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Today: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tomorrow: Thursday, February 27, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
| Event | Time | Price | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Slurpee at 7-Eleven and Speedway | All Day | FREE | Participating locations of 7-Eleven and Speedway |
| Regal's Best Picture Film Festival | All Day | Regal Cinema (multiple locations) | |
| CLT Hot Chicken Week | All Day | $8.00 | Various locations |
| Rowan County OTC Medicine Giveaway and Community Event | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | FREE | Salisbury Civic Center |
| Free Public Tour of Innovation Barn | 9:00 am | FREE | Innovation Barn |
| 5-Year Anniversary Mardi Gras Style | 12:00 pm | FREE | Old Armor Beer Company, Kannapolis |
| Major League Table Tennis Competition | 4:00 pm to 9:30 pm | $6.76-12.43 | Charlotte Convention Center |
| Live music: Kyle Murphy | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | FREE | Monarch Market |
| Kick the Keg Party | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Discounted | Brewers at 4001 Yancey |
| Book Club: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | FREE | Primal Brewery Belmont |
| To Be Consumed: UNC Charlotte Student and Alumni Art Show | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Goodyear Arts |
| Lit Nation: Poetry Reading | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | FREE | Goodyear Arts |
| #JamByTheVan | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | FREE | Town Brewing |
| Friday Night Live Music at Confluence | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Confluence, Cramerton |
| Bold & Beautiful Comedy Showcase | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Protagonist Brewing South End |
| Winter Music Series: Mike Orlando | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Summit Coffee, Basecamp, Davidson |
| Trivia For Us: Black History Month Edition | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | FREE | Queen City Grounds |
| Friday Night Live Music | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | FREE | Hi-Wire Brewing Charlotte |
| The Comedy Market: Open Mic | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Common Market South End |
| "Skate Your Heart Out" at Seoul Food Mill District | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | FREE | Seoul Food Meat Co., Mill District |
| Live music: Flame Tides | Pam Taylor & The Flyin' V | Party Battleship | 9:00 pm | $7.00-10.00 | Petra’s |
| Mardi Gras DJ & Photo Booth at Kilted Buffalo Langtree | 10:00 pm | FREE | Kilted Buffalo Langtree |
Saturday, March 1, 2025
| Event | Time | Price | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free museum admission first weekend of month for Bank of America/Merrill customers | All Day | FREE | Various locations |
| Regal's Best Picture Film Festival | All Day | Regal Cinema (multiple locations) | |
| CLT Hot Chicken Week | All Day | $8.00 | Various locations |
| First day to sign up for Heart of a Champion sports screenings | FREE | Virtual | |
| The Home Depot Kids' Workshop: Basketball Game | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm | FREE | The Home Depot, multiple locations |
| Sports & Pokemon Card Show | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | $5.00 | Atrium Health Ballpark, Kannapolis |
| Morning Yoga Flow at the Market at 7th Street | 9:00 am | $5.00 | The Market at 7th Street |
| Reading Circus | 9:30 am to 12:00 pm | FREE | Sugar Creek Library |
| Charlotte Doodle Meetup | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | $5.00 | Skiptown |
| Saturday Morning Yoga | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | $5.00 | Lenny Boy Brewing Co. |
| Dadgum, Get Outside and Play Day | 10:00 am to 12:00 pm | FREE | Davidson Village Green |
| Touch-a-Truck in Indian Trail | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | FREE | Chestnut Square Park, Indian Trail |
| Visit Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | FREE | Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society & Museum |
| Boomtown Bash: Life at a Carolina Gold Mine -- living history event at Reed Gold Mine | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | $4.00 | Reed Gold Mine |
| Gilde Brewery's 3rd Anniversary Party | 10:00 am to 11:59 pm | FREE | Gilde Brewery |
| Free Yoga | 10:00 am | FREE | Sycamore Brewing |
| Dr. Seuss Day at Grow Cafe CLT | 11:00 am to 5:30 pm | $14.00 | Grow Cafe CLT |
| Celebrate Mardi Gras at Papa Doc's | 11:00 am to 11:59 pm | Papa Doc’s Shore Club | |
| 5-Year Anniversary Mardi Gras Style | 11:00 am | FREE | Old Armor Beer Company, Kannapolis |
| Mardi Gras Celebration | 11:00 am | FREE | Middle James Brewing |
| Family First: Hats of Joy, A Creative Workshop Inspired by Tiara's Hat Parade | 11:30 am to 1:30 pm | $10.00 | Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture |
| Plant Swap & Shop | 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm | FREE | Sugar Creek Brewing |
| Cornelius Mardi Gras Market | 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm | FREE | Lost Worlds Brewing, Cornelius |
| Spring Artisan Market | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm | FREE | Heist Brewery & Barrel Arts |
| AMC Best Picture Marathon Day One | 12:00 pm to 11:30 pm | $30.00-40.00 | AMC Theatres, participating locations |
| Sensory Hour at Touch-a-Truck | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | FREE | Chestnut Square Park, Indian Trail |
| Sunset Farm Open House: garden-to-go workshop, farm-to-table demo, more... | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | FREE | Sunset Farm (The Park CDC) |
| Charlotte Book Fair | 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm | FREE | Olde Mecklenburg Brewery — LoSo |
| Free Public Tour of Innovation Barn | 1:00 pm | FREE | Innovation Barn |
| Explore the Arts with Central Fine Arts: Turtle Sculptures -- Create and Paint | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | FREE | Steele Creek Library |
| Mardi Gras celebration, with costumed pup parade and live music | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | FREE | Petty Thieves Brewing Co. |
| Hop 2 Mardi Gras Party with DJ Festivus | 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm | FREE | Hop & Vine, Davidson |
| Major League Table Tennis Competition | 4:00 pm to 9:30 pm | $6.76-12.43 | Charlotte Convention Center |
| Karaoke Party | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | FREE | Cavendish Brewing Company, Gastonia |
| Mardi Gras at Cabarrus Brewing Co. | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | FREE | Cabarrus Brewing Company |
| Karaoke with DJ Greg | 7:00 pm | FREE | Traust Brewing Company, Mount Holly |
| Women's History Month Film Screening: Adventures of Prince Achmed | 7:00 pm | FREE | VisArt Video |
| Comedy Open Mic at Queen City Grounds | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | FREE | Queen City Grounds |
| Mardi Gras DJ & Photo Booth at Kilted Buffalo Birkdale | 10:00 pm | FREE | Kilted Buffalo Birkdale |
Sunday, March 2, 2025
| Event | Time | Price | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free museum admission first weekend of month for Bank of America/Merrill customers | All Day | FREE | Various locations |
| CLT Hot Chicken Week | All Day | $8.00 | Various locations |
| McDonald's: $1 Egg McMuffin or Sausage McMuffin | 6:00 am to 10:30 am | $1.00 | McDonalds, participating locations |
| Sensory-friendly hours at Discovery Place Science | 10:30 am to 1:30 pm | $18.00-23.00 | Discovery Place Science |
| QC Fitness Games | 11:00 am to 12:15 pm | $5.00 | NoDa Brewing North End |
| Major League Table Tennis Competition | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | $6.76-12.43 | Charlotte Convention Center |
| Fat Sunday Crawfish Boil | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | FREE | Brewers at 4001 Yancey |
| Celebrate Mardi Gras at Papa Doc's | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Papa Doc’s Shore Club | |
| 5-Year Anniversary Mardi Gras Style | 11:00 am | FREE | Old Armor Beer Company, Kannapolis |
| Mint Hill Car Show -- Hot Rods on the Lawn | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | FREE | Chick-fil-A Mint Hill |
| Charlotte Camellia Society Show and Sale | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | FREE | MapleWalk Garden |
| Alpaca Farm Tours at Farm and Fleece Alpaca Ranch in Concord | 1:00 pm | $12.00 | Farm and Fleece Alpaca Ranch, Concord |
| Sensory-Friendly Hours at Discovery Place Kids | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | $15.00 | Discovery Place Kids |
| Free Tour at Torance House & Store | 2:00 pm | FREE | Hugh Torance House & Store |
| Free concert by Brighter Day Community Choir of Charlotte -- There is Power in Prayer | 4:00 pm | FREE | Mayfield Memorial Missionary Baptist Church |
| Downtown Jazz Jam in Rock Hill | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | FREE | Power House Rock Hill |
| Charlotte Blues Society: Blues Sunday with DeJa Blues | 6:00 pm | $0-15.00 | Heist Brewery & Barrel Arts |
| Free Comedy Open Mic at The Royal Tot | 7:00 pm | FREE | The Royal Tot |
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