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**Advanced registration required.** Over the past year, the steadfast belief in two choices—right or wrong, yes or no, black or white—has shaken American society to the core. Alternative ideas and ideals have been forced into the tension and discomforts of the gray areas to reveal powerful beauty in intersection. Spaces Between explores this dimension where contrasting concepts meet through the work of winter/spring 2021 artists-in-residence Anna G. Dean, Rehab El Sadek, Lorena Mal, and Sharon Norwood.

What is the purpose of this Group? The purpose of the Anxiety & Stress Relief Support Group is to create a healing and open space for individuals to connect on the struggles of daily stress and anxiety. Experience practices around mindfulness and meditation to come back to center with valued habits for a sense of inner-peace. How does ASG work? You Are Not Alone. Join us in this safe and yet powerful space to connect deeper within yourself as a community. Create a better understanding of Anxiety and Stress as well as learn how mindfulness and meditation can be used as tools to work with them. Come As You Are. Anxiety exists in the common six forms of Generalised anxiety disorder, Social Anxiety, Specific phobias, Panic Disorder, Obsessive compulsive disorder and Post-traumatic stress disorder. Take time with the community to deepen your connection to the self and explore a deeper sense of compassion for the days ahead. Thank You For Being You. Program Precedents: - Be willing to have fun. - Be open to listening and potentially sharing within group settings. - Be open to trying mindfulness practices such as breathwork and meditation. - Be calm, courteous, and respectful to all participants; practice active listening when someone is sharing and avoid crosstalk. - To maintain this sacred space, please be respectful of group member’s privacy regarding what is shared during each session. - Avoid giving advice or trying to problem-solve for someone else. But feel free to share your personal experiences, strength, and hope or similar struggle on the topic. - After every share, we will all take a deep, grounding breath with the sharer and allow a quiet moment for reflection. This class is accessible to all, with the opportunity to donate (MINIMUM $8.88) to Habitual Roots Nonprofit. Habitual Roots is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to connecting communities by spreading the knowledge of emotional intelligence and mindfulness. Our goal is to create a world where everyone has the opportunity to know themselves well and improve their sense of inner peace. Donation possibilities include: eventbrite, cash, venmo (@habitualroots), or donate on our website. Find tickets here. Discounted drinks will be available with the participation and donation requirement at THIS event.

$10 donation includes guided mediation + breathwork, community interaction, safe environment to foster intention, and local coffee/ tea. In this session, we will explore themes that will bring more intention into the rest of your day, and week ahead. Living with more intention opens up the possibility to become mindfully aware of the present moment and how you show up for yourself each day. We will guide you through the evident benefits of meditation and breathwork to press the RESET button amongst the busy-ness of life. This will enhance the way you think, behave, and interact with the world. Together we will help build the habits that serve us most, with a community to support us and hold us accountable! Let's practice these things before we need it most. Think less. BE more. This class is accessible to all, with the opportunity to donate a MINIMUM OF $10 to Habitual Roots Nonprofit. Habitual Roots is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to connecting communities by spreading the knowledge of emotional intelligence and mindfulness. Our goal is to create a world where everyone has the opportunity to know themselves well and improve their sense of inner peace. Donation possibilities include:eventbrite, cash, venmo (@habitualroots), or donate on our website. This class is accessible to all, with the opportunity to donate a MINIMUM OF $10 to Habitual Roots Nonprofit. Habitual Roots is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to connecting communities by spreading the knowledge of emotional intelligence and mindfulness. Our goal is to create a world where everyone has the opportunity to know themselves well and improve their sense of inner peace. Donation possibilities include:eventbrite, cash, venmo (@habitualroots), or donate on our website (www.habitualroots.com) Ticket(s) Found Here.

Join 24 Foundation in celebrating 20 years of changing the course of cancer. Come ride or stride at the 24 Hours of Booty charity non-competitive cycling and walking event in Charlotte’s Myers Park neighborhood or create your own virtual “UnLooped” event. Funds raised support organizations dedicated to cancer navigation and survivorship. For more information or to register, visit https://www.24foundation.org/

GEAR Up Day is a Free Virtual Event that is being presented by LIFESPAN Inc. The event is about: G-Getting E-Educated A-About R-Resources. LIFESPAN is presenting this virtual event to ensure that the community is aware and knowledgeable of resources that are available for individuals with I/DD-Intellectual Developmental Disabilities. Information will be provided concerning housing, education, vocational support, community opportunities for inclusion and much more. There will also be a special Virtual Fashion Show and door prizes.

Musical Explorations is a series of free music programs for children. Topics range from the history of traditional instruments such as the guitar, mandolin, and banjo, to beginner playing instruction, to global music and cultures. Visit the Earl Scruggs Center's website, www.earlscruggscenter.org, for specific information, such as topic, capacity limitations, and appropriate age group for each program. Musical Explorations programs take place on the first and third Saturdays of each month and are taught by music instructor Justin Harper.

Musical Explorations is a series of free music programs for children. Topics range from the history of traditional instruments such as the guitar, mandolin, and banjo, to beginner playing instruction, to global music and cultures. Visit the Earl Scruggs Center's website, www.earlscruggscenter.org, for specific information, such as topic, capacity limitations, and appropriate age group for each program. Musical Explorations programs take place on the first and third Saturdays of each month and are taught by music instructor Justin Harper.

Through his bestselling books, including "Leonardo da Vinci," "The Innovators," "Steve Jobs," and "Einstein," Walter Isaacson gives voice to the historical figures and business icons who have shaped and transformed our nation and the world.

His forthcoming biography, "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race," offers a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

Black Child Development Institute (BCDI) Charlotte present this event is all about promoting literacy through a reading checkup, bringing community together, getting free learning kits and books. Come out and see a special appearance by Homer the Dragon and enjoy a FREE Kona Ice. If you are interested in volunteering send an email to holly@bcdi-charlotte.org

Usually, Razzoo’s Cajun Cafe likes to bring on the heat, but this time it was just a little too much as the Concord location recently experienced a small fire at its property. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and the Concord Fire Department was quick to save the day! Now 100% back on its feet, Razzoo’s Concord is giving Two Days of Thanks by offering a free entrée to all firefighters that present an ID or show up in uniform. Razzoo’s Cajun Cafe is not only offering a free meal to say thank you but will also be donating 15% of sales over the two-day duration to the Concord Fire Department. Razzoo’s Cajun Cafe is known for showcasing the fresh tastes of the bayou. It passionately creates bold, flavorful, Cajun-inspired dishes that bring to life all the flavor, fun and festivity of New Orleans and the French Quarter. Join us March 22 – March 23 for our Two Days of Thanks!

Enjoy an evening around the beautiful lake sampling food by University City's favorite restaurants while enjoying live music, local artists and all the wine tastings your heart desires. Participating Restaurants Boardwalk Billy's Famous Toastery Ninety's Ice Cream The Wine Vault Wild Wing Café Participating Pop Up Shops Fairwick Candles Profound Sass Originate Jewelry Tousea Body Boutique Pink Daisy Co D. Renne Beauty Bar Cierra Reign Candle Company Live Music by Falcon Heart Due to COVID safety measures there will be two sessions to select from. Session One: 6:00 - 7:30 PM Session Two: 7:30 - 9:00 PM

Bookmarks is excited to host one of our favorite authors, Anne Lamott, on virtual tour for her new book, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage, an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives. This event will be pre-recorded and available on a very limited release to Bookmarks and a few other bookstores. Signed copies are available to the first 150 who register. To register, you must purchase a copy of Dusk, Night, Dawn from Bookmarks: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/event/AnneLamott

ROUNDING THIRD is the tumultuous journey of two Little League coaches through an entire season, from their first tentative meeting to the climactic championship game. The audience is the stand-in for the team, so the coaches speak directly to the audience about competition, character, punctuality, and the importance of wearing the right equipment. Some mature language. Held OUTDOORS at the Armour Street Theater Limited capacity. Performances Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.

As a winter/spring 2021 artist-in-residence in partnership with Atrium Health, Anna G. Dean has been connecting with regional healthcare professionals and community leaders to discover the challenges they have faced in responding to a pandemic. Join Dean and guests in a conversation surrounding chaos, common threads in COVID challenges, and how information is interpreted by an artist and translated to art.

With the use of lines in her work, winter/spring 2021 artist-in-residence Sharon Norwood unravels relationships between postcolonial structures, systems of power, and how they implicate assumptions of “the other”. Join Norwood and Jonell Logan, Creative Director at McColl Center, in a conversation on the notions of “otherness”. In questioning those systems that shape understanding of identity, Norwood will talk about the need to express the racial, social, political, and cultural histories of Black people in her work.

The imagined and structural spaces winter/spring 2021 artist-in-residence Rehab El Sadek creates are based on inspiration and memory. Join the interactive conversation to understand El Sadek’s creative process in constructing place and the sources she uses, including Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and contemporary and ancient Egyptian architecture. Then, she will lead the audience in a city map-building activity, envisioning an imaginary, fantastical city created through group visualization. Get inspired by reading Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and, optionally, be prepared to respond to a few prompts in the comments during the talk: Who lives in this city? How is it architecturally unique? What challenges inform its design? What do the inhabitants eat?

**Please pre-register as space is limited** Be led on an extraordinary journey of sacred cacao, guided visualizations, and expressive movement led by Jane the Guide! The plant cacao is said to heal the heart, balance the mind, and free the body! Jane's cacao is ceremonial grade, made with intention, and offers incredible healing benefits. While allowing the energies of the cacao to settle in, be guided in a powerful meditation on letting go. We will free the ego-ic mind of attachment, excess chatter, and expectations to find joy and peace within. This meditation promotes clarity in your being and life, allowing yourself to express openly, diminishing limitations to live your best life! As you begin to feel the properties of the cacao, join us in this unique flow that empowers one to explore the connection of body and breath by inviting in freeform movement, as the heart opens to healing. While listening to sacred sound, we learn to let go without specific steps and postures to follow; one can loose themselves to the rhythm, and move freely, as the music takes them into a form of meditation in motion. Evoke a trance like state and a feeling of complete ecstasy. End this session feeling uplifted, transformed, lighter, and clearer as you find a new way to express yourself without speech, aligning with your personal truth. Leran more about the healing properites of cacao, Jane the Guide, and her other offers. Your kind contribution supports 2 nonprofits: Habitual Roots and ALC Mosiac. Habitual Roots is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to connecting communities by spreading the knowledge of emotional intelligence and mindfulness. Our goal is to create a world where everyone has the opportunity to know themselves well and improve their sense of inner peace. ALC Mosaic is a self-directed educational collective that strives to be a transformative community that reflects Charlotte’s diversity of races, ages, physical abilities, ethnicities, religious and spiritual groups, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, and gender expressions. We use our practices of Self-Directed Education to name and disrupt racism, classism, ageism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression as we care for ourselves, one another, our wider communities and all humans through expressions of radical love. To take precautions during this time, we will offer mat spray, hand sanitzer, and NO hands on assists to keep you safe and feeling comfortable. Face masks required upon entry. Social distancing is practice and respected.

Join professional museum educators and docents from The Mint Museum, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, and Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture to look closely and discuss one work of art from each museum. Each month, a specific theme is chosen to connect the works of art.

This very special Unmasked will query the curators, artists, and city planners involved in the Black Lives Matter street mural and Lift Every Voice exhibition at the Harvey B. Gantt Center. Moderator, talk show personality and influencer Ohavia Phillips, will engage our panelists in a discussion about the mural's journey, from inception to the process of making it come to life. They will also talk about the regional and national impact of the mural, as well as the intentions behind the Lift Every Voice exhibition.

"Staff and volunteers from each of the three Levine Center of the Arts (LCA) museums (the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Harvey B.Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, and Mint Museum Uptown) will select and read a children’s book that relates to art or artists in their respective collections. On Wednesday, April 14th at 11:30 am, please use this Zoom link to join the storytime experience: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83326539144"