Arts & Culture
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2026 Spring Guide: 150+ Outdoor Events to Check Out in Charlotte
The weather is warming up, flowers are blooming and spring events in Charlotte are kicking into high gear. Spring starts on Friday, March 20, with the local festival season including Charlotte SHOUT!, BOOM Charlotte, Tuck Fest and the return of the Kings Drive Art Walk. It’s not just the festivals,…
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Art, Beats + Lyrics Makes Anticipated Return to Charlotte
The sound of the crowd hums in rhythm with the hip-hop beats permeating the space. The transformed nectar of Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey whiskey teases the taste buds of patrons who roam the room to see wall upon wall of artwork. This is not your ordinary art exhibition; it’s a…
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Way Out Open Mic Encourages Performers to Get Experimental
“We’re just looking for people that are doing something that’s outside of the box,” says Dylan Gilbert says. “We try to let that definition stay loose, because what might be outside of the box for a dancer might be different for a musician.” The songwriter, producer and sound artist is…
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Culture Rewind: Top 5 From Charlotte Creatives in February 2026
There’s so much happening in Charlotte’s arts, musical and culture scenes that we can’t possibly cover it all, but what we can do is go back and let you know about some of the stuff you should’ve seen that happened this month. Kwamé Ryan Becomes First Charlotte Symphony Director to…
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Charlotte Ballet’s ‘Boundless’ Celebrates Connection After Fretting Over It
Loud, woolen plaids are back in action — on the loose with louder goofball leggings. And the eternal question, pointedly asked, rings out again at The Patricia McBride & Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance: “Do you, do you, do you, do you wanna dance?” Like fall 2023’s Breaking Boundaries, Charlotte…
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‘Primary Trust’ Could (and Should) Go Bigger on Joy
Back in the days before social media offered connections to the outside world, growing up Black in a distant little town in western New York probably didn’t offer the best head start one might wish for. In Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust, Kenneth has that and other big obstacles to overcome…
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Dasia Hood Explores the Dark Side of the Cacao Industry with ‘Eat My Flesh’
When Dasia Hood moved from one Queen City to another, arriving from her hometown of Cincinnati to Charlotte in 2021, she thought of herself as more of a business-minded person. She had been writing poetry since early childhood, but that was the scope of her creative output. In Charlotte, she…
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Charlotte Conservatory Theatre’s ‘Wink’ Dares Us to Jump out of Our Skins
If you love cats, you already know the open secret of their appeal; they are all wild thangs. Yes, we can declaw them or inflict various mutilations on their genitalia to superficially tame them, but they will still swat at things floating in the air, still hiss when cornered, still…
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Theatre Charlotte’s ‘Over the River…’ Highlights Script’s Fresh Relevance in a New Age
Back in the days of Woodstock and hippies, my generation spoke solemnly, defiantly, or even sarcastically about the Generation Gap. For a long time, it was sincerely believed by many to be the most telling division in our country. With the return of Joe DiPietro’s Over the River and Through…
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How to Catch 10 Classic Black Films Screening This Month at Charlotte’s Indie Theaters
Ben Klein tells a story about two Black women, a mother-daughter duo, who came to Carolina Theatre in Uptown for a screening of Selma, the 2014 drama about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s heroic campaign for civil rights, in January. Despite using a walker, the mother had purchased tickets in…
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Theatre Charlotte Brings Thespians to the Movies with ‘The Flick’
When was the last time you saw a play performed in a movie theater? And did it take place among the cinema’s seats? If you answered those two questions with “never” and “no … because never,” you’re not alone. Theatre Charlotte’s Queen City premiere of The Flick, which runs from…
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Culture Rewind: Top 5 From Charlotte Creatives in January 2026
There’s so much happening in Charlotte’s arts, musical and culture scenes that we can’t possibly cover it all, but what we can do is go back and let you know about some of the stuff you should’ve seen that happened this month. PARTED: A Hair Exhibit Gets Immersive at DUPP&SWAT…
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Levine Museum Unveils Future Permanent Home in South End
After years of hosting exhibits and programming in temporary spaces across the city, the Levine Museum of the New South has found its next permanent location, announcing Wednesday its plans to acquire and redevelop the Grace Covenant Church facilities at the intersection of South and East boulevards. Four years after…
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Blood, Fire and Hebrew in ‘Prince of Egypt’ at Matthews Playhouse
In synagogues around the world where the Five Books of Moses are read in the traditional triennial cycle on the Sabbath, the 21 verses that tell the story of Moses’ birth through his marriage — the basis for Act 1 of Stephen Schwartz and Philip LaZebnik’s The Prince of Egypt…
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Alex King Sees Quick Success in Charlotte’s Comedy Scene
Alex King owes it all to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He himself does not live with the genetic disease, though it was his experience performing stand-up comedy at a fundraiser for the organization that sparked his love for the art … an art he had previously shrugged off. His performance…
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Gantt Center Hosts Mario Moore Exhibit on the Elusiveness of Homeownership
In his painting “Mortgage Burning,” Mario Moore captures an unusual and increasingly rare ceremony. Three Black women firmly hold a document that’s been set ablaze. The flames, licking the curling black edges of the paper, draw our eyes upward to reveal that it’s a mortgage being incinerated above a brass…
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