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The City of Charlotte is creating the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan to sustain and grow the creative sector in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and we need to hear from YOU!

This Sector Workshop for Music Artists (musicians, producers, performers of all music genres, live and recorded, music venues and spaces) will be hosted via Zoom. Attendees will help us shape the future of arts and culture by sharing perspectives, priorities and experiences. All are welcome.

We want to hear from artists and Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents of all ages and backgrounds. You will hear from City of Charlotte leadership, the consultant team from Lord Cultural Resources, and have the opportunity to make your voice heard. We hope you can join us!

What you can expect:

Brainstorming Activity: What is Charlotte's super power?
Asset Mapping Activity: Where does art and culture occur in Charlotte- Mecklenburg?
Welcome from the City of Charlotte arts and culture officer.
Discussion Groups where participants will weigh in on challenges and priorities in your particular arts sector.
Information about the plan that you can share.

The City of Charlotte is creating the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan to sustain and grow the creative sector in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and we need to hear from YOU!

This Sector Workshop for Cultural Events (cultural specific events/festivals/communities where communities share food/dance/art/music etc) will be hosted at The Camino Health Center, a bilingual and multicultural health center that provides excellent and affordable holistic care to the underinsured and uninsured populations located at 201 Stetson Dr, Charlotte, NC 28262. Attendees will help us shape the future of arts and culture by sharing perspectives, priorities and experiences. All are welcome.

We want to hear from artists and Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents of all ages and backgrounds. You will hear from City of Charlotte leadership, the consultant team from Lord Cultural Resources, and have the opportunity to make your voice heard. We hope you can join us!

What you can expect:

Brainstorming Activity: What is Charlotte's super power?
Asset Mapping Activity: Where does art and culture occur in Charlotte- Mecklenburg?
Welcome from the City of Charlotte arts and culture officer.
Discussion Groups where participants will weigh in on challenges and priorities in your particular arts sector.
Information about the plan that you can share.

An International Hip Hop Dance Showcase
Curated by CrayzeeBeat Dance founder AJ Glasco this showcase features some of the best dance artists in the world.

The We Are Hip Hop brand is conceived and organized by a group of Charlotte-area artists. We Are Hip Hop celebrates hip hop culture through performances and installations by visual artists, dancers, DJs, spoken word poets, graffiti artists, and more. Slammaster Boris “Bluz” Rogers, visual artist Bree Stallings, dancer, and CrayzeeBeat Dance founder AJ Glasco and Heal Charlotte Executive Director Greg Jackson have come together in collaboration with Blumenthal Performing Arts to nurture the We Are Hip Hop initiative.

Throughout the year, We Are Hip Hop hosts events and programs aimed at recognizing, celebrating, and amplifying Charlotte’s unique hip-hop culture and talent. For more information on the community, initiative visit www.WeAreHipHopclt.org

A Hip Hop festival within a festival – Celebrate Hip Hop culture, music, and artistry.
Conceived and organized by a group of Charlotte-area artists, We Are Hip Hop celebrates hip hop culture through performances and installations by visual artists, dancers, DJs, spoken word poets, graffiti artists, and more. Slammaster Boris “Bluz” Rogers, visual artist Bree Stallings, dancer and CrayzeeBeat Dance founder AJ Glasco and Heal Charlotte Executive Director Greg Jackson have come together in collaboration with Blumenthal Performing Arts to present the multi-day celebration.

The two-day We Are Hop Hop weekend kicks off the festival with DJ battles, 7 to smoke b-boy battles, and live dance performances from Charlotte professional dancers, and international dance artists. Concluding the weekend will be a faith-friendly after-church, “WE OUTSIDE Block Party” on Sunday. See the full lineup below:



Saturday, September 17th

7 to smoke all styles battles – 4p – 6p
DJ battles – 6p – 8p
Sunday, September 18th

We Outside Block Party 12p – 5p

The City of Charlotte is creating the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan to sustain and grow the creative sector in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and we need to hear from YOU!

The Workshop for Charlotte's Arts Educators (Educators, Policy-makers, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students and instructors, as well as colleges and universities both public and privately owned) will be hosted via Zoom. Attendees will help us shape the future of arts and culture by sharing perspectives, priorities and experiences.

We want to hear from artists and Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents of all ages and backgrounds. You will hear from City of Charlotte leadership, the consultant team from Lord Cultural Resources, and have the opportunity to make your voice heard. We hope you can join us!

What you can expect:

Brainstorming Activity: What is Charlotte's super power?
Asset Mapping Activity: Where does art and culture occur in Charlotte- Mecklenburg?
Welcome from the City of Charlotte arts and culture officer.
Feedback breakout groups where you can weigh in on the future of local arts and culture.
Information about the plan that you can share.

The City of Charlotte is creating the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan to sustain and grow the creative sector in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and we need to hear from YOU!

Our Workshop for the Faith Community will be hosted via Zoom. Attendees will help us shape the future of arts and culture by sharing perspectives, priorities and experiences.

We want to hear from artists and Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents of all ages and backgrounds. You will hear from City of Charlotte leadership, the consultant team from Lord Cultural Resources, and have the opportunity to make your voice heard. We hope you can join us!

What you can expect:

Brainstorming Activity: What is Charlotte's super power?
Asset Mapping Activity: Where does art and culture occur in Charlotte- Mecklenburg?
Welcome from the City of Charlotte arts and culture officer.
Feedback breakout groups where you can weigh in on the future of local arts and culture.
Information about the plan that you can share.

Grab your favorite picnic blanket and head to Wilmore Centennial Park (205 West Kingston Ave.) on October 15 and on October 29 for free children's activities, music, and movies in the park! Movies in the Park is presented by Blooming Smiles Pediatric Dentistry.

Here's what you can expect:

The event is free to attend. Live music and children's activities start at 5:00pm. The movie will begin at 7:00pm.
Moana is playing on October 15 and Coco will play on October 29.

Grab your favorite picnic blanket and head to Wilmore Centennial Park (205 West Kingston Ave.) on October 15 and on October 29 for free children's activities, music, and movies in the park! Movies in the Park is presented by Blooming Smiles Pediatric Dentistry.

Here's what you can expect:

The event is free to attend. Live music and children's activities start at 5:00pm. The movie will begin at 7:00pm.
Moana is playing on October 15 and Coco will play on October 29.

The City of Charlotte is creating the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan to sustain and grow the creative sector in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and we need to hear from YOU!

This Community-wide Event will be hosted at the Charlotte Art League, a 501 (c)3 non-profit visual arts organization that offers a unique mix of open working studios, classes, and community outreach programs along with a public gallery located at 4237 Raleigh Street Charlotte, NC 28213. Attendees will help us shape the future of arts and culture by sharing perspectives, priorities and experiences. All are welcome.

We want to hear from artists and Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents of all ages and backgrounds. You will hear from City of Charlotte leadership, the consultant team from Lord Cultural Resources, and have the opportunity to make your voice heard. We hope you can join us!

What you can expect:

Cultural activities from local artists
Refreshments provided
Brainstorming Activity: What is Charlotte's super power?
Asset Mapping Activity: Where does art and culture occur in Charlotte- Mecklenburg?
Welcome from the City of Charlotte arts and culture officer.
Feedback breakout groups where you can weigh in on the future of local arts and culture.
Information about the plan that you can share.

The City of Charlotte is creating the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan to sustain and grow the creative sector in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and we need to hear from YOU!

Our Virtual Community Meeting will be hosted via Zoom. Attendees will help us shape the future of arts and culture by sharing perspectives, priorities and experiences.

We want to hear from artists and Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents of all ages and backgrounds. You will hear from City of Charlotte leadership, the consultant team from Lord Cultural Resources, and have the opportunity to make your voice heard. We hope you can join us!

What you can expect:

Brainstorming Activity: What is Charlotte's super power?
Asset Mapping Activity: Where does art and culture occur in Charlotte- Mecklenburg?
Welcome from the City of Charlotte arts and culture officer.
Feedback breakout groups where you can weigh in on the future of local arts and culture.
Information about the plan that you can share.

The City of Charlotte is creating the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan to sustain and grow the creative sector in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and we need to hear from YOU!

This Sector Workshop for Visual Artists ((Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, Ceramics, Photography, Video, Filmmaking, Design, Crafts and Architecture, and Land Design/Placemaking and Muralists) will be hosted at the Charlotte Art League, a 501 (c)3 non-profit visual arts organization that offers a unique mix of open working studios, classes, and community outreach programs along with a public gallery located at 4237 Raleigh Street Charlotte, NC 28213. Attendees will help us shape the future of arts and culture by sharing perspectives, priorities and experiences. All are welcome.

We want to hear from artists and Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents of all ages and backgrounds. You will hear from City of Charlotte leadership, the consultant team from Lord Cultural Resources, and have the opportunity to make your voice heard. We hope you can join us!

What you can expect:

Brainstorming Activity: What is Charlotte's super power?
Asset Mapping Activity: Where does art and culture occur in Charlotte- Mecklenburg?
Welcome from the City of Charlotte arts and culture officer.
Discussion Groups where participants will weigh in on challenges and priorities in your particular arts sector.
Information about the plan that you can share.

What a way to begin our year together by preparing our Nefesh and our Souls for the High Holidays (and the year ahead) with a special concert by Nefesh Mountain at Temple Israel! The concert, a collaborative effort with Temple Beth El, will be followed by a joint Selichot Service. Registration is required.

“What seems initially to be a curious novelty combining bluegrass and traditional Jewish music, turns out to be an idea that makes absolute sense… The union is a perfect fit… It took matchmakers Nefesh Mountain to get these two together, and we’re thankful they did.” - No Depression

New York Times bestselling author Therese Anne Fowler will speak at the Mint Museum on Randolph (2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte, NC 28207) at 6:00 p.m. The event is part of a year-long centennial celebration by the Charlotte Writers Club which was founded in 1922.

Best known as the author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (2013), Fowler is the author of six novels including two more bestsellers, A Well-Behaved Woman (2018) and A Good Neighborhood (2020). After reading Z, Christina Ricci was so taken with the story that she convinced Amazon Studios to adapt the book for television. Ricci starred in the ten-part miniseries – Z: The Beginning of Everything – which appeared in 2015.

At the Mint on Randolph, Therese Fowler will speak about her most recent book, It All Comes Down to This, in conversation with Sarah Archer (author of The Plus One).

Critical praise for Fowler’s writing abounds. Wiley Cash (bestselling author of When Ghosts Come Home) asserts that that “Fowler writes like a contemporary Edith Wharton, peeling back layers of class and custom to reveal the mysteries of love, and longing, and fate.” Jess Walter (bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins) has celebrated It All Comes Down to This as “A smart and lively novel, one that had me turning its pages faster and faster.”

As part of Welcoming Week, join us at MacFly Fresh for a discussion with Federico Rios (Assistant Director, Office of Equity, Mobility and Immigrant Integration – City of Charlotte) about the challenges immigrants in our community face, what it means to create a Welcoming City, and how we can all play a role.

Celebrate Welcoming Week alongside special guests from the NC Brazilian Arts Project, free live screen printing, and more

Martha Connerton/Kinetic Works presents its 1st Annual NC Choreographers Residency Project. The show includes a new work by Carolina Quiros Otarola: “It’s Never Enough” - Tales of Consumerism. Also featured is a revival work by Martha Connerton: “Moving Stories” - Journeys of Formerly Incarcerated Women. Featured dancers are: Rahquelah Conyers, MacKenzie England, Valeria Espinoza, Alison Foster, Jherrymiah Go, Emily Harris, Lydia Heidt, Neha Patel Kissler, Kim Parks, Danielle Roman, and Carly Thompson.

Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts is proud to present our annual Halloween Haunted Trail October 28th - 30th. This spooky outdoor experience is fun for the whole family! ​Tickets ​​to the Haunted Trail are $10 each and are available only at the gate. Cash or credit card accepted. A local food truck will be selling delicious fare each evening. ​

Each night, we will host a "Not So Spooky" hour (5:30 pm-6:30 pm) for young children where they can also participate in a FREE Trunk or Treat event, a Costume Parade and other fun activities.

Event Dates​ Times:

Friday, October 28th​

5:30-6:30pm - Not So Spooky

7:00-10:00pm - Full Fright


Saturday, October 29th

5:30-6:30pm - Not So Spooky

7:00-10:00pm - Full Fright


Sunday, October 30th

5:30-6:30pm - Not So Spooky

7:00-10:00pm - Full Fright

Visit https://www.matthewsplayhouse.com/haunted-trail for more information.

The Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and the Hagemeyer Library of Central Piedmont Community College Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard discuss their new book, The Southernization of America, a compelling series of linked essays considering the role of the South in shaping America’s current political and cultural landscape. They dive deeper, examining the morphing of the Southern strategy of the 1970s into the Republican Party of today, the racial backlash against President Obama, family separation on our southern border, the rise of the Christian right, the white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, the death of George Floyd, and the attack on our nation’s capital. They find hope in the South too, a legacy rooted in the civil rights years that might ultimately lead the nation on the path to redemption. Tucker and Gaillard bring a multiracial perspective and years of political reporting to bear on a critical moment in American history, a time of racial reckoning and democracy under siege.

Living Waters Inc, a faith-based non-profit, will host the summit on Friday, September 23rd. The event will focus on "Bridging the Health Equity Gap for Children and Families to Heal from Grief and Loss".

Bring a blanket, picnic, and friends as we celebrate the onset of autumn with a lively outdoor performance by the DCSO and Jazz Ensemble.

Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

The DCSO embarks upon musical adventures on land, sky, and beyond, with music from Up and the Indiana Jones series. Also featured are works by American composers Stella Sung and Jessie Montgomery, and Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad.

Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.