LIFEWAVE

We’re kind of opening, kind of not, so not all of these are virtual events as we were highlighting at the beginning of the lockdown, but plenty are. COVID is still going strong, so party at your own risk. ‘TROPICAL SECRETS: HOLOCAUST LOCAL/STREET UNMASKED: ‘LIFT EVERY VOICE’ ADULT EASTER EGG HUNT

REFUGEES IN CUBA’ This pop-up exhibition features the work of more For this edition of Unmasked, moderator and Normally a destination for children’s birthday Through Broadway on Demand, Children’s Theatre than 40 local artists of color who are defining talk show personality Ohavia Phillips holds a parties, with a petting zoo and safari revolving of Charlotte presents an adaptation of author Charlotte’s 21st century visual identity. BLKMRKTCLT conversation with the curators, artists, and city around their adorable animals, Darby Acres Farm Margarita Engle’s spare and elegant book-length co-founder Carla Aaron-Lopez has partnered with planners involved in the Black Lives Matter street is hosting this Easter-themed event for an older poem that covers a period from 1939 to 1942. Alone the Mint Museum to launch the three-day show. mural and Lift Every Voice exhibition at the Harvey demographic. Whether you’re wishing you could rein Havana, Cuba, after escaping Nazi Germany, “Artists living and thriving in Charlotte bring so B. Gantt Center. The panelists will discuss the mural’s live the glory days of Easter egg hunts gone by, or 11-year-old Daniel meets spirited 10-year-old much color and imagination to our city’s identity,” journey, from inception to the process of making it you just need a night out of the house, this adultsPaloma, who introduces Daniel to the language, says Aaron-Lopez. “We must support local artists come to life. They will also talk about the regional only event is the perfect getaway. music and history of Cuban culture. However, once now before they seek opportunities in other cities and national impact of the mural, as well as the More: $11; April 2, 5:45 p.m.; Darby Acres Farm, Cuba enters the war, the two young friends are faced across the United States.” intentions behind the Lift Every Voice exhibition. Hutchinson Lane; darbysafari.com with dangerous choices that test their friendship, More: Free; March 26, 27 and 28, 5:30 p.m.; More: Free; March 30, 7 p.m.; online; ganttcenter.org and Paloma reveals some painful secrets of her own. Mint Museum Randolph, 2730 Randolph Road; INDIE FEST: PIP THE PANSY & More: $21.95; ongoing through March; online; tinyurl.com/LocalStreet AN ALL STAR TRIBUTE TO CHICK EMANUEL WYNTER tinyurl.com/CharlotteBOD FIXAPLATE VIRTUAL POTLUCK COREA A creative and enormously influential piano Every Friday night in March and April, the Indie Fest Spring Series features outdoor socially distanced MODERN MOXIE Mixed Metaphors’ FixaPlate is an immersive player, Chick Corea touched on every music genre concerts spotlighting local and regional bands. Modern Moxie frontwoman Madison Lucas took up experience about food, family, and history. For their in his career — classical, post-bop, Latin jazz Atlanta’s Pip the Pansy entwines folk, electronica songwriting in college, mostly confined to her dorm Virtual Potluck series, FixaPlate draws on theatre and jazz-rock fusion. He played on Miles Davis’ and virtuosic flute to deliver polished songs that room closet. In 2013, she found her partner in crime, techniques to create a digital iteration of the family groundbreaking 1969 album Bitches Brew and scan like latter-day classical mythology. With a bassist, Charlotte music scene veteran and future table experience. Potluck guests will join and tell founded the innovative — and best — jazz-rock voice that’s sultry, lilting, playful and bold, she husband Harry Kollm. The pair recruited guitarist their stories with Charlotteans from across the city, fusion band Return to Forever. He died on February cuts a striking bubblegum-chic figure onstage. Phil Pucci (Pullover, Serfs) after he heard their song, sharing a virtual kitchen table and generations of 9 at age 79. Middle C Jazz’s All-Star tribute lineup, Equally adept at pop and R&B, violinist and singer“Light + Sound.” Pucci, who also officiated the family recipes as they reminisce about the Charlotte led and directed by Stephen Gordon on keyboards, songwriter Emanuel Wynter boasts lilting melodies, couple’s marriage, brought drummer Charlie Weeks of old and dream of its future. An opportunity to includes Tyra Scott on vocals, Malcom Charles candid lyrics and swarming harmonies that merge into the fold. With their melodic and crackling new- meet new people and stroll through Charlotte on drums, Lovell Bradford Jr. on bass and Danny smoothly with his violin. wave-influenced tunes, Modern Moxie is in the top culture, the potlucks are scheduled for five dates in Rodriguez on percussion. More: $15-25; April 2, 6 p.m.; Lenny Boy Brewing, tier of Charlotte rockers, earning Queen City Nerve’s March and April. More: $27.20-$34; April 1, 7 p.m.; Middle C Jazz, 3000 S. Tryon St.; tinyurl.com/PipThePansy Critics’ Pick for best band in 2019. More: $18-33; March 27 6:30 p.m., March 28, 5:30 300 S. Brevard St.; middlecjazz.com More: $10; March 24, 7 p.m.; Online; p.m.; online; tinyurl.com/FixAPlate1; neighborhoodtheatre.com tinyurl.com/FixAPlate2 License# 2214

INSPIRE THE FIRE DAY

With a mission to inspire young people to succeed on stage and in life by focusing on artistic expression, Inspire the Fire is being awarded an official day in the Queen City by Mayor Vi Lyles and Charlotte City Council. Inspire the Fire was an America’s Got Talent season 7 finalist, and was selected by Oprah Winfrey to perform at Maya Angelou’s memorial service. The non-profit provides students, ages 10–19, coaching in artistic development and community engagement. Majors include dance, voice, theatre, rap and visual arts. The live talent showcase takes place at Victoria Yards. More: Free; March 25, 5:30 p.m.; Victoria Yards, 408 N. Tryon St.; blumenthalarts.org/events

AMPLIFY 2021

Maestra Music’s inaugural spring concert celebrates the women who make music in musical theatre with performances from Broadway stars, appearances from Tony Award-winning Hadestown creator Anais Mitchell and OBIE Award-winning Bubbly Black Girl creator Kirsten Childs, plus a special appearance by Bernadette Peters. The broadcast highlights Maestra’s programs, which provide support, visibility, and community for the female, non-binary, and TGNC music makers in the theatre industry. Special postshow virtual hangouts with Book of Mormon stars Nikki M. James and Andrew Rannells, Mean Girls’ Ashley Park and Erika Henningsen and more. More: Free-$500; March 29, 7 p.m.; online; blumenthalarts.org/events

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