Arts and Culture

The Department of Music’s Faculty & Friends Concert Series will open Tuesday, Aug.28, with “Revolution & Revival,” a tribute to Nina Simone. This event, which will feature performances by A Sign of the Times jazz band and the Madison Park String Quartet, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Rowe Recital Hall.

The world premiere of “User Agreement,” conceived by faculty and students in the College of Arts + Architecture, is set for Monday, Aug. 20, at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.

A Chicago production of Cordelia Lynn’s play “Lela & Co.,” directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Robin Witt, has received three Joseph Jefferson (Jeff) Awards honoring non-Equity Chicago theatre. 

The production received six Jeff Award nominations and won in the categories of Best Director (Play), Best Actor (Play) and Best Production (Play).

Andrea Pitts, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, has received a six-month Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Faculty and staff members can register to attend “China Country-Culture Workshop,” scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, April 20.

Comedian, actor and writer Hasan Minhaj will speak at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the Popp Martin Student Union, Room 340. He will give his humorous observations of political and current events.

Minhaj is a senior correspondent on the Emmy and Peabody award-winning program “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” on Comedy Central. As the host of the White House Correspondent’s Dinner this year, Minhaj described the comedy routine was “an immigrant’s love letter to America.”

Lila Quintero Weaver, creator of the award-winning graphic novel “Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White,” was in residency at UNC Charlotte Sept. 25-29, working with students in theatre, art, English and education.

As UNC Charlotte historian Steven Sabol sees it, his new book is a happy coincidence of fly-fishing and history.

During a 2006 fishing trip to trout-filled Nez Perce Creek in Yellowstone National Park, Sabol spied a sign with tantalizingly scant details about the flight of the Nez Perce through the park in the 19th century.

At the University of Jos, Africana Studies professor Honore Missihoun plans to teach and analyze texts from Francophone countries in Africa to better understand how the exploitation of women, land and natural resources resulted from patriarchal and male-dominated societies.

At the University of Jos, Africana Studies professor Honore Missihoun plans to teach and analyze texts from Francophone countries in Africa to better understand how the exploitation of women, land and natural resources resulted from patriarchal and male-dominated societies.