Arts and Culture

The city of Charlotte has a rich, cultural heritage, and its ethnic communities continue to flourish. For more than 40 years, UNC Charlotte has celebrated its global population through its International Festival. Its core message – all are welcome here.

A free screening of the film “The Silent Holy Stones” is scheduled for noon, Friday, Sept. 28, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.

Prior to the screening, the film director’s Wanmacaidan will give a brief lecture, starting at 10:30 a.m., and a complimentary light lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. A question-and-answer session will follow the screening. The film is presented in Tibetan with English and Chinese subtitles.

A group of Cato College of Education students and faculty members are back with memories of and insight into international teaching after a summer program in China and India

Visiting trumpet professor Eric Millard will perform a Department of Music Faculty & Friends Concert at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 25, in Rowe Recital Hall.

The Department of Dance will present a Faculty Dance Concert on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28-29, in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. The program features five works by faculty choreographers and includes faculty and guest performers.

Oscar de la Torre, associate professor of Africana Studies, will have his first book, “The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945” published by UNC Press; it is scheduled for release in October.

This work is a social and environmental history of the Africa-descended people in Brazil’s Amazonian forest. It is a story of the difficult journey from slavery to peasantry, and how Black Amazonians used the environment to forge new overlapping identities as citizens, black and indigenous in the post-emancipation years.

Tanure Ojaide, the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, has published a new collection of short stories, “God’s Naked Children,” and a volume of 105 poems, “The Questioner.”

Violist Kirsten Swanson, an adjunct professor in the UNC Charlotte Department of Music, will be the featured performer for a Faculty & Friends Concert, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 11, in the Rowe Recital Hall.

The GI Bill, environmental protections and the desegregation of public schools and housing were all “gifts” to the Baby Boomer generation. Post-World War II legislative actions led by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Johnson were based on the belief that encouraging individual opportunity would result in the betterment of the entire nation.

In this Inside UNC Charlotte webcast, theatre professors CarlosAlexis Cruz and Kaja Dunn discuss the upcoming production of “Archipelago,” a play by alumna Caridad Svich ’85. Click “Read More” to watch the discussion