Streaming Films, TV Shows Shot in Charlotte: April 2020
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Try This At Home: How Restaurateur Bruce Moffett Is Navigating COVID-19
The shutdown forces him to pass dishes from his five-restaurant food empire from curb, window, and doorway
Podcast Challenges Men to Drop the Mic, Let Women Say Their Piece
A look at veteran journalist Stuart Watson’s ManListening series
Davidson College Professor Teaches the Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing
“Something like this gives people the opportunity to slow down and think about information in a different way.”
Go on a Virtual Getaway to the Blue Ridge Mountains
In Partnership with Blue Ridge Travelers During a pandemic that requires self-isolation, people have shown just how creative they can be. Whether friends are toasting over video chat or businesses are offering delivery service for the first time ever, there…
One Charlotte Woman’s Struggle With the ‘Getting Ahead’ Myth
For generations, economists, pundits, and holders of public office have told the poor that pulling themselves out of poverty was just a matter of acquiring the right skills, making the right choices, and having the right attitude. In a city where getting ahead is practically a religion, Cheryl Potts has done a lot right—and she hasn’t gotten far
What You Can, Can’t Do Under Charlotte’s Stay-At-Home Order
Restrictions begin at 8 a.m. Thursday, extend through at least April 16
The Cost of Expensive Dirt in Charlotte
Land prices, especially near uptown, are forcing even some affluent homeowners to flee for 'the sticks'
It Would Have Been Easier to Tear Down Our Myers Park Ranch and Start Over.
But homes like these were built to last, so we gave ours a second chance
Go on a Virtual Getaway to the Blue Ridge Mountains
In Partnership with Blue Ridge Travelers During a pandemic that requires self-isolation, people have shown just how creative they can be. Whether friends are toasting over video chat or businesses are offering delivery service for the first time ever, there…
Things To Do
Feb
9
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Feb 9 – Aug 30 all-day
This exhibition features more than 100 works of art on loan from across the U.S., as well as England, with an exclusive focus on black basalt sculpture—the first show of its kind to do so. Works range from life-size portrait busts to fanciful vases and dynamic statues of mythological heroes.
With the help of the prominent Charlotte muralist and street artist known as “Owl,” each of the exhibition rooms will feature a specially commissioned graphic mural in striking, sunset hues.
Mar
13
Fri
Discover Charlotte’s best, new food truck rally that is hosted by West End’s first craft brewery, Blue Blaze Brewing, in partnership with Historic West End Partners. Savor local food trucks with a variety of unique, dynamic, and delicious dishes, to celebrate one of Charlotte’s best traditions in one of Charlotte’s most culturally rich and historic neighborhoods.
Happening every Friday evening from March 13 through May 29 at starting at 5 pm and live music at 6 pm. West End Food Truck Friday is free to attend, as well as dog- and family-friendly. Non-alcoholic, local cider, and wine options are available.
Mar
26
Thu
Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte presents the uproarious comedy with music, ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS by Richard Bean. In “the funniest show in the western world,” Francis Henshall is looking to make his mark. Fired from a skiffle band and in search of work, he finds himself employed by TWO shifty “guvnors”. Fighting a mounting sense of confusion, Francis goes out of his way to serve both bosses. But with the distractions of a pneumatic book keeper, a self-important actor, and his own mammoth appetite to contend with, how long can he keep them apart? Mistaken identities, outrageous farce, love triangles, and inspired lunacy.
Pay what you can night is Thursday, March 26 with a suggested ticket price of just $10. Two preview performances with half-priced tickets will be Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28. Official opening night is Wednesday, April 1 and the show will run through Saturday, May 2.
Visit www.atcharlotte.org for full show dates and times.
Apr
5
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In an imaginary city-state loosely based on ancient Greek myths, generational conflict erupts around how to handle the mass of desperate, uprooted migrants outside the city walls. Inspired by the current refugee crisis in southern Europe, and partially developed through on-the-ground faculty-student research, this play takes dead aim at climate change, xenophobia, and what it costs us to compromise our ideals.
Listen! These are not simply notes you hear,
But the voices – the stardust – of eternity.
The College of Arts + Architecture, in partnership with Central Piedmont Community College, presents a musical commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, featuring the east coast premiere of Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. Composed by internationally regarded composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope was commissioned to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, receiving its world premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area in January 2020.
Intonations is a song cycle scored for mezzo-soprano, violin soloist, and string quartet, with a concluding solo by a child violinist. The poetic text is inspired by the stories from the book Violins of Hope: Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour, written by UNC Charlotte musicologist James Grymes. Published by Harper Collins in 2014, Violins of Hope won a National Jewish Book Award. It tells this histories of violins recovered from the Holocaust by Iraeli violinmaker Amnon Weinstein. UNC Charlotte presented the North American premiere of those violins in exhibition and performance in April 2012. Since then more than a dozen U.S. cities have hosted the Violins of Hope.
Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope will feature mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock, assistant professor of voice at UNC Charlotte, and solo violinist Mikylah Myers from West Virginia University, performing with the Beo String Quartet of Pittsburgh. Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra violinist David Karpov joins the ensemble for the conclusion.
Following the performance of Intonations, the University Chorale and the CPCC Chorus will perform Bernstein’s beautiful Chichester Psalms, a setting in three movements of six Psalms, sung in Hebrew. Conducted by Alan Yamamoto, division director of visual and performing arts at CPCC, Chichester Psalms will feature harpist Christine Leimer, a professor at CPCC, and UNC Charlotte alumnus Chris Merida on percussion. Soprano Shira Lissek, cantor at Temple Israel, will open the program with a performance of “If the World Had Cried.”
These concerts culminate the 2020 Sensoria festival, a celebration of literature and the arts at Central Piedmont Community College. For tickets, please visit sensoria.cpcc.edu.
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