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Article“I bought a trumpet and learned to play it and started recruiting people.” -John Notarianni, founding member of the Detroit Party Marching Band. I don't know what could be more inspiring then that. The Detroit Party...
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ArticleGetting butts in seats — that’s always the thing for performing artists, isn’t it? Even for prominent venues — Ordway, the Guthrie — and nationally acclaimed theater companies, it’s an ongoing and driving concern. And for small and mid-sized theater organizations and individual artists, building audience awareness and attendance is...
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ArticleMatrimony, a band that started in Charlotte, played at the Visulite Theatre on Thursday, Dec. 29 to a packed and happy crowd. This was their first show at home since touring the past four or five months — not to mention a great way to end the year. Matrimony’s music...
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ArticleWe glide with ease through our homes. Run up and down stairs and across football fields without hesitation. Play catch with the kids. Some of us even hula hoop our hearts out whenever we get the chance. But each movement is a gift we sometimes take for granted. [caption id="attachment_30586"...
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ArticleRecently in Miami, thirty-one ideas were selected as winners of the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge. Below, Colin Foord talks about how the teaming up of Coral Morphologic, one of the challenge winners, and the Miami Science Museum will build excitement for its arrival downtown at Museum Park by collaborating on a multimedia art-science project at Miami International Airport.
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ArticleIn her visits to the schools, community centers and hospitals of New York City, pianist Marina Radiushina became a believer. A believer, that is, in the power of music to reach people, especially those who don’t encounter it very often. “I...
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ArticleBy Al-Bustan Music Program On Friday, December 9, 2011 Al-Bustan presented the third event of the Arab Music Concert Series, featuringThe Philadelphia Arab Music Ensemble and guest poet Suheir Hammad, to an audience of 320+ who filled the Great Hall of Trinity Center for Urban Life in Center City Philadelphia....
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ArticleRecently in Miami, thirty-one ideas were selected as winners of the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge. Below, Naomi Fisher describes how Bas Fisher Invitational, a challenge winner, will offer a behind- the-scenes look at the city and its artistic offerings by expanding the popular, artist-led Weird Miami bus tours. The tours will introduce locals, as well as tourists, to lesser-known places and cultural projects.
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ArticleRecently in Miami, thirty-one ideas were selected as winners of the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge. One of the challenge winners, Peter London Global Dance Theater, will support and develop the talents of exceptional local dancers and choreographers who have historically had limited access to local, professional performance opportunities. Below, Peter London describes his goal of building a world-class contemporary dance company that benefits the community through its artistry.
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ArticleBy Scott Provancher, The Arts & Science Council The Arts & Science Council launched power2give.org four months ago to great excitement in Charlotte. The site’s projects, with a generous match from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, received more than $40,000 in donations during the first week it...
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ArticleThe very young FIU College of Architecture & the Arts was only born in 2006, but already it has spread its wings wide, including with much-needed graduate programs and now, a new arts home in the eastern...
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ArticleBy Eva M. Lewis, Charlotte Symphony At the close of this very eventful year, we at the Charlotte Symphony would like to take this moment to review some of the 2011 KnightSounds highlights. From Tangos and Tapas to Bearden and big band sounds, it’s been a year full of great...
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ArticleBy Gary Steur, Chief Cultural Officer City of Philadelphia Cross-posted from Arts, Culture & Creative Economy: Much has been written about the decline of cultural journalism in America, an outgrowth of the larger challenges being faced in the journalism sector. The now defunct Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program published...
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ArticleOn Wednesday, Dec 21 the Copper Street Brass Quintet surprised shoppers at Macy's in downtown Saint Paul with a holiday taste of the Nutcracker and Mozart's The Magic Flute. Enjoy the video above. Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim...
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ArticleAs a rule of thumb, throughout the years I have remained neutral on a number of controversial Detroit-related subjects. One of them being "Detroiters" knee-jerk reaction to reject newcomers to the city. When I met recent N.Y.C. transplant and accomplished poet Jeremy Schmall, he gave me a reason to have...