Levine Museum of the New South: Community opening of Climates of Inequality

Levine Museum of the New South, at 401 S Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC, is beside the Green, between Bernardin’s Restaurant and the Three Wells Fargo lobby.

Its mission is to connect the past to the future in order to realize the promises of a new south.

It’s now free to visit any day that it’s open. Read on to learn about the current exhibits and upcoming events.

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Climates of Inequality

Climates of Inequality will be on display from May 6 to September 8, 2023.

In partnership with UNC Charlotte’s Public History program and the Charlotte Teachers Institute, Climates of Inequality is coming to Levine Museum of the New South. Through virtual reality, moving audio testimony, and historical imagery from each community, the exhibition explores how the climate crisis and environmental injustice is intensifying inequality—and how the experiences of the hardest-hit communities hold the key to confronting these issues and finding ways to move forward.

Within the traveling exhibition of multimedia stories from across North and South America, a featured exhibition, “Climate Refugees in the City of Creeks,” explores histories of environmental change, displacement, and migration in Charlotte. Showcasing voices and artwork of students, teachers, and community members, it highlights Charlotte’s contributions to the environmental justice movement, from the first Earth Day in 1970 to today.

Climates of Inequality is a participatory public memory project and international traveling exhibition created by students, educators, and community leaders in over 20 cities across the US and around the world from Humanities Action Lab.

Levine Museum of the New South

Climates of Inequality Community Opening

The community opening of Climates of Inequality takes place Saturday, May 6, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Enjoy guided group tours by the curator and exhibition participants from UNC Charlotte. There will also be eco-friendly kid activities and special performances.

Clean Aire NC and Harvesting Humanity will be on site.

The guided tours take place 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Registration is not required.

 

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