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The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market is honored to have Chef Gillian Howard stop by the market on Sunday, February 26th for Personal Chef Day. She will be cooking up some delicious culinary masterpieces while demonstrating how you can do the same. Starting at 10:00 am Chef Gillian will walk visitors through simple steps they can do to prepare tasty dishes. Chef Gillian will be utilizing products from several market vendors, like BB’s Homemade Krab Kakes, to highlight combinations you may not have thought about before. She will be putting her skills on display to entertain viewers, provide educational cooking tidbits, and create amazing samples which you can try. You can follow Chef Gillian on Instagram at "yourculturedchef". While you are here you can also shop with other vendors and find the perfect items to partner with the new dishes you have learned to make. Come to the market to meet Chef Gillian and join in all the fun.

Have you heard of ChatGPT? It seems to be popping up everywhere, from Canva's new Magic Write feature to the potential of a robot lawyer. This chatbot, launched by OpenAI in November 2022, is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows for human-like conversations and much more.

Join us as we discuss the implications of ChatGPT in the tech space. We will explore areas of opportunity such as different UX design requirements for tech products and further development of voice recognition and natural language processing. However, we will also discuss potential dangers of this new AI, including the possibility of incorrect or biased information and cybersecurity attacks by divulging personal information through the chatbot.

We will have a digital human, designed by Amplifi Labs join us for the conversation, to showcase the advancements and challenges of the chatbot technology. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the future of chatbots and AI, and how they are revolutionizing our lives.

June 19-23, 2023 • 9:00am-3:00pm (Ages 8-15)

Matthews Playhouse is proud to partner with Indian Trail Parks and Recreation to present a week of summer performing arts camp in the Indian Trail Town Hall based on the Grammy, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize-winning hit musical, Hamilton! Children aged 8-15 will learn the real stories behind the iconic characters as they face off in epic rap duels, and learn choreography based on the original Broadway production.

This fun-filled week will be capped off with a performance on the outdoor stage at Crossing Paths Park. The cost is $310, need-based scholarships are available. This camp will take place in Indian Trail Town Hall: 315 Matthews-Indian Trail Rd, Indian Trail, NC 28079.

More info can be found by visiting matthewsplayhouse.com/indian-trail-performing-arts-camps

Carolina Pro Musica continues Season 46 with a concert celebrating Handel (300 Years ago) with a program entitled Handel’s Banner Year: 1724. The concert will be held February 23, 2024, at 7:30 PM at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1001 Queens Rd, Charlotte NC 28207. This was a great year for Handel in London. He had just moved into a new house on Brook Street in Mayfair where he would live the rest of his life. He had several operas set to premiere include Giulio Cesare (Julius Cesare) which would run for most of the year. He was helping to run the theater where his productions took place.
Our program features several arias from Giulio Cesare as well as instrumental works for flute, recorder, viola da gamba, and harpsichord all from this same time. Tickets are available online or at the door.

A Kickoff Event to the Annual African American Heritage Festival!

They were high school classmates in 1965. Jimmie transferred his senior year to an affluent high school in Charlotte – he was their first Black football star. That decision swept him into one of North Carolina’s most volatile civil rights cases, played out at the explosive intersection of football and race. Fellow classmate De watched that case unfold and wrote about it in his college essay application. Decades later, a shocking discovery reveals secrets buried in church records, reconnecting the two men and changing their lives. Their story, rooted in the South, is also America’s story – one of slavery’s legacy and our current racial divide. It’s a story of healing and shows a way forward as Jimmie and De explore their binding truth.

The Charlotte Museum of History will screen this Whirlygig Productions film, followed by a discussion about enslavement on the historic Alexander Homesite. Light refreshments and snacks will be available for purchase.

Disney's The Lion King has captivated the imagination of audiences around the world, and now you have the opportunity to see this one-of-a-kind musical in your community. We will be bringing the African savanna to life on our stage with Simba, Rafiki and an unforgettable cast of characters as they journey from Pride Rock to the jungle and back again in this inspiring, coming-of-age tale.

The Lion King KIDS features classic songs from the Broadway musical and animated feature film, including “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King,” “He Lives in You,” and “Hakuna Matata.” These young performers also get the chance to learn a wide range of new theatrical skills—such as mask-making and puppetry—encouraging them to explore this beloved story with creativity and pride.

This production is performed by students ages 6-10 and rehearsed in just 5 short days! Their sheer talent, resilience, and hard work is something you don't want to miss!

Performances are Saturday 10th & 17th at 2pm & 5pm!!

The gallery reception will be August 28th 6-8pm.


Current attempts to integrate the arts into the ideological system of the ruling party or the tech industry have eroded our faith in art as an independent, liberating force. But is this forced evolution of art intentionally perverse? Or, is it just a product of our time? In our desperate attempts to find “the Left’s Joe Rogan” and escape red tweets for blue skies, we accept that the revolution will be uploaded. But, on what platform?



Rather than deny art’s inevitable role in shaping both power and resistance, perhaps we should embrace it. In Controlled Oppositions, Clay Harper envisions a world where image-making is surrendered to generative AI’s stock footage libraries, allowing their inherent contradictions to unfold in tangles of physical and virtual space. By highlighting these friction points, he searches for a form of media that does more than simply rebrand existing modes of content consumption; it aims to render such modes obsolete.



This exhibition will be on display August 28- October 4.

✨ See how much fun a whole year can bring!

-A Tony nominee for Best Musical, Score, and Book
-Follow the adventures of happy Frog and cranky Toad through four seasons
-Enjoy a colorful production with a jazzy, upbeat score
-An adventure spanning all four seasons - planting gardens, swimming, raking leaves, and sledding!
-This "one-year" journey flies by in One-Act, approx. 70 min.

Show Dates and Times:

Sep 19 at 11 AM and 3 PM
Sep 20 at 11 AM and 2 PM
Sep 26 at 11 AM and 3 PM
Sep 27 at 11 AM and 2 PM
Oct 3 at 11 AM and 3 PM
Oct 4 at 11 AM and 2 PM
Oct 10 at 11 AM and 3 PM
Oct 11 at 11 AM and 2 PM

-ASL-Interpreted Show: Oct 3 at 3 PM
-Sensory-Friendly Performance: Oct 11 at 11 AM

On the next Charlotte Talks, we meet Victor Ryan Robinson, the actor portraying Sportin’ Life in Opera Carolina’s latest production of George Gershwin’s "Porgy and Bess". Robinson is the first actor ever to make their Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, and Kennedy Center debuts in the same year. We find out more about him and this latest production.

NPR's Mike Pesca talks with host Rachel Martin about Saturday night's college basketball.

A clutter of nearly forgotten American pop culture has a home in Fort Mitchell, Ky. On a quiet residential street, by appointment only, visitors can tour the Vent Haven Museum. It's a tribute to the great figures of ventriloquism -- human and otherwise.

A new study says that Ethiopia could lose more than 50 percent of its coffee growing regions to climate change. But, higher altitude areas could become more suitable for coffee in the coming decades.

Candi Staton is a soul music veteran with a stirring voice that can convey the weight of anguish and the joy of rapture. Her new album, His Hands, mixes R&B and country standards, several self-penned songs, and an unlikely collaboration with Will Oldham.

An effort to remove Confederate names from military bases has broad bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress. President Trump is vowing to veto the defense bill if the provision stays in.

President Trump announced Thursday that Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., is his pick to replace Kristi Noem as the head of the Department of Homeland Security.

In the sweet, smart new Netflix series Everything Sucks!, the nerds from the A.V. club go to war with the nerds from the drama club, while everybody tries very hard to find love.

The stars of the opera world are joined by well-known names from pop and rock music in Modena, Italy, for the funeral of tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Although he was never as popular in his home country, Pavarotti achieved worldwide fame as the man who brought opera to a new audience.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: This Is How You Lose the Time War, GWAR covering “I’m Just Ken,” and the Tested podcast series from NPR's Embedded.

Commentator and actor Kevin R. Free loves the Tony Award-nominated musical based on the bestselling novel. He loves the story, the actors and the production. There's only one problem: He's not in it.