Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater team up for the surreal “Lorca in a Green Dress”

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Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater team up for the surreal “Lorca in a Green Dress”

Published April 17, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

"Lorca in a Green Dress," co-presented by Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater runs through April 28 at the Ritz Theater. “Lorca in a Green Dress,” Pulitzer-winning playwright Nilo Cruz’s surreal homage to poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, opened at the Ritz Theater last...

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Bragg Jam announces first round of bands

Published April 17, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

The Dirty Guv'nahs will play the 2013 Bragg Jam Music, Arts and Community Festival. Bragg Jam has become Macon's largest music event. Every year, the crowds get larger and the list of musical acts grows longer. The annual festival began as an impromptu jam session in...

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Detroit – Don’t leave arts funding on the table in the Knight Arts Challenge

Published April 17, 2013 by marika.lynch

Video: Detroit 2020/Knight Arts Challenge from WXYZ-TV/Detroit With just a few days left to submit an idea for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit, we wanted to share all our tips (and a few tricks) to applying in one place. So before you hit the send button for that share of $3 million in arts and cultural funding, you may want to check out the following: Three things to think about when shaping your idea How to present a winning idea for the challenge For inspiration - Winning challenge ideas from Miami and Philadelphia arts challenges (or an excerpted list from MLive.com)

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Actor John Lithgow coming home to talk about storytelling

Published April 17, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Much-lauded actor John Lithgow has some strong theatrical roots in the Akron area, and he’s coming back to town to talk to his former friends and neighbors about “The Power of Storytelling.” John Lithgow. Photo from aceshow.com His father, Arthur, a theatrical producer and director, directed...

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Detroit – Deadline approaching in the Knight Arts Challenge

Published April 16, 2013 by marika.lynch

Status update: The Knight Arts Challenge Detroit application period is now closed. Video: Detroit 2020/Knight Arts Challenge from WXYZ-TV/Detroit With just a few days left to submit an idea for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit, we wanted to share all our tips (and a few tricks) to applying in...

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Hernan Bas is back in his hometown

Published April 16, 2013 by Anne Tschida

Hernan Bas, "Against the Stream," 2013. Hernan Bas relocated to Detroit several years ago. It’s a move that appears, on canvas, to have been a great choice. Although his paintings never really disappeared here in Miami, he has a number of works up now, at the...

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Summer music enrichment program 2013

Published April 16, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Peter Leggett, Walker West Music Academy Walker West Music Academy is gearing up for summer and the Summer Music Enrichment Program, the Academy's annual 3-week summer day camp! Even though the Minnesota weather has kept us bundled up and covered in snow, we know that sunny summer days are...

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Looking on the bright side with Kresge Fellow Corrie Baldauf

Published April 16, 2013 by Rosie Sharp

Baldauf introduced her film at the DFT with a few brief words. Following the Friday night DFT screening of the short film Frames for the People: A City of Halos, I had a chance to talk with Corrie Baldauf, a 2011 Kresge Fellow in Visual Arts...

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Practice examines appropriation and ownership with “Taken”

Published April 16, 2013 by CSchwartz

In Philadelphia, Practice, the art space that opened not so long ago in 2012, focuses on performance, participation, and experimentation. Their current exhibit is entitled “Taken” and aims to analyze the processes which revolve around appropriation. Whether you call them rip-offs, artistic license, or anything else, in the 21st century,...

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Last Days: “Tony Allegro: Recent Experimental Films and Photography”

Published April 16, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Anthony (Tony) Allegro is one of the local artists who have worked mostly in this field of video art. His long and sustained development began towards the late 1960s, right in the center of the algid New York avant-garde scene that was the leading...

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HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center: April 2013 update

Published April 16, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Robert Harkins, HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center The HistoryMiami South Florida Folklife Center is proud to feature Joe Zeytoonian as the Heritage Spotlight artist-in-residence for April-June 2013. While growing up in Boston's Armenian community, Joe learned to play the oud, a Middle Eastern guitar-like instrument. An oud master, he...

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Knight Fellows in the news

Published April 16, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

Knight Fellows Marci Calabretta and Jennifer McCauley are earning their master's degrees in English from FIU while gaining hands-on work experience in the fine arts via a $150,000 2010 Knight Arts Challenge grant. This month, FIU News reports on the program. Click here to read the complete piece and read...

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“La Traviata” closes the Florida Grand Opera’s 72nd season

Published April 15, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Giuseppe Verdi's wildly popular, splendidly tragic and sumptuously opulent "La Traviata" closes Florida Grand Opera’s 72nd season with performances scheduled at the Arsht Center and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. "La Traviata" by Florida Grand Opera. The story of "La Traviata," which literally means...

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Minnesota Opera finishes the season with a crowdpleasing “Turandot”

Published April 15, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

For its last production of the season, Minnesota Opera (a Knight Arts grantee) is running an opulent iteration of Puccini’s final opera, “Turandot.” Two sets of lead players are performing in rotation for the show’s one-week run; the matinee I attended featured spinto tenor Scott Piper (as the love-struck, exiled...

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Fired Works offers educational opportunities about pottery, ceramics

Published April 15, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Fired Works is now in its eighth year. The 2013 edition features the most artists ever included in the event. Fired Works Regional Ceramics Exhibition and Sale kicked off on Saturday, April 13 at the Round Building in Central City Park in Macon. The nine-day event...