06/13/2026
🌟 Meet the 2025 Black Carolina Artist Residency Cohort: Derrick Beasley, Jermaine Nakia Lee, Hannah Hasan, Anthony Patterson, and Tim Scott.
This residency supports artists whose work engages community, storytelling, history, culture, and collective imagination across North Carolina.
Don't miss this weekends programs:
🎭 Jermaine Nakia Lee
Front Porch Broadway: ROCK THE BLOCK
📅 June 12–13 | 5–8 PM
📍 5-Points Plaza, Charlotte
Front Porch Broadway: ROCK THE BLOCK transforms porches, sidewalks, barbershops, and neighborhood gathering spaces into stages for community-created musical theatre. Through original stories and performances, the project celebrates the creativity, talent, and lived experiences already present within the community.
☕ Hannah Hasan
What We Are Building: Live Storytelling CoffeeHouse
📅 June 14 | 2–4 PM
📍 Arts+ Community Campus, Charlotte
What We Are Building: Live Storytelling CoffeeHouse brings together artists, entrepreneurs, organizers, and creatives to share personal stories about the work, spaces, and futures they're building in Charlotte. Expect powerful storytelling, community dialogue, food, and opportunities to contribute your own reflections.
🎥 Anthony Patterson
A Community's Worthwhile
Film Screening + Community Conversation
📅 June 14 | 4–6:30 PM
📍905 West Main Street, Suite 25B, Durham, NC 27701
Join Anthony for A Community's Worthwhile, a film screening and conversation exploring the history and resilience of Durham's Crest Street community. Through film, oral history, and dialogue, the project honors the people who fought to preserve their neighborhood and the memories that continue to shape it today.
Interested in learning more about the cohort, past projects, and upcoming programs? Visit ganttcenter.org and follow along as these artists continue bringing their visions to life.
