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    A look inside the Theoroi group

    Published December 16, 2011 by

    By Tessa Retterath, The Schubert Club Theoroi, the Greek word for ambassadors of festivals and celebrations, is a group of 26 young individuals who attend a schedule of events and share about their cultural experiences using social media. [caption id="attachment_30115" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The Theoroi group at the Dakota Jazz Club...
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    Funding Arts Broward partners with artist Margi Nothard

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    To promote the winning projects for the first annual Funding Arts Broward/Knight New Work Award, FAB! engaged award-winning designer and artist Margi Nothard to create a poster for distribution throughout Broward County. Margi Nothard is the Design Principal and visionary founding partner of Glavovic Studio. Her firm’s mission is to...
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    New teacher’s guide uses social media to teach about First Amendment

    Published December 16, 2011 by

    Livestream of #FreeToTweet entries at the Newseum  Researchers say schools do an “adequate” job of teaching the First Amendment in a historical context, but they fail in giving students practical ways to learn about freedom of speech and the press. So Thursday, Knight Foundation and The First Amendment Center offered a new way to update lessons - by launching a teacher’s guide for using social media to teach about the Bill of Rights, whose 220th birthday was celebrated at The Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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    Random Acts of Culture™ returns to Macon

    Published December 15, 2011 by

    On Friday, Dec 9 the Macon Symphony Orchestra surprised shoppers at a Tanger Outlet Center with seven performances of "Georgia on My Mind." Relive the fun with the video above. Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on...
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    power2give arrives in Miami

    Published December 15, 2011 by

    By Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs This is a great month for the arts in Miami! The way that non-profit arts groups approach fundraising and the tools they have traditionally employed have fundamentally changed just before we end this year with the launch of power2give.org in Miami. By tapping...
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    Cool film explores cool house

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    Friday, Dec. 16 The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (in partnership with American Institute of Architects Charlotte) presents “Koolhaas HouseLife.” It is this month’s Architecture + Film Series screening at The Bechtler Museum of Modern...
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    Apps for Communities: making local information actionable

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    Apps for Communities Second Grand Prize Winner Homeless Santa Clara County Earlier this year, Knight and the FCC put out a call for the best software applications, or apps, that deliver personalized information to people least likely to be online. The Apps for Communities Challenge is part of our efforts to foster digital inclusion and promote broadband adoption, which the Knight Commission called critical. Today, we’re excited to announce the winners - all of whom show a real passion for making local information actionable.
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    Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University

    Published December 15, 2011 by

    By Beverly Blake: Like many communities across America, Macon, Georgia is facing a future that could lack the news and information we must have to make important, local decisions. So what do we do? Do we sit back and simply hope it doesn’t happen? In our case, Knight is partnering with our great friends at Mercer University, Georgia Public Broadcasting/GPB Media, and The Telegraph, our daily McClatchy paper, to create the future we seek - to build what we believe will be a new model of journalism education rooted squarely in building community.
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    #FreeToTweet scholarship competition helps celebrate the First Amendment

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    Today, in celebration of the 220th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, students are being encouraged to share via social media how they enjoy their right to free expression. Through midnight tonight, students ages 14 to 22 who creatively tweet their appreciation for the First Amendment using the hashtag #FreeToTweet will automatically be entered into a nationwide scholarship competition. The Knight-funded scholarships (there are 22 of them - one for every decade since the Bill of Rights’ ratification) are worth $5,000 each. Several celebrities will also voice their support for the First Amendment and will be encouraging their followers to be #FreeToTweet. They include Ke$ha, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Darius Rucker, Heart and Wynonna Judd. Ken Paulson, president and chief executive officer of the First Amendment Center, wrote an editorial about the importance of honoring the Bill of Rights titled “The holiday that got away”. He writes:
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    If you ever wanted to know

    Published December 15, 2011 by

    ...what it would be like to be an elf employed by Macy's during the rush and push of the holidays season, then see the sharp-as-razorblades satire “Santaland Diaries” by David Sedaris. This off-kilter show for mature audiences (beware of foul language), produced by Zoetic Stage and adapted by Joe Mantello,...