By Bernie Petit Communications Manager After 25 years teaching theater arts – the past 20 at Charlotte’s Northwest School of the Arts – Corey Mitchell asked himself a question that changed the trajectory of his career. Is there more I can do to help build and support the next generation of theatre professionals? His deep-seated …

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By Jonathan McFadden Even as restrictions ease and businesses reopen, visitors to Charlotte-Mecklenburg cultural organizations shouldn’t expect masks, social distancing and other pandemic-borne safety measures to completely disappear. Leaders at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Theatre Charlotte and Discovery Place are still evaluating what the post-pandemic experience will look like …

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By Michael Solender One of Beverly Penninger’s most valuable story telling lessons came from a noted journalist early in her Emmy-award winning video production and filmmaking career. In 1996, only three years after Penninger established her production company, Naka Productions, she secured legendary broadcast journalist Charles Kuralt to narrate “Wild in Corolla,” a one-hour public …

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By Michael Solender “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” When Sufi poet and mystic Rumi uttered those words in 13th-century Persia, he posited how an entire world of creative possibility could come from a singular space or solitary inspiration. His choice of water to illustrate …

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