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8601 McAlpine Park Drive , Suite 110
Charlotte, NC 28211
Contact: Cherri Flinn (803-369-6000), Media Communications Coordinator

November 30, 2022

Hiring Construction Career Opportunities for “The Pearl” Innovation District

CHARLOTTE, NC – If Charlotte is your oyster, at the heart of it is a new Pearl of opportunity. Located at the intersection of Baxter Street and McDowell Street in Midtown Charlotte is the future site of The Pearl innovation district, a mixed-use development featuring education, retail, apartments, a hotel, and an open community space.

“The Pearl construction project will generate thousands of jobs, and Atrium is firmly committed to ensuring that individuals from underserved communities with an interest in the construction industry have ample opportunity to become employed on the project,” R.J. Leeper Construction LLC Vice President of Strategic Initiatives Kimberly Henderson said.

By connecting to workforce partners such as NCWorks, Henderson’s team has identified areas of opportunity for job seekers within construction-industry careers. The first Construction Careers Connection Series is open to the public and held on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, from 10 am - 2 pm.

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library at 2412 Beatties Ford Road is hosting the event. This first session will be informational with hiring opportunities. Workforce partners are also invited to attend to learn more about the variety of roles needed for the multi-year project.

“These type of programs reaffirm our commitment to the communities we serve to bring the programs and resources they deserve and desire to ensure future success for all,” Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Program Manager - Workforce Development David Sniffen said. “We offer on-demand help, one-on-one assistance and have programs and services to assist in every step of the career development process.”

At this time the land is being leveled for the first phase of construction in the first quarter of 2023. According to Henderson, they are currently seeking individuals with carpentry, masonry, concrete, HVAC and electrical experience, as well as heavy equipment operators, steel welders, fabricators, erectors, installers flaggers and general laborers.

“We’re excited to work with companies who are offering job seekers new construction career opportunities,” NCWorks Business Solutions Consultant Terrell Roberts said. “Job seekers can bring their talents to this truly ground-level project that will be a part of Charlotte’s future growth,”

The Pearl will create an innovation ecosystem, grounded in research and academics, to attract businesses, incubate new ideas, attract venture funding and scale small businesses into the companies of Charlotte’s future. The first phase of the District includes Charlotte’s first four-year medical school, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Charlotte.

Although walk-ins are welcome for the first of the Construction Careers Connection Series, job seekers and workforce partners are encouraged to RSVP. The event’s agenda will include a continental breakfast, company representative introductions, a project presentation, and open table discussions with company representatives.

Job seekers and workforce partners interested in attending may RSVP by registering online at https://ConstructionCareerConnection.eventbrite.com. Job seekers are encouraged to bring their resumes and be prepared to meet face-to-face with company representatives.

For job seekers who may need assistance before the event, NCWorks does provide a variety of career readiness workshops that assist with resumes and job interviews, among other skills. For more information about NCWorks Career Center at 8601 McAlpine Park Drive, Suite 110, call 704-566-2870, or visit www.ncworks-charlotte.com online.

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Everybody has a story to tell. The Moth, who many public radio listeners may be familiar with, is dedicated to the art and the craft of storytelling. It…

For the Kyoto-based, Alabama-born duo of Nice Legs, its band name was more than just an homage to The Room-- it was an homage to friendship that ended up yielding a sorta-lucky break.

BrightFire Music & Arts Festival Music, Art, Fire, Dance, Nature - A beyond-imagination celebration of Life. At BrightFire, enjoy and indulge in new local art and craftsmanship at the Night Market. Grab a bite to eat at one of the delicious food trucks, kick back at the Midnight Mulligan beer garden, make a flower crown, learn to dance at the maypole, play games in the field while listening to concerts with mesmerizing fire performances, and rendezvous at the fairy village for a tea party. All ages welcome! Surround yourself in an imaginative artistic experience during the sunset fire-lighting show, premiering a new innovative music and dance piece by Anne Harris, Fred Dunlap, & THE MARK dance company. Activities: Mainstage Concerts + 5 intimate acoustic stages Night Market (Art Show, Crafts, Designer, Innovation, Silent Auction) Food Trucks, Craft Snacks, Beverages Pilates (optional class @4:30 & 5:30) Midnight Mulligan Beer Garden Flower Crown Station - make your own! Dance! Fire Science, History, & Safety Gardening (demonstrations, starter kits) Field Games (Potions and Pixels) Silent Auction (benefits Safe Alliance, donate). Lineup: Anne Harris (Blues/American Roots) Tuatha Dea (Appalachian Rock) Space Ballet (Trip-Hop Opera) Master Kie & Your Neighborhood Orchestra Hey Richard & Several Others Schedule: 4:00 - Gates open to Night Market, 5 Acoustic Stages, Silent Auction, Activities, Games, Garden Social, etc. 4:30 & 5:30 (optional) 2x 30-minute Pilates class 6:00 - Mainstage performances 8:10 - Sunset Fire-Lighting Ceremony 8:30 -10p: Mainstage performances The festival is an innovative artist-led, community-based interpretation of the essence of Beltane. In Celtic tradition, Beltane marked the end of a cold, dark, life-and-death winter and the beginning of renewed life and summer. It is associated with fire, nature, renewed life and growth, joyful celebrations, and an important time in agricultural and pastoral life. Initially, herdsmen in Scotland, Ireland, and Man, would lead their cattle between bonfires to cleanse and prevent disease before entering into the new summer pastures. Ancient communities celebrated this changing season by playing music and dancing near the fires. They would extinguish their home hearths and relight them from the communal Beltane fires as a unifying practice. BrightFire Festival is a celebration of Life. A production by Charlotte New Music in partnership with Historic Rural Hill, & THE MARK dance company. Silent Auction sales benefit Safe Alliance.

Join us to hear from Dr. Damaris Puñales–Alpízar, an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case Western Reserve. She studied Journalism at the University of Havana and has worked as a journalist in Cuba, Belize, and Mexico. In Belize, she founded Conexión, the first bilingual and trans-border newspaper. In Mexico, she was a correspondent for regional and national mass media.
She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, and since then she has worked at Case Western Reserve University, where she teaches courses on the Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture. Her areas of expertise include Cuban and Caribbean Narrative and Culture, Contemporary Latin American Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Cold War Studies in Latin America, and Translation Studies. She is the founder and director of the study abroad program of CWRU in Cuba.
During the 2013–2015 period, Puñales-Alpízar was elected delegate from the Great Lakes region to the Modern Language Association.
She has published the books The Damn Circumstance. Scholarly Writings on Cuban Literature. Leiden: Almenara Press (2020) and Written in Cyrillic. The Soviet Ideal in the post-1990 Cuban Cultural Production. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio (2012). She has edited the academic volumes Sieges to the Lettered Cayman: Literature and Power in the Cuban Revolution. Prague: Carolina University Press (2018) -in collaboration with Emilio J. Gallardo Saborido and Jesús Gómez de Tejada-, and The Atlantic as Frontier: Cultural Mediations between Cuba and Spain. Madrid: Verbum (2014).
Her scholarly articles have appeared in leading academic journals in United States, Cuba, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, France, and Spain, such as Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Caribbean Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Habana Elegante, Kamchatka, Vallejo&Co, Revista de Letras, Artelogie, Cuadernos del Sur, Teatro, Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, etc.
In 2018, Dr. Puñales-Alpízar was a Fulbright Scholar in Russia to complete research for her next scholarly project. She is now finishing a manuscript on the geopolitics of socialist translations.
Regularly, she writes and translates for the Collective Arts Network Journal, CAN, in Cleveland, and publishes op-ed pieces in a Spain newspaper. She is a Member of the Board of LatinUS Theater Experience Company, in Cleveland.
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Join us on Saturday, June 10th for our annual Mac and Cheese Competition benefitting Good Soles charity! They aim to provide steel toe boots and non-slip shoes to organizations helping our neighbors in need transition out of homelessness, so they can get the jobs needed to get back on their feet and regain their independence.

Come out for delicious beer and sample and vote on 8-9 different mac & cheese dishes and vote for your top 3!

Tickets are $15 each and $9 of each ticket sold will be donated to Good Soles.

Note: This event is 21+ only due to limited space.

Barry Corbin has appeared in hundreds of movies and TV shows over the past 40 years. Fans remember him early on in Urban Cowboy, Lonesome Dove and Northern Exposure. His career is still going strong with roles in recent years on The Ranch, Yellowstone, Tulsa Kings and he's in the new Martin Scoresese movie Killers of the Flower Moon.

For "An Evening with Barry Corbin" the skillful storyteller has put together a presentation, which is a celebration of his personal and professional life. It includes photos from some of his most cherished moments on set and off. The show's second act will allow the audience to participate in a moderated Q&A. Afterwards, Barry will stay around for a meet and greet to sign and take photos.

*Photo by LeAnn Mueller

In the latest installment of Still Here, our series about resiliency, WFAE's Sarah Delia speaks to the owner of a Charlotte music venue about surviving the pandemic and two break-ins — one at his place of business, and the other at his own home.

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Ryan Caron King is a freelance multimedia reporter atWNPR. As an intern, he created short web videos to accompany some ofWNPR'sreporting online. As a student at the University of Connecticut, he managedUConn'scollege radio stationWHUS, where he headed an initiative to launch a recording and video production studio. Ryan graduated fromUConnwith a Journalism/English double major in 2015.