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Some 50 people showed up at the Barnes & Noble in SouthPark on Jan. 27 to meet Charlotte author Tricia Martineau Wagner and purchase signed copies of her latest book, Black Cowboys of the Old West. The next day we spoke – writer to writer – about what drives her... -
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On Wednesday, Jan 26 employees at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts surprised their colleagues with a performance from Rent at a particularly lively staff meeting. Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on promoting informed... -
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The Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation, the John L. and James S. Knight Foundation and Broward College will present poet and author, Sapphire, on Friday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Cultural Theater in Pembroke Pines. Sapphire,... -
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The Knight-funded New World Symphony opened its new performance space in Miami Beach last week, to great reviews for both the music and the Frank Gehry-designed building. Here Knight’s Dennis Scholl offers his thoughts. What if the alphabet ended at... -
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Run, Skip. Hop. Do whatever it takes to make sure you see the sublime Isaac Julien show at the Bass Museum—two or three times even. Without doubt, Julien is emerging as one of the most important contemporary artists (and filmmakers) today; this solo show proves why. It includes several films... -
ArticleFor those who are building, launching and operating community-focused web sites, measuring community engagement is critical. But getting started with web analytics tools can be daunting, especially with a small team. During the past month, Knight Community Information Challenge grantees have been meeting in a small community of practice on the topic of Community Engagement, discussing questions that include how to authentically measure engagement, how to evaluate how effective your social media strategies are, and how to measure impact of your program both online and in the real world. The grantees involved with our circle are looking for ways to easily measure engagement, but are unsure what to do. One of the tactics we have been discussing, which is easy to put into practice, is to work with Google Analytics. It is straightforward to add Google Analytics to a web site or blog with just a small bit of java-script added to the template. These data sets can be significant as measures to help view the success of efforts to increase engagement and set quarter-by-quarter milestones. The metrics we have been discussing as the ones to look at closely to measure engagement are the referral sources in the traffic section.
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What do you believe in? What scares you? What turns you on? And what is beauty? These are just some of the questions the Jess Curtis/Gravity troupe posed on a chalkboard—or alluded to—during the arc of their performance of Dances For Non/Fictional Bodies at Inkub8 last Friday night. After experiencing... -
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Last fall, Enrique Martinez Celaya had four large canvases hanging in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine – a haunting and strange cathedral, a monumental structure never quite finished on a hill in Manhattan, considered the largest Gothic church in the world. But it's a nice fitting for Martinez... -
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Frozen, the Tony Award-winning play now being presented by the Warehouse Performing Arts Center in Cornelius, is an experience to “shake the soul and let the glory out.” Midway through the second act, I began to weep profusely. But they were the kind of tears that fall from heaven. For... -
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By BalletX Dance Colby Damon BalletX is a new Philadelphia dance company with an ambitious goal—to redefine ballet and bring it into the new century. The company, a Knight Arts grantee, debuted "Beside Myself" by Tobin Del Cuore in November 2010. Today dancer Colby Damon reflects on the performance... Beside... -
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By Alex Fumero, Xenoland co-producer and Knight Arts grantee “Xemoland”, a short film directed and animated by Daniel Cárdenas and co-produced by Alex Fumero, both Miami natives, was selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program. The film which was one of 6,467 shorts submitted to the Sundance... -
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By Jessie Raynor, Akron Area Arts Alliance Director The Akron Area Arts Alliance’s 20th anniversary year opened with a bang at Summit Artspace on New Year’s Eve. Nearly 1,600 people enjoyed art exhibits, sitar, reggae, jazz performers and ballroom dancing on all three floors of our historic art center building,...