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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
Fernbank’s 2nd annual Winter Wonderland features dozens of cultural displays decorated in celebration of holidays and traditions observed around the world. Traditional holiday trees are used as a canvas for painting the holiday season with the colors, imagery and symbols unique to world cultures, holidays and traditions enjoyed throughout the year.
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January 1 – February 20 (on Select Days)
Snow Mountain
Location: Stone Mountain Park
Address: Take Exit 39B off I-285 and Travel East on Hwy 78 to Exit 8
Website: www.snowmountainpark.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3370
Take a Snow Day in Atlanta! Atlanta’s Stone Mountain Park transforms into a winter wonderland with Snow Mountain, Atlanta’s only snow park. Bundle your family up and get ready for snow tubing, snowballs, snowmen and snow angels. Based at Stone Mountain Park’s famous Laser Lawn, Snow Mountain keeps your entire family busy for hours. A 400’ foot tubing hill and a snow play area filled with a blizzard of snow activities make Snow Mountain Atlanta’s not-to-be-missed winter attraction. There’s even a play zone reserved for your littlest snow bunnies. With two Mountain SnoLifts to get you up the tubing hill, you’ll want to go again and again! Take a break from the activity at many spots throughout the park. Or check out SnoFire Point for warming your toes, roasting marshmallows and making everyone’s favorite winter treat—S’mores!
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January 2 – April 19
Film in IMAX® – The Greatest Places
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
Take an educational and entertaining journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on Earth, including Greenland, Madagascar, Namib, Okavango, Tibet, Iguazu and the Amazon. The Greatest Places features spectacular land forms, diverse wildlife and the people and cultures indigenous to these locations. Comprehensive aerial and remote location cinematography, along with computer animation, bring viewers to examples of seven distinct geographic place types including our greatest island–Madagascar; and our greatest desert–the Namib.
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January 2 – May 18
Film in IMAX® – Born to be Wild
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
Narrated by Academy-Award® winner Morgan Freeman, Born to be Wild is an inspiring story of love, dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals. This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them—saving endangered species one life at a time. Stunningly captured in IMAX®, this film is a heartwarming adventure transporting moviegoers into the lush rainforests of Borneo with world-renowned primatologist Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, and across the rugged Kenyan savannah with celebrated elephant authority Dame Daphne M. Sheldrick, as they and their teams rescue, rehabilitate and return these incredible animals back to the wild.
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January 6,13,20,27
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
Who says a museum needs to be quiet? Shake it up with Atlanta’s perfect mix of culture and cocktails! Enjoy cool cocktails, stunning films, live music or a DJ, and creative cuisine beneath the world’s largest dinosaurs from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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January 8
The Prestige Concert
Location: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Address: 980 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30306
Website: www.callanwolde.org
Phone: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3334
Callanwolde presents The Prestige, a neo-classical trio of rock musicians performing in the classical style. Journey back in time through music, culture and style as the historic Callanwolde mansion comes alive with the sounds of guitar, piano, violin and voice.
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January 11
Open Mic Poetry Night
Location: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Address: 980 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30306
Website: www.callanwolde.org
Phone: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3334
Join amateur and professional poets alike as Callanwolde celebrates the art and performance of poetry with its open mic poetry reading night in the unique setting of the Callanwolde Library. Poets who would like to share their original poetry are welcome. Readings are open to the first ten poets who call and sign up.
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January 20 – 22, 2012
Lewis Gizzard: In his Own Words
Location: ART Station
Address: 5384 Manor Drive, Stone Mountain Village, GA 30083
Website: www.artstation.org
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3342
Bill Oberst, Jr. returns to ART Station for his 10th consecutive year to pay respect and honor Lewis Grizzard with the best of Grizzard’s stand-up comedy and selections from books and columns. Bill has toured the US spreading Lewis’ unique writings and love of the South. Still revered nearly 18 years after his passing, Grizzard continues to strike a humorous chord within all true Southerners. “The audience laughed ’till they cried… funny and touching.” Scott Harper, The Times.
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January 21 – April 15
Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism
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 Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University will showcase the sacred art of Tibet in the special exhibition Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism from January 21 through April 15, 2012. For the first time in the Southeast more than 100 masterworks will bring to light the intricate, transcendental, and evocative manifestations and functions of the “perfect circle” or mandala used as an aid in meditation and as a tool to obtain enlightenment. The exhibition and accompanying educational programs will celebrate the rich religious and artistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and the spiritual significance of the mandala.
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January 22
DeKalb Symphony Annual Children’s Concert
Location: Georgia Perimeter College Clarkston Campus Gymnasium
Address: 555 North Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA
Website: www.dekalbsymphony.com
Phone Number: 1-866-633-5252 ext. 3351
DeKalb Symphony Annual Children’s Concert “Around the World in 60 Minutes” The DSO performs their Annual Children’s Concert on Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM in the Georgia Perimeter College Clarkston Campus Gymnasium. ”Around the World in 60 Minutes” is the theme of the 2012 concert. Variety and musical acts will join the DSO in our portrayal of music from around the world.
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January Concerts at Eddie’s Attic
Location: Eddie’s Attic
Address: 515-B N. McDonough Rd., Decatur, Georgia 30030
Website: www.eddiesattic.com
Phone Number: 866-633-5252 ext. 3502
January 2 – Evening w/ Meiko (folk-rock, pop) January 3 – Tyler Lyle & Joshua Fletcher (blues, folk-rock, soul)
January 5 – T Dawg Productions presents – Lindsay Rakers & Lefty Williams (rock, folk, alt-country)
January 6 – Grayson Capps, Scott Warren & Benji Shanks and the Booze Mountaineers (roots)
January 7 – Callaghan & Matthew Kahler (folk, pop)
January 10 – Windstorm Productions presents – Sarah Jarosz (Americana, bluegrass)
January 12 – David Berkeley with special guests, Danny Brewer & Will Robertson (folk, pop)
January 14 – Delta Moon (blues, rock, roots)
January 28 – A Very Special Matinee Show with Gustafer Yellowgold (family-friendly folk, pop)
January 29 – The Farewell Drifters (bluegrass, Americana-pop)
