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This league is for players who are looking for a place to strengthen their skills and become a strong all-around team leader. All skill levels are welcome, from beginner to advanced. This is a bring your own team only league. 

Virtual theater packages for families. Enjoy a professional children's theater show at home! 

Play competitive basketball in Dodge Jones Youth Sports Center's new facility. 3 game gurantee. Boys and girls divisions: 11U, 14U and 18U. 

This is a bring your team league. Your team must provide a coach. There will be no practice built in, only games. Teams can be made up of school teams, club teams, or just a group of friends wanting to play together. Teams will be guaranteed 3 matches per week. All teams must provide a volunteer scorekeeper and two line judges for each of their matches.

Take a break after a long Monday with live music by Jim Sadler and friends as they sing tunes by John Prine.

Take a break after a long Monday with live music by Jim Sadler and friends as they sing tunes by John Prine.

Support your favorite athlete at the UIL Region 1-3A Golf Championship on April 19-22, 2021. High school boys and girls compete for regional golf championships.

Abilene Christian University is excited to announce that, for the very first time, Sing Song will be housed in the Historic Paramount Theatre in downtown Abilene. This is the first time the show has been held in April since 1963. Tickets will be available starting in mid-March after Spring Break.

Sing Song 2021 is going 'back to the basics', with small a cappella groups singing popular songs, the same way Sing Song would have sounded 65 years ago at the very first show in 1957.

Enjoy great food and live music featuring Ariel Hutchins.

Designed for adults - celebrate Earth Day by creating your own upcycled glass bottle self-watering planters! Participants will learn how to cut glass bottles safely and repurpose them. Once your planter is complete - use any leftover bottles or bottles from home to create drinking glasses, candle holders, or more planters for your garden or as gifts! Class fee includes instruction and all materials; students will be provided with one plant and one large bottle. We will have extra bottles available on a first come first served basis until gone. Students are invited to bring bottles from home as well. Both round and square bottles will work. Participants are invited to bring any snacks or adult beverages of their choice to enjoy during the class. The Grace will provide cups and wine/bottle openers for your convenience.

Due to current health and safety protocols participants will be required to wear a mask while in the museum but are allowed to remove them while socially distant at their work table and the class is limited to 10 participants.

Wine, Women, & Shoes is the best mix of a girls night out and one of your favorite charities! Wine tasting, savory bites, mingling with the Shoe Guys, a seated program and more! It is the most fun you will have all year! 

Spring dueling pianos event benefiting the Day Nursery of Abilene, non-profit child care program.

Founded in 1952 American Junior Rodeo Association is for boys and girls under the age of 20 who will compete for points that could land them at the National Finals.

Calling all golfers and Abilene-area businesses! Mark your calendars and plan to attend Noah Project’s annual Golf Tournament in support of its mission, and receive an invitation to the most fun Par-Tee of the year! All proceeds from this event support the mission of Noah Project to empower victims to become survivors, and working to end domestic violence and sexual assault.

Enjoy great food and live music featuring Kirk House.

Enjoy music on the patio featuring Holli Garet.

Head to the P.T. Event Center to enjoy live music by Stevie and The Rio Grande Band.

Listen to some fiddle and steel guitar with Stevie J. Rose and The Rio Grande Band at the P.T. Event Center.

Play competitive basketball in Dodge Jones Youth Sports Center's new facility. 3 game gurantee. Boys and girls divisions: 11U, 14U and 18U. 

 

 

Support high school athletes as they compete in the UIL Region 1-3A Track & Field Championships at ACU on April 23-24, 2021, in Abilene, TX.

Block party celebrating the 70th birthday of the oldest shopping center in Abilene. There will be a car show, live music, food trucks, and vendors.

Enjoy BBQ, beverages and live music featuring Sterling Williams at Jay's BBQ Shack.

Register to attend the ultimate spring cleaning event at a different location every Saturday for four weeks. After the cleanup, participants can bring a picnic lunch or purchase food from a participating food truck vendor, find the perfect spot and enjoy live music from local bands. The event on April 24 includes live music by Colton Fox and James Tuffs and The Southern Trouble. 

Enjoy great food and comedy night at the Chuckle Shack.

To kick off the socially-distanced festivities, guests will experience 'a day in Burgundy' filled with the best in wine, food, guest speakers, chefs, and more, moderated by Burgundy expert and founder of Bertrand’s Wines, Bertrand Leulliette. 

The day will begin with a seminar and tasting of a selection of Old World and New World pinot noir and chardonnay, specially curated by Leulliette and acclaimed sommelier Guy Stout – one of only 260 Master Sommeliers in the world. The tasting will be followed by a California-style lunch on the ranch grounds, paired with additional Burgundy wines and surrounded by the West Texas scenery. Afterward, guests are invited to relax before dinner by exploring the town of Buffalo Gap, shopping at the Perini Ranch Country Market, or visiting the Gap Cafe. During the evening, guests will enjoy an unforgettable menu of authentic French cuisine by Michelin Star Chef Bruno Davaillon, served alongside both Old and New World Burgundy pinot noir and chardonnay.

Come nose to nose with exotic animals throughout the evening for a Wild Experience! After your gourmet feast and signature KOA Lounge cocktails, take a Safari Tour to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of where the wild things live.

Your support of Zoobilation will advance the Abilene Zoological Society’s mission of education and preservation of wildlife and add to the fun at Abilene’s number on visitor attraction, the Abilene Zoo.

For over four decades, the Grover Nelson Park Zoological Foundation has been a leader in building the Abilene Zoo into the place it is today. The foundation is the driving force in ensuring the growth of the zoo through capital campaigns leading to hallmark exhibits such as the Giraffe Safari and the newly-opened Madagascar exhibit. But just as importantly, the foundation is instrumental behind the scenes, growing matching funds to allow for an expansion of a first-class animal hospital, building rainy-day reserves to sustain the zoo during times of uncertainty, and creating an endowment to ensure the Abilene Zoo will thrive for generations to come. Thank you for your support in advancing the future of the Abilene Zoo.

Dinner and singer/songwriter show benefiting the Taylor County Expo Center.

Enjoy music on the patio featuring Amelia Presley.

Enjoy BBQ and live music by Shelby Stone on the patio.

Take a break after a long Monday with live music by Jim Sadler and friends as they sing tunes by John Prine.

Rotary Club of Abilene has evolved after 2020 with the goal of raising the level of quality and sophistication of the event. Their limited number of guests will enjoy high end entertainment and exquisite Texas based food and beverages. Area restaurants, artists, beverage vendors, and musicians will showcase their sublime offerings. Your attendance and contribution will support a greater cause for area nonprofits. Attire is quirky black tie optional. 

Enjoy great food and live music featuring Matt Stapp Band.

Enjoy BBQ and live music by John Baumann on the patio.

Enjoy great food and live music featuring Brad Russell.

Enjoy great food and live music featuring Kasey Thornton Band.

Grab your boots and get ready to dance at the Grace Museum Garage! Midnight Blue will be playing live and The Toasted Traveler food truck will be parked outside. Attendance is limited to 200. Masks are required on the dance floor.

Enjoy music on the patio featuring Matt Stapp.

This exhibition will highlight the early history of the State Epileptic Colony in Abilene through over 50 photographs from The Grace’s permanent history collection. 

 Texas Photographic Society29: The International Competition.

This exhibition highlights just a small portion of the rich history of music, dance, and entertainment in Abilene’s Hispanic/Latino community. Music and dance are an integral part of Hispanic/Latino culture, as they incorporate native and Spanish traditions to create a unique blend of rhythms, beats, movements, and lyrics. Abilene has a long history and tradition of conjunto music and ballet folklorico, both of which are represented in this exhibition.

 

David Small works with watercolor, pen and ink, and pastels. His later works have a much softer look, but they continue to include his trademark attention to small details that beg to be poured over again and again. This 2021 exhibition will be the last public display of Small’s work before it transitions to a private collection.

This exhibition highlights what we now call “traditional” wedding dresses belonging to various individuals in Abilene and the surrounding areas from the late 1890s to the 1930s, most of which are in the permanent collection at The Grace Museum. 

The 20 female photographers in this exhibition, exercised technical and aesthetic ingenuity, asserted their own voices and subjectivities. Photographers Marion Post Wolcott, Mary Ellen Mark, Anne Noggle, Marilyn Bridges, Laura Gilpin, Ruth Bernard, Linda Conner, Fran Forman, Kathy Millan, Garciela Iturbide are but a few outstanding examples of women working as photographic documentarians and artists who are an important part of photographic history. This exhibition of women photographers in the Grace Museum permanent collection documents the role of women as creative forces in our contemporary culture as well as The Grace Museum’s long-standing commitment to presenting and collecting exemplary artwork by women artists.

Sherry Owens lives and works in Dallas, TX and received a BFA from Southern Methodist University. Her work has been shown throughout Texas and the southwest; in 2018, she completed a two-person site specific installation at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas, and was included in Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas, at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2017, Owens mounted a solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, and the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University. Owens has exhibited internationally in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Peru, Turkey, and was recently included in The First Crosscurrent Yokohama-Texas International Artists Exchange Show 2019 at Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery in Yokohama, Japan.

Sherry Owens has completed several large public art projects, including a large-scale bronze through the Love Field Modernization Program at Love Field Airport in Dallas, TX and a monumental commission for the Ben E. Keith Company, also in Dallas. Owens is a former president of the Texas Sculpture Association, has served on various art boards and was a co-founder of the Emergency Artists’ Support League. She was the recipient of the Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award in 1999, was the West Texas Triangle artist in 2010 with a comprehensive survey at five west Texas museums, and received the Artist/Craftsman Award from the AIA Dallas in 2014.

Pick up a special free Take-N-Make project to create your own special work of art at home!

The first work of art purchased for the Abilene Fine Arts Museum permanent collection was painted by a women artist, Marie Hull, in 1939, and the museum was founded by woman’s club members, many of whom were artists, This exhibit celebrates the museum’s long history of presenting and collecting the work of female artists.  This exhibition features outstanding examples of work in the permanent collection by celebrated artists Lee Krasner, Melissa Miller, Helen Altman, Kathryne Hale Travis, Mary Vernon, Hung Lu, Beili Liu, Sarah Williams, and other female artists, whose artwork stands as a testament to the important contributions made by women in the arts in the 20th and 21st century. 

Join The Center for Contemporary Arts for their 'Teacher's Lounge' Art Educators Showcase Exhibit Reception! They will honor local art educators and their art in this special exhibition! They will have a People's Choice Award so visitors can vote for their favorite artwork in the exhibit. Beer, wine, and light refreshments will be provided. Masks and social distancing are encouraged. Thank you to Abilene Teachers Federal Credit Union for sponsoring this exhibition!

Larla Morales will be leading you in creating a botanical masterpiece, utilizing earth pigments and botanical elements. Your ticket buys you a spot at the private session, beer and wine, as well as supplies.