Reading Queer comes out with “I am the what-are-you: Queer Poetry/Queer Differences”

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Reading Queer comes out with “I am the what-are-you: Queer Poetry/Queer Differences”

Published November 11, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

I'm coming out. My name is Neil de la Flor, and I'm the Executive Director of Reading Queer and a writer for Knight Arts. Reading Queer, which won a 2012 Knight Arts Challenge Grant, seeks to establish Miami as a diverse and vibrant center for queer literature. Our mission is...

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Andy Sturdevant’s St. Anthony Park neighborhood walking tour with reading to follow

Published November 11, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

Awaiting our St. Anthony Park walking tour with author Andy Sturdevant. Photo: Susannah Schouweiler “This might just be my favorite of all the events we’ve had here,” said Micawber’s bookshop owner, Hans Weyandt, by way of introduction for our reader-cum-neighborhood guide: local artist, raconteur and first-time...

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Mercer Theatre presents ‘Love Kills’ in conjunction with international colloquium on Vladimir Volkoff

Published November 11, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

"Love Kills." Mercer Theatre will present Vladimir Volkoff's "Love Kills" at the Back Door Theatre in Willingham Hall November 14-24. Tickets are $5 at the door. The performance comes in conjunction with an international colloquium on the life and writings of Volkoff. Mercer University Press is...

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People’s Choice nominees reveal South Florida’s many layers

Published November 10, 2013 by marika.lynch

Whether you’ve lived here for a month or 10 years, Miami is a city that is constantly revealing itself. I’ve spent a lifetime walking, biking and driving this city, and I still find new layers and neighborhoods, people and ideas that make me look at my hometown in new ways....

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Delivering the arts on stage and paper

Published November 9, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jodi Farrell, Adrienne Arsht Center In true New World-New Miami fashion, one of South Florida’s most celebrated visual artists arrived at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts this week via the Miami-Dade Metromover – with paint splatters on the tips of his white Converse sneakers. Hernan Bas,...

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The literal culinary arts

Published November 8, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Table for two on a budget. After snaking around numerous, well-appointed displays and installations filled with fascinating cooking equipment; beautiful, artsy dishes and cutlery; videos of restaurant design and other food-related “offerings,” on opening night of “Tapas: Spanish Design For Food,” you ended up at an...

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“Working Title” opens at Alley Culture

Published November 8, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

Alley Culture - the best possible outcome to wandering down alleys. Friday, November 1st brought the opening of “Working Title” at Alley Culture, and surely there has never been a cozier or more welcoming experimental gallery space. It takes the brave of heart to wander down...

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Best laid plans got strangely better for Neo Dance Theatre’s “Count”

Published November 8, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Even in the dance performance world, it seems like you have to have a Plan B, with the idea that if something can go wrong, it just might. That's what happened with Neos Dance Theatre, a Knight Arts grantee, and its one-night-only performance of its story-length ballet "Count...The Legend of...

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The tales time can tell

Published November 7, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Manny Prieres at Bass Museum. The exhibit “Time” that just opened at the Bass Museum has a number of interesting elements to it, including the room of queer curiosities from Hernan Bas. But make sure you spend some time in the room with works from Manny...

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UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre presents “Love the Doctor”

Published November 7, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

"Love the Doctor." Photos by Jay Morong If Shakespeare entertains you and you find “Don Giovanni” thrilling, you will be excited to learn of a newly translated play being staged for the first time in English by the UNC Charlotte’s Department of Theatre: “Love the Doctor”...

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Wooden works from the funny to the fanciful at Philadelphia Sculpture Gym

Published November 7, 2013 by CSchwartz

Philadelphia's membership-based sculptural resource, Knight Arts grantee and overall three-dimensional artistic gem, the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym (PSG) opened up on First Friday in November with their latest show, which focuses on the process of wood. The exhibit, curated by PSG Gallery Director Steven Earl Weber, includes work by Carrie Mae...

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Belaxis Buil in the first person

Published November 7, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Belaxis Buil is a keen, acute and intuitive artist. She is also a woman and mother. Through years of a seemingly fantasized life by others, Corbusier's own self, Buil has been hit on the head by the weight and realities of life—making her a hybrid humane human in constant evaluation...

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A first look at Zeitgeist’s 5th annual New Music Cabaret

Published November 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Katherine Bergman, Zeitgeist Each fall, new music ensemble Zeitgeist brings together an eclectic cast of adventurous Twin Cities performers to celebrate the wide variety of cutting-edge new music that is being created locally. Zeitgeist’s annual New Music Cabaret gives concert-goers a taste of new music from multiple genres, including...

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Music is a part of the fabric of life in Macon

Published November 6, 2013 by Beverly Blake

Macon is known for our music history-but what people don’t know is that music is a part of the fabric of our lives here. From church choirs to the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, to Broadway shows, to the Macon Music Ambassadors project, we’re all about our music....

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Ensemble Dal Niente packs the house for SPCO’s Liquid Music series

Published November 6, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

Ensemble Dal Niente. Photo courtesy of Liquid Music and the artists Tuesday’s Liquid Music performance in (Knight Arts grantee) Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s intimate St. Paul Music Room was packed, and for good reason: Chicago-based new music collective, Ensemble Dal Niente, was on hand to perform...