Charlotte Events

Happening this week

Popa Chubby

Neighborhood Theatre 511 E 36th St, Charlotte, NC
$18
Born Ted Horowitz in the Bronx, Popa Chubby’s fierce and tempestuous guitar playing channels the psychedelic blues of Jimi Hendrix, but his is no classic rock tribute act. Although immersed in blues rock, Horowitz treats his music as a living art, infused with punk energy. His blistering live shows incorporate contemporary pop and hip-hop elements, and his skillful songwriting is infused with working class politics.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Story Teller Open Mic

Common Market Oakwold 4420-A Monroe Road, Charlotte, NC
Free
Our featured performer in March is local comic Don Garrett. Come to watch the show. You're invited to throw your name in the hat if you'd like to share a true 3-5 minute nonfiction story from your life. Produced by Unconventional Events.

Staff Picks

The Bias Inside Us

Discovery Place Science 301 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC
$18 – $24
Through compelling images, powerful testimonials and visuals, this exhibit explores the foundational blocks of bias to foster a better understanding of how it is manifested. Guests will explore how bias forms and how it influences behaviors consciously and unconsciously, and how implicit and explicit bias appears in the world through product design, advertising, architecture and technology. An additional series of videos features eight voices from diverse perspectives sharing their personal experiences with bias.

International Noir: ‘Rififi’

Recurring
Independent Picture House 4237 Raleigh Street, Charlotte, NC
$8
French crime caper ‘Rififi’ (1955), famed for a 33-minute heist sequence that plays without dialog or music, draws heavily from U.S. influences, and it’s no wonder. Before he was blacklisted in 1950s Hollywood’s anti-communist witch hunt, the film’s American director Jules Dassin had created hard-boiled masterpieces like ‘Brute Force’ and ‘The Naked City’ stateside. Sam Shapiro with UNC Charlotte’s Film Studies department hosts a discussion following the March 19 screening.

An Evening With Dr. Richard J. Powell

Harvey B. Gantt Center 551 S Tryon S, Charlotte, NC
Free
Dr. Richard J. Powell, a John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, delivers a lecture based on current Gantt Center exhibit Visions: A Study of Form. Spotlighting 20th-century Black American artists including Robert Blackburn, Romare Bearden and Ralph Chessé, Visions examines their explorations of natural and abstract forms through various media. Over 30 works from the 1930s through the 1980s represent artistic styles ranging from abstraction to figurative art.

Front Lawn Friday

McColl Center 721 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC
$10
Visit the current crop of resident artists in McColl Center's studios, including Poland’s Zuzanna Dyrda, who expands printmaking to the human body, as well as Atlanta’s Shanequa Gay, who delves into the spirit of Black women with video, sculpture, painting and performance. Visitors can also decorate a feather for Brazilian textile wizard Tadeo Muliero’s “Collective Totem Project” or have their portrait taken by Charlotte photographer Will Jenkins. Music by DJ See Bird Go.

Fresh 2 Death: Urban Outsiders

Lower Tuck 800 Gesco Street, Charlotte
$20
Dupp&Swat and We Are Hip Hop CLT collaborate/conspire with Blumenthal Arts to bring urban adventurers a third installation of Fresh 2 Death. Some details are still under wraps (or inexplicable), but we can tell you that this outing transports patrons beyond Charlotte to an outdoor adventure, complete with selfie-worthy landscapes, elements of escapism and music festival vibes. Expect horseback riding with Charlotte Cowboys, a scavenger hunt, myriad art activities, workshops and more.  

Popa Chubby

Neighborhood Theatre 511 E 36th St, Charlotte, NC
$18
Born Ted Horowitz in the Bronx, Popa Chubby’s fierce and tempestuous guitar playing channels the psychedelic blues of Jimi Hendrix, but his is no classic rock tribute act. Although immersed in blues rock, Horowitz treats his music as a living art, infused with punk energy. His blistering live shows incorporate contemporary pop and hip-hop elements, and his skillful songwriting is infused with working class politics.

Happening this month

Popa Chubby

Neighborhood Theatre 511 E 36th St, Charlotte, NC
$18
Born Ted Horowitz in the Bronx, Popa Chubby’s fierce and tempestuous guitar playing channels the psychedelic blues of Jimi Hendrix, but his is no classic rock tribute act. Although immersed in blues rock, Horowitz treats his music as a living art, infused with punk energy. His blistering live shows incorporate contemporary pop and hip-hop elements, and his skillful songwriting is infused with working class politics.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Story Teller Open Mic

Common Market Oakwold 4420-A Monroe Road, Charlotte, NC
Free
Our featured performer in March is local comic Don Garrett. Come to watch the show. You're invited to throw your name in the hat if you'd like to share a true 3-5 minute nonfiction story from your life. Produced by Unconventional Events.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

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Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Special Guest Exhibition: Chadraabal

Recurring
Carolina Fine Art 300 S Sharon Amity Rd, Charlotte, NC
Free
Celebrated, award-winning Mongolian artist, Chadraabal Adiyabazar, has shown his works around the world and will now debut his art in the Carolinas. The solo exhibition is open for viewing at Carolina Fine Art from March 24 through April 6. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-5pm; Opening Reception: Friday, March 24 from 5-8pm.

Musica Da Camera

Tate Recital Hall, Central Piedmont Community College 1206 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC
$50
Opera Carolina and Chamber Music for All create an intimate and thrilling evening, Musica da Camera, featuring Shostakovich's Seven Romances and Poems by Alexander Blok, Verdi's String Quartet, Schubert's art songs, and much more! The concert experience is led by CSO concertmaster Calin Lupanu and Opera Carolina's resident company artists—purchase tickets online to reserve your seats.