CONTENT Celebrate With Us! Charlotte Ideas Festival Flourish! In The Pianodrome A Word |
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| At the core of The Charlotte Center is a deep regard for the humanities: those disciplines that offer a boundless treasure trove and method of understanding the human experience. The humanities invite us to our better selves. They offer a critical and constructive spirit that questions and calls us to what is good and true.
That's exactly what is so exciting about our upcoming Charlotte Ideas Festival from March 30th through April 4th! We've produced an extraordinary schedule of forums, gatherings, panels, and performances that speak to our higher selves. You're invited to exchange ideas with this remarkable line up of award winning authors, dancers, TED speakers, playwrights, poets, scientists, historians, musicians, architects, teachers, and so many more.
Check out our schedule of events below, and register today! |
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“Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.” ― BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ
American multimedia artist, creative activist, and teacher |
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Join us!
March 30th - April 4th, 2023 |
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Flourish! In The Pianodrome is a one-night-only performing arts experience with theater, dance, poetry and song inside the nation’s first Pianodrome, right here in Charlotte.
Explore myriad ideas and find inspiration in the reading of a new short play by Fola Onifade. The play weaves a fantastical tale, further enlivened by dance, spoken word, singing, strings and pianos. An artful alchemy to send your imagination soaring!
Constructed inside the former sanctuary of historic Grace AME Zion Church, the Pianodrome is built entirely of recycled parts from 40 pianos. Charlotte’s Pianodrome provides a one-of-a-kind, theater-in-the-round stage, perfectly set to immerse an intimate audience in a one-time mélange of performance and storytelling.
Flourish! In The Pianodrome is produced by Valaida Fullwood (The Charlotte Center) and Jay Ward (Poet Laureate of Charlotte). Collaborators on this assemblage of ideas are:
You don’t want to miss it! Registration is required. Seating is limited. Time: Saturday, April 1 | 5:00-6:30 pm (Doors open at 4:45 pm)
Location: The Grace, 219 S Brevard St., Charlotte, NC 28202 Tickets: Admission fee is $20 |
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How are we bound together? Be a part of a special kick off to Charlotte SHOUT! by reimagining "How to Citizen" with the engaging and provocative activist & comedian (and Harvard philosophy major) Baratunde Thurston. Reception & Event: $20 |
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How can you have more joy in your work and life? Explore "The Aesthetics of Joy" and how our spaces and places are affecting our vitality at The Charlotte Center Forum with designer, author, and mainstage TED speaker Ingrid Fetell Lee. Reception & Event: $20 |
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Artificial Intelligence is coming at us fast. What does AI mean for us and our future? Look into "The AI Mirror" and explore the ethics and implications of the latest AI science and technology with Shannon Vallor, philosopher of technology, from the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Reception & Event: $20 |
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What's better than the sound of drums and spoken word poetry together? Come dance to the beat of your own drum and feed your soul. Mix, mingle and move with people on the Green and with two great artistic organizations devoted to a more humane world! FREE |
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Should classic texts be rewritten for modern audiences? Is it censorship when words in books like ‘Huckleberry Finn’ or ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ are changed or removed in new editions? How do we balance the author’s intent with concerns about diversity and inclusion? Who decides? FREE |
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What is the role of interfaith dialogue in civic life? Are values of compassion, understanding, and justice more important than doctrinal differences? How do we balance pluralism with belief? What are the pressing issues of interfaith dialogue and the role of religion in civic life today? FREE |
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What is the future of architecture in Charlotte? Is there a style of building that defines Charlotte? Why do so many of our buildings seem alike? Will our apartment buildings even be standing twenty years from now? What role can clients, architects, and planners play in making Charlotte more distinct? What's a big idea of design for our city? FREE |
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What history should be taught in our schools today? How do we balance a more optimistic and idealistic view of the American experiment with a more sobering examination of America’s past? Is the teaching of American history sanitized or becoming defined by the worst of our past? Are current trends in the teaching of American history leading to disillusionment and a decline in citizen engagement? What is the narrative behind the events we choose to teach? FREE
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ABOUT THE CHARLOTTE CENTER |
We are interested in what is good for Charlotte and what Charlotte can offer the world. At the core of The Charlotte Center is a deep regard for the humanities: those disciplines that offer a boundless treasure trove and method of understanding the human experience. The humanities invite us to our better selves. They offer a critical and constructive spirit that questions and calls us to what is good and true. JOIN THE MOVEMENT
If you've been to our events, if you believe in civil discourse, in the power of ideas, in learning and conversing freely, in ideals of inclusion, creativity, and connection, in bringing the world to Charlotte and Charlotte to the world as the Forum and out Charlotte Ideas Festival gain momentum, then please consider supporting us. | |
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gratitude to our Charlotte Ideas Festival partners |
and to our sponsors and donors! |
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Thank you to all of our generous donors and partners that make our work possible. |
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| A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
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John F. Kennedy 35th President of the United States |
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| The Charlotte Center is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.
Word to the Wise is compiled and edited monthly by Valaida Fullwood
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