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Recent News
8/7/2009 - Negotiations Underway for Permanent Site
Our Foundation is currently in talks for a 5.3 acre site in Hoover near I-65 that contains classrooms, a small banquet hall and kitchen, an auditorium, and 2+ acres of woods on the property. If successful in our quest to obtain this site and make necessary renovations, our goal of opening an Asian Cultural Education Center for Birmingham and Alabama could be accomplished as early as 2010. But we will need and ask for the support of the greater Birmingham community to make this happen.
9/1/2009 - Foundation Shortens and Focuses Its Name
The Board of Directors of the Birmingham Chinese Garden & Asian Cultural Center Foundation at its August 15, 2009, meeting voted to shorten and focus the Foundation's name, and reflect its statewide audience by changing the name to The Alabama Asian Cultures Foundation. The legal process is in motion, and we will switch to the new name when that process is successfully completed.
9/2/2009 - Foundation Sets Up Facebook Page
A Facebook Page has been set up under the Foundation's new name, Alabama Asian Cultures Foundation, allowing "Picture Albums" to be set up. At the address below, you can find photo albums of the "Taste of Asia Festival" (2007) and the Spring "Asian Cultures and Food Festival" (2009), as well as design drawings by the Suzhou Institute for the proposed Alabama Classical Chinese Garden. Access the Facebook Page at:
http://www.facebook.com/business/dashboard/#/pages/Alabama-Asian-Cultures-Foundation/137750761704
9/25/2009 - "Visions of China" Exhibition Opening Curator's Lecture and Reception
The Alabama Asian Cultures Foundation is sponsoring an Exhibition of the oldest known color photographs ever taken in China in the Art Gallery of Bloch Hall on the campus of the University of Montevallo October 1-23, 2009. Viewing times are Monday-Friday, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, and two Saturdays (10/10/2009 and 10/17/2009) same times. The public is invited free of charge (donations to the Foundation's "site fund" are recommended) to the opening Curator's Lecture and Reception starting at 5:00 pm on October 1, and a public lecture on October 3, 2009, at the downtown Birmingham Public Library. See the following link for a full schedule of all lectures in the series and more information:
http://bplolinenews.blogspot.com/2009/09/birmingham-public-library-to-host_14.html