Community Calendar

The LiveLung Charlotte chapter is a community for anyone impacted by lung cancer—survivors and care partners alike. We meet in person on the second Tuesday of each month at 11:30 a.m. ET at Covenant Presbyterian Church 1000 E Morehead Street, Fellowship Hall Room 205, Charlotte, NC 28204.

We’d love for you to join us! A free lunch is provided, so be sure to register and place your order at least 24 hours in advance.

Register here: http://livelung.link/clt

We look forward to seeing you!

The Peter & Kathy Browning Distinguished Leaders in Action Lecture Series provides the McColl School of Business and Queens University’s campus community with an opportunity to interact with and be exposed to a variety of leaders with varying leadership styles and experiences. The lecture events are hosted in an intimate auditorium setting where the audience members may ask questions and hear personal and professional leadership experiences from our guests.

Survival is at the heart of August Wilson’s King Hedley II—a powerful story of a man fighting to rebuild his life amid poverty, violence, and the lasting impact of incarceration.

BNS Productions, in partnership with Levine Museum, invites the community to experience selected scenes from the play followed by a community conversation with representatives from Freedom Fighting Missionaries and the Center for Community Transitions. Together, artists and community leaders will explore how best to support formally incarcerated individuals as they establish their place in community, and how the idea of second chances resonate beyond the stage and into real lives.

This community conversation uses storytelling as a bridge to dialogue, offering space to reflect, learn, and connect around justice, resilience, and the paths forward for individuals and families impacted by incarceration.

Join us for an inspiring conversation that celebrates the women whose presence alone shifts rooms, moves minds, and ignites change. The Power of Presence invites you into a space where confidence, authenticity, and purpose take center stage—where leadership is felt before it is spoken. In a time when Black women are navigating unprecedented challenges and visibility gaps, this session honors the power of how we show up, stand firm, and lead with intention. Come be reminded that your presence is not optional—it is influential, necessary, and transformative.

The final Personally Speaking series event of the year explores how down-on-their-luck messiahs and wandering poets in the sixteenth-century Afghan highlands challenge us to rethink what we know about Afghanistan, the history of Islam, and our relationship to the past and to language. Using research from the recently published Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands, William E. B. Sherman explores a remarkable Muslim movement known as the Roshaniyya—or the ‘illuminated ones’—who believed not only in following the word of God, but in making their own words divine and revelatory. │religiousstudies@charlotte.edu

5:15 p.m. with a reception at 4:15 p.m.

The Voices that Shape Foster Care: Stories from the In-Between
Coffee for a Cause is back for a second year!
Join us for this panel discussion, where you will hear from individuals with lived experience across the foster care continuum, sharing honest reflections on the moments between crisis and stability. Panelists will explore how relationships, support, and community shape the journeys of children and families—and invite us to listen more closely to what often goes unseen in foster care. Join us as we grow our community of foster care advocates.

Bring a friend! We hope to see you there.
Hosted at Project 658 with coffee from Neighborhood Coffee Roasters.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's one of the foremost historians in the world and leading antiracist scholars. His books have been translated into multiple languages and republished throughout the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Kendi is a professor of history and the founding director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study, an interdisciplinary research enterprise examining global racism. He's the author of many highly acclaimed bestsellers, including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He's the author of the international bestseller, How to Be an Antiracist, and TIME magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the "Genius Grant."

Included in the admission price, each attendee will receive a copy of Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age ($35 value).

Join us for an engaging community conversation on Women, Leadership, and Feminism. This 90-minute event will feature a dynamic panel of scholars, nonprofit leaders, and community members who will explore the impact of gender, identity, and feminist frameworks on leadership both in Charlotte and the wider Southern region.

The program will include a thought-provoking panel discussion, an audience Q&A session, and opportunities for facilitated small-group reflection. This is a unique chance to share your insights, ask questions, and engage with others in a meaningful dialogue about the role of women in leadership today.

We invite you to be part of this important conversation and contribute to shaping the future of leadership in our community. Don’t miss out—mark your calendars!