What to Do and See This Month in Charlotte: February 2025

Razzle your valentine’s dazzle with one of these date ideas.

COURTESY, CHEF QUIENTINA STEWART.

Fresh Handmade Pasta class
Wednesday, Feb. 5
Step 1: Mix, knead, roll, cut, and boil pappardelle. Step 2: Cook up sauce. Step 3: Role-play Lady and the Tramp.
6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday Night Brewing Garden Co. Registration: $59, eventbrite.com

ORI JAI

Family First: Imprint Your Family Story
Saturday, Feb. 1
Learn about African symbols, including Adinkra and Kente patterns, with artist Ori Jai (aka The Syringa Fairy), then create personalized symbols for your family.
Noon-2 p.m. The Gantt Center. Registration: $10, ganttcenter.org

Southern Oyster, Wine, & Beer Festival
Saturday, Feb. 1
This Drink Eat Relax Events festival offers a shuck-ton of oysters (12 varieties) as well as 30 international beers, wines,
and spirits.
Noon-5 p.m. Ballantyne’s Backyard. Tickets start at $69, drinkeatrelax.com

Opera Carolina: Carmen
Feb. 6-9
One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen has everything you want: love, passion, and scandal. Performed in French with English captions.
Belk Theater. Tickets start at $22.44, blumenthalarts.org

Intro to Orchids
Saturday, Feb. 8
Did you know the word “orchid” comes from the Greek word for “testes”? Anyway, join the orchid curator at UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens to learn how to … grow a pair. (The Botanical Gardens’ annual orchid sale to follow, at 10 a.m.)
9-9:45 a.m. McEniry 127, UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens. Registration: $20, gardens.charlotte.edu

COURTESY, CRYSTAL RICE

Paint Your Person Sip and Paint
Tuesday, Feb. 11
Submit a headshot of your boo-thing when you register so artist and teacher Crystal Rice can draw them on your canvas for you. (If Boo gets offended, you didn’t draw it.) Then, enjoy King Canary pints while you paint.
6:30-8:30 p.m. King Canary Brewing Co. Registration: $50 per person, createartandmemories.com

Valentine’s Day with Shaun Jones (top of page)
Friday, Feb. 14
The veteran comedian combines “a cup of the truth, a tablespoon of originality, and a double twist of humor.”
7 & 9:45 p.m. The Comedy Zone. Tickets start at $30,  cltcomedyzone.com

HOPE THOMAS

Date Night Pottery Wheel Class
Fridays, Feb. 14 & 28
Get your hands dirty with your partner and learn how to  throw wet clay.
4:30 p.m. MakerSpace Charlotte. Couples’ registration starts at $190, eventbrite.com

Skate & Date 
Friday, Feb. 14
Hit the Whitewater Center’s 24,000-square-foot outdoor ice-skating rink before heading to River’s Edge restaurant for oysters on the half shell, ravioli, strawberry soufflé, and, of course, Champagne.
6:15-9 p.m. U.S. National Whitewater Center.
Tickets: $75 per person, center.whitewater.org

Sugar Hill Showings
Opens Feb. 14
The 1974 Paul Maslansky blaxploitation film Sugar Hill opens at the Independent Picture House on Valentine’s Day. The gist: After her boyfriend is brutally murdered, Diane “Sugar” Hill uses voodoo to summon an army of zombie hitmen to exact her revenge. Hot.
Times and ticket prices TBD. The Independent Picture House, independentpicturehouse.org

Charlotte Symphony: Havana Nights
Feb. 21-22
Star soprano Camille Zamora and the Mambo Kings bring you a “sultry and passionate evening of Latin music from Spain and the island of Cuba.”
7:30 p.m. Knight Theater. Tickets start at $20, charlottesymphony.org

Brewsology Beer Fest
Saturday, Feb. 22
The fest “is the boozy hybrid of your middle school museum field trip.” So grab your crush, sample more than 40 seasonal craft beers and ciders, and bebop around Discovery Place Science together.
6-10 p.m. Discovery Place Science. Tickets start at $55, brewsology.com/charlotte