Knight Foundation
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To engage Philadelphia in a dialogue about young people being shuttled from school into the criminal justice system by supporting a two-year residency of actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith.
To foster a lifelong appreciation of the arts by offering free or discounted admission to venues and performances for college students
To create a performing arts program series that will bring into City Hall musical concerts and dance, theatrical and spoken word performances
To support the exhibition "Dancing around The Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp" from October 2012 to January 2013 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
To cultivate new audiences for contemporary photography by organizing innovative exhibitions featuring digitally printed photographic murals, nontraditional approaches to portraiture and auxiliary programming
To inspire residents to explore Philadelphia's history and imagine new futures for the urban landscape with Hidden City Philadelphia, a quadrennial festival that transforms private space into public space for community enjoyment
To celebrate two art forms that use the human voice to tell profound stories by creating a "Hip H'Opera" that uses the stories of urban life
To offer a more immersive opera experience by launching a series of 50-minute operas, the first of which, about a Serbian wedding, will be followed by an authentic Balkan wedding feast
To bring Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn (Haas & Hahn), known as the Favela Painters, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Philadelphia to produce their first permanent art projects in North America
To install a high-definition video system at Philadelphia's World Cafe Live to provide underserved populations with low-cost or free access to innovative, high-quality arts programming developed by LiveConnections.org
To feature the Philly Theatre Casting Couch as the core component of an ongoing audience engagement initiative intended to increase recognition of Greater Philadelphia as a world-class theater city
To re-open one of Philadelphia's great historic structures as a centerpiece for the revitalization of Fairmount Park by supporting the launch of the Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall