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Presented in partnership with the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Introduced by Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Huead of Curatorial. Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted. She printed, sketched, and painted dozens of images of mothers and children yet she never married or had children herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals the Impressionists a movement that transformed the language of art. The world's most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars help tell this riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all.

A GriefShare Support Group -- Your Journey from Mourning to Joy -- meets every Wednesday through April 26 from 10 AM until noon. All meetings will be in the East Sanctuary. This is a free group with discussion concerning stages of grief, the storms that accompany it, and ways of dealing with loss. Sorry, childcare is not available during this time. www.frazer.church

Thursday, March 16 @ 10:00 am. Please come & join us at St James Church - 9045 Vaughn Rd, Montgomery, AL. The service will be streamed LIVE onto the AGLOW Montgomery YouTube channel & FB Page @aglowmgm. AGLOW Montgomery is apart of AGLOW International. Aglow is a dynamic, global Kingdom movement made up of women and men with a single purpose: to see God's will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. New AGLOW State President, Neva Welch, will be our guest speaker! Remember AGLOW meets every 2nd Thursday @ 12:00 noon for Lunch & Learn and then every 3rd Thursday for the month Lighthouse Service. We also have prayer times every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month @ 10:00 am. Please MARK your CALENDAR for the rest of 2023! MONTGOMERY do not burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aglow with His spirit! Romans 12:11-13, Pray for MONTGOMERY to be SET AGLOW with the Holy Spirit!

BOOMERS, share your stuff with BOOM! We Love to Bring BOOMERS Together, send info and pics to jim@riverregionboom.com

Join us for a festival and carnival-like wild weekend, March 25-26, 9am5pm at Zoo Weekend, our annual Spring fundraiser at the Montgomery Zoo. This fun-filled event at the Montgomery Zoo has been going on for generations and loved by all ages. The weekend will be filled with great music, live entertainment, animal presentations and programs, games, prizes, rides, tons of yummy concessions, and fun, fun, fun! Admission includes: Entry to the Zoo and Mann Museum, Entry Waters of the World, Entry to Parakeet Cove and Petting Zoo, Entry to our Reptile Facility. Additional fun, attractions, and rides: Train ride: $3 per person, Giraffe Encounter: $3 per person, Sky lift ride: $5 per person, Game sheets: $5 per sheet (10 tickets per sheet), Parakeet sticks: $2 per stick,Petting Zoo food: $2 per pouch, Concessions: Prices vary. Zoo Weekend Admissions: Adults: $18, Children (ages 3-12 years old): $14, Toddlers (2 years old and younger): FREE, Montgomery Zoo members: FREE

The Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a touring initiative that provides an accessible opportunity to present great jazz programming, featuring up-and-coming musicians who have been identified as rising stars by JALC. The initiative also allows for expansion of JALC’s mission “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy.” First presented as the 2016 season opener at Jazz at Lincoln Center, “Songs We Love” is a journey through the first 50 years of jazz song. Under the musical direction of Riley Mulherkar, three guest vocalists will join an all-star band made up of New York’s rising stars. Combining their distinct talents, the group will sing their way through four decades of music, beginning with the early blues and jazz of the 1920s and ending in the early 1950s. Iconic singers to be explored include Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. Date: March 19th, 2023, Time: 7:30 PM. For tickets visit https://goguecentertickets.auburn.edu/Online/

Capital City Master Gardener Association presents Lunch & Learn, the 1st Wednesday of Every Month from 12-1 pm. They will meet at Montgomery Cultural Arts Center (Armory Learning Arts Building), 1018 Madison Ave., Montgomery 36104. Mark your calendars, April 5, “Square Foot Gardening” Henry Lucas, CCMGA Master Gardener, will present “Square Foot Gardening”. Do you have a small yard and think you don’t have room for a garden? This program is for you! Henry Lucas will show an easy way to plant vegetables in a twelve-foot square. What a perfect family activity or for grandparents and grandkids! How about a birthday party with a square foot garden for each child attending? Join us!! Don’t miss this program! BRING A SACK LUNCH, FREE PROGRAM, WATER PROVIDED, For information, please contact the Montgomery County Extension Office 334.270.4133. Also visit www.capcitymga.org.

By Lisa B. Samalonis