Arts and Culture

The Department of Music will present the final concert in the 2015-16 Faculty and Friends Concert Series at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, in Rowe Recital Hall. The concert features Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin David Russell with guest pianist Kyle Linscheid.

The Department of Dance will present a Spring Concert Thursday through Sunday, April 14-17, in the Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. Among the works on the program is “Suite Otis,” choreographed by the Tony Award-winning choreographer George Faison.

“Creative Abundance” is a documentary that examines services in place for individuals with developmental disabilities, usually in the form of vocational and rehabilitative workshops that often are sheltered from the public eye and from community interaction.

UNC Charlotte will host a free screening of the film at 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.

Through a partnership between UNC Charlotte and the Levine Museum of the New South, faculty, staff, students and alumni will be able to visit the museum for free Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9, during the museum’s regular business hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The UNC Charlotte Mobile Arts & Community Experience (MAX) will be in two residencies this spring in the Charlotte area. From Friday, April 8, through Monday, April 18, MAX will be on the front lawn of the McColl Center for Art + Innovation on North Tryon Street. Beginning Saturday, April 30, MAX will be in east Charlotte on the property of Aldersgate, a continuing care retirement community on Shamrock Drive, for an entire month of activity.

The Department of Art and Art History, along with the Levine Scholars Program and J. Murrey Atkins Library, will present “Nowhere | Now Here,” a photographic exhibition documenting the Latin American community of a small town in North Carolina. The exhibition will be displayed on first floor of Atkins Library Monday, March 28, through Saturday, April 23.

Explore and experience the rich world of contemporary film through selections from Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mauritania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia, South Korea, Spain and Uruguay during UNC Charlotte’s annual International Film Festival.

The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre will present “Hamletmachine” Friday, March 18, through Tuesday, March 22, in the Anne Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts.

David Leal, professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, and Federico Rios, program director of Elementary School Services at Communities in Schools of Charlotte Mecklenburg, will lead a public conversation about Latino votes in the presidential campaigns on Thursday, March 31.

“Nexos: The 2016 Presidential Election and the Latino/a Vote” will be held at UNC Charlotte Center City; doors open at 5 p.m., and the program will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a reception at 6:30 p.m.

Poets Venus Thrash and Cedric Tillman will participate in the 2016 Black Poetry Series at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 16, at UNC Charlotte Center City.