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6C Cbt C^mrtatu ^o»t Thursday, February 2, 2006 “Arabian Nights,” Ima^nOn. 7:30 Wachovia Ptayhouae at p.m Recounting the tales Sdieherazde, "Arabian Nights" is recommended for ages 13 and up Performances are also Feb. 3 and Feb 4 at 7:30 p m Tickets are $10 and on sale at Children's 'Hieatre box office by calling (704) 973-2828 or www blumenthalcenterorg. “Little Women: The Broadway MusicaL” Belk Theatre through Jan 8. Tickets are $20-$66 and on sale at the Performing Arts Center box office at (704) 372-1000 or www.blumenthalcen- terorg. Discounts available for groups by calling (704)379-1380 Vienna (-hoir Boys, 7 p.m., Belk Theatre, Blumenthal Performing Arts Onter Tickets start at $20 and can be purchased at the d^SO ticket office at 201 8. Cbll^;e St, www.charbttesympho- nyorg or calling (704) 972-2000. “The Mer‘hant of Venice,” performed by Actors from the London Stage. Robinson Hall, UNC dTiarlotte. 8 p.m. Tickets are $18 for general pub lic, $16 for faculty/staffi and $10 for students and seniors. Tickets available at UNCC box office at Robinson Hall, For information, call (704) 687- 2699 “The Yellow Boat** ImaginOn Wachovia Playhouse. 7:30 p.m. Shows through Feb. 19. Pro duction of the Taradiddle Players, TicketB are $18 (front orchestra seats); $14 for general admission and can be purchased at the box office at (704) 973-2828 or log on to www.ctfharlotte.org. “f’harlotte Squawks — Strike Three," a satiri cal review, 8 p.m. at McGbhon Theatre in Spirit Square. Second performance on Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. Tbkets are ^5-$36 and on sale at the Performing Arts Center Box Office by calling (704) 372-1000 or online at www.blumenthabenterorg. ) Jazz group Homheads bring the funk to Varick Auditorium at Livingstone College, 7:30 p.m. Concert is a fund raiser for Livingstone’s band and choir spring break tour to Jamaica. Admission is $20; students with valid ID and senbrs $10. For mformation, call Sidney Sessoms or Hope Davis at (704) 216-6145; CXirtia Dean at (704) 216-6146 or Frank Peny (704) 216-6144, • . CeCe Wlnans, Belk Theater. 7:30 p.m., Six-tmie Grammy winner and multiple gold- and platinum album R&B and gospel diva does her stuff for one night only. Tickets are $26-$36 and on sale at the Performing Arts Box Office by calling (704) 372-10(X) or online at wwwblumenthalcen- ter.org Piedmont Players Theatre holds audi tions for Gilbert & Sullivan’s TIMS Pinafore," 7 p.m. at Meroney Theater. 213 South Main St, Sal isbury. The play is a comedic musical satire of the Royal Navy and the British obsessimi with social status. Second round of auditions is F^. 14. For information, call (704) 633-6471 or Ic^ on to www.piedmontplayers.com. i ^Chocolate Extravaganza. 6:30 p.m.. Speedway Club at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Fea turing a live band with dancing, wine bar. gourmet coffee bar and desserts Cost is $100 per ticket and proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sis ters in Cabarrus County. 15 “Crowns," Actw’s Theatre cf Charlotte, 650 E. Stonewall St through March 5. Perfor mances Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Feb. 26 and March 6 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 on Wednes- days-Thursdays; $25 on Fridays. Satunlays and Sundays. Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. is pay whatyou can. Tickets available at the box office. (704) 342-2251 or online at www.actorstheatrechariotte.cxg. Keith Urban with special guest Pat Green. 7:30 p.m.. Charlotte Bobcats Arena. Tick ets $42 and $29.60. “/\n Evening with Joe Thompson," Levine Museum of the New South. 6:30 p.m.. Legendary N.C. fiddler is a folk life treasure noted for his dynamic styb and soaring vocals. Admission is $8 for museum members; $12 for non-members. “Off the Wall & Onto the Stage: Danc ing the /\rt of Jonathan Green," 8 p.m.. Blu menthal Performing Arts Center Belk Theatre. Ballet piresented ly the Afio-Amehcan Cultural Center as part of its annual Heritage Signature event Tickets are $25 to $56 and availabb by call ing (704) 372-1000 or at www a^x^diaiiotte org. 18 Chariotte Poet Features Exlitm* Cheris Hodges will sign allies cf her new novel "Second (Thance at Love,” 6 p.m.. Real Eyee Bookstore. 3306 N Davidson St “Btowti In Black and White." Levine V. _ Ringling Bros., and Bamum & Baile>' circus brings the 136th edition of the (greatest Show on Earth to (?harlotte Bobcats Arena thnnigh Feb 26, Ticket pnces range from $13 to $46 (front row) and $100 (circus celebrity) and HAPPENINGS available online at www, ringling.com. www.char- lott^x)bcatBarena.com. by phone at (800) 496- 2296 and the arena box office Show time is 7:30 p.m 23 Freedom songs lecture, Levine Museum cf the New South. 7 p.m Saundra Thomas lends historical perspective of the Mississippi Freedom Summer and South African fieedom struggle through stories and songs. Cost is $4 for museum members; $6 for non-members. Call (704) 333- 1887, extension 601 for reservations. Three Daughters From Charlotte con cert, 7:30 p.m., ImaginOn Hugh McOoll Family Theater. Featuring Jacqueline Butler Hairston, Rickie Byars-Beckwith and Yvette Walker Leach. Sponsored by Daisy Spears and (Serson L. Stroud Foundation and proceeds will benefit Johnson C. Smith University students. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased by calling (704) 604-7762. ClAA basketball tournament, Charlotte Bobcats Arena through March 4. Defending national champion Virginia Union Panthers will be challenged by Johnson C. Smith and Bowie State for league supremacy. Shaw University is the odds-on favorite to repeat as women’s champi on. Tickets available at CTAA member schools or log on to www.chaiiottebobcatsarena.com. Spring Literary Festival, Central Pied mont Community Chllege. The twonlay festival. 'Weaving Words from Struggle," includes read ings, performances and discussions with writers and publishing professionals. Keynoters include James McBride, Jimmy Santiago Baca and Richard Louv as well as folk artists Sparlty and Rhonda Rucker. Free. For information and sched ules, log on to www.cpcc.edu/literary. FREEDOM CALLS PHOTOyLEVlNE MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH Levine Museum of the New South opens a exhibition of the opening of “Oh Freedom Over Me,’’ Feb. 9 at 6 p.m. A reception and discussion featuring Charlotte attorneys and civil rights pioneers James Ferguson and Charles Jones will be part of the event, which is open to the public. Admission is free for museum members; $4 for non-members. “Unheaitl Voices Tbur," 2:30 p.m.. Historic Roeedale Plantation. 3427 North TVyon St Re enactment of plantation life from the viewpoint of the backcoiuitry slave. Tbur designed to examine the personal and work life of the 20 slaves that inhabited Caldwell Plantation in the early ISOOs. Tbur continues on Feb. 12. Admission is $6 for adults. $4 for seniors and students. For infcaiua- bon. call (704) 336-0326 WAKE THE ECHOES HISTORIC ROSEDALE Historic Rosedale Plantation will present “Unheard Voices Tour” Feb. 11-12 at the plantation. The tour is a re-creation of slave life at Caldwell Plantation in the early 1800s. TOOT AND TWIRL RADICAL ADVOCACY Museum of the New South. 6 p.m. Viewing of award-wuinmg filmmaker Steve Oump's new documentary, which revisits a 1964 profile of race relabel in dtaskxua as a case study of the South’s reaction to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Free CaD (704).333- 1887. extension 601 for reservations Art With Heart auction Feb. 4, 7 p.m. at Extravaganza Depot WCT4C news anchor Cblleen Oi^ard will host the evening, which includes live and silent auctions featuring art from art fiom many of the city’s most notable artists. Tickets are $45 in advance, $55 at the door and includes admission to the auctiems, refi^eshments and hors d’oeuvres. For infbrmabon and tickets (704) 367-2708 or log on to www.unitedfamily8ervice8.org. Zeta Phi Beta sorority sponsors second annual Bowiing for Babies Feb. 4 at AMF dbliseum Lanes, 2801 E. Indepen dence Blvd. fipom 3-6 p.m. (Ibet is $10 per bowler and includes three games, bowling shoes and prizes. Proceeds benefit March of Dimes and other local charities. Open to all ages. Emeiging Artists Vocal Arts CJompeti- tion, 4 p.m. Feb. 12, Memorial Presbyter ian CTiurch, 2600 Beatties Ford Road. Presented by Charlotte Club of National Association of Negro Business and Profes sional Women’s Club. Admission is fi^ee. Contestants include Taylor Johnson, a soprano fiom Converse Collie, Marcus Graham, a tenor fiom Johnson C. Smith University; soprano Felicia Wright fiom JCSU; Loren Webb, mezzo soprano, JCSU. TTie winner will compete in the dis trict competition March 17 at the Omni Charlotte Hotel, 132 E. TVade St For information, call (704) 399-4548. Poet Maya Angelou and Alltel are spon soring the Words of Wisdom Scholarship program, which asks students at histori cally black colleges; ‘'What words of wis dom will you pass on to those who come after you.” Scholarships will be awarded to 10 grand prize winners attending HBCTIs, including $4,000 in tuition and a trip to Little Rock, Ark., to meet Angelou. For details, log on to www.alltel.com/wordsofwisdom or partici pating Alltel stores. Entries must be post marked by March 3 “Oh Freedom Over Me," Feb. 7-May 28. Levine Museum of the New South. Pho tographer Matt Herron’s recording of the civil rights movement through the South ern Documentary Project Joie Lassiter Gallery presents Robert Laz- zarini’s “New Works,” Feb. 3 at 6 p.m., 1440 South TVyon St, suite 104 Lazzari- ni’s sculpture and paper woiks have been seen in London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Seoul. Two sculptures are in Char lotte collections. He will give a talk at the museum Feb. 26. “From Apartheid to Democracy,” through May 15, Levine Museum of the New South. Exhibit illustrates transfor mation of South Afiica by telling the stoiy of the first 10 years of democracy. Concerts, art exhibits and community-ori ented events can be submitted to The Charlotte Post P.O. Box 30144 Charlotte, NC 28230. You can fax (704) 342-2160, log on at wwwJhecharlottepostrom or e- mail editorial® thecharlottepostjcom. Jackson State University’s marching band and featured batonist Dexter Brown combined acrobatics and musi cianship at the Honda Battle of the Bands last week in Atlanta. The com petition brought together bands from historically black colleges who were judged by their music and showman ship. PHOTO/WADE NASH Human rights advocate Angela Davis drew a crowd that spanned generations, racial and cultural lines at a lecture at Johnson C. Smith University. Davis, a college professor in California, spent parts of Janu ary speaking at N.C. colleges, including N.C. State University in Raleigh. PHOTOX^ALVW FERGUSON
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