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Yard Art Day is this Labor Day. The annual celebration of community art encourages people to walk and drive through neighborhoods to see artistic displays outside.

Former Northwest School of the Arts teacher Corey Mitchell — who won a Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre Education — has created a program that provides training and college prep for talented but disadvantaged students at Central Piedmont Community College's Levine Campus in Matthews.

FixaPlate is a new immersive theatrical experience that aims to tell the history of Charlotte through food.

The popular Immersive Van Gogh exhibit at Camp North End was closed Thursday and Friday because of a power outage and flooding caused by heavy thunderstorms in the Charlotte area Wednesday night.

Artist J. Stacy Utley wanted to honor the history of Charlotte's West End for his public art sculpture in the new Five Points Plaza. That's why he turned to a famous image of one of West End's most revered residents, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins.

Charlotte’s artist-in-residence program at the Immersive Van Gogh exhibition is triple the size of similar programs staged in other cities for the national touring show. That’s thanks, in part, to how well Charlotte ticket sales have gone. But it’s also because Bree Stallings, Blumenthal Performing Arts' director of artistic experiences, simply asked.

“Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition” is just the latest in “immersive” art experiences that are making their way to Charlotte, across the country and around the world. They are COVID-friendly and they are spectacular in scale and production — but they might be a mixed blessing according to a Davidson College professor.

If you're looking for some events in the Charlotte area, things are starting to open up after our long pandemic year. Scheduled for this weekend are activities like a concert for Jazz Appreciation Day, a festival for your favorite four-legged friend and an arts show at The Underground at The Fillmore.

“Good Times,” a free, immersive art show opens April 30 and runs through May 3. The show at The Underground at The Fillmore, Charlotte’s once-lively music venue that has been empty for the past year, will feature bright, colorful, Instagram-worthy works by Charlotte-area artists.

The Charlotte Center, which was formed this year, aims to bring people from across Charlotte together to talk and learn and share – and hopefully inspire new ideas for how to better the community.