Charlotte SHOUT! is a two-week festival featuring local musicians, entertainers, artists, public art installations, fooderies and more. The event, which is from April 1 to April 17, is mostly taking place around uptown Charlotte.
Axios Charlotte's Ashley Mahoney joins WFAE's "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn to talk about weekend events in Charlotte, including the Charlotte Symphony's special showing of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," the Mint Museum celebrating its 85th anniversary and the inaugural BayHaven Food & Wine Festival.
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A Charlotte, North Carolina, arts group is doubling down after apologizing for originally funding 8 white, Western Eurocentric organizations with unrestricted dollars to support their operations, including the Charlotte Symphony and Children s Theatre of Charlotte.
Krista Terrell, acting president of Charlotte s Arts & Science Council, said the group s Cultural Equity Report showed that due to ASC’s inequitable grant making practices, nine institutions each received more in operating support than all ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) organizations combined. While I knew the facts in the report were startling, I never thought I would experience so intimately the uncomfortableness, the defensiveness, and the scaredness of white people reacting to the unvarnished truth, Terrell, who is Black, wrote in a blog post last week.