What’s Happening with Moira Quinn

CHARLOTTE, NC — There’s a lot going on in Charlotte this weekend.

Moira Quinn from Charlotte Center City Partners stopped by to chat with the couch crew about all the happening going on in Charlotte.

Charlotte, One Year Later
Charlotte, One Year Later is an opportunity to reflect on the collective events that led to where Charlotte is today, and renew the community’s shared commitment to bring about positive change to the city, including the following:

A Conversation with Iyanla Vanzant: A Healing the Charlotte Community
Knight Theatre at Levine Center for the Arts 551 South Tryon Street
September 21, 2017 7:00pm

Vanzant, along with civic leader and former mayor Harvey Gantt, will lead a stimulating public conversation that addresses the pain and necessary healing within the Charlotte community as the city approaches the one-year anniversary of Charlotte Uprising.

Uprising to Uplifting
Little Rock AME Church
401 North McDowell Street
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Time: Noon-3:00pm

The goal of this event is to inform, call to commitment. Workshops will be provided to attendees to share ways to better our community. They will include workforce development, workshops on how to get a letter of expungement, CMPD transparency and others.

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‘Spiral Odyssey’ Dedication
Saturday, September 23, Starting at 10am in Romare Bearden Park

This Saturday Uptown will hold several events to celebrate the ‘Spiral Odyssey’ Dedication. The events will celebrate two of the most influential African-American artists of the 20th century – one of whom is one of Charlotte’s favorite sons – and one of uptown’s newest public artworks will be celebrated on the same day. The public dedication for “Spiral Odyssey,” the public artwork created by Chicago artist Richard Hunt
and installed in May, takes place Sept. 23 at Uptown Charlotte’s Romare Bearden Park, where the nearly 30-foot tall and 8,000-pound stainless steel sculpture is located.
The title references the role of park namesake and Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden in convening African-American artists in 1963 around arts activism during the Civil Rights Movement. It also alludes to Bearden’s series of works that took Homer’s epic poem as a point of inspiration and departure.

Sole to Soul West Side Glow Ride
Saturday, September 30, 6:30-10 p.m.

Come light up the West Side! Charlotte B-cycle, made possible by BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina, will host Sole to Soul – West Side Glow Ride for the community on Saturday, September 30. Bring your own bicycle or borrow one of ours! We will have some supplies to decorate your bike and a competition for the best decorated bike. Registraton and decoration begins at 6:30. The ride will be from 7:30-8:30, with the cook out following the ride.
Anyone interested in reserving a B-cycle bike must sign up through Eventbrite by noon on Friday, Sep. 29. The ride will meander from the Latibah Collard Green Museum through the Historic West End and parts of Center City. It will end at Mosaic Village followed by a cookout and music by DJ
Smitty. The event is free and open to the public, and is made possible by Charlotte B-cycle, BCBSNC, Carolinas HealthCare System, the Knight Foundation, Historic West End Initiative, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, No Grease and Johnson C. Smith University.