Saturday March 1st at the Smyrna Community Fitness and Dance Studio starting at 3pm. Free Introductory Class. Come join us and experience our excellent Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program. Participants will have access to our special grand opening tuition offer.

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Courtyard by Marriott Atlanta Lithia Springs

This Saturday, June 20, a group of small business owners will spend the day in Lithia Springs doing something most people are still only talking about: putting artificial intelligence to work in their actual businesses.
The workshop, "Build Your AI Workforce in One Day," runs 9 AM to 4 PM at the Courtyard Marriott in Lithia Springs. It is led by Douglasville-based AI trainer Cheryl Tibbs along with co-hosts Rodney Williams, LaSean Pickens, Shakira Canty, and Michelle Robinson.
The premise is simple. Most solo and small business owners are doing everything themselves: answering the phone, chasing follow-ups, handling the back office, all while trying to do the actual work that pays them. This session is built to change that in a single day.
Attendees will walk out with a live AI voice receptionist that answers calls and books appointments, their own AI agent operating system, and real working automations installed for their business. Everything is built hands-on in the room, not watched on a screen. Lunch is included.
Seating is limited to 30 and registration closes automatically once the room fills. There is also a giveaway for attendees, and you must be in the room to win.
Registration and full details: <a href="https://buytickets.at/aisuccessacademy/2%EE%80%80238603" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://buytickets.at/aisuccessacademy/2238603</a>

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Ray Charles Performing Arts Center

Atlanta Freedom Bands’ Concert
Band will mark our nation’s 250th&nbsp;anniversary with a concert titled&nbsp;“Americans We: Celebrating Our Shared
Story in Music”.&nbsp;&nbsp;Taking place
on&nbsp;Saturday, June
20, at the Ray Charles Performing Arts
Center at Morehouse College, this Semiquincentennial musical offering features
a diverse array of composers representing a wide array of American voices in
music.
This will NOT be your typical
patriotic concert.&nbsp; We have something unique to offer our community.&nbsp;
Our concert celebrates the diversity, the varied voices, and shared stories
that make up our country.&nbsp; The music will challenge, inform, entertain,
and delight.
The program’s centerpiece is the
premiere of a work AFB has commissioned for the occasion,&nbsp;“We the People” by Christopher Kyle
Green. 
The program features legendary
composers such as&nbsp;Florence
Price&nbsp;and&nbsp;Aaron Copland&nbsp;paired with today’s counterparts such as&nbsp;Erica Svanoe, Quincy Hilliard, Omar
Thomas, and Chandler Wilson.&nbsp; The
selections tell the stories of women who dared to expand beyond their
traditional roles, the achievements of the African American community,&nbsp;Marsha P. Johnson&nbsp;(an important early activist in the transgender
community), and more.
Led by&nbsp;Artistic Director O’Shae Best&nbsp;in his first season with the ensemble, AFB’s
Concert Band will bring these stories spanning the breadth of our nation to
life.

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