Virtual Experiences

Connect to virtual arts, science and history experiences all hosted by local artists, scientists, historians and organizations! Bookmark and check in daily for updates.

All experiences are free unless they are marked with a dollar sign ($).

Monday, September 28

9:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and ImaginOn's Family Storytime via Facebook Live

10:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Listen and Move Storytime via Facebook Live

11 a.m. - Carolina Raptor Center's Avian Home Adventures 2.0 via Facebook Live

Tuesday, September 29

9:30 a.m. - Charlotte Lit's Pen to Paper Live (Register)

9:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and ImaginOn's Family Storytime via Facebook Live

10:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Cuentos Virtuales en Español

7 p.m. - ($) Charlotte Symphony's ON TAP: LIVE @ NoDa

Wednesday, September 30

9:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and ImaginOn's Family Storytime via Facebook Live

10 a.m. - Main Street Books' Tunes & Tales with Jamie LIVE on Instagram

10:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Listen and Move Storytime via Facebook Live

3 p.m. - ($) Wing Haven's Budding Naturalists - Investigators (Register)

6 p.m. - (Culture Blocks) Ignite Fall Dance Fest

7 p.m. - UNC Charlotte's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences' Personally Speaking: Drones and Support for the Use of Force

Thursday, October 1

Harvey B. Gantt Center Re-Opens

($) Blumenthal Performing Arts' Theater Tours (Register)

9:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and ImaginOn's Family Storytime via Facebook Live

10:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Cuentos Virtuales en Español

6:30 p.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Art and Activism Series: Engage2020

8 p.m. - JazzArts Charlotte's Live from Crown with Harvey Cummings II

Friday, October 2

($) Blumenthal Performing Arts' Theater Tours (Register)

SouthEnd ARTS' JUSTICE Virtual Art Exhibition *through Dec. 1* Available on Facebook, Instagram, the SouthEnd Arts website (southendarts.net) and YouTube

9:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and ImaginOn's Family Storytime via Facebook Live

10:30 a.m. - Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and ImaginOn's Baby Storytime via Facebook Live

3 p.m. - Harvey B. Gantt Center's Family First: Creative Writing

7 p.m. -Virtual Jazz at the Bechtler with Special Guest Martin Bejerano (Register)

Saturday, October 3

($) Blumenthal Performing Arts' Theater Tours (Register)

2020 ArtWalk & MusicFest of Matthews *Oct. 3-17*

9 a.m. - Hola Festival Goes Virtual en Familia

10 a.m. - Main Street Books' Moving Stories with Camerin LIVE on Instagram

10 a.m. - (Culture Blocks) Capoeira Saturdays (Register)

7:30 p.m. - ($) Drive-In Movie in Old Town Cornelius

1 p.m. -(Culture Blocks) UYU: Virtual Artist Branding Workshop (Register)

7 p.m. - ($) Caroline Calouche & Co.'s Animalia (Live and Virtual)

Sunday, October 4

($) Blumenthal Performing Arts' Theater Tours (Register)

ARTS & SCIENCE CAMPS AND CLASSES:

($) Arts+' Virtual Palette (Register)

($) Arts+' Private Music Lessons (Register)

($) Arts+' Charlotte Children's Choir (Register)

Arts+' Studio 345 (Enroll)

($) Blumenthal Teen Actor's Lab (Register)

($) Charlotte Lit's Fall Classes (Register)

($) Children's Theatre of Charlotte's Mini Camps, Teen Studios, Creative Drama, Dance and Movement Classes, Theatre Training, Acting Lessons (Register)

($) Clayworks' Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Wheel / Beginning Clay / Beginning, Advanced Handbuilding / Rake / Kids and Youth Pottery (Register)

($) Discovery Place's School Camp (Register)

($) El Alma de la Luna Dance Academy (Email elalmadelalunadance@gmail.com)

($) JazzArts Fall Online Programs for Youth (Register)

($) JazzArts Fall Online Programs for Adults (Register)

($) Mint Museum's Summer Creativity Kits (Register)

($) Opera Carolina's Academy Chorus (Register)

COMING SOON:

Blumenthal Performing Arts' Theater Tours *Oct. 12, 19, 23, 26*

($) Charlotte Symphony's ON TAP: LIVE @ NoDa *Oct. 6*

($) Wing Haven's Senior Bird Walk (Register) *Oct. 6*

Shooting the Street: Making Compelling Pictures out of Uninteresting Moments *Oct. 8*

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Art and Activism Series: Engage2020 *Oct. 8 & 22*

Kinetic Works' River Notes *Oct. 10-17*

Davidson College Presbyterian Church's Organ at Davidson Concert presents Joby Bell, organist, playing entire Widor’s 7th *Oct. 12*

Keep Jazz A-Live-Streaming: Live from Crown *Oct. 15*

Theatre Charlotte's Broadway Ball: At Home *Oct. 17*

Levine Museum of the New South's CataLysT: An Evening with Danny Glover *Oct. 17*

(Culture Blocks) Dope Jazz Series by Dapper Street Productions *Oct. 18*

($) Charlotte Symphony's ON TAP: LIVE @ NoDa *Oct. 20*

Central Piedmont Arts' "Reconvene" Artist Talk by Keith Bryant *Oct. 22*

($) CSO ON DEMAND, Streamed from the Knight Theater *Oct. 23*

USC Lancaster Native American Studies Center's October Virtual Lunch and Learn: Trustworthy, Loyal, Beleaguered: A Decade of Good Intentions in Boy Scouts. *Oct. 23*

($) KIPP:Charlotte's Pop-Up Drive-In Movie Night *Oct. 24*

Central Piedmont Arts' "Love and Gravity" Artist Talk by Linda Luise Brown *Oct. 27*

($) Charlotte Symphony's ON TAP: LIVE @ NoDa *Oct. 27*

McColl Center for Art + Innovation's Benefit Art Sale *Oct. 29*

USC Lancaster Native American Studies Center's November Virtual Lunch and Learn: Closing the Circle: Repairing Catawba Foodways. *Nov. 20*

($) Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation' Verse & Vino *Nov. 5*

($) Charlotte Symphony's CSO On Demand: Williams, Copland, + O'Connor *Nov. 6*

($) Charlotte Symphony's On Tap Live @ NoDa Brewing Co. *Nov. 10*

($) Charlotte Symphony's On Tap Live @ NoDa Brewing Co. *Nov. 17*

($) Charlotte Symphony's CSO On Demand: Brahms + Dvořák *Nov. 20*

($) Caroline Calouche & Co.'s Dance And Circus For All (Live Virtual Show) *Nov. 21*

($) Charlotte Symphony's CSO On Demand: Mendelssohn + Shaw *Dec. 4*

($) Caroline Calouche & Co.'s A Christmas Carol(Live Virtual Show) *Dec. 19 - 20*

Other resources:

AerialCLT’s Online Fitness Classes

Arts+'s Preschool Art Lab Activities, Drawing and Comic Art & Adult Art

Bechtler Museum of Modern Art’s #MuseumFromHome Resource Page

Blumenthal @ Home

Carolina Raptor Center’s STEM Adventure Sheets and Avian Enrichment Projects

Charlotte Ballet's Dispersal - Performance, Interviews & Behind-the-Scenes

Charlotte Ballet's Essence of Numbers

Charlotte Symphony’s Audio Stream of Past CSO Performances, listening guides, educational materials, and more

Children’s Theatre of Charlotte’s #MovementWithMavis Theatre-at-Home Series

Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte (CATCh) Live, Recorded Improv! Videos

(Culture Blocks) Dear Soul Music Co.’s The Artists’ Way Journey

(Culture Blocks) Kinetic Works' Full STEAM Ahead Performance

(Culture Blocks) Moving Spirits’ Dances of the Diaspora Workshops & Performances

Digi-Bridge’s LEGO Robotics Kit rental

Discovery Place’s Stay-At-Home Science Series

Harvey B. Gantt Center’s Hewitt Collection of African American Art

Harvey B. Gantt Center – How Parents Can use Photography to Educate Kids with Alvin C. Jacobs Jr.

Historic Latta Plantation’s Learning Series

JazzArts Charlotte's JAZZ ROOM - January 2020 (full show)

Levine Museum of the New South’s Lesson Plans and Activities

Levine Museum of the New South's StoryMining: #COVIDHistory

Levine Jewish Community Center's Fitness and Arts Videos

Levine Jewish Community Center's Just for Kids Page

Matthews Playhouse Theater's Park Bench Improvisation Game

Open Door Studio Dance Classes

Rumbao Latin Dance Company’s Online Dance Classes

Storytime with Levine Museum of the New South

The Mint Museum’s #MuseumFromHome Resource Page

NC Learn @ Home Educational Resources

NC Office of Early Learning’s Weekly Learning Activities

Piedmont Music Therapy’s Virtual Course Offerings

The Quarantine Couch podcast, created by ASC grantees Perrine DeShield and Will Jenkins

Town of Davidson's Virtual Parks & Recreation page

WCNC Charlotte’s Weather School

WFAE's Songversations

Wing Haven's Education from Home Page

YMCA 360’s Health & Fitness Videos

If you know of any other programs happening that are not listed here, please email Giovanna Torres (giovanna.torres@artsandscience.org).

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