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Bearing the bold title “Harbinger: Shifting Culture and New Art from Detroit,” the newest show to be held at Studio Couture Detroit provides a refreshing look into the status of Detroit’s art scene. Curated...
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ArticleThe following post, written by Neil de la Flor, recounts the events of the Knight-funded Sleepless Night 2011, a 12-hour fete of cultural events on Miami Beach. The post orginally appeared on the Knight Arts Blog: Beneath the almost full moon at the North Shore Bandshell, Miami Lyric Opera’s breathtaking performance of “Marina,” a zarzuela by Spanish composer Emilio Arrieta set in Costa Brava, Spain, impressed the audience. Starring Hilda de Castillo, Jesse James Vargas, Diego Baner and Nelson Martinez, the cast, especially de Castillo and Martinez, powered through the performance despite the quality of the sound system, the whoosh of traffic zooming north on Collins Avenue and a small crowd of possibly drunken masquerade-mask wearing revelers, who had gathered for an impromptu sing along with the cast. FLEA Ensemble. Photo Neil de la Flor
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“For The Love of Harlem” is a musical event about the human experience. This original piece of musical theater, by Jermaine Nakia Lee, is the second in On Q Productions’ “Sound of Music” season. You have four more chances this week to experience this local, live quality theater. [caption id="attachment_28030"... -
ArticleGia Arbogast, branch administrator for the Miami-Dade Public Library System describes how YOUMedia Miami will engage teens in building digital literacy skills Libraries have a fundamental role in how attached people are to where they live, Knight’s Paula Ellis, vp/strategic initiatives, told a gathering of library and civic leaders last week. That’s particularly important because how residents feel about their community may lead to greater economic vitality, the Knight-funded Soul of the Community study found. The study identified three factors that drive why people are emotionally attached to their neighborhoods and cities. They include: openness, or how welcoming a place is, its social offerings and aesthetics, Ellis said at The Urban Libraries Partners for Success Conference 2011: “Openness is at the top of the list of what drives people to love where they live. What is more welcoming than a library? Being welcoming is what gets people in the door and then people can form this emotional attachment to the library as a true community center and place for personal transformation.” According to the study, communities with the highest number of attached people had the highest rates of economic growth over time.
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By Neal Hecker, GableStage RED by John Logan, which is playing at the GableStage Theatre, a Knight Arts grantee, through December 4th offers an interesting and personal look at the famed Abstract Expressionist, Mark Rothko, during a period in the late 1950s. The production opened this week, but was kicked... -
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By Pilar Wilder, Hayiya Dance Theatre As always, we have had a wonderfully busy and exciting month at Hayiya! In October we performed at the first annual Jazz in the Valley (Ft. Valley). Our very own Pilar Wilder was honored as a Partner in Progress by NewTown Macon and also... -
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PublicSource, an investigative journalism organization that received seed funding as a Knight Community Information Challenge winner, launched Sunday with a report that college lands in Pennsylvania may be leased for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking – a controversial method of extracting natural gas from rock. “Our goal is to become a trusted source of in-depth and enterprise news and investigations. At a time when there’s more information than ever available to you, we want to prove our value as a reliable authority on issues of importance,” Editor Sharon Walsh said in announcing the launch. “We are a non-profit, public service website that will take the complex questions facing the region, put them in context and shine a light on parts of the story that may not have been told elsewhere.” -
ArticleAbove: Knight VP for Journalism and Media Innovation Michael Maness on the future of the News Challenge In case you missed it, here are some highlights from last week’s Mozilla Festival in London: * Friday at the festival, we announced the 2011/12 Knight-Mozilla News Technology Fellows, a group of five coders who will be embedded in leading newsrooms to help address their technology problems. Fellow Cole Gillespie, who will be joining Zeit Online for the year, also talked with journalist Jon Vidar about how he plans to help the outlet mine social media for data.
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A few weeks ago, during an end-of-summer outdoor arts festival presented by mnartists.org (where I work for my day job), I heard Brian Laidlaw for the first time. He was closing out the day’s performances with an acoustic set around the campfire, playing with the Family Trade, one of a... -
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Beneath the almost full moon at the North Shore Bandshell, Miami Lyric Opera's breathtaking performance of “Marina,” a zarzuela by Spanish composer Emilio Arrieta set in Costa Brava, Spain, impressed the audience. Starring Hilda de Castillo, Jesse James Vargas, Diego Baner and Nelson Martinez, the cast, especially de Castillo and... -
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By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist The act of dissent is maybe one of the most authentic exercises of democracies, being a genuine expression of the freedom that embraces society. In the case of Totalitarian regimes, the act of dissent from the central government's policies turns you into a dissident.... -
ArticleYesterday at Mozilla Fest, Michael Maness, Knight's VP of Journalism and Media Innovation, and Dan Sinker, director of the Knight Mozilla partnership, sat down for a fireside chat to discuss key themes of the Knight News Challenge and the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership. Michael gave a sneak peak of the Knight News Challenge 2012, which is going to be broken up into faster, more focused competitions. In the coming year, three calls for entries, centered around three different topics, will each be only 12 weeks in length - a way to be more responsive to the fast-paced culture of the start-up world. Michael also noted that the process will rely much more heavily on digital technology than it has in the past, complete with a video pitch that will allow the judges to really connect with the members of the project.
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ArticleAbove: Knight VP for Journalism and Media Innovation Michael Maness on the future of the News Challenge. Today is Day 2 of Mozilla's "Media, Freedom and the Web" Festival in London. The news Friday was the announcement of the five Knight-Mozilla News Technology fellows; the news today and tomorrow is an amazing array of collaborations, design challenges, labs, hack sessions - even a Science Fair. Represented in the mix are Knight-supported projects including Ushahidi, ScraperWiki, Poderopedia, Zeega, Document Cloud, the MIT Media Lab, PANDA, Frontline SMS and Tiziano. My colleague Michael Maness will be doing an "Under the Hood of Knight-Mozilla" chat with Dan Sinker, the coordinator of the Knight-Mozilla partnership. There, he is going to talk about our plans for the Knight News Challenge in 2012. Knight President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen gave a preview in June at the MIT Knight Civic Media Conference, Eric Newton mentioned them last month at the World Editors Forum. Michael will address this more today, but here is a preview:
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It’s always interesting to see a dustup at a major music competition, when audience and judges disagree, or the judges themselves differ, about the merits of a particular contestant. This kind of thing has gone on for a long time and includes famous examples,...