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February 24, 2021
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Mint Museum Uptown
Tickets $6-$15 Free to members
To celebrate Mint Museum Uptown’s tenth anniversary, In Vivid Color: Pushing the Boundaries of Perception in Contemporary Art brings together four innovative contemporary artists Gisela Colon, Spencer Finch, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Summer Wheat who create works celebrating the power of color and its transformative ability to permeate the space around us. Their work is juxtaposed with a selection of paintings and works on paper drawn primarily from The Mint Museum’s permanent collection that explore artists’ exploration of color in more traditional ways.
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On Wednesday, February 10, Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 36, 2020 COVID Relief Bill Modifications, into law. On Thursday, February 11, the updated revenue forecast was released. This is the first forecast since May 2020, still early in the pandemic. According to the new report, expected revenue collections are “well above” the May 2020 forecast.
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COVID-19
On Wednesday, February 10, Governor Cooper and Secretary Cohen announced another revision to the vaccine priority groups and the timing. They expect the State to move to a subset of Group 3 in the COVID-19 vaccination priority beginning Wednesday, February 24. This subset would include childcare workers and teachers and other personnel in K-12 schools. The State then plans to move to the remainder of Group 3 beginning on Wednesday, March 10. However, the Governor and Secretary Cohen clarified that there may be further shifts in prioritizat
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Visitors to VisArt s microcinema will have a hostess who welcomes them and waits on them throughout the show.
Back in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Gina Stewart thought she might have one of the few virus-proof businesses.
VisArt rents movies. Actual, physical movies – DVDs, VHS tapes – that customers can take home and watch. When everyone is forced to stay home, that should mean a thriving business, right?
“Of course, we felt that way, too,” said Stewart, VisArt’s executive director. “We were like, ‘OK, people need us. People s mental health needs us.’ They need to be able to come in and get 10 movies and go home and watch them because they can t find what they want on Netflix, or they don t have Netflix, they don t have cable. Everybody s financially pressed.”
Loving Local @ South End Market
There s no need to make separate trips to get your Valentine those special loving things, not to mention the ingredients for a very special Valentines Day dinner. Just come out to our market the day before Valentine s Day, Saturday, Feb 13 for “Loving Local at South End Market”! Buy luscious, local chocolates from JF Chocolat. Choose handcrafted, local jewelry from Jewelry by SusanJ, Kate s TNT, M Designs, and Purple Girl Designs by Amber. Pick up scented soaps from Rub A Dub All Natural Suds and Tahor Pure Artisan Soap. Get those romantic candles from Two Chicks Candles.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In recognition of Black History Month, JazzArts Charlotte presents a performance of We Insist!, Max Roach s Freedom Now Suite, an historic and groundbreaking album, presented from Charlotte s Black Lives Matter mural.
This large production performance, featuring over a dozen accomplished regional and world-renowned artists, broadcasts its premiere Friday, February 12
th, 8pm EST on JazzArts Charlotte s YouTube Live. This special broadcast event is free.
(PRNewsfoto/JazzArts Charlotte) Our goal is to educate and share all aspects of the music, including its role in the struggle for equality, says Lonnie Davis, President of JazzArts Charlotte.