Youth Orchestras of Charlotte will perform works by composers from across continents in recognition of the exhibition Craft Across Continents.
Wednesday Night Live is presented by Bank of America.
Event is free, cash bar.
The Southern premiere of a new 2K restoration of Harry Smith’s pioneering short animated films created between 1946 and 1952. Inspired by Native American cultures, jazz, the Kabbala, and surrealism, Smith assembled his own cinematic universe of shape, color, light, and time. Lecture and discussion by Rani Singh, director of the Harry Smith Archives, following the screening.
Wednesday Night Live is presented by Bank of America.
Event is free, cash bar.
Take a seat for theater troupe XOXO, Charlotte’s masters-of-the-absurd, as they present When We Were Young the Moon Was a Living Star (A multimedia response to Ionesco’s ‘The Chairs’).
Performance begins at 7:30 PM.
Event is free, cash bar.
Featuring: Jen Adams, Kadey Ballard, Eric Mullis and Jeremy Shane
Production design by Will Rudolph
Sound design by Shannon Hager
Stage managed by Amanda Labrie
Directed by Matt Cosper
Wednesday Night Live is presented by Bank of America.
Enjoy drum group performances and informative presentations by Catawba Nation representatives.
Wednesday Night Live is presented by Bank of America.
Event is free, cash bar.
Award-winning, Charlotte-based, and family-founded video production company LoydVisuals screens two of their most recent short films: “Kingfish: The Story of Kenny Washington,” created in collaboration with The BLK Originals; and a documentary for the City of Charlotte.
6 PM: Music mingle in the Morrison Atrium
7 PM: “Kingfish” screening
7:20 PM: Panel + Q&A moderated by the Mint’s Curatorial Assistant Jamila Brown
8:20 PM: Post Screening
8:45 PM: Program wraps
Join Senior Curator of Craft, Design, and Fashion Annie Carlano for a tour of 19th-century fashion in the Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations, 1760-NOW exhibition. Limited capacity. Registration required. Museum galleries will be open until 9 PM.
Curator-led Tour: 19th-century Fashion
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Mint Museum Uptown 6-6:30 PM | Free, cash bar
Fashion Night at the Mint + Wednesday Night Live
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Mint Museum Uptown 5-9 PM | Free, cash bar
Join for a night of fashion and design programming that celebrates the exhibition Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations, 1760-NOW. All museum galleries will be open from 5-9 PM
6 PM: Curator-led tour: 18th-century Fashion
Join Senior Curator of Craft, Design, and Fashion Annie Carlano for a tour of 18th-century fashion in the Fashion Reimagined exhibition. Limited capacity. Registration required.
Level 3, Gorelick Gallery
6-6:30 PM | Free
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6:30 PM: Wednesday Night Live: Fashion House Ball + Vogue Performance
Five houses from the regional and local Ballroom scene will perform and give a breakdown on the five categories of Vogue: Catwalk, Hands, Spins and Dips, Duckwalk and Floor Performance. The performances will serve looks inspired by designs currently on display in Fashion Reimagined. Presented by Bank of America.
Robert Haywood Morrison Atrium
6:30 PM | Free
6-9 PM: Graphic GarMINT Opening Reception
Graphic GarMINT installation honors and highlights the creativity and work of locally based Black designers. MacFly Fresh Printing Co. will be screen-printing live on site, plus live DJ and cash bar.
Level 5, Mint5pace
6-9 PM | Free
Three playwrights and four actors from Queen City New Play Initiative will create impromptu skits in response to works in Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds and our permanent collection galleries with projections of works in Mint Uptown Atrium.
Wednesday Night Live: Queen City New Play Initiative Bake-off
March 1, 2023 | 5-9 PM, 6:30 PM performance
Mint Museum Uptown
Free, cash bar
Enjoy a screening of Rosalia Torres-Weiner’s short film The Magic Kite (10 minutes), followed by Perfume de Gardenias (1 hour, 37 minutes), the debut film from renowned Afro-Puerto Rican singer, multidisciplinary artist, and filmmaker Macho Colón. First screening begins at 6:30 PM.
Cash bar and popcorn will be available.