food & beverage vendors along with live music beginning at 3 PM.

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HUNTSVILLE DRAGWAY: ORSCA
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/30/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Gates open at 5, run from 6-11 PM
  • Address: 502 Quarter Mountain Road Harvest, AL 35749
  • Phone: (256) 859-0807
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Huntsville Dragway

ORSCA.

MUSICAL: CABARET
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/30/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Fri. 8 PM & Sat. 2:30 & 8 PM
  • Address: Main Stage, 1216-A Meridian Street, NE Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 536-3117
  • Venue: Renaissance Theatre

Amidst the increasing momentum of late 1920’s Germany’s National Socialism movement, American writer Clifford Bradshaw visits the teeming sociopolitical maelstrom that is Berlin. After making a few friends, through whom he negotiates affordable accommodations, he drops in at the sleazy Kit Kat Club and meets Sally Bowles, a starry-eyed English singer with whom he soon falls in love.

Meanwhile, romance also blossoms between a Jewish greengrocer, Herr Schultz, and Cliff’s elderly landlady, Fräulein Schneider, who become engaged. This decision proves challenging at best, given the increasing anti-Semitic influence of the Nazis—many of who are apparent “relatives” of the resident fille de joie, Fräulein Kost.

Overseeing the ebb and flow of the tumultuous action is the club’s Master of Ceremonies, who serves as both a Greek chorus of one and a constant metaphor for the current sociopolitical state of Weimar Germany. As he says, inside the Kit Kat Klub, life is beautiful. It is only in retrospect that a post-World War II world can see this as the determinedly blind leading the willingly blind.

The musical is adapted from the writings of Christopher Isherwood (“Goodbye to Berlin”) and “I Am a Camera,” the 1951 John Van Druten play it inspired.

Recommended for teens & adults. 

 

MUSICAL: JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/30/2010 - 08/01/2010
  • Times: Fri. 7:30 PM, Sat. 2 & 7:30 PM & Sun. 2 & 7 PM
  • Address: Playhouse, 700 Monroe Street Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 533-6606
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Von Braun Center

Presented by the Huntsville Community Chorus

PLAY: SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN-HOMECOMING
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/30/2010 - 08/01/2010
  • Times: Fri.-Sat. 7:30 PM & Sun. 2:30 PM
  • Address: Old Country Church, 3101 Burritt Drive Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 536-2882
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Burritt on the Mountain

This is the third & final installment of the toe-tappin', bluegrass gospel musicians that have been charming audiences for over 20 years.

DOWNTOWN TROLLEY TOURS
  • 07/31/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: 10:30 & 11:30 AM
  • Address: 109 Gates Avenue Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 535-6564
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Alabama Constitution Village

Join a local historian on a brilliantly narrated trolley
tour through Huntsville's Twickenham District.

 

HUNTSVILLE GHOST WALK
  • 07/31/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: 6:00 PM
  • Address: 124 South Side Square, Downtown Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 509-3940
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Harrison Brothers Hardware

Who is the angry ghost in the courthouse? What is the story behind the haunting tune phantom children sing while playing on Walker Street? Learn the answers to these questions & many more.

HUNTSVILLE SPEEDWAY: POWDER PUFF
  • 07/31/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: Call for times
  • Address: 357 Hegia Burrow Road Huntsville, AL 35803
  • Phone: (256) 882-9191
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Huntsville Speedway

MADISON CITY FARMER'S MARKET
  • 07/31/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: 8 AM-NOON
  • Address: 1282 Hughes Road Madison, AL 35758
  • Phone: (256) 656-7841
  • Admission: No admission charged

Come early for the best selection of local produce, eggs, meats, cheese, milk, honey, fresh herbs & home baked goods.  Enjoy creations from local artisans including handmade cards, soaps, lotions, pottery, art & more.

 

ROCKET CITY BEACH BASH
  • Recurring daily
  • 07/31/2010 - 08/01/2010
  • Times: Noon-8 PM
  • Address: Fountain Circle, Downtown Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 564-8100
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: EarlyWorks Children's Museum

Beach BashMore than 400 tons of sand will be trucked in & spread out over a 200-yard section of Fountain Circle.  The party will include beach-like activities, concessions & piped-in music.  Other features will be wading pools, the interactive fountain, inflatable bounces, beach umbrellas, sand toys & inflatable palm trees.

Families are encouraged to bring their favorite beach toys, towels & beach chairs & enjoy a day at the beach to help both EarlyWorks & the Gulf.

A portion of every admission will be donated to the Governor's Emergency Relief Fund.

TENNESSEE VALLEY VIPERS VS UTAH
  • 07/31/2010 - 07/31/2010
  • Times: 7:30 PM
  • Address: Arena, 700 Monroe Street Huntsville, AL 35801
  • Phone: (256) 428-4477
  • Admission: Admission charged
  • Venue: Von Braun Center

Enjoy Arena Football.


 

 

 

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