Monday Jan. 17
Bridging the Gap: Rhythms, Rhymes and Race in America
3:00-5:00pm - Wells Fargo Auditorium @ the Knight Theater (430 S. Tryon)
Admission: FREE (reservations suggested)
"Bridging the Gap: Rhythms, Rhymes and Race in America" traces the historical evolution of American music and popular culture. From the haunting call of the African drum and secret code of the Negro spiritual to Native American chant, the king of rock and hypnotic rhyme of hip-hop, this compelling program reveals how music established a critical dialogue during times of great conflict in America. One part narration, two parts audience participation and entertaining live performances, the program ends with an open audience discussion. Through study of the social strata, race, class and culture, we might just discover that we have more in common than history books have led us to believe. ** This event is part of MLK Day at The Gantt.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day @ the Levine
10:00am-4:00pm – Levine Museum of the New South
Admission: FREE
This annual Family Focus event in partnership with WSOC-TV offers you free admission to the Museum all day! Activities will honor Dr. King’s life and legacy.
Tuesday Jan. 18
Great Decisions Lecture Series: CRISIS IN THE CAUCASUS
7:00-8:30pm – Charlotte Country Day School (Cramer Lecture Hall)
Admission: $10 (for individual lecture…discount for series registration)
The Office of International Programs at UNC Charlotte, along with the World Affairs Council of Charlotte, coordinates a local community lecture series annually. Hosted by Charlotte Country Day School, the Charlotte Great Decisions Lecture Series consists of six weekly sessions and is an opportunity for citizens to meet, discuss and learn about some of the issues facing our world. Each week a local expert from nearby colleges and universities provides additional perspective on the topic of interest and answers questions regarding the information presented in the Briefing Book and through the lecture. Tonight, Dr. Elkhan Mehdiyev, Fulbright Scholar at Duke University will discuss this topic as part of the series. For more information or to register to attend, click below.
HOWARD GORDON (of hit TV series “24”) – Book Signing
7:00pm – Park Road Books
FREE
The longtime executive producer of the hit TV series “24”, makes his fiction debut with “GIDEON’S WAR,” a tale of political intrigue and international terrorism. Gideon Davis has just 48 hours to bring his rogue agent brother in—before a twisted global conspiracy turns deadly.
Wednesday Jan. 19
Carlos Flores Vizcarra, Counsel General of Mexico in Raleigh, NC
11:30am – 1:00pm – Mint Museum (UPTOWN), 5th Floor
Tickets: $10 for LACC members, $25 for non-members.
Latin American Chamber of Commerce (LACC) Speakers series presents Mr. Carlos Flores Vizcarra, the first Consul General of Mexico to serve in the Carolinas. He was appointed by Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon in October 2009. In the mid nineties he was elected Federal Congressman, representing the city of Mexico. He served as Secretary of the Foreign Relations Committee. As member of the Mexican Congress he was actively involved in international multilateral tasks, such as the Latin American Parliament and the Economic Commission for Latin America.
Eric Mullis's Art and Philosophy Lecture Series
6:30-8:30pm - Hodges Taylor Humanities Campus (401 N. Tryon St.)
Admission: $20
This is the first session of Eric Mullis's Art and Philosophy Series. Eric Mullis, a professor of philosophy at Queens University of Charlotte, will continue the discussions started in spring 2010 of various aspects about the aesthetics and philosophy of art. Topics include artistic improvisation, dance and dance technology, philosophy and photography, nature aesthetics, and everyday aesthetics/ethics.
Tonight’s lecture discusses Artistic Improvisation: Improvisation is essential for many art forms, but what exactly is going on when an artist improvises? What makes improvisation possible in the first place? Why is improvisation valued so highly?
To register to attend, click below:
Thursday Jan. 20
COURAGE: Where Do We Need It Now? A panel discussion with Juan Williams, Janet Murguía, John Payton and John Payton
7:00-9:00pm - McGlohon Theatre at Spirit Square
Tickets: $35 General Admission; $25 for Levine Museum members
In conjunction with the Levine Museum of the New South’s COURAGE exhibit, this panel discussion will focus on the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, as well as race relations and the challenges facing public education today. Panelists include Juan Williams, Civil Rights historian and FOX News commentator; Janet Murguía, president and CEO of National Council of La Raza; John Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; and John Payton former governor of Mississippi. Panelists will answer questions from the audience.
JJ GREY & Mofro
8:30pm – Visulite Theatre (1615 Elizabeth Avenue, Charlotte)
Tickets: $20
Fresh off their nomination for Canada’s top blues award (The BB King International Artist of the Year Award), Alligator Records recording artists JJ Grey & Mofro swing through the Queen City. JJ Grey has written and recorded five albums of original songs steeped in the rhythm & blues, rock, and country soul of his native backwoods home outside Jacksonville, Florida. In a live performance review in The New York Times, writer Nate Chinen praised JJ's “balance of wildness and cool” describing his music as "Southern swamp rock with undercurrents of Memphis soul. His songs chronicle ambiguous truths and unambiguous urges…"
Friday Jan. 21
“FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM” – Charlotte Symphony
8:00pm – Belk Theatre @ Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $26.50 - $71.50
The Symphony’s new Music Director Christopher Warren-Green leads the orchestra in an all Gershwin program that includes the greatest hits from one of America’s most famous composers. Pianist Orion Weiss joins the Symphony for Rhapsody in Blue, which
will close the concert with a flourish. Earlier in the evening, soprano Jonita Lattimore
brings Gershwin’s greatest songs to the stage – “The Man I Love,” “Our Love is Here to Stay,” “S’Wonderful,” and the ever-popular “Summertime.” Lattimore has been praised
for her “sumptious and lyrical voice,” described by the Chicago Tribune as “a real
treat.”Also performed on Saturday 1/22.
Inaugural ‘UNC CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL’
8:00pm –Anne R. Belk Theatre/ Robinson Hall @ UNC Charlotte
Tickets: $9 general public, $7 for senior citizens and UNC Charlotte faculty and staff, and $6 for students. Discount for series purchases.
The Department of Music of the UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture presents the inaugural “UNC Charlotte Chamber Music Festival”. Under the artistic direction of David Russell, the Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin, the UNC Charlotte Chamber Music Festival will present four concerts of chamber music for strings, voice, and piano performed by UNC Charlotte faculty and invited guests. Performing faculty members from universities across the U.S. and musicians from the Charlotte Symphony will join Department of Music faculty members David Russell (violin), Mira Frisch (cello), Dylan Savage (piano), and Brian Arreola (tenor) in performances of music by Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, Georges Bizet, and Franz Schubert.
Concerts will be presented on January 21, 23, 25, and 27.
“ [DIS]COMFORT “ - Opening Reception @ McColl Center
6:00-9:00pm –McColl Center for Visual Art (721 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte)
FREE
Moving away from the typical “object driven” goal of making art for profit, artists John Osorio-Buck (current resident artist) and Scott Townsend exhibit their individual work to create a more conceptual art and at times, interactive in nature. Collective identities are questioned while challenging comfort levels about private and public space.
(Dis)Comfort’s opening reception is in collaboration with the opening of the 2010 Winter Artist-in-Residence Exhibition on the 2nd and 3rd floor galleries. The Center will have light refreshments including a cash bar.
Saturday Jan. 22
Author/Comedian STEVE HARVEY – Book Signing
12:00pm – Barnes & Noble/Arboretum (Pineville-Matthews Rd.)
Best-selling author, actor and comedian Steve Harvey will be signing his newest book, “Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man”. B&N will be distributing a limited number of tickets beginning at 8:00 am on 1/22. NOTE: In order to get in line, you must have a ticket. There are a limited number of tickets available, and they are complimentary. You must purchase at least one copy of Straight Talk, No Chaser from B&N to get a ticket. There is a five-book limit.
BILLY ELLIOT – The Musical
8:00pm – Ovens Auditorium (2700 E. Independence Blvd.)
Tickets: Starting at $30
BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL is the joyous celebration of one boy's journey to make his dreams come true. Set in a small town, the story follows Billy as he stumbles out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class, discovering a surprising passion that inspires his family and his whole community. Based on the international smash-hit film, BILLY ELLIOT is brought to life by a phenomenal cast of 45 and the Tony® Award-winning creative team -- director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling and writer Lee Hall -- along with music legend Elton John, who has written what the New York Post calls "HIS BEST SCORE YET!" Various performances through January 30.
“Southern Baptist Sissies” – Queen City Theatre Company (Regional premiere)
8:00pm - Duke Energy Theatre at Spirit Square
Tickets: $16-$24
Southern Baptist Sissies is a hilarious comedy and an emotional journey of tolerance and acceptance in a world where sometimes the ones who lead and counsel us are not always right. Southern Baptist Sissies opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles during its original run in 2000 and became the most awarded play of the year, winning the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding LA Theater Production, as well as multiple LA Weekly Theater Awards, Los Angeles Critics Awards, etc. The Chicago Tribune described the play as "Distinctive and arresting. A funny and yet strangely moving treatment of goodhearted, wacky Texans suffering through an intolerant world." **Queen City Theatre Company will donate a percentage of the proceeds from each ticket sold on ALL performances of to The Trevor Project, with a fundraising goal
of $ 3500.
Sunday Jan. 23
Mint Museum - Art History Series
3:00pm Mint Museum UPTOWN
Free, with admission
UNC-Charlotte Professor Jae Emerling will discuss The Afterlife of Contemporary Art to accompany the current exhibition, New Visions: Contemporary Masterworks from the Bank of America Collection. Registration requested: 704.337.2098 or programs@mintmuseum.org.
Union Symphony Youth Orchestra – Winter Concert, Art Exhibition, Reception
3:00-5:00pm – Marvin Ridge High School (2825 Crane Rd) – Waxhaw, NC
FREE
The Union Symphony Youth Orchestra (USYO) presents its annual winter concert. The program includes selections from BRAHMS, BEETHOVEN, DVORAK, CORELLI, HAYDN, MOZART, SAINT-SAENS and STRAUSS. The concert is accompanied by an art show, at which all works are available for sale. And following the concert, all guests are welcome to a dessert reception.
See and learn more about the Levine Museum of the New South and over 75 other sites on the Charlotte Black/African-American Heritage Tour presented by Queen City Tours and Travel!
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