Talks & Readings: Talks/Lectures, Food/Tasting, Business, Class/Workshop Soup to Nuts Strategy for Starting a Successful Food Business Good news food entrepreneurs! No longer are you required to rent expensive commercial space in order to bring your creative recipes to market. Thanks to cottage food laws you can create a small food business in your kitchen as long as you follow all of the...	Central Piedmont Community College - Harris Campus Charlotte, NC Tue 8/22/17 at 12:30pm-5:30pm
Talks & Readings: Health & Wellness/Nutrition, Talks/Lectures The Anatomy of a Sitter Sitting is the new Cancer. American adults spend an average of more than eight hours each day in front of screens, including televisions, computer monitors, cell phones and others. Researchers have identified sedentary behavior (time spent sitting) as a no...	CaroMont Health and Fitness Center Gastonia, NC Wed 8/23/17 at 11am-11:45am
Talks & Readings: Talks/Lectures Literary Fiction Overview with Joyce Turner Author and educator, Joyce Turner leads this class on a journey through literary fiction, exploring tense, point of view, summary, scene, dialogue, characterization, diction and plot. $45	Center for the Arts Rock Hill, SC Sat 8/26/17 at 10am-2pm
Talks & Readings: Talks/Lectures, Health & Wellness/Nutrition Overcoming Body Shame: How to Deal with Body Image Each year the Mecklenburg County Women’s Advisory Board has hosted an annual event in conjunction with Women’s Equality Day, which commemorates the granting of the vote to women in the United States. This year the board is collaborating with UNC Charlotte’...	University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Cone University Center Charlotte, NC Sat 8/26/17 at 9am-11:30am
Talks & Readings: Talks/Lectures Dr. Rodney Sadler: Sustaining the Momentum for Political Change Dr. Rodney Sadler will be speaking about sustaining momentum for political change. Dr. Sadler, best known as chair of the NC NAACP Healthcare Committee and a leader in the Moral Monday movement, is an associate professor of Bible at Union Presbyterian Semi...	Gethsemane Baptist Church of Lake Norman Davidson, NC Tue 8/29/17 at 6:30pm-8:30pm
Talks & Readings: Talks/Lectures, Education Explore the History of West Charlotte High The Robinson-Spangler Carolina is proud to present Dr. Pam Grundy. Drawing on nearly two decades of interviews with students, educators, and alumni of West Charlotte High School, Dr. Pam Grundy uses the history of a beloved school to tell a broader Ame...	Charlotte Mecklenburg Library – Beatties Ford Road Regional Charlotte, NC Sun 9/10/17 at 2pm-4:30pm
Talks & Readings: Poetry Reading/Spoken Word Charlotte Writers' Club September 19: Kazim Ali-poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator; ESS Short Story Contest Awards. 7-8:30p.m. Providence United Methodist Church, 2810 Providence Road (room 104) Charlotte Writers’ Club: 'Celebrating the written word'	Providence United Methodist Church Charlotte, NC Tue 9/19/17 at 7pm-8:30pm
Talks & Readings: Health & Wellness/Nutrition, Talks/Lectures Alzheimer's Support Group When someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's or Dementia, it takes a toll on so many people close to them. Join others that have been effected by Alzheimer's and other Dementia's in a support group where stories are shared, questions are answered and new fri...	Elmcroft Senior Living Charlotte, NC Thu 9/21/17 at 6pm Thu 10/19/17 at 6pm
Talks & Readings: Talks/Lectures Living Your Yes with RA You're invited to a personalized goal-setting event, where you will receive free, expert advice from a local doctor and learn how to set goals that can help you live life to its fullest.	Maggiano's Italian Restaurant Charlotte, NC Tue 9/26/17 at 6pm-8pm
Talks & Readings: Talks/Lectures Personally Speaking: Consuming Identity - The Role of Food in Redefining the South While many books examine southern food, Consuming Identity focuses on the role food plays in building identities and the messages food sends about who we are, how we see ourselves, and how we see others. Learn more about why we are what we eat at Personall...	UNC Charlotte Center City Charlotte, NC Tue 9/26/17 at 6:30pm
Talks & Readings: Talks/Lectures, Signing/Readings Personally Speaking: Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature North Carolina’s favorite literary son Thomas Wolfe published The Lost Boy in 1937. Even today, its theme of lost children permeates much of Southern literature. Personally Speaking on Nov. 14 will trace the, connections between The Lost Boy and contempora...	UNC Charlotte Center City Charlotte, NC Tue 11/14/17 at 6:30pm