Arts and Culture

Rowe and Storrs galleries will both hold receptions and artist talks for concurrent exhibitions on Wednesday, Oct. 30.  

The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre will perform “Love the Doctor,” a comedic play by the Spanish Golden Age playwright Tirso de Molina starting Wednesday, Oct. 30.
This will be the first fully staged production of the 17th-century play to be performed in the United States in English. The work was translated and adapted by UNC Charlotte alumna Sarah Brew, in collaboration with Josephine Hardman.

The Music Department’s Faculty and Friends Concert Series will feature the Rubens Trio at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Robinson Hall’s Belk Theater.
David Russell, the Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin, leads the trio, which includes guest artists Mihai Tetel, associate professor at the Hartt School of Music, Dance and Theatre at the University of Hartford, cello, and pianist Elizabeth Schwimmer.

The Bonnie E. Cone University Center will celebrate 50 years of campus life in November with a weeklong celebration of the facility’s historical significance and contemporary relevance to the University community with commemorative remarks, student performances, personal stories, educational exhibits, music, dance and other festivities.

The Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) encourages the campus community to celebrate the life and work of LGBTQ people on National Coming Out Day during a celebration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 11, in the Student Union Rotunda.
Students will have the opportunity to tell their own stories about coming out and to collect those stories to be included in the LGBTQ Community Archive at UNC Charlotte. Individuals who want to show their support of the LGBTQ community can sign a banner to hang in the Student Union following the event.

Charles Willie, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, emeritus, at Harvard University, will give the fifth annual Bertha Maxwell-Roddey Distinguished Africana Lecture at 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 16, in EPIC, Room G256.
Willie, a noted sociologist, has researched desegregation, high education, public health, race relations, urban community problems and family life. Before joining Harvard University in 1974, he was a faculty member and administrator at Syracuse University for more than 25 years.

David Goldfield, the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History, will deliver the annual Caldwell Lecture in the Humanities at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 10, in UNC Charlotte Center City. Longtime UNC Charlotte benefactors Sally Dalton and Russell Robinson II will receive the John T. Caldwell Award for the Humanities at this free, public event.

Actors From The London Stage, a self-directed ensemble of five professional British actors, will perform “Othello” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 16, through Saturday, Oct. 19, in the Anne R. Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. These performances are part of a week-long residency at UNC Charlotte presented by the Department of Theatre and Shakespeare in Action.

The UNC Charlotte Department of Music Faculty & Friends Series will feature a performance by the Oasis Saxophone Quartet at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 1, in the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts, Belk Theater.
Founded in 2006, the Oasis Quartet has been praised for its live performances, as well as for its innovative and creative clinic and concert programming. In a review of the quartet’s 2011 album, Allmusic wrote, “The Oasis Quartet performs with impeccable technique and intonation, and the players have a sweet, pure tone.”

The Projective Eye Gallery of the College of Arts + Architecture presents “Mad Hatters to Pixel Pushers: Exploring the Continuum of Photography Through Process and the Constructed Image.”
 A free, public opening reception for the display will be 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28, at the gallery, located in UNC Charlotte Center City; it will feature conversations with the artists and a performance by the UNC Charlotte Faculty Jazz Quintet.