
Please join Community Grief Support for our 3rd Annual community-wide Memorial “Tree of Lights” honoring and memorializing loved ones whom we have lost.
Sunday, December 10, 2023 | Homewood Central Park
Memorial Tree Dedication & star lighting with Homewood Mayor Patrick McClusky. Family-friendly holiday event, featuring:
- Festive refreshments
- Visit with Santa & Mrs. Claus
- Christmas caroling
- Inflatables
- Pick up your ornament and/or luminaries

The Junior Board of Community Grief Support invites you to
6th Annual “Magic City Mac + Cheese Festival”
Sunday, November 12, 2023 | Back Forty Birmingham
3201 1st Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35222
More than 5,000 have attended in the past and more than $60,000 has been raised! The Magic City Mac + Cheese Fest is part competition, part celebration of the South’s favorite comfort food, and an important fundraiser for CGS. We look forward to having you join us this year!
We will have live music, activities and games for kids, plenty of food and beverages to enjoy, and some friendly mac and cheese competition of course! Pets are welcome, too. It will be fun for the whole family! $15 for adults, $5 for children ages 6-12, and free for children 5 and under. Day of tickets will be $20. So get them early!
(For more information on becoming a vendor or sponsor for 2023, visit macfestbhm.com or contact Erin Slaughter at 205.870.8667 or email macfestbhm@gmail.com. Vendor and sponsor spots fill up quickly.) More details to come!
2022 Vendors: 2022 Sponsors:
Porky’s Pride
Chef Shawn Catering and Events
The Cheesecake Emporiyum
Simone’s Kitchen ATL
Fultondale Fire Department – Chief GrillDaddy & The Old Guys
Urban Cookhouse
Café 1918
Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ
The Fig Tree
The Southern Kitchen
Soho Social
Battle Axe’s Feast
Steel Gastro Pub
Meals by Misty
Hattie B’s Hot Chicken
Lemonade Junkees
Your CBD Store
Blind Dog Biscuit
Red Diamond
Char Bar 7
Alabama Ali
AT&T
Naughty But Nice Popcorn
And more to come…!
Brasfield & Gorrie
T-Mobile
EBSCO
Medical Properties Trust
Cobbs Allen
Vulcan Materials
Michael Hicks Services
BCBS Foundation
TransAmerica
Adams Computer Tech
Birmingham Mountain Radio
The Piggly Wiggly
WBRC-Fox 6
AT&T
Wood Fruitticher
Jason Garner, DMD – Five Points Dental
For information about becoming a vendor or sponsor for 2023, call Erin Slaughter at 205-870-8667. Vendor and sponsor spots fill up quickly.
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