2020 Women Shaping Our Community Celebration

2nd Annual Event

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

6:00 pm-7:00 pm 

This will be a virtual event. 

Hosted by the Selma and Dallas County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Information

More information to follow..... 

Join us for Blackbelt Benefit Group’s 9th Annual Alabama River Chili Cookoff on October 22, 5:00p-7:00p at 1122 Water Avenue. This year's event features to-go family meals prepared using Henry Brick’s top-secret recipe. Meals will be priced at $25.00 with all ticket sale proceeds benefitting The Boy Scouts of America, Crane District.

Tickets go on sale on October 1st with a limited quantity of 100 available. Please keep an eye on BBG’s FB page or IG for updates . We cannot wait to see you there!

The Diabetes Empowerment Program is free, six weeks of diabetes self-management strategies for anyone with diabetes, prediabetes, family members and caregivers. Online classes will be on Thursday evenings, beginning October 15th at 6:00 p.m.
To register online go to www.aces.edu/event/diabetes-education-empowerment-program scroll down and select the register online button. Contact Christina Levert at with questions. 

Photographic Nights of Selma Photography Festival

Saturday, October 24^th from 10:00 am- 9:00 pm

Sunday, October 25^th from 10:00 am-11:00 am

Photographic Nights of Selma, an international photography festival, begins Saturday October 24th, in downtown Selma, Alabama, featuring presentations and exhibits beginning at 10 am CST, and concluding with a grand finale digital screening at 7 pm. Sunday morning at 10 am you can join us live or virtually for the Q&A with international photographer. You can get intimate with photography at a safe distance or join us virtually!

This inaugural festival features Jerry Siegel, Selma native and the guest of honor, along with other incredible photographic talent from around the globe that you can preview here. Make plans now to join us! You can meet photographers, explore exhibits, enjoy presentations by artists, tour Selma and more! Check out the schedule here. The festival concludes with an evening presentation of work by all of the festival photographers on a giant screen in the courtyard of Arts Revive and live on Facebook. After you enjoy the screening, you get to cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award.

Photographic Nights of Selma has been designed to allow you to be distanced from other mask wearing photography fans with multiple locations to explore and lots of space. For lunch you can purchase an individually packaged meal from a food truck. On the evening of Saturday, the 24th, bring your lawn chair and picnic to watch the moon rise over the river and enjoy the first edition screening. The international photographers will be virtually joining us on the morning of Sunday the 25th to allow you to ask them questions about their art before the jury announces the festival prize winners.

We will be live on Facebook for all of the festival events, so follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and learn more at Photographic Nights of Selma. Make sure and tell your friends about this inaugural event that is bringing people together to share in the art of photography, and to bridge new understandings about each other, and our world, in a place known for crossing boundaries to march forward to a bright future.

Photographic Nights of Selma is made possible thanks to the support of Arts Revive and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Extra special thanks to social justice leaders Joanne Bland of Selma, and Stephane Kossman of France, the visionaries who founded this festival.

History Walking Tour

Saturday, October 24, 2020

5:00 pm-7:00 pm

There will be a dozen of Selma's former inhabitants who have made lasting contributions to our city and state.  

Tickets are $10 per person.

For more information contact Candi Duncan at 334-412-8550