2023 Charlotte Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund Grant

- We are excited and grateful to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded us a 2023 Charlotte Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund Grant. The purpose of this grant is to enable us to acquire dedicated projection mapping software and hardware to expand on creating and testing immersive visual experiences in our programs. Since we employed live video projections for the first time in 1999 we have come a good way. We now look forward to using the new possibilities this grant brings to our programs - for the first time in the SNAKE'S RIDDLE in spring of 2024.
Be curious!

"Technology plays an invaluable role in enhancing the way art is created, disseminated and experienced. We created the Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund to support the long-term sustainability of Charlotte’s arts community by providing practitioners with the tools they need to increase the integration of technology in their work. 2023 Fund recipients are a diverse group of 22 Charlotte-based artists and arts organizations."

Cultural Vision Grant

- The Arts & Science Council has awarded Moving Poets Charlotte a Cultural Vision Grant in May to support our upcoming production of "The Snake's Riddle". In addition the Arts & Science Council & the North Carolina Arts Council have awarded us an Organizational Support Grant in June for our fundraising, marketing, and administration efforts.

We are very grateful for this support and look forward to share our new artistic adventures with the Charlotte community!

Infusion Fund for the Arts

- Moving Poets Charlotte is supported in part by The Infusion Fund for the Arts, a partnership between the City of Charlotte and private donors and administered by the Foundation For The Carolinas. Thank You!

The Infusion Fund is proud to support the diverse arts and culture organizations that make our community a vibrant place for residents and visitors.

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Big Thank You again to our fantastic Little Prince team, our friends, audience and supporters for making this wonderful show a reality!

The Little Prince

25 years of Moving Poets and The Little Prince

The last week of October 2022 marked exactly 25 years since Moving Poets opened its first public show for Halloween in 1997: Dracula. To celebrate the occasion we presented the world premier of our original production of “The Little Prince”, October 27-30, at the Booth Playhouse.

This multi media concert performance ride to strange planets and the desert was inspired by the French pilot & author “Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s” work and his mysterious disappearance during an air battle between allied and German forces in the second world war.

Originally prohibited in much of Europe, today “The Little Prince” is one of the world’s most known books with over 300 translations. From the perspective of our inner child, it investigates with great charm and depth friendship, loss, love, conflict, purpose, loneliness and having to grow old – in a world run by adults that always need to have everything explained.

Moving Poets original adaptation followed our unique format of highly creative, cross-cultural, contempoary musical theatre. It was developed and performed in various stages since Summer 2021 in Charlotte and Berlin (Germany) in collaboration with over 55 local, national and international musicians, dancers, actors, visual artists, composers and writers.

The performances were accompanied by “The Little Prince - pictures” - an exhibition in the Booth lobby of art work by regional and national visual artists. The exhibition drew from the themes of: innocence, imagination, fragility, identity, isolation, love and responsibility. The participating artists selected for the exhibition have uniquely explored these various concepts, using the common thread of visual language emphasized by Saint-Exupéry’s belief that words have limits and truths can defy verbal explanation.

“All grown-ups were children once – although few of them remember it.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The production was made possible with the support of the Infusion Fund and its generous donors, the City of Charlotte, the Foundation for the Carolinas, the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, the Arts & Science Council, the North Carolina Arts Council,
the Charlotte Ballet, the Charlotte Ballet Academy, Awedience Media, Moving Poets Berlin, and our friends and supporters.

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