Charlotte SHOUT! returns March 31 – April 16 to Uptown Charlotte
Charlotte SHOUT! is a multiweek festival that showcases our community’s creativity, innovation, diversity, and resilience. Presented by Atrium Health and Bank of America and produced by Charlotte Center City Partners, SHOUT! features 200+ installations, performances, events, and activations ~ nearly all outdoors, free, and open to the public without tickets.
“SHOUT! has quickly become a beloved tradition in the Charlotte region. It is an amazing opportunity to explore Uptown, celebrate our community’s creativity and diversity, and experience the extraordinary talents of artists from around the corner and around the world.”
Robert Krumbine, Chief Creative Officer for Charlotte Center City Partners
New this year at Charlotte SHOUT!:
- Pianodrome is America’s first performance space made entirely from upcycled pianos. This new 75-seat structure will be housed inside the historic Grace on Brevard venue as both a sculpture and dynamic in-the-round intimate venue. Pianodrome will come alive with dozens of performances by local artists.
- “POP!” is an interactive art installation featuring five enigmatic monoliths, each with a special creature just waiting to be freed so it can put on a show.
- Serenity Garden is a new SHOUT! venue at a secret Uptown greenspace where you can enjoy a peaceful respite or enjoy a yoga class
- “Affinity” is an immersive light and sound adventure inspired by the human brain with 62 different color combinations and 112 points of interaction.
- Fifteen !cons, each designed by a local artist, will punctuate the entire footprint of Charlotte SHOUT!, helping visitors find their way around the festival.
- 12 larger-than-life Roaming Gnomes will be spread all over Uptown, each with its own personality and theme.
Returning to SHOUT! this year:
- “Impulse,” an internationally renowned, interactive public art display of giant, illuminated seesaws – and a fan favorite – is back.
- The Charlotte Ideas Festival, curated by The Charlotte Center for the Humanities and Civic Imagination, will feature thinkers and innovators exploring the important topics of our times, from the hard and necessary work of citizenship to finding joy in our lives to the role of artificial intelligence in society.
- Musical performances by more than 80 local musicians or bands at four different locations, including the showcase stage at Victoria Yards, an innovative former parking lot featuring a stage, food vendors, and 10+ murals on repurposed shipping containers.
- The Charlotte StrEATs Festival, celebrating chefs from neighborhoods across the city.
Best of all, there will be surprise installations and activations throughout Uptown, in secret alleys, in iconic public spaces, and in all manner of locations in between. Charlotte SHOUT! wants to make every day different for the QC, so you’ll have to look up and around because you never know what you will see.
Roaming Gnomes
Visit charlotteshout.com for a full schedule of events
Charlotte Center City Partners boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure Charlotte Center City is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich, and beloved place for all. For complete information about Charlotte Center City Partners, visit www.charlottecentercity.org.
