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Performances, iPhones, Obamacare and More

Here's a glimpse of what's happening this week in Athens

Monday, December 16
9:30 and 11:30am
"T'was the Night Before Christmas." Inspired by the timeless poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" and by the real life of its author, this hilarious musical introduces Santa in a particularly beneficent light. This classic from Theatre IV has been charming audiences nationwide for years. 

Introduction to IOS 7 Workshop
6 pm
Is it time to learn how to use your iPhone? The folks at PeachMac can help you. And guess what? the class is free.

Tuesday, December 17 
7 to 8:30pm
Full Moon Hike
State Botanical Garden of Georgia
Meet at the Visitor Center fountain and learn something.

Wednesday, December 18
6pm
Athens Clarke County Library
Town Hall: Affordable Care Act
Learn how to sign up for Obamacare. Joining Rep. Spencer Frye wiil be several people directly involved with training Health Care Navigators. Navigators from the Athens Neighborhood Health Center, the Health Initiative in Atlanta, and other organizations will also be there to help. 

5:30 to 6:30pm
Zumba at the Garden
You can shake and dance your way to fitness at the State Botanical Garden in a zumba fitness class.

Thursday, December 19th
6 to 9pm
Third Thursday
Georgia Museum of Art
Six of Athens’ established venues for visual art hold “Third Thursday,” an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month. The Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Lyndon House Arts Center, Glass Cube & Gallery@Hotel Indigo-Athens, Ciné and ATHICA will be open on those nights to showcase their visual-arts programming. 

7:30pm
"A Tuna Christmas"
New Earth Music Hall
The Circle Ensemble Theatre is presenting "A Tuna Christmas." 
It's 24 hours before Christmas and all comic hell is about to break loose in the town of Tuna, the "third-smallest" town in Texas where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.





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