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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"

Consciousness creates our reality. (+) & (-) energy is omnipresent through the Universe. The understanding of these concepts is how Humanity evolves beyond our current state of collective sub-conscious egoic dysfunction. The result is a greater abundance of love, compassion, equality, optimism, health, rationality with a reduction of hatred, fear, anger, confusion, illness, pessimism and irrationality. This workshop will increase your conscious awareness, and in-turn create a ripple effect of further conscious awareness through our society. Join the discussion of evolution facilitated by Jason Kierce! Explore more about Jason Kierce, and his offerings here, or follow him @evolve4worldpeace on social media! How to find us: 1907 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC 28205 Park in the Pure Pizza's free parking lot on either side of the Barn. Please arrive at least 10 minutes early to check-in. If you have never been to any of Habitual Roots' events, please consider registering yourself in the system to allow a quicker check in process. To check in please follow the link below. It will take you approx. 3 mins. This class is accessible to ALL , with the opportunity to donate 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. Person(s) with eventbrite ticket will be allowed in. After that any remaining spots will be first come, first serve for yoga to create space between person(s) to take precautions during this time. We will offer hand sanitizer. There will be NO hands on assists to keep you safe and feeling comfortable. Face masks required upon entry. Social distancing is practiced and respected.

JazzArts Charlotte’s virtual live music series is excited to present vocalist Dawn Anthony and saxophonist Greg Jerrell with an uplifting evening of gospel and jazz. “Greg Jarrell is a man with an enormous heart and an enormous musical gift.” Combine that with the heartfelt storytelling and incredibly compelling voice of Dawn Anthony, and you have a night of music prepared to touch your soul. Anthony and Jerrell have mastered their duo, with a livestream from Myers Park Baptist every week. In this presentation, this pair will bring us a combination of gospel and progressive jazz like Michael Porter. Dawn Anthony is a staple of the Charlotte jazz music scene, is a teaching artist, lecturer, and performer. She has headlined tributes to Nancy Wilson and to Ella Fitzgerald, among many other performances in the JAZZ ROOM, as well as serving as an educator for our online vocal classes well as the exciting Webop program. We most recently heard her talents, as the vocalist for We Insist!. Greg Jarrell is co-founder of QC Family Tree, a community of rooted discipleship in west Charlotte whose mission is to support economic opportunity within the Enderly Park neighborhood. As a jazz saxophonist, he regularly performs in concert and club venues across North and South Carolina in jazz, classical, and commercial settings. Greg combines that passion with his jazz saxophone to make an impact whenever and wherever he is. Tune in to Keep Jazz A-Live-Streaming to hear local jazz musicians live, straight to your living room via Facebook Live. Our interactive performances are the perfect way for you to enjoy the music, until we are able to meet again in person. Performances come to you directly from Crown Station. Free Event - Donations and tips to support these and future musicians performances can be made at www.thejazzarts.org/donate. Thank you to our sponsors, @Knight Foundation, O’s Place Jazz, @Arts and Science Council, @NC Arts Council, @Crown Station and our many donors who keep jazz thriving.

Make your picks and help adults with developmental disabilities! Our annual NCAA Bracket Challenge fundraiser returns on March 14 (Selection Sunday). Throughout the pandemic, Camp Blue Skies has offered free virtual camps and other activities to keep our campers engaged and connected to each other. Help us continue our work by joining the Camp Blues Skies bracket challenge pool! Your minimum donation of $25 to Camp Blue Skies will enter you into the Hoops for Camp NCAA Bracket Challenge and will change the lives of adults with developmental disabilities. Sign up as an individual or a team! Hoops prizes 1st Place: $250 Visa Gift Card Last Place: $25 Visa Gift Card You can also win during the tournament! 2nd Round: $25 Visa Gift Card for Top 4 Players Elite Eight: $50 Visa Gift Card for Top 3 Players Final Four: $100 Visa Gift Card for top 2 Players Random drawing will be held in case of a tie. Got a question? Email Mary@CampBlueSkies.org.

The 5th Annual Univ City Wine Festival may look a little different this year but the wine will still be flowing. To ensure everyone's safety and to follow the Mecklenburg safety guidelines a boutique style Univ City Wine Fest will happen in the outdoor space of Armored Cow Brewing. You will experience wonderful wines, cider and brews paired with live music. Your ticket included all day samples, souvenir tasting glass and access to all the wine filled fun. VIP tables means that You plus 9 of your friends split a $550 VIP experience which includes 10 festival tickets, VIP tables & chairs, 4 bottles of wine plus unlimited tastings & a 1 hour early entrance into the festival. Early Admission tickets are $45.00 and include 5 hours of wine tastings and a festival souvenir sampling glass General Admission tickets are $35.00 and include 4 hours of wine tastings and a festival souvenir sampling glass Designated Drivers tickets are $10.00 and include access to the festival Tickets must be purchased at least 24hrs prior to the events and no tickets will be sold the day of the events. This will allow us time to plan the social distance event layout

This guided ‘book club’ is a 10 week study of Debby Irving’s book Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. The book has been described as a brutally honest, unflinching exploration of race and personal identity, told with heart by a truly gifted storyteller. Learning how to interrupt racism is part of learning how to be an ally for racial equity. Participants will read the book together and reflect on its message while growing personally and in community with others. The group will be led by three members of Light of Christ United Methodist Church in Ballantyne and will meet online, via Zoom. Meetings will be on Friday Mornings from 7:45am until 8:45am, beginning April 16 and ending June 18. The Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants prior to the first group meeting. Register here: https://lightofchrist.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/756810

For many churches, creativity has been key throughout the pandemic in 2020 and so far in 2021. Instead of doing the traditional Easter Egg Hunt we have done in past years, this year Light of Christ United Methodist Church is hosting an Easter Scavenger Hunt throughout the Ballantyne area. The Easter Scavenger Hunt will be on Saturday, March 27. Everyone can start any time between 11:00 am - 1:00 pm at Light of Christ Methodist Church (9106 Bryant Farms Road Charlotte, NC 28277). You will then be given clues involving the Easter story from a Light of Christ volunteer at each stop taking you to seven different places within a 5-mile radius. The Easter Scavenger hunt will end with a sweet treat from Crumbl in Stonecrest. This event is free for all families in the community! If you have any questions, please contact Allison Crider at kidscity@locumc.org. Please register at locumc.org/events.

We Give Summit ignites and unites all of us in the powerful movement of collective giving. Open to giving circle members, philanthropy experts, community leaders, and social impact newcomers, we'll learn, grow, and dream together across four weeks in May as we join sessions centered on this year's theme: Stronger Together. Here's a quick event overview: - 25+ sessions starting May 4 and continuing every Wednesday and Thursday throughout the month - 60+ incredible speakers who are making an impact their community through collective giving - Hundreds of giving circle members and supporters from around the world connecting during lively networking events - All Week 1 sessions are absolutely FREE Session topics will cover everything from connecting with the next generation of givers to embedding racial equity into your giving circle to building a movement. Purchase an All-Access Pass by April 8 and receive a swag box in the mail! Register at wegivesummit.org

On Wednesday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m., Discovery Place Science will host a virtual event addressing the ethical challenges surrounding artificial intelligence. In conjunction with the Museum’s traveling exhibition, Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & the Machine, Discovery Place Science will host a virtual event on Wednesday, March 24, that addresses how bias gets encoded in the algorithms that decide the destinies of millions of people. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., Breaking Down Bias will include a keynote address by Steven Tiell, leader of Responsible Innovation at Accenture. Following the talk, a screening of the film, Coded Bias, will take place. The film explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Baolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. The event, which is sponsored by Accenture, is free and open to the public, however registration is required. Secure your virtual seat to this important conversation by visiting the event page.

https://charlotte.score.org/event/how-transform-your-unique-selling-proposition-leads-jan-18 This LIVE Stream is part 2 of 4 in the Marketing and Technology Series. All presentations in this series are FREE and once registering, you will receive the Zoom link information for all four LIVE Streams. This free webinar will take your value proposition and your USP into the realm of SEO or Search Engine Optimization. We will walk you through the process of creating a keyword driven content strategy. We’ll explain what a long tail Keyword is, and what On-Page and Off- Page optimizations are. You will also learn how to build backlinks to your website and how to avoid black-hat optimization. If you are seeking to build an inbound revenue generation process, this webinar is for you!

https://charlotte.score.org/event/pricing-profit-and-growth-jan-21 January 21, 10 am to 12 pm How to Price for Profit and Growth Smarter Pricing Guidelines for Small Businesses Fee: $20 Are you one of the 75% of small business owners that: do not have a quick and effective pricing model and/or consistently under-price your work? If so, this Live Online Workshop is for YOU! You will be put on the path to a better understanding of: The difference between mark-ups and your actual profit margins How to calculate and utilize your Cost of Goods Sold in pricing How drive time impacts service delivery businesses while fixed costs impact production oriented businesses Using fixed or variable costs to price for profit This Workshop will engage the business owner to analyze costs to better format various pricing models: Cost Plus Pricing Competition-based Pricing Good / Better/ Best models Margin-based Pricing When to utilize Premium vs. Discount strategies How to calculate a Break-even sales goal

Session 1: Start-Up Basics – FREE SCORE Virtual Charlotte Workshop This introductory workshop focuses on the Business Start-Up Basics of testing your business idea and identifying the key factors that influence start-up success. The Business Start-Up Basics Virtual Workshop provides you with an overview of the skills and tools you need when deciding to start a business. In this session, you learn about the advantages and disadvantages of owning a business, the most profitable form for your business, and the fundamentals of formation, organization, marketing, cash flow and funding sources. Presented by SCORE Charlotte Certified Mentors at no cost to you. TO REGISTER, GO TO https://charlotte.score.org/content/take-workshop-249