Monday Oct. 11
BIBLIOFEAST
6:30-9:00pm – Santé Restaurant, Downtown Matthews.
*The Women’s National Book Association – Charlotte invites the community to attend the first annual Bibliofeast – a gourmet feast for the mind and the body. Guest hosted by Charlotte Observer Reading Life Editor Pam Kelley, Bibliofeast will feature a three course meal at Santé and conversation with Carolina-based authors who will travel from table to table discussing their work. Featured authors include: Kim Wright, author of the bestselling novel Love in Mid-Air, Minrose Gwinn, author of The Queen of Palmyra, just selected as a featured Great Group Read for October’s National Reading Group Month by the WNBA (national), Jay Varner, author of Nothing Left to Burn, and Rick Rothacker, author of Banktown: The Rise and Struggles of Charlotte's Big Banks.
**Tickets are available at Park Road Books only. $35 cash or check**
Tuesday Oct. 12
Meet The Artist: Bayete Ross Smith
6:00-8:00pm – McColl Center For Visual Art
*The former 2008 Artist-In-Residence will present a selection of his works including "Church Versus Self Reflection," a video based on the work he produced at the Center in 2008. Currently based in NYC, the artist, photographer, and arts educator has had exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California, Modern Museum of Art, Goethe Institute of Ghana, and Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Poland to name a few.
“The Exterminating Angel” directed by Luis Buñuel
7:30pm – Knight Gallery/Spirit Square – FREE
*Part of the “Dreams in Motion” Suspicious Minds Film Series, this 1962 Black & White film is considered one of Buñuel’s masterpieces. It is about a group of bourgeois cosmopolitans that are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Wednesday Oct. 13
“Morgan Russell & The Avant-Garde in Paris”
7:30-9:30pm – Davidson College/Sermans Lecture Hall. FREE
*Davidson College invites the public to a lecture by Michael Leja, professor of art history at University of Pennsylvania. Leja, a 2008 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, will speak about Bondage, Discipline,
and Modernist Abstraction: The Case of Morgan Russell.
and Modernist Abstraction: The Case of Morgan Russell.
Thursday Oct. 14
Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller, courtesy of the American Council on Germany
6:00-7:30pm – Admission $20
@ Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein LLP, Three Wachovia Ctr.
@ Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein LLP, Three Wachovia Ctr.
*The American Council on Germany invites the public for a discussion and reception for Dr. Stelzenmüller, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, the German Marshall Fund of the US. He will be speaking on US-German relations and their changing dynamic in today's multipolar environment. For more information, contact 704-371-6189.
**Dr. Stelzenmüller will also be speaking on Friday morning 10/15 @ UNC-Charlotte 10:00-11:00am for Free (contact rebecca.vincent@uncc.edu for more information)
Bob Dylan and His Band
8:00pm – Halton Arena/UNC Charlotte
*Don’t miss the legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan as he visits Charlotte on his Fall tour, whose stops include mostly college and university towns.
Friday Oct. 15
Van Cliburn Foundation Presents: NOBUYUKI TSUJII
8:00pm – Halton Theater/CPCC
Ticket prices: $40-$55
*Charlotte Concerts presents the joint winner of the thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009. Blind since birth, Mr. Tsujii states his firm belief that "there are no barriers in the field of music." The diminutive "Nobu" has studied under Masako Masuyama, Masahiro Kawakami, Yukari Kawakami, Yukio Yokoyama and Kyoko Tabe.
http://tix.cpcc.edu/featured-performances/nobuyuki_tsujii
http://tix.cpcc.edu/featured-performances/nobuyuki_tsujii
Jazz @ The Bechtler
6:00-8:00pm – Free, with museum admission
*The Ziad Jazz Quartet, featuring vocalist Toni Tupponce and pianist/vocalist Noel Freidline, performs Parisian jazz standards and cabaret songs from the 1930s through the 1950s (complimenting The Bechtler’s new “School Of Paris” exhibition.)
Saturday Oct. 16
Chelsea Handler @ Park Road Books
5:00-7:00pm
*The NY Times Best Selling author and star of the late-night E comedy series “Chelsea Lately” will be signing copies of her latest book “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” (only copies purchased at Park Road Books). Note: this signing will be filmed.
Martin Sexton @ Visulite Theatre
Doors - 8:00/Headliner -10:00pm – Tickets $20 in advance/$23 day-of-show.
*Don’t miss this guitarist, singer, and songwriter when he passes through town in support of his recent CD release “Sugarcoating.” See why Billboard Magazine says he’s “the real thing, people, a star with potential to permanently affect the musical landscape and keep us entertained for years to come.”
COSI FAN TUTTE (or The School For Lovers)
8:00pm – Belk Theatre
*In a brilliant new staging by acclaimed director Bernard Uzan, OPERA CAROLINA presents Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s hilarious comedy which takes the art of romance to “new flirtatious heights.” Performances through Thursday October 21st.
**The English text is projected on a screen above the stage for each opera. Easy to follow, and easy to understand every twist and turn of the plot!
George Duke @ Halton Theater
8:00pm. Tickets $35-$55
*The Carolina Jazz Concert series presents the legendary George Duke. Duke, a Grammy award winning piano & synthesizer pioneer, has played with and produced projects by a diverse range of artists including Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention, Cannonball Adderley, Smokey Robinson, and Melissa Manchester. Additionally, he has released more than 2 dozen albums on his own. Don’t miss the opening performance by Shableek and Uncommon Jazz.
Sunday Oct. 17
Heidi Eggles (local Ardrey Kell H.S. student) – Discussion & Book Signing
1:00 – Park Road Books
* Written by students of Ardrey Kell High School in South Charlotte as part of a breast cancer awareness project, “Ruthie and the Pink Fairy” is a story of one young child's efforts to help her mother and family face a disease, which impacts so many of our lives. ALL PROCEEDS from the sale of the book will benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and its promise to end breast cancer forever.
A Shared Melody – Selections from Classic Chinese Culture (Calligraphy, Ceramics, and Peking Opera)
1:00-5:00pm – Charlotte Museum of History (FREE)
*In honor of the opening of their new exhibit, the Museum of History will host a Family Celebration with a variety of activities for families to experience Chinese Museum of History will host a Family Celebration with a variety of activities for families to experience Chinese cultural traditions. This program is presented in partnership with the Confucius Institute at Pfeiffer University, which is dedicated to promoting understanding of Chinese language and culture through education and partnerships. The Institute will also have Chinese scholars coming from China to lecture on related subjects during the exhibition at the Museum.
African American Theater 101
3:00pm - Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture
*Today begins this year-long education series focusing on essential plays of the black theater repertoire. In each three-hour workshop, an African-American theater piece is read and afterwards, a class discussion commences on literary devices, historical context and cultural themes and issues of the piece. The readings are presented by local actors and class discussions are facilitated by area professors including Dr. Corlis Hayes (Central Piedmont Community College), Dr. Malin Pereira (UNC Charlotte) and Dr. Mack Staton (Johnson C. Smith University).
Admission: $10. Free for Gantt members and On Q season pass holders.
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