Arts and Culture

The Department of Music Faculty and Friends Concert Series will feature the Madison Park String Quartet in a performance at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 16, in Rowe Recital Hall. Led by Associate Professor of Cello Mira Frisch, the quartet includes Charlotte Symphony violinists Jenny Topilow and Kari Giles and violist Kirsten Swanson, an adjunct professor at UNC Charlotte.

The Nov. 14 Friday Night Live comedy series will feature a free, public performance by comedian Josh Blue at 7 p.m. in the Cone University Center, After Hours Lounge. The Campus Activities Board is hosting this event.

Enajite Ojaruega, a faculty member in the Department of English and Literary Studies at Delta State University, Nigeria, will present “Women’s Education in Nigeria: Challenges and the Chibok Girls” at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 4, in the Storrs Building, Room 290.

Chibok is the location of a school from which 276 girls were abducted by the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.

The Africana Studies Department and African Studies Academy are cosponsoring this public talk.

Moniru Ravanipor will be the featured speaker at “A Century of Literature by Iranian Women” scheduled for 7:15 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall.

This event, part of International Education Week, will feature a short presentation on Iranian poets and writers, a poetry reading with live music, a panel discussion followed by a book signing and light refreshments.

The Department of Music Faculty & Friends Concert Series will present the Faculty Jazz Quintet in a performance of the music of Horace Silver at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 28, in the Rowe Recital Hall.

The Campus Activities Board (CAB) will host a screening of the documentary/comedy “The Muslims are Coming!” at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct.29, in the Cone University Center After Hours Lounge.

Afterward, there will be a discussion with the director and one of the comedians featured in the documentary.

The Department of Theatre will present “The Merry Wives” from Thursday, Oct. 23, through Sunday, Nov. 2, in the Black Box Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts.

Shakespeare’s hilarious and biting satire “The Merry Wives of Windsor” gets a new twist in this updated staging adapted by dramaturge Andrew Hartley, Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare. Lecturer Kelly Ryan will direct the production.

The Apostle Paul is the single most influential figure in human history, suggests UNC Charlotte Religious Studies Professor James Tabor in his latest book “Paul and Jesus How the Apostle Transformed Christianity.” Tabor argues that Paul’s influence trumps even the great “founders,” whether Jesus, Moses, the Buddha or Mohammed.

Ventriloquist Lynn Trefzger will perform at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Student Union. This free, public event is sponsored by the Campus Activities Board.

For more than 30 years, Trefzger has “given life” to a trunk full of comical characters in her performances worldwide to corporations, colleges, theatres and aboard cruise ships. Her vocal illusion talents introduce audiences to characters, such as a drunken, yet lovable camel; a grumpy old man; and a feisty little girl. Members of the audience often are selected to come on stage and participate in the routine.

Mario Röllig spent three months in East Berlin’s Hohenschönhausen Prison in 1987 for trying to flee communist East Germany. He will tell his story at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 9, at UNC Charlotte Center City, during an afternoon of public activities to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.