In this forum, we will explore the characteristics of great cities and what we can do to create a more vital and supportive city for all in Charlotte. We'll consider how place influences human flourishing and specific choices pressing on us in Charlotte today. What should we prioritize? What can each of us do?
Join Catherine Courtlandt McElvane, multidisciplinary artist and Angela Gala, host of Wisdom Wednesday’s for The Charlotte Center for the Humanities and Civic Imagination, for a discussion on “The Spirit of Creativity.” Is there a spirit to creativity, to creative thinking? How does it impact us, open up our lives and lend it new meaning?
In this forum, we will explore how narrative artwork informs ideas of justice. Sonya will share her professional journey from investigative reporter and documentarian to civil rights and criminal defense attorney to owner and creative director of a contemporary art gallery. She will share how she uses the arts to address pressing societal issues that underlie her legal work — from confronting cognitive bias to unearthing historical narratives that shape our beliefs. Sonya will note how our subconscious pattern-making influence how we categorize right and wrong, good and bad, friend and foe. We'll consider what her insights might mean for the times we are living in.
The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings the humanities and civic imagination to bear on the challenges and opportunities of public life.
The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings the humanities and civic imagination to bear on the challenges and opportunities of public life.
What is our worth in the world? How do we measure it? Where do we find significance and dignity? In a busy season of spending and giving, we often struggle with our value. What is the point of our lives and how should we live them?
The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings the humanities and civic imagination to bear on the challenges and opportunities of public life.
Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence are giving us the ability to flourish like never before… or are they? What does it really mean to flourish? Can we align AI and the potential of superintelligence so that everyone has opportunities to thrive?
The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings the humanities and civic imagination to bear on the challenges and opportunities of public life.
There is a lot of talk about the importance of belonging in our lives. Many people argue that it is key to a flourishing life. But what is belonging? How do we go about belonging and with whom?
The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings the humanities and civic imagination to bear on the challenges and opportunities of public life.
What is it that informs our adventure of life? What is it that pulls us along our path? Have you ever done, said, or thought something that seemed to be the unpopular thought, the unusual answer, the potentially embarrassing question?
The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings the humanities and civic imagination to bear on the challenges and opportunities of public life.
What is it that informs our adventure of life? What is it that pulls us along our path? Have you ever done, said, or thought something that seemed to be the unpopular thought, the unusual answer, the potentially embarrassing question?
The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings the humanities and civic imagination to bear on the challenges and opportunities of public life.
What is truth? How do we know when we have found it? Can we look past our own perceptions to discover truth or will it always be illusory, contingent on our own biases?
An inaugural event with an Inaugural Poet on the eve of the Presidential Inauguration
