Free at Gantt Center: Talking About it Tuesday: Locked Up and Pushed Out

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture

The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, at 551 South Tryon Street at Levine Center for the Arts, has a number of free and low-cost events coming up for the community.

To start with, admission is FREE every Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., through June 30th, 2020. This is the first time they’ve had a weekly free evening, so make sure to take advantage! At Walk Up Wednesdays, there will also be drop-in art activities and enhanced tours, scavenger hunts, film screenings and more.

The Mint Museum is also free on Wednesday evenings, and Mint Museum Uptown is right across the street from the Gantt Center, so why not make an evening of it?

Also, please see this Groupon for 50% off admission for 2 or 4.

Some of the events that take regularly place at the Gantt Center:

Art After Dark (see above video!)
Gantt After Dark
Family First
Classic Black Cinema

Upcoming free or low-priced events at the Gantt Center

Talk About It Tuesday: Locked Up and Pushed Out
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Free

Join exhibiting artist Sherrill Roland and local experts as we discuss issues addressed in our new exhibition … and justice for all. Ultimately exonerated of all charges, Roland will share his experience serving in prison and discuss what it’s like to reenter society after one’s sentence is completed.

Joining Roland on the panel are:

Gemini Boyd, Founder, Project BOLT
Dr. Keith Cradle, Youth Program Director, Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office
Patrice Funderburg, Founder, Educate to Engage

Panelists will also discuss the history and framework of the current prison industrial complex.

The Classic Black Cinema Series: A Woman Called Moses
Sunday, December 8th, 2019
2 p.m.
Included in admission to museum
Age 18+

(1978 )The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the underground railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African-Americans to make their way to the freedom of the Northern states. Adding to the tension are Harriet’s frequent epileptic fainting spells. Orson Welles narrates this adaptation of Marcy Heidish’s novel.