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SunTrust Lunch on Broad
SunTrust Lunch on Broad is back! Grab your friends and co-workers and head over for lunch every Friday, May 4 through September 28 from noon – 1:30 p.m. (weather permitting). Pull up a seat and enjoy music by local artists performing jazz, reggae, blues and more. Bring your own lunch or grab a bite to eat at one of downtown’s delicious eateries. www.atlantadowntown.com
FFM National Cover Model Search at GWCC
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a cover model? We are making it come true. Since the launch of Fresh Faces Magazine in 2006 we have had a tremendous amount of success. Finalists selected will take part in the Hottest Model’s Fashion Show Competition in Atlanta on August 25. www.myspace.com/freshfacesmagazine
Festival Peachtree Latino at Underground Atlanta
Get your dose of “Latin Flavor” on August 26 at this year’s Festival Peachtree Latino at Underground Atlanta. Festival Peachtree Latino creates an international setting where over 20 different Latin American nations dance in the streets and share their art, culture and traditions. www.festivalpeachtreelatino.com
Atlanta Falcons vs. Cincinnati Bengals at Georgia Dome
Watch the Atlanta Falcons take on the Cincinnati Bengals in the first preseason home game at the Georgia Dome on August 27. Kickoff is a 8 p.m. Don’t miss Falcons Landing, a free NFL adventure, with interactive games, autograph sessions, live music, food and drink and much more. Falcons Landing is located on International Plaza between the Georgia Dome and Philips Arena. Activities begin 3 hours before the start of Falcons home games. www.gadome.com
Atlanta Black Gay Pride
Atlanta Black Gay Pride, headquartered at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, is the world’s largest celebration of its kind and is a weekend filled with pride, celebration, education and new experiences, August 29 - September 3. In The Life Atlanta is the official organizer and celebrates 10 years of advocacy, programming and educational events for the African American LGBT community of Metro Atlanta. www.inthelifeatl.com
Atlanta Falcons vs. Baltimore Ravens at Georgia Dome
Watch the Atlanta Falcons take on the Baltimore Ravens at the Georgia Dome on August 31, kickoff at 7:30 p.m. Don’t miss Falcons Landing, a free NFL adventure, with interactive games, autograph sessions, live music, food and drink and much more. Falcons Landing is located on International Plaza between the Georgia Dome and Philips Arena. Activities begin 3 hours before the start of Falcons home games. www.gadome.com
Kell Powerade Classic at Georgia Dome
Corky Kell, the former Head Football Coach at Wheeler High School was instrumental in creating the High School Football Classic in 1992. In fact, the Classic actually held the first football game ever played in the Georgia Dome; even before the Falcons or any college game. Each season it matches up eight of the best Class AAAAA teams in the state of Georgia and this year is no exception. Join the excitement on September 1 at the Georgia Dome. www.gadome.com
Montreax Jazz Festival Atlanta at Underground Atlanta
The Montreux Jazz Festival Atlanta returns to Underground Atlanta with live performances in R&B, Blues, Gospel, Rock and Jazz, August 31 - September 3. As a festival partner of the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, the Atlanta Festival has been a free Labor Day tradition since its inception in 1988. The multiple venues in the Underground Atlanta complex will offer simultaneous performances throughout the weekend with clubs programmed for a number of intimate concerts and late night experiences. www.atlantafestivals.com
Wednesday WindDown at COP
Atlanta’s longest running, FREE concert series is celebrating its 10th anniversary! Don’t miss this exciting season brought to you by AirTran Airways. What better way is there to avoid the chaos and frustration of rush-hour traffic and mingle with other Atlanta music lovers? Wednesday WindDown concerts are every Wednesday, April through September from 5:30 - 8 p.m. in Centennial Olympic Park’s Southern Company Amphitheater. Enjoy everything from jazz to contemporary music performed live by your favorite local and national touring acts. www.centennialpark.com
Fourth Saturday Family Fun Day at COP
Enjoy an afternoon full of interactive, entertaining and educational activities for children of all ages on August 24 from noon – 4 p.m. This month’s theme is Games and Gadgets from Noon - 4 p.m.! Activities include face painting, take-home art projects, finger printing, life-size chess games, inflatables, live radio broadcasts and more! Don’t miss the full line-up of live entertainment in the Southern Company Amphitheater. www.centennialpark.com
Saturdays in Woodruff
Meet your friends each Saturday in August for Saturdays in Woodruff, a festive open-air art show in Woodruff Park. From 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., park visitors can browse through a variety of artwork including photography, painting, jewelry and much more. The Woodruff Park Reading Room will also be open with newspapers, books and magazines available. www.atlantadowntown.com
Cocktails in the Garden at Atlanta Botanical Garden
The Atlanta Botanical Garden's most popular event is now weekly! Every Thursday night, May thru September, cocktails are paired with a featured flower or plant highlighting different and unique locations in the Garden. Guests mix and mingle to the Garden DJ's best beats as one of the city's hottest restaurants provides light tastings. August’s theme is Hostas and Hurricanes. www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org
Sesame Street Exhibit at Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta
If you love watching Sesame Street on television, imagine stepping right onto 123 Sesame Street. Children will have the chance to feel like they are a part of the show! They will learn all about their ABCs and 123s as they skip through their favorite familiar places, like Gina’s Day Care Center, Oscar’s Newsstand and Bird Air Travel Agency through September 9. www.imagineit-cma.org
FREE Beltline Tours
Free Public Tours – Every Friday and Saturday – from 9:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. – the BeltLine Partnership will host free tours of the BeltLine. Tours begin and end at the Inman Park/Reynoldstown MARTA Station and travel through the 45 neighborhoods that will be connected by the BeltLine. To reserve a seat on an upcoming tour, email tours@beltlinepartnership.org.
Turner First Thursday
On the first Thursday of every month, art lovers can view the arts, tour the historic districts of Downtown and enjoy various discounts at Downtown restaurants. Turner First Thursdays is a self-guided tour of galleries, with no beginning or ending point, you are free to move at your own pace. Selected by Atlanta Magazine as the Best Art Crawl, come see what you are missing on September 6! www.atlantadowntown.com
Woodruff Park Reading Room
The Reading Room is an open-air reading room in the northern portion of Woodruff Park. In partnership with the Fulton County Library, carts are stocked with a selection of books, periodicals and newspapers available to the public. Pick up a book and enjoy lunchtime readings and programs Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Reading Room is closed for bad weather and for special events. www.atlantadowntown.com
Hotlanta Hospitality Happy Hour at Ruth Chris’s Steak House
Join us for this month’s edition of the Hotlanta Hospitality Happy Hour on September 13 from 5 – 7 p.m. This informal gathering is an opportunity for members of Atlanta's hospitality community to network, catch up with colleagues from every aspect of the industry and discuss the exciting things happening all across our great city. HHHH is the second Thursday of every month at Ruth’s Chris Steak House across from Centennial Olympic Park. For more information about sponsorship opportunities or being added to our mailing list, please email agrubbs@gwcc.com.
Music @ Noon at COP
Music @ Noon is the perfect lunchtime getaway! Get out of the office for a midday break filled with sunny skies and great entertainment every Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. April through October. Bring your friends, coworkers and lunch to enjoy a variety of live music including pop, R&B and jazz, performed by your favorite local artists. Every Thursday, concerts are programmed and produced by the audio production students from the Art Institute of Atlanta. www.centennialpark.com
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990 – 2005 at the High Museum
The personal photographs in the exhibition document many events involving her family, including the birth of Leibovitz’ three daughters and the death of her father. Portraits of public figures include the pregnant Demi Moore; rock star Mick Jagger; actors Chris Rock, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Scarlett Johansson; George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet at the White House; William Burroughs in Kansas; and Agnes Martin in Taos. Assignment work includes searing reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s, and a series of landscapes taken in the American West and in the Jordanian desert. The exhibit is on display May 12 – September 9. www.high.org
Louvre Atlanta at the High Museum
Louvre Atlanta is an unprecedented partnership between the High Museum of Art and the Musée du Louvre in Paris that will bring hundreds of works of art from the Louvre's collections to Atlanta over the next three years. Built around specific themes and periods, the High will present a series of long-term special presentations of art from the Louvre beginning October 2006 through 2009. www.high.org
Free Wi-Fi Available at Centennial Olympic Park
Free wireless Internet access is available in and around the Visitor Center and FountainSide Café at Centennial Olympic Park. Visitors wishing to utilize this service need to have a laptop equipped with a wireless network card. Accessing the network is then as simple as connecting to the "PARKWIFI" network and opening an Internet browser, no registration required. Centennial Olympic Park’s Visitor Center is home to the commemorative brick locators, public restrooms and friendly volunteers who can answer questions about the Park as well as the city of Atlanta. The Visitor Center is open daily; hours vary on holidays and by season. www.centennialpark.com.
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