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Today: Saturday, August 31, 2024
Tomorrow: Sunday, September 1, 2024
Monday, September 2, 2024
Event | Time | Price | Location |
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7th Annual Teacher-Penned Play Festival | 2:00 pm | FREE | Charlotte Art League |
Subway Footlong Sub just $6.99 | All Day | $6.99 | Subway — Multiple locations |
Order from Papa Johns and get a reward for a free pizza | All Day | Papa Johns (multiple locations) | |
Military Appreciation Weekend: free admission for active military and USAA members | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | FREE | Discovery Place Science |
Matthews Alive | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | FREE | Downtown Matthews |
Labor Day at The Museum of the Waxhaws -- half price admission and free kids' activities | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Discounted | Museum of the Waxhaws |
Free admission to Bechtler Museum of Modern Art | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | FREE | Bechtler Museum of Modern Art |
Charlotte Labor Day Parade | 11:00 am | FREE | Center City Charlotte–Trade and Tryon |
Charlotte Neighborhood Night | 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Discounted | Lost Worlds Brewing, Cornelius |
Teacher Appreciation Night: 20% off tab for teachers, faculty & staff | 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Discounted | Pilot Brewing |
Summer Music Series at Seoul Food (Mill District) | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | FREE | Seoul Food Meat Co., Mill District |
OG Mondays | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | FREE | Wooden Robot Brewery (South End) |
Trivia with Game Night Live | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | FREE | Monarch Market |
Nerds + Pizza Game Night | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Percent Tap House, Harrisburg |
Open Mic Night at Old Town Public House | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | FREE | Old Town Public House |
Open Mic Night | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Town Brewing |
Open Level Flow Yoga (parking fee applies) | 6:30 pm | FREE | U.S. National Whitewater Center |
Free Providence Swing Dance class and open swing dance floor | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Christ Lutheran Church, Providence Campus |
Manic Mondays Karaoke | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | FREE | Starlight on 22nd |
Nerd Night + Free Pizza | 7:00 pm | FREE | Resident Culture Brewing Plaza Midwood |
Find Your Muse Open Mic | 7:30 pm | $5.00 | The Evening Muse |
The Bill Hanna Legacy Jazz Session | 7:30 pm | $5.00-7.00 | Petra’s |
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Event | Time | Price | Location |
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Half Price Bays at Topgolf (2 locations) | All Day | $15.00-30.00 | Various locations |
Walgreens Senior Day: 20% off for rewards members age 55+ | All Day | Walgreens (multiple locations) | |
Subway Footlong Sub just $6.99 | All Day | $6.99 | Subway — Multiple locations |
Open Level Flow Yoga (parking fee applies) | 9:30 am | FREE | U.S. National Whitewater Center |
Good Mourning Monday -- Coffee and Conversation with Loss 101 (on Tuesday this month) | 10:30 am to 12:00 pm | FREE | Coffin House Coffee, Concord |
Community Area Planning Workshop: West | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm | FREE | Virtual |
Public Tour at Innovation Barn (register in advance) | 1:30 pm to 2:15 pm | FREE | Innovation Barn |
Kids Eat Free | 3:00 pm | FREE | Resident Culture South End |
$2 Off Tuesdays | 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Discounted | Petty Thieves Brewing Co. |
Song Request Night | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | FREE | Primal Brewery, Huntersville |
Song Request Night | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | FREE | Primal Brewery Belmont |
Bring Your Own Vinyl Night | 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Divine Barrel Brewing |
Be Well Birkdale: Free workout series | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | FREE | Birkdale Village |
Trivia Tuesdays with DJ BBurg | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | FREE | The Casual Pint (Rivergate) |
Tabletop Game Night | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Beer Lab by Ghostface Brewing |
Slow Flow Yoga (parking fee applies) | 6:30 pm | FREE | U.S. National Whitewater Center |
Tosco Music Open Mic | 6:30 pm | $5.00 | The Evening Muse |
Beer and Bunco | 6:45 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Hoptown Brewing Company, Mooresville |
An Unusually Lovely Open Mic | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Divine Barrel Brewing |
Survey Slam | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Beer Lab by Ghostface Brewing |
Open Mic Night | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | FREE | Cavendish Brewing Company, Gastonia |
Comedy Night at Starlight on 22nd | 7:30 pm | FREE | Starlight on 22nd |
Piano Karaoke & Sing Along with Ryan Stamey | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | $5.00 | Petra’s |
Tuesday Line Dancing at The Rose | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | FREE | The Rose Honky Tonk |
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Event | Time | Price | Location |
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Students: buy one ticket get one free at Independent Picture House on Wednesdays | All Day | Discounted | Independent Picture House |
$3 Goblets at Pilot Brewing -- Select drafts | All Day | $3.00 | Pilot Brewing |
Kids Eat Free | All Day | FREE | Beer Lab by Ghostface Brewing |
Community Day at Anne Springs Close Greenway: Free admission for ages 65+ | All Day | FREE | Anne Springs Close Greenway |
Subway Footlong Sub just $6.99 | All Day | $6.99 | Subway — Multiple locations |
Free admission to Bechtler Museum of Modern Art | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | FREE | Bechtler Museum of Modern Art |
Gilde Game Night | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | FREE | Gilde Brewery |
Birkdale Buds -- activities for preschool children | 10:30 am to 12:00 pm | FREE | Birkdale Village |
Free exercise class for people with Parkinson's Disease | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm | FREE | Back to Independence Rehab |
Kids Eat Free | 3:00 pm | FREE | Resident Culture South End |
Wednesday Night Live: Free admission to Uptown museums | 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Various locations |
Humpday Happiness Vendor Events | 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Percent Tap House, Harrisburg |
Paws & Pints | 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Brewers at 4001 Yancey |
Free Wednesday Yoga | 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm | FREE | Sycamore Brewing |
Opening Celebration for "The Communion of White Dresses" | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Mint Museum Uptown |
Stitch N Bitch Craft Circle | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | FREE | Petty Thieves Brewing Co. |
The OG Boot Camp | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | FREE | Lenny Boy Brewing Co. |
Open Mic Night | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Madison Perk Coffee Bar |
Karaoke at The Grinning Mule | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | FREE | The Grinning Mule |
Open Level Flow Yoga (parking fee applies) | 6:30 pm | FREE | U.S. National Whitewater Center |
Open Mic at Summit Coffee Basecamp | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Summit Coffee, Basecamp, Davidson |
Beats at Birdsong | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Birdsong Brewing Co. |
Bunco! | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Eleven Lakes Brewing, Cornelius |
Puzzle Race and Half-Priced Wine | 7:00 pm | Discounted | Middle James Brewing |
Movie Night in the Biergarten: Holes | 7:00 pm | FREE | Olde Mecklenburg Brewery — LoSo |
OTPH Jazz Night | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | FREE | Old Town Public House |