What's Happening in Birmingham this November
You'll be busy, not bored, in Birmingham this month.
The weather is getting colder, Halloween is behind us, and the holidays are on the horizon. That means one thing — November is here.
The month starts with Birmingham Patch's one-year anniversary and ends with the city's tree-lighting ceremony in Shain Park, officially kicking off the holiday season.
Patch will keep you up to date with what's going on every week, but we've got your monthly look ahead to keep as a handy reference.
Week 1: Nov. 1-6
- Nov. 2: Stephanie Bergeron speaks as part of The Community House's Influential Women series
- Nov. 3: End of the first quarter for elementary, Birmingham Covington School and middle school students
- Nov. 4: No school for elementary, BCS and middle school students
- Nov. 4: Fall wine tasting at Papa Joe's Gourmet Market
- Nov. 4: Our Shepherd Lutheran School's second- through fourth-grade musical
- Nov. 4-6: Groves High School's performance of Bye Bye Birdie
- Nov. 4-6: The Village Players' performance of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Nov. 5: Birmingham Patch's one-year anniversary!
- Nov. 5: Winter Wonders Holiday Glass Show
- Nov. 5: What's It Worth? Antique Appraisal/Buy Event
- Nov. 5: Composer Festival
- Nov. 5-6: The Community House Youth Theater's performance of Grease
- Nov. 6: Birmingham Public Schools District open house
- Nov. 6: Daylight saving time ends
Week 2: Nov. 6-13
- Nov. 8: Election Day
- Nov. 8: Eton Academy Open House
- Nov. 10: Palladium's 10th anniversary special
- Nov. 10: Rail District Holiday Express Open House
- Nov. 11: Veterans Day wreath-laying ceremony
- Nov. 11: Hagopian's Nite Notes Series: Dave Bennett
- Nov. 11: Grand reopening of the Cranbrook Art Museum
- Nov. 11-13: Groves High School's performance of Bye Bye Birdie
- Nov. 11-13: The Village Players' performance of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Nov. 11-13: Seaholm High School's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Rock Concert
- Nov. 11-14: Friends of the Baldwin Public Library fall book sale
- Nov. 12: Chuck Hogan book signing at Auto Zone Hobbies
- Nov. 12: Midvale Early Learning Center's Mom 2 Mom Sale
- Nov. 12: Corks and Forks at the Big Rock Chop House
- Nov. 13: Roeper Middle and Upper School open house
Week 3: Nov. 14-20
- Nov. 15: Winter Holiday Gift Show Preview Party
- Nov. 15: Seaholm National Honor Society induction ceremony
- Nov. 16: Historical Museum's model train exhibit opens
- Nov. 16-17: Winter Holiday Gift Show
- Nov. 17: Books and Bites Fundraiser
- Nov. 18: High school exams
- Nov. 18: Lido Gallery Poetry Series: Jan Krist, Ama Carey-Barr, Anne Doran, Ginny Grush, Lucija Franetovic and Elaine Winkler
Week 4: Nov. 21-27
- Nov. 21-22: High school exams
- Nov. 22: End of second trimester for high school students
- Nov. 23: City tree-lighting ceremony
- Nov. 23: Santa House opens
- Nov. 23-25: No school for Birmingham Public Schools students
- Nov. 24: Thanksgiving
Week 5: Nov. 28-30
- Nov. 28: No school for high school students.
- Nov. 29: 'Other Causes of the Civil War' lecture at Baldwin Public Library
Alan Stamm
7:41 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
* Nov. 10: Rail District 'Holiday Express' promotion, 5-9 p.m. Robert Dempster band plays in tent on Cole Street. http://bit.ly/uUYBQz
* Nov. 11-13: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Rock Concert,' Seaholm High, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11-12, 2 p.m. Nov. 13, $10 adults, $8 students/seniors. dd08bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us
* Nov. 16: 'Birmingham in the 19th century' holiday model train exhibit opens, Birmingham Historical Museum, $5 adults, $3 students.
* Nov. 29: 'Other Causes of the Civil War,' free lecture by historian Joel Stone at Baldwin Public Library, 7 p.m.
Laura Houser
9:10 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Thanks Alan!
Timothy Wittlinger
9:53 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
November 6-7: The Village Players auditions for "Lost in Yonkers"