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Note: Information is subject to change. Please confirm specific dates, times and holiday closings with venues.
November 1 – December 5
(Tuesdays – Sundays)
Islamic Calligraphy and the Qu’ran
Location: Michael C. Carlos Museum
Address: 571 South Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322
Website: www.carlos.emory.edu
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3359
The Carlos Museum will host complementary exhibitions showcasing exceptional masterworks of Islamic calligraphy and related objects. The exhibitions and accompanying community outreach and educational programs will celebrate the rich religious and artistic tradition of calligraphy, or “beautiful writing,†the most esteemed of the Islamic visual arts.
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November 1 – December 12
(Tuesdays – Sundays)
Nineteenth Century French Master Drawings and Sculpture from the Schlossberg Collection
Location: Oglethorpe University Museum
Address: 4484 Peachtree Road, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30319
Web Site: http://museum.oglethorpe.edu
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3364
This very special exhibition of Nineteenth Century French drawings and sculptures from one of the top 100 best private collections in America (Art & Antiques) features masters including Ingres, Gauguin, Degas, Renoir, Seurat, Bourdelle, Couture, Pissarro, Rodin and others.
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Water Exhibit
November 1 – January 9, 2011
Location: Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Address: 767 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30307
Website: www.fernbankmuseum.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3354
Get swept away in this new hands-on, family-friendly experience. Look beneath the surface, above the clouds and all around the world as you discover the amazing life-giving power of water in this engaging exhibition. Enjoy a variety of exhibition interactives including build your own dam, a video microscope to see what comes out of your tap, and a picture block puzzle challenge for the youngest visitors. Learn more about life in water and how animals have adapted to live in a variety of water conditions. Come face-to-face with tetras, mudskippers and leopard frogs. Test your water usage IQ with a game-show-style quiz. Experience a towering walk-through reconstruction of a water-carved slot canyon and see how water shapes the Earth.
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November 1 – January 9, 2011
Film in IMAX® – Mystery of the Nile
Location: Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Address: 767 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30307
Website: www.fernbankmuseum.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3354
Jump aboard a 14-foot raft and join the first team in history to conquer all 3,260 miles of the Nile River from source to sea in one expedition. This breathtaking adventure takes you on a journey down the world’s greatest and most deadly river, the Nile. In true large-format brilliance, witness this astonishing region that is host to abundant historical, cultural and natural treasures. On this thrilling voyage, uncover the river’s majesty as well as its life-sustaining importance to the ancient and modern worlds.
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November 1 – January 9, 2011
Film in IMAX® Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
Location: Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Address: 767 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30307
Website: www.fernbankmuseum.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3354
See the world in a new way when you dive into the heart of the most beautiful canyon—the Grand Canyon. Awe-inspiring landscapes surround you as you rush down the mighty Colorado River on a whitewater raft with environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., anthropologist Wade Davis and their daughters
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November 1 – March 1, 2011
De Soto’s Footsteps: New Archaeological Evidence from Georgia
Location: Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Address: 767 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30307
Website: www.fernbankmuseum.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3354
This special exhibition includes metal and glass artifacts that led Fernbank’s lead archaeologist, Dennis Blanton, to conclude Hernando de Soto’s footsteps could be traced to an unexpected location in Georgia. Until now, many scholars believed De Soto and his small army took a different route through the region as he looked for food, information and riches after departing from today’s Tallahassee, Fla. in 1540.
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November 4 – 7
11th Annual Indian Festival & Pow Wow
Location: Stone Mountain Park
Address: Take Exit 39B off I-285 and Travel East on Hwy 78 to Exit 8
Website: www.stonemountainpark.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3370
Celebrate the history and heritage of Native Americans through interactive education and entertainment at Stone Mountain Park’s Indian Festival & Pow-Wow. Native Americans from across the United States gather to compete in dance and drum competitions. Skill educators demonstrate fire making, basket weaving, hide tanning, cooking and more. Native American arts and crafts are available for purchase.
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Nov. 4, 11, 18
Terrific Thursdays in Decatur
Location: City of Decatur
Address: 101 E. Court Square. Decatur, GA 30030
Website: www.decaturga.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3346
Participating shops and restaurants in the City of Decatur stay open late and offer discounts, special holiday open houses and receptions to shoppers. Visitors can park in one place and walk to most destinations.
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November 5,12,19,26
Martinis & IMAX®
Location: Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Address: 767 Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30307
Website: www.fernbankmuseum.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3354
Shake it up with Atlanta’s perfect mix of culture and cocktails! Enjoy cool cocktails, stunning films, live music and creative cuisine beneath the world’s largest dinosaurs.
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November 5 & 6
Proof: A Play by David Auburn
Location: OnStage Atlanta
Address: 2597 N. Decatur Rd. Atlanta, Georgia 30033
Web Site: www.onstageatlanta.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3365
In this play, Robert was a mathematical genius and a professor. His daughter Catherine cared for him through a lengthy mental illness. Upon his death, his ex-graduate student Hal discovers a paradigm-shifting proof about prime numbers in Robert’s office. Hal and Catherine’s sister Claire question the authenticity of the proof, and meanwhile Catherine explores her fear of following in her father’s footsteps, both mathematically and mentally.
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November 6
Decatur Wine Tasting Festival
Location: City of Decatur
Address: 101 E. Court Square. Decatur, GA 3003
Website: www.decaturwinefestival.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3346
Taste more than a hundred wines from around the world while enjoy live music. Admission includes a commemorative wine glass. The event is limited to 1,500 people. No one under 21 and no animals allowed.
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November 7
Annual Memoir Reading
Location: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Address: 980 Briarcliff Road, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30306
Website: www.callanwolde.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3344
Callanwolde presents students from the Advanced Memoir Seminar who will read excerpts from their memoirs-in-progress. This event will be held in the Samuel Goldman Retreat at Callanwolde. A champagne reception follows the performance.
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November 10
Poetry Reading
Location: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Address: 980 Briarcliff Road, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30306
Website: www.callanwolde.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3344
Callanwolde’s regular poetry series continues featuring Karen Holmes and Anya Krugovoy Silver as they read from their latest published works. Experience an evening of poetry in the unique setting of the Callanwolde Library.
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November 12
Family Storytelling: Emerging Voices: “Tellabrationâ€
Location: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Address: 980 Briarcliff Road, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30306
Website: www.callanwolde.org
Phone Number: 1 -866-633-5252 ext. 3344
Tellabration is a night of storytelling all over the world! Celebrate the power of storytelling as Callanwolde showcases the Atlanta area’s best stories, storytellers and storytelling traditions. Audiences will enjoy Emerging Voices Youth Tellabration as outstanding youth storytellers from City of Atlanta, DeKalb, Coweta and Henry counties will entertain audiences with tales for all ages.
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November 13 – December 31
(Tuesdays – Saturdays)
Quilting in the Heartland
Location: ART Station
Address: 5384 Manor Drive Historic Stone Mountain Village, Georgia 30083
Website: www.artstation.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3342
This exhibition features quilt artists members of Cotton Boll Quilt Guild of Covington, Georgia. This group’s purpose is to preserve the tradition, culture and history of quilting, and to promote knowledge and understanding of the art of quilting to future generations.
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November 13 – January 2, 2010 
Stone Mountain Christmas
Location: Stone Mountain Park
Address: Take Exit 39B off I-285 and Travel East on Hwy 78 to Exit 8
Website: www.stonemountainpark.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3370
Christmas comes to life during a Stone Mountain Christmas as Crossroads®, at the base of Stone Mountain, is decked out with more than two million lights. Gather the family, young and old, for a holiday tradition featuring the Polar Express™ 4D Experience, live holiday shows: Sleigh Ride and Simply Christmas, A Crossroads® Christmas Carol, The Gift Train Show and more. End the night with the magic of the Snow Angel as she flies high in the sky creating snow and fireworks. Buy one-of-a-kind gifts from Stone Mountain Park artisans and enjoy holiday treats at a wide variety of restaurants.
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November 16
DeKalb Symphony Orchestra Concert
Location: Georgia Perimeter College
Address: 555 N. Indian Creek Drive Clarkston, GA 30021
Website: www.DeKalbSymphony.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3351
Enjoy a concert by the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra featuring Paolo André Gualdi, piano and Fyodor Cherniavsky, Conductor. Selections include works by Liszt, Mozart, Enesco and Vaughan Williams. The concert will be held in the Marvin Cole Auditorium in the Fine Arts Building on the Clarkston Campus of Georgia Perimeter College.
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November 26 – 28
The Hallelujah Girls: A Play by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Location: OnStage Atlanta
Address: 2597 N. Decatur Rd. Atlanta, Georgia 30033
Web Site: www.onstageatlanta.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3365
Hilarity abounds when the feisty females of Eden Falls, Georgia, decide to shake up their lives. The action in this rollicking Southern comedy takes place in SPA-DEE-DAH!, the abandoned church-turned day spa where this group of friends gathers every Friday afternoon. After the loss of a dear friend, the women realize time is precious and if they’re going to change their lives and achieve their dreams they have to get on it now! By the time the women rally together to overcome many obstacles and launch their new, improved lives, you’ve got a side-splitting, joyful comedy that will make you laugh out loud and shout “Hallelujah!”
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November 30
Christmas at Callanwolde Premiere Party
Location: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Address: 980 Briarcliff Road, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30306
Website: www.callanwolde.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3344
Christmas at Callanwolde’s Premiere Party will mark the official kick-off of this year’s holiday season with an unforgettable evening at Callanwolde. Raise a glass and be among the first to preview the historic mansion decorated for the season by Atlanta’s premiere interior and floral design professionals. Meet the talented designers while enjoying live entertainment by Atlanta singer and keyboard artist Lindsay Appel and creative gourmet delights by Affairs to Remember Caterers. Don’t miss your chance to join friends and celebrate the start of the joyous season.
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November Concerts
Location: Eddie’s Attic
Address: 515-B N. McDonough Rd., Decatur, GA 30030
Website: www.eddiesattic.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3502
1 – Songwriters Open Mic
3 – Caroline Pond (of Snake Oil Medicine Show) & Reverend Jeffrey Mosier
4 – Jack Ingram
5 – Ryan Montbleau Band & Caravan of Thieves
6 – The Belleville Outfit & Cliff Eberhardt
8 – Matt White
9 – Hoots and Hellmouth & Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit
10 – Firehouse Guitars Presents: AMP Student Showcase
11 – The Vespers & Sean Ashby
12 – Maura O’Connell & John Mock
13 – Scott Miller & Bill Mallonee
14 – Slaid Cleaves
15 – Songwriters Open Mic
16 – Michelle Shocked
17 – Autumn Defense (John Stirratt & Pat Sansone of Wilco and formerly Uncle
Tupelo)
18 – Caroline Aiken
19 – Edie Carey & Kevin Lawson
20 – Georgia Music Heritage Benefit
21 – Georgia Music Heritage Benefit
22 – Songwriters Open Mic
23 – Ryan Horne & Jon Black
26 – Songwriters Open Mic Shootout XXXIII
27 – Michelle Malone
