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    Filmadelphia: Past present future

    Published April 30, 2014 by

    By Davis Rivera, Philadelphia Film Festival Andrew Gitomer's Past Present Future is a feature-length film about two close friends who had had an on-again, off-again relationship since high school, and meet up for the first time after three years apart. The film is structured so that the audience is able...
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    Exile Books wins FEAST Miami grant

    Published April 30, 2014 by

    In 2013, FEAST Miami, co-founded by Chef Loren Pulitzer and producer/curator Susan Caraballo, won a Knight Arts Challenge grant to support artistic and cultural initiatives through direct grants to artists and arts organizations. The grants are awarded during vegan pop-up dinners at art venues, and the diners who attend the...
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    El Anatsui: Gravity and grace at the Bass Museum

    Published April 29, 2014 by

    By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer “It makes a little sound, like music,” the toddler whispers in her mother’s ear as she gazes, wide-eyed, engrossed, at El Anatsui’s gigantic piece, which seems about to devour her. And that gaze, which perceives the secret flutter, which sees better...
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    Cintas celebrates 50 years

    Published April 29, 2014 by

    Carmen Herrera "Blanco y Verde," 1966. It’s been 50 years now that the Cintas Foundation has been promoting cultural output from Cuba-born artists living and working outside of the island. Every year for half a century the foundation has awarded fellowships during an annual competition to...
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    Charlotte Ballet: an ever changing work of art

    Published April 28, 2014 by

    After 44 years, the North Carolina Dance Theatre sheds its cumbersome name in lieu of a more concise and appropriate appellation: Charlotte Ballet! Announced at the opening of Dwight Rhoden’s “Othello” on April 24th, the change in name was met with raucous cheers and applause. Officially, the new name went...
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    Hard questions for writers

    Published April 28, 2014 by

    By Kira Obolensky, Ten Thousand Things Writers are often asked impossible questions. We might nod when we hear an impossible question. We might shrug or mumble an incoherent answer or remark upon the question-asker’s spiffy shoes. Impossible questions are almost always connected to the source of the creative work at...
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    Nurturing South Florida’s social entrepreneurs

    Published April 28, 2014 by

    Miami : Open : Source, a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge winner, has been granted co-working space and mentorship services at the Center for Social Change in Coral Gables as we raise funds, connect to partners and refine our business strategy. Our project seeks to cultivate the use of technology in the arts to ultimately benefit underrepresented communities. We seek to do this through a community space for South Florida’s design and technology-based art community to come together, hack and build projects, while offering a range of equipment to help artists create their work. Bill Burdette and Lauren Harper, co-founders of the Center for Social Change, envision the space as a collision point for Miami : Open : Source and other like-minded social enterprises and nonprofits. I’ve seen real impact in a short time, which includes business strategy consulting from the Center for Social Change; loan advice from Marjorie Weber of SCORE; and community partnership from Rudy Sablon of The Motivational Edge, another Knight Arts Challenge winner.
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    #ThisIsWhere

    Published April 28, 2014 by

    Poetry is a kind of geography. It is a map that places us and reminds us of the past–of memories stuck in our subconscious. #ThisIsWhere _____________ is a WLRN + O, Miami poetry contest that encourages all South Floridians to write a poem about a place that is meaningful to...