About Queen City Brewers Festival
About Queen City Brewers Festival
Queen City Brewers Festival (QCBF) showcases locally produced beer and cider with invites exclusive to Charlotte-area breweries, brewpubs and cideries along with hand-picked restaurants, snack exhibitors and sponsors. The event premiered in 2012 at the Neighborhood Theatre in NoDa, Charlotte’s art district with 9 brewery participants and his since grown to bring together close to 60 exclusively Charlotte-area breweries & cidermakers. Festival proceeds benefit ACEing Autism-Charlotte locations providing the resources needed to serve families affected by autism from Mooresville to Rock Hill, east Charlotte to Gastonia. Please email info@qcbrewfest.com to learn more about getting involved with QCBF and ACEing Autism.
About ACEing Autism
ACEing Autism was founded in Boston in 2008 by Richard Spurling, a tennis professional with an MBA in entrepreneurship, and Dr. Shafali Jeste, a pediatric neurologist practicing at Children’s Hospital Boston at the time. They saw an opportunity to help address the lack of quality recreational programs available to children on the autism spectrum by combining their professional expertise and personal commitment. To date, ACEing Autism has provided more than 5,800 hours of tennis programming to children with autism behind a force of over 2,400 volunteers across 80 locations nationwide. A pilot program was launched in Charlotte in 2013 and has since grown to three area program locations: South Charlotte, UNC Charlotte and Mooresville. For more information, please visit: aceingautism.org.
Get Involved With ACEing Autism
ACEing Autism’s mission is to make the sport of tennis available to children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and to use tennis as a means to enhance fitness, motor development, attention, and social skills for children with ASD.
ACEing Autism-Charlotte programs are offered during spring and fall sessions at the Charlotte Latin School, on campus at UNC Charlotte and at the Lake Norman Tennis Center in Mooresville. Please visit the Charlotte Page for details on upcoming sessions and volunteer opportunities.