CULTURAL CALENDAR
SPRING 2020
FILM
LECTURE
LITERARY ARTS
MUSIC THEATRE
VISUAL ARTS
ADD A LITTLE MORE CULTURE TO YOUR CALENDAR.
The Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement opens on February 20, 2020. Queens is destined to be the heart of cultural programming and educational events, not just for students but for the entire Charlotte community. Come enjoy a wide variety of events sure to excite, educate and enlighten.
Find more cultural events at Queens, as well as additional details for the events included in this calendar online at: calendar.queens.edu
Brought to you by Arts at Queens; College of Arts & Sciences, Department of World Languages; Friends of the Library; General Education program; Knight School of Communication; McColl School of Business; Office of Diversity, Inclusion & Community Engagement; Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice; The Learning Society; Wells Fargo Center for Community Engagement; Witherspoon Lecture; Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte and Opera Carolina.
Visual Arts
Film Lecture
Music Theatre
Literary Arts
January 14
Ketner Auditorium
World Within Worlds With Worlds: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Comic Studies
Comic books and graphic novels tell stories about superheroes, adventurers and people just like us, but we’re only beginning to really learn how to read them. In this lecture, comic studies scholar and professor of English at Appalachian State University, Craig Fischer, will introduce this new field.
Free admission
January 6 - March 31
Dana Hall - Lower Level
“A Citizen of No Nation”
Art Exhibition
Free admission
January 16 - February 8
Hadley Theater
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Presented by Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, in residence at Queens
Tickets at atcharlotte.org
January 30 at 6:30 PM
Ketner Auditorium
Artist Lecture: Toni Lovejoy on
“A Citizen of No Nation”
Free admission
February 1 at 7 PM
Ketner Auditorium
Coser y Cantar
Free admission
February 4 at 6 PM
Ketner Auditorium
Witherspoon Lecture: Anil Singh-Molares
Free admission
February 5 - April 1
Seeing Israel through a Jewish and Christian Lens
A weekly community course
Registration at stangreensponcenter.com
February 20 at 7:30 PM
Sandra Levine Theatre
An Evening with Sutton FosterGambrell Center Grand Opening
Sutton Foster is an award-winning actress and singer whose high-spirited charisma and brightly expressive voice brought her fame in musical theatre and television. At the Gambrell Center’s grand opening, she will sing Broadway selections from her many roles and popular songbook standards.
Tickets at arts.queens.edu
February 12 at 7 PM
Ketner Auditorium
Music & Medicine with Dr. Deforia Lane
Free admission
February 14 at 3:30 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
Student Music Recital
Free admission
February 18 at 7 PM
Belk Chapel
Eboo Patel, founder
Interfaith Youth Core
Free admission
February 20 - April 20
Bank of America and Loevner Galleries
Molly Springfield ’99 Exhibition: The Marginalia Archive
Free admission
February 24 at 7:30 PM
Sandra Levine Theatre
High School Choral Invitational
Free admission
February 27 - March 21
Hadley Theater
Cost of Living
Presented by Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, in residence at Queens
Tickets at atcharlotte.org
February 21 at 6 PM
Gambrell Center
Arts Faculty Collaborate
Explore faculty interdisciplinary work as you explore the new Gambrell Center. Discover the bridge between sound and structure, color and music, light and voice, drumbeats and poetry. Alumna Molly Springfield will introduce her interactive installation of The Marginalia Archive.
Free admission
February 28 at 3:30 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
March 3 at 11:30 AM
Morrison Hall
Book and Author
Luncheon
The annual Friends of the Library Book and Author Luncheon features Kate Quinn and Bruce Holsinger. Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction, including her most recent book “Ribbons of Scarlet.” Holsinger is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches at the University of Viriginia. His third novel is entitled “The Gifted School.”
Tickets at library.queens.edu/fol
Student Music Recital
Free admission
March 7 - 10
Sandra Levine Theatre
Scalia/Ginsburg
An opera about the unlikely friendship between two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, in partnership with Opera Carolina
Tickets at carolinatix.org
March 17 at 7 PM
Belk Theater, Uptown Charlotte
An Evening with The Cousteaus
Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of French ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, and his children, Celine and Fabien, are committed to educating the world about our shared home—the water planet. In celebration of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary in April 2020, the Cousteau family will discuss the need to act responsibly and preserve the underwater ecosystems that are so intricately tied to all life on Earth.
Tickets at carolinatix.org
March 8 at 6 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
The Bechtler Ensemble
Free admission
March 14 at 7 PM
Ketner Auditorium
Lope de Vega - 5th Annual
Literary Gathering
Free admission
March 27 at 3:30 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
Student Music Recital
Free admission
March 28 at 6 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
A Celebration of Black
Mountain College 2020
Free admission
April 4 - 5
Sandra Levine Theatre
Queens Student Opera: HMS Pinafore
Tickets at calendar.queens.edu
April 3 at 7 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
The Destruction of Memory: Film Screening & Discussion with Filmmaker Tim Slade
Free admission
April 14 at 7 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
Creative Writing Capstone Reading
Free admission
April 15 at 5 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
Composition Factory: Student Showcase
Free admission
April 16 at 5 PM
Gambrell Center
Student Chorale Concert
Free admission
April 23 - May 16
Hadley Theater
One Man, Two Guvnors
Presented by Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, in residence at Queens
Tickets at atcharlotte.org
April 25 at 6 PM
Gambrell Center
An Evening with Students: Senior Arts Showcase
Free admission
May 10 at 3 PM
Suzanne Little Recital Hall
Chamber Music 4 All:
Mother’s Day Concert
Tickets at calendar.queens.edu
Based on the book by Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War, Slade’s film looks at the urgent issue of cultural destruction.1900 Selwyn Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28274
CULTURAL CALENDAR
SPRING 2020
FILM
LECTURE
LITERARY ARTS
MUSIC
THEATRE
VISUAL ARTS