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QNotes Carolinas reports: BOOM Charlotte moves to University City in 2025. Here’s an excerpt:

After spending multiple years in its second home, Camp North End, BOOM Charlotte will be moving to a new location in 2025, settling down in the University Area, north of the city.

The festival will take place at the University City lakefront April 25-27. The move is part of a new partnership with University City Partners, a nonprofit dedicated to encouraging growth in the…

BOOM Charlotte’s Immersive Arts Festival is on the move again with a new location.  Here’s an excerpt:

One of Charlotte’s largest arts festivals with immersive artistic experiences will have a new location next year.

The eighth annual BOOM Charlotte will be April 25-27 at University City in north Charlotte, University City Partners and the festival founder said Tuesday. The three-day festival typically spotlights as many as 100 local artists and cutting-edge fringe arts and culture with dance…

QCity Metro says BOOM Festival has announced a move to the University area. Here’s an excerpt:

According to a press release sent Tuesday, the festival will take place at the University City lakefront from April 25-27, 2025. The move is part of a new partnership with University City Partners, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering growth in the University area.

Why it matters: The University area has experienced significant growth in recent years…

BOOM Charlotte to Take Place in University City.  Here’s an excerpt:

Charlotte, NC (December 10, 2024) – University City Partners, the nonprofit organization that aims to drive University City’s growth, today announced a new partnership with BOOM Charlotte to host the eighth annual art festival in University City. The three-day event will occur on April 25-27, 2025, around the University City lakefront…

Previewing this year’s BOOM Charlotte festivale Here’s an excerpt:

QC Life’s Jorge Andres went out to get a sneak peek of this year’s BOOM Charlotte festival…

Experience arts & culture at Boom Charlotte Here’s an excerpt:

Our partners, the Charlotte Poetry Festival, share insights about what to expect at their festival and at their performance on the BOOM Charlotte stage. Take a look at their interview for more…

8 things to do this weekend in the Charlotte area | QC Happenings Here’s an excerpt:

Check out the listing of things to do created by WCNC. They included BOOM Charlotte. See the video and listing…

Charlotte’s 2024 BOOM festival promises dance, poetry and weird, wonderful art Here’s an excerpt:

Hula hoops, youth poets, psychedelic performance art, and dance troupes representing cultures around the world. These are a few of the sights and sounds that will fill Camp North End this weekend at the seventh annual BOOM festival.

The three-day event, which kicks off Friday, celebrates contemporary and experimental art on the fringes of pop culture. The festival’s founder, Manoj Kesavan, joined…

Queen City Nerve announces 2024 BOOM Festival. Here’s an excerpt:

Queen City Nerve selected 10 artists to recommend checking out April 26-28 at Camp North End during BOOM.

What started as a small arts festival in the heart of Plaza Midwood has in eight years bloomed — or boomed, one might say — into a year-round art initiative that brings art to those who lack access to Charlotte’s larger art scene.

This weekend marks the seventh annual celebration of that initiative…

The City of Charlotte reports: Experience Arts & Culture at BOOM Charlotte. Here’s an excerpt:

The Charlotte Arts & Culture Plan is doing an installation at BOOM Charlotte April 26-28.

The City of Charlotte is also excited to share that this year we are launching our 10-year plan to support arts and culture in Charlotte, Show & Tell: Celebrating Our Community’s New Arts and Culture Plan. The partnership with BOOM will feature several exciting activities including…

QNotes Carolinas shares an interview with Charlotte-based poet LuvLeeh. Here’s an excerpt:

Charlotte-based poet, Luvleeh, speaks with Q Notes Carolinas about her life as she gets ready for her BOOM Charlotte performance April 26-28.

About four decades ago a music teacher and a substance abuse counselor had a lovely baby girl. Today, she’s all grown up and goes by the name Luvleeh, though her parents named her Leandrea Juanita Hill.

Hill adopted a new name, a hybrid of her birth name. Initially, the change came about as a result of her need to create an email account with a sign-on name that hadn’t yet been taken. But it was bigger than that.…

Queen City Nerve says: BOOM Charlotte Arts Festival Returns for Three-Day Run. Here’s an excerpt:

BOOM Charlotte will return to Camp North End this weekend for a three-day festival of free outdoor performances, installations and activities highlighting Charlotte fringe and experimental artists, as well as ticketed indoor art performances.

Launched by Manoj Kesavan in 2016, the festival relocated from its usual Plaza Midwood location to Camp North End in 2022 after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. This year, BOOM is returning to its pre-COVID three-day run, in comparison to last year’s two days, with hopes of drawing in a larger audience…