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Join us for a day of singing, dancing, acting and crafting at one of Mini Camps at Matthews Playhouse for grades K-3 and 4-6th. These camps happen in conjunction with teacher workdays on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school calendar. Each camp will have themed activities with a theater focus.
January 25th - Toy Story
We're going to infinity and beyond here at our Toy Story camp! Come be a part of the team as Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and Bo-Peep go on this one day adventure. 
Cost: $80 per student9:00am to 3:00pmSections available for Grades K-3 & Grades 4-6​
Other One-Day Camps Coming Up:
February 20th - Seussical
We are celebrating the world of Dr. Seuss in this mini camp! Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and all of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life onstage in a fantastical musical extravaganza. 
March 27th - Sing!
This mini camp is for all our singers! Vocal warm-ups, music games, and specialist activities such as percussion, drama and acting, vocal technique, and more. Come with a song in your heart!

Join us for a day of singing, dancing, acting and crafting at one of Mini Camps at Matthews Playhouse for grades K-3 and 4-6th. These camps happen in conjunction with teacher workdays on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school calendar. Each camp will have themed activities with a theater focus.
February 20th - Seussical
We are celebrating the world of Dr. Seuss in this mini camp! Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and all of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life onstage in a fantastical musical extravaganza. 
Cost: $80 per student9:00am to 3:00pmSections available for Grades K-3 & Grades 4-6

“Oh, the thinks you can think” when Seussical, a musical comedy featuring Dr. Seuss’ most beloved characters, springs to life at Matthews Playhouse February 24 - March 5, 2023! Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and many other iconic characters will ignite the imagination in this family-friendly production featuring a lively musical score by the Tony award-winning duo, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. The production will be directed by Matthews Playhouse Executive Director, Sarah Baumgardner.

Audiences of all ages will delight in this whimsical show that the LA Times calls “a bright, colorful and fantastical show geared for the young at heart”. Broadway World characterizes it as “a bit zany, tons of fun, and there's something for everyone”.

Seussical is recommended for children ages 4 and up. Performance times are available at www.matthewsplayhouse.com/seussical. Tickets range in price from $10-$19.

Happens on the following Dates:
Feb 24, 2023, 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Feb 25, 2023, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Feb 26, 2023, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Mar 3, 2023, 7:30pm to
Feb 3, 2023, 8:30pm
Mar 4, 2023, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Mar 5, 2023, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

In partnership with Lowe's and Digi-Bridge, join us in creating a STEAM kit specially designed with the Men of Change exhibition in mind. This experience is perfect for sparking dialogue, creative and critical thinking in youth and families. The STEAM kits allow our families to create gadgets to take home along with a free copy of the Just Like Jesse Owens book, inspired by Man of Change Andrew Young. For ages 8+.

Wednesday Night Live, presented by Bank of America, includes free admission to the museums (Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, and the Mint Museum) from 5 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday, as well as live entertainment or programming at one of the five participating institutions each week. For more information about Wednesday Night Live and to view the current schedule, please visit www.wednesdaynightliveclt.com or follow them @WedNightLiveCLT on Facebook and Instagram.

This applied program offered to students in middle and high school who want to continue improving their individual skills within the context of a small jazz ensemble. The 12-week (2-3 hour) sessions provide students the opportunity to grow their individual skills within a supportive and relaxed ensemble environment, with a concentration on exploring jazz styles, standard repertoire, jazz improvisation, and history.
Students with at least one year experience are welcome! Financial aid and needs-based scholarships available.
Four skill levels are offered. Auditions are held, January 15 & 22, for placement at the appropriate skill level.

The ensembles bring students together from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels to create a fun and motivating applied learning experience. Workshop participants perform for community events, including an end-of-session public concert. The workshops are open to ALL instruments including vocals.
Thanks to program sponsors Charlotte Women’s Club and Akers Foundation.

The JazzArts Music Camp is an exciting one-week comprehensive music training program for rising middle and high school students ready to discover America’s original art form: JAZZ. Students will be immersed in an intensive jazz curriculum and have the opportunity to interact and play with other motivated young musicians from across the Charlotte region.
The JazzArts Music Camp experience includes: small combo performance, jazz improvisation, faculty concerts (each afternoon), jazz history and listening, jazz theory (basic to advanced), composition, master class instruction on bass, drums, guitar, piano, saxophone (all woodwinds), trombone and trumpet, and student jam sessions. All instruments are welcome, including vocals.
In addition, each summer, we are thrilled to bring in a renowned national jazz musician to spend a day one on one with students. There will be a culminating community concert performance on Friday evening, the last day of camp.
Need- and merit-based scholarships are available. Registration is open now through June 8 2023. For more information and to register, contact the JazzArts Charlotte at www.thejazzarts.org or call 704-334-3900.
Thanks to Akers Foundation, Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, North Carolina Arts Council, Arts & Science Council. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Knight Foundation, South Arts, UNC Charlotte, the Infusion Fund, Ford Foundation, and Alice T Walton Foundation for their support of this program.

Our annual soup & chili competition, More Soup For You, returns on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 1pm! Sign up and enter your best soup or chili to be judged by attendees, and the best soups win prizes! We're involving our friends at Second Harvest Food Bank this year, so please bring any canned foods or cash donations for them if you're able! This event is free to attend, and family-friendly!

"The Sleeping Woman Speaks: Memory and Voice of the Women of the Guazapa Volcano, El Salvador”
Cynthia Curtis, USCL Student

In 1932, a popular uprising in El Salvador against the military dictatorship left over 30,000 Indigenous people dead followed by decades of terrorization, ethnocide, war and structural violence. With the support of the PURE Research Award, an oral history project was initiated with 12 rural women from the community of San Antonio, in the former war zone of the Guazapa Volcano. Combining anthropology and archaeology, the project supports the women of San Antonio in their journey to reconnect with their Indigenous identity. This lecture is co-sponsored by the USCL Research Club.

To attend via Zoom, register via this link: http://bit.ly/3YfP2ZD

CONTEMPORARY EARLY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ
The JAZZ ROOM presents New Orleans Jazz like you’ve never heard it, from clarinet virtuoso Evan Christopher.
Evan Christopher combines virtuosity, immaculate taste, and enthusiasm with a commitment to exploring the full range of possibilities in the New Orleans clarinet tradition. His highly personal brand of “contemporary, early jazz” strives to extend the legacies of early Creole clarinetists such as Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard and Omer Simeon. “A triumph, joining the present seamlessly to a glorious past.” -THE OBSERVER, UK.

Don Vappie, musician, composer, and educator, is the winner of the 2022 American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame, In the world of tenor banjo, few musical voices are as unique as Don Vappie. In addition, he has received awards for his contributions to the preservation of New Orleans Creole Culture through music and film. He has produced 7 of his own albums, co-produced and starred in a PBS documentary, performed as a featured artist with orchestras on movie and television soundtracks, and at concerts and festivals around the world. Vappie's highly regarded unique and original tenor banjo style is equal only to his love of his Creole heritage and tradition.

The JAZZ ROOM provides a casual and intimate setting with tables and a full bar, reminiscent of the classic jazz rooms of yesteryear.

JazzArts Charlotte welcomes Grammy-winning Clarinetist Evan Christopher, as we explore the flare of New Orleans jazz in a small group workshop setting. As a way to deepen the interaction of our national jazz performing artists with the local music community, JazzArts Charlotte welcomes student musicians from the Charlotte area and beyond to learn from this world-renowned jazz innovator.
This applied workshop is open to middle and high schooler musicians, with at least a year on your instrument. All instruments are welcome – you are invited to bring it along.
FREE. Registration required.
A frequent instructor at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Academy, Evan Christopher constantly runs clinics, visits schools, and gives master classes and private lessons as he continues to be an outspoken advocate for the preservation of early New Orleans jazz. Christopher is a dedicated musician and scholar, and specializes in playing the Albert system clarinet which is not often heard outside authentic New Orleans music.
Thank you to the program sponsors and supporters, who each bring jazz alive in Charlotte: Infusion Fund, Knight Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, North Carolina Arts Council, Arts & Science Council, O’s Place Jazz, Ford Foundation, and Alice L Walton Foundation.

The Charlotte Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference is an event hosted and sponsored by UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science and Lowe's, prior to our full-day Analytics Frontiers Conference. It will be held at the UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. The conference aims to inspire, educate, and engage current and future data scientists in the Carolinas, regardless of gender, and to support women in the field by providing training, networking, and mentoring opportunities. A career fair will also take place during lunch and the evening reception!

The Analytics Frontiers Conference is the largest data science conference in the region, attracting more than 500 thought leaders, scientists, and business executives from different industries and academia.

The Analytics Frontiers Conference, sponsored by UNC Charlotte, will feature tracks in Explainable AI, Ethics in AI, The Future of AI, AI Adoption, Natural Language Processing, Industry Case Studies and more.

Join us for a preview of Nerdy Night Out: The Shark Appreciation Show (Jan. 28) featuring one of the Queen City's favorite comedy troupes, Now are the Foxes!
Now Are the Foxes Improv Comedy (queencitycomedy.com)

Wednesday Night Live, presented by Bank of America, includes free admission to the museums (Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, and the Mint Museum) from 5 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday, as well as live entertainment or programming at one of the five participating institutions each week. For more information about Wednesday Night Live and to view the current schedule, please visit www.wednesdaynightliveclt.com or follow them @WedNightLiveCLT on Facebook and Instagram.

This New Year, the Bechtler partners with BLKMRKT! Join us on January 11 for a fireside chat about local art with local artists. BlkMrktClt is a Gallery & Studio space based in Charlotte that works with local photographers and artists of color, offering them a safe, creative space to create their work.

About BlkMrktClt
BlkMrktClt is a Gallery & Studio space based in Charlotte, NC who works with local photographers and artists of color offering them a safe creative space to work in.

@blkmrktclt

Wednesday Night Live, presented by Bank of America, includes free admission to the museums (Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, and the Mint Museum) from 5 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday, as well as live entertainment or programming at one of the five participating institutions each week. For more information about Wednesday Night Live and to view the current schedule, please visit www.wednesdaynightliveclt.com or follow them @WedNightLiveCLT on Facebook and Instagram.

Our community concert series, OneBand, is back! Join our friends at Charlotte is Creative, as well as local musicians who will perform a fun 3-song set they've practiced once! It's a wonderful opportunity to mingle, enjoy some amazing live music, craft beer, feel the creative juices flowing, and our friends at StrudelTeig will be on-site serving yummy German cuisine!

Speaker: Ellen Mary, Author and Garden Influencer

Learn to transform your outdoor space into a flourishing, vibrant garden with this fail-safe guide.

Gardening expert Ellen Mary takes you through every step of gardening, from the basics of understanding your space and decoding plant labels, to common pests and how to keep your plants alive once they're in the ground.

Registration includes live presentation (either in-person or virtually) and Q&A session. A recording of the program will be available after the presentation.

Thank you to our 2023 Lecture Series Sponsors!
Title Sponsor: Blackhawk Garden Center
Silver Sponsors: Bartlett Tree Experts and Peaceful Ponds
Bronze Sponsors: Atlantic Landscape Supplies, C. DeWitt Foard and Co. and Living Color Gardens

Speaker: Anne Spafford - Professor of Landscape Design, Department of Horticulture Science, NC State University

Residential gardens can play a huge role in providing much needed habitat, food and water supplies, and nesting places for pollinators. No garden is too small to make a difference. With over 40 million acres of lawn in the United States alone, there is ample opportunity to make room for pollinator habitat. While there is much concern for the plight of pollinators, many homeowners are unaware or unsure how they can help, and are perhaps concerned about the landscape aesthetics of a pollinator habitat.

Registration includes live presentation (either in-person or virtually) and Q&A session. A recording of the program will be available after the presentation.

Thank you to our 2023 Lecture Series Sponsors!
Title Sponsor: Blackhawk Garden Center
Silver Sponsors: Bartlett Tree Experts and Peaceful Ponds
Bronze Sponsors: Atlantic Landscape Supplies, C. DeWitt Foard and Co. and Living Color Gardens

Speaker: Jenny Rose Carey - Science writer, speaker

In this increasingly hectic world, take time for yourself in a flower garden where you will discover the beauty and peace to be found in growing flowers.

Learn how designing your own flower garden not only benefits us, but also how they are vital for pollinators and birds.

Registration includes live presentation (either in-person or virtually) and Q&A session. A recording of the program will be available after the presentation.

Thank you to our 2023 Lecture Series Sponsors!
Title Sponsor: Blackhawk Garden Center
Silver Sponsors: Bartlett Tree Experts and Peaceful Ponds
Bronze Sponsors: Atlantic Landscape Supplies, C. DeWitt Foard and Co. and Living Color Gardens

Speaker: Curtis Smalling, Director of Conservation, Audubon North Carolina

In this look at the full life cycle of our bird neighbors, we will gain a better understanding of our feathered friends and how we can help them be more successful including the use of native plants and other simple actions you can take.

Registration includes live virtual presentation and Q&A session. A recording of the program will be available after the presentation.

Thank you to our 2023 Lecture Series Sponsors!
Title Sponsor: Blackhawk Garden Center
Silver Sponsors: Bartlett Tree Experts and Peaceful Ponds
Bronze Sponsors: Atlantic Landscape Supplies, C. DeWitt Foard and Co. and Living Color Gardens

Speaker: Curtis Smalling - Director of Conservation, Audubon North Carolina

Maybe you think you can identify most common bird species, but what about their nests? Curtis Smalling, Audubon NC’s Director of Bird Conservation for North Carolina, offers a closer look at those amazing (and some not-so-amazing) structures that birds create, and all of the reasons why they do it.

Registration includes live virtual presentation and Q&A session. A recording of the program will be available after the presentation.

Thank you to our 2023 Lecture Series Sponsors!
Title Sponsor: Blackhawk Garden Center
Silver Sponsors: Bartlett Tree Experts and Peaceful Ponds
Bronze Sponsors: Atlantic Landscape Supplies, C. DeWitt Foard and Co. and Living Color Gardens