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What: Director Eliza Schroeder seems to be channeling the warmhearted, multicharacter comedies of Richard Curtis (Love, Actually) in Love Sarah. Sarah gets killed in a bike accident on the way to open a bakery that was her lifelong dream. Three generations of women – Sarah’s acerbic mother Mimi, her best friend Isabella and Sarah’s twentysomething ballet dancing daughter – must overcome their differences to save the titular bakery. In Climate of the Hunter, two sisters each have romantic feelings for their friend Wesley, but their rivalry for his affections are complicated by the fact that he might be a vampire. More: $10-12; ongoing; online; charlottefilmsociety.com
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What: UNC Charlotte’s College of Arts + Architecture hosts a virtual benefit to support performing arts students. Normally ticket sales to the college’s performing arts events supply crucial scholarship funding, but the pandemic has resulted in the loss of that revenue. The College will present a virtual showcase of what its performing arts students’s work this academic year. Tune in via Zoom for this celebration of resilience and renewal as the College builds support for the students. More: Donations accepted, Jan. 14, 7 p.m.; online; coaa.uncc.edu/events
performance enhancement, and increased camaraderie among the poets and the community through slam competitions, SlamCharlotte hosts Blumenthal Performing Arts’ monthly Poetry Slam. SlamCharlotte’s current slammaster, artist, teacher, mentor and Emmy-winning poet and author Boris “Bluz” Rogers joined Blumenthal as director of creative engagement in September. He is also the 13th ranked poet in the world. This event will be livestreamed on Blumenthal’s Facebook page. More: Donations accepted, Jan. 15, 8 p.m.; online; blumenthalarts.org/events
Novo writes on her Facebook page, and it’s hard to disagree. Drawing on the tuneful, confessional indie pop of Florence and the Machine and Ed Sheeran, plus the pop-soul sass of Amy Winehouse, De Novo crafts deeply emotional music that belies its sunny pop-rock trappings. The Big Bang, her debut album, retains De Novo’s upbeat bounce and applies it to a crunchy indie-rock setting. For this virtual concert, she teams with multi-talented drummer Jimmy Ski, who is also a producer, composer and photographer. More: Donations accepted; Jan. 15, 8 p.m.; online; tinyurl.com/LisaDJimmyS
What: From sophisticated online marketing to facial recognition software, artificial intelligence is all around us, and yet there is no technology as intriguing and misunderstood as AI. Watch a robot paint and compose music, meet a lifelike robotic dog, get in the “driver’s seat” of a self-driving car and more with this exhibit, which features dozens of ways that our brains and computers interact with the world. It also explores the question, “How will our brains and Al work together in the future?” More: $15-19; starts Jan. 16; Discovery Place Science, 301 N. Tryon St.; science.discoveryplace.org
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