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Georgia s Stacey Abrams speaks in Durham, Charlotte this year. How to buy tickets. Lucille Sherman, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
May 19 RALEIGH Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, who has been given much of the credit for her state turning blue in the 2020 presidential election, will make stops in Durham and Charlotte this November.
As part of a national tour, called A Conversation with Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader will speak at Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte on Nov. 17 and at the Durham Performing Arts Center on Nov. 18.
Her visit follows national attention on her efforts against voter suppression and on behalf of Democratic candidates ahead of the 2020 election, in part through her organization Fair Fight. Those efforts proved successful as now-President Joe Biden narrowly won Georgia, flipping it from a red state to a blue state, and Democrats won both of the state s Senate seats.
Two Cabarrus County Schools students â Hickory Ridgeâs Bryson Battle and Northwest Cabarrusâs Cameron Meyer â are finalists this year for Best Actor in the annual Blumey Awards.
The Blumey Awards are put on every year by Blumenthal Performing Arts and aim to continue the celebration of high school musical theater. Battle and Meyer will compete with four other actors for the Best Actor Award in a 30-minute program airing on PBS Charlotte on May 25 at 8 p.m. The winner of that event will move on to the National High School Musical Theater Awards on July 15.
Ian Sullivan and Andrea Rassler have worked with their students respectively since their freshmen years and seeing their hard work culminate in Blumey Award nominations has been special for them.
“Savannah, to me, feels like home,” Evan Goetz told me last week. “I’m happy to be back.
Goetz, who recently moved back to the area from Rock Hill, S.C., is the new executive director of the nonprofit Tybee Post Theater, which was constructed in 1930 as a movie theater for Fort Screven soldiers and their families. Since the completion of extensive renovations in 2015, the theater has kept a busy year-round schedule of concerts, movies, plays and other performances.
A native of Gaffney, S.C., Goetz first moved to the Georgia coast in 2011 when he began working on an MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design.