Arts and Culture

The Department of Music’s Nov. 6 Faculty & Friends Concert will feature jazz artists Will Campbell, professor of saxophone, and DePauw University professor and pianist Steve Snyder.Campbell and Snyder played together in the University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band in 1993-94. They both are currently members of the Michael Waldrop Big Band.Also director of the University’s jazz studies program, Campbell has been a featured performer on various albums, including “New Songs for the 20th Century” and “Don’t Blink.”

Stephanie Burt ’95, ’98 M.A. was featured recently on the cover of Charleston City Paper. She was interviewed for “On the Mic,” an article that focused on local podcasters in Charleston, South Carolina.A native of Charlotte, Burt hosts the weekly podcast “The Southern Fork,” featuring chefs, farmers, bakers and others in the culinary landscape from throughout the South.  

Death will mingle with the likes of Love, Friendship, Understanding and Stuff when the Department of Theatre presents “Everybody,” opening at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31, in the Black Box Theater in Robinson Hall. This contemporary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is based on the 15th century English morality play, “Everyman.”

“Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn” is a traveling exhibit from the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. This display, which explores a field of literacy in which comics tell personal stories of illness and health, will be exhibited on the library’s first floor through Sunday, Nov. 24.

Acclaimed historian and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. spoke to a capacity crowd in McKnight Hall about how he came to produce his television series, “Finding Your Roots.”

Students in Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams’s Afro-Brazilian dance class will perform with the Los Angeles-based troupe CONTRA-TIEMPO Nov. 7-9 at the Booth Playhouse in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.

An outdoor, living exhibit is on its way to the UNC Charlotte campus that will tell the story of North Carolina through plants and crops crucial to the state’s development.

A new book co-researched and written by Cato College of Education professor Tracey Benson is drawing national coverage and acclaim for its incisive look into the role of unconscious bias in K-12 schools.“Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism,” examines the phenomenon of unconscious racial bias and describes how it negatively affects the work of educators and students in schools.

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, an assistant professor at Duke University’s School of Medicine, will present “Black Women and Reproductive Justice: A Lifelong Health Issue” at 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24, in the Cone University Center, McKnight Hall. This public presentation is this year’s Bertha Maxwell-Roddey Distinguished Africana Lecture, sponsored by the Africana Studies Department.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Emmy award-winning filmmaker, historian and literary scholar, will deliver the 2019 Chancellor’s Speaker Series presentation, part of the annual UNC Charlotte Civic Series presented by Bank of America.