Macon Arts Alliance to host arts advocacy breakfast at Macon’s Grand Opera House

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Macon Arts Alliance to host arts advocacy breakfast at Macon’s Grand Opera House

Published June 12, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Macon-Bibb County Arts Advocacy Breakfast invitation. Macon Arts Alliance (a Knight Arts grantee) will present a Macon-Bibb County Arts Advocacy Breakfast at the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon on June 13. Doors will open at 7:30 a.m. and the program will begin at 8 a.m....

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Minnesota Opera’s Opera Under the Stars offers free outdoor concerts of “La Boheme” this weekend

Published June 12, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

Minnesota Opera's Opera Under the Stars concert performances of "La Boheme" will run June 14, 15 and 16. Minnesotans are in for a rare treat this weekend, weather permitting*. Minnesota Opera is offering an Opera Under the Stars series of free outdoor concerts, beginning with a...

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Kinsey family travels

Published June 12, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Brandon D. Nixon, Gantt Center Bernard and Shirley Kinsey’s journey together began in 1963 as two college students in Tallahassee, Florida attending Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). They began their travels in the mid-1960s when Bernard Kinsey worked briefly as a park ranger at the Grand Canyon. Fifty...

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Locust Projects’ One Night Stand: Bookleggers presents The Art Book Review

Published June 12, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Kerri McNulty, Locust Projects School’s out, but Locust Projects is hitting the books. This Friday, June 14th, from 7-10pm, in collaboration with the Miami-based mobile book library Bookleggers and the L.A.-based organization, The Art Book Review, Locust Projects will host a One Night Stand featuring a selection of free...

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Art: let’s try to read and talk about it

Published June 11, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Jillian Mayer “Precipice/Post Modem" at Locust Projects. Summertime has always been about reading. When life slows down and vacation times come around – and down here in South Florida the heat is on, time to stay in and pick up a book. A real book, maybe...

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Marc Blumthal’s visage of America at Napoleon

Published June 11, 2013 by CSchwartz

Napoleon collective member Marc Blumthal has accosted the project space for the month of June with his show “The Flame and the Flower.” In the exhibit, Blumthal examines American culture by way of appropriated and altered images from Google. He dissects and skews these symbols so as to get closer...

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Cinetopia Film Festival expands into Detroit at the DFT

Published June 11, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

The international Cinetopia Film Festival took place over the weekend, from June 6-9, and for the first time included a program hosted by the Detroit Film Theatre. The festival, which has previously been based only in Ann Arbor has now expanded to include Detroit, and screened more than 40 feature-length...

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Artist Marianne Dunn shares her passion for painting

Published June 11, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Melissa Macker, The 567 Center for Renewal, Inc. Many people love art from afar, but for some, that love drives them to work hard at creating great art. Macon-based artist Marianne Dunn is one person who has made art her life’s work. It was high school where she accidentally...

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An intern’s night out at Philadelphia Theatre Company

Published June 10, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Helen Schultz, Philadelphia Theatre Company Most first days on the job do not include attending a super fancy opening night of one of the sexiest contemporary plays in recent years. Luckily for us interns at Philadelphia Theatre Company, this kind of thing is de rigeur. We’ve got one of...

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Miami Music Project rises to the challenge of a Fantastic Season Finale with funding in part by the National Endowment for the Arts

Published June 10, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Geraldine Lopez, Miami Music Project With the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Center for the Performing Arts of Florida International University (FIU) jammed packed, Miami Music Project (MMP) marked the end of its 2012-2013 season with a breathtaking concert on Sunday, June 2nd. The show was titled Fantastic Season Finale,...

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All Arts Market in NoDa

Published June 10, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

All Arts Market June 2012. The Neighborhood Theatre will host more than 70 artists this coming weekend on Saturday. June 15 at the All Arts Market on North Davidson Street, known to Queen City residents as NoDa. The Arts Market is free and open to the...

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Performance artists invade Miami

Published June 10, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Edge Zones presents the 2013 Miami Performance International Festival. Curated by Charo Oquet, the festival obliterates the line between viewers and mid-career and emerging artists from Miami and around the world. In its second year, the festival takes place in Miami's Design District and the Miami Beach Botanical Garden and...

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Music Ambassadors: Macon Preview Weekend demonstrates how the arts can build community

Published June 9, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Sophia Bastian performs a lunch-time concert in Mercer Village. A new program seeking to turn musicians into ambassadors for Macon, Georgia held its preview run over the weekend. NY-based singer-songwriter Sophia Bastian played a whirlwind series of concerts over three days. During her stay, she enjoyed...

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Standout artists featured on Community Arts’ summer series

Published June 7, 2013 by Gregory Stepanich

Catherine Russell. It’s one of the curious features of South Florida musical life that so many concert series, even ones as long-running as the Community Arts Program, take place in churches. Next week, the CAP opens its 28th series of summer programs at the beautiful Coral...

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The essence of dirt through art

Published June 7, 2013 by Anne Tschida

The basis for the exhibition "Dirt." An intriguing group show with an interesting combination of artists will open up for tomorrow’s Second Saturday in a temporary space in the Design District, called “Dirt Yuta Suelo Udongo Te.” It’s curated by Onajide Shabaka, who has been...