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    Early Music Festival 2013

    Published March 29, 2013 by

    By Katherine Bergman, Zeitgeist With their third annual Early Music Festival, Zeitgeist examines the profound impact of the electronic signal on music-making, revealing electricity’s transformative power with regard to how we create, how we listen and how we perform. The festival will include influential works from Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen,...
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    Is the Internet truly interactive?

    Published March 28, 2013 by

    "Connected There but Not Always Here" exhibition at the Light Factory. Undeniably, the Internet has opened boundless possibilities for interaction and new avenues for communication, especially between different people from a variety of backgrounds. Undeniably this interaction is new in terms of content and format; so...
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    Olivia Robinson’s “Concatenation” at Grizzly Grizzly

    Published March 28, 2013 by

    Olivia Robinson has taken over the Grizzly Grizzly collective through the month of March for her solo show “Concatenation.” The white-walled space of the Grizzly gallery is subsequently transformed into an immersive installation in which Robinson, as the show's name implies, pieces together a singular experience from a number of...
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    Knight welcomes Carol Coletta as new vice president

    Published March 27, 2013 by

      Today we welcomed Carol Coletta as Knight Foundation’s new vice president for community and national initiatives. Carol is a nationally recognized expert on cities and the use of the arts in the development of communities.  She will join the foundation on May, 6. Carol succeeds Knight’s Vice President/Communities Trabian Shorters, who has announced that he will become the first CEO of BMe, and Vice President/Strategic Initiatives Paula Ellis, who is retiring.  The communities and national departments will now be combined under Carol’s leadership.  
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    GroundWorks DanceTheater brings new works to Akron stage

    Published March 27, 2013 by

    GroundWorks DanceTheater, a Knight Arts grantee, always brings something new and intense not only when in performance but to contemporary dance itself. If you’ve ever attended a dance concert and after a while you say something like “That’s great, but can they do something different?” because of limited dance vocabulary...
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    MOCA brings out heavy hitters on its 15 anniversary

    Published March 26, 2013 by

    Yinka Shonibare, "Lady Na Master." Depending on your height, you’ll get a somewhat different perspective of the Yinka Shonibare dolls sitting on a wooden platform, part of the “Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting” exhibit at MOCA, the huge group show celebrating the North Miami museum’s...
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    Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers premiere of “One – Immortal Game”

    Published March 26, 2013 by

    The internationally active and conceptually provocative Philadelphia-based Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) graced Drexel University's Mandell Theater on March 22 and 23 with their spring appearance. Those in attendance were fortunate enough to witness not only the world premiere of “One – Immortal Game” but also a return of the 2011 “Mandala...
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    Opera Carolina’s Art to Poetry to Music

    Published March 26, 2013 by

    By Brandon A. Stanley, Opera Carolina Opera Carolina brought a new cultural event to the Charlotte community with Art to Poetry to Music on January 20, 2013. This event, presented in collaboration with the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art and the Confucius Institute at Pfeiffer University, explored Chinese cultural arts...
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    Knight Arts Challenge Detroit: Building on the city’s momentum

    Published March 25, 2013 by

    Today we begin accepting applications for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit, an idea that first bubbled up when I visited the city in 2010 as the new vice president for arts at Knight Foundation. I went to see what all the cultural buzz was about. I was floored. In my free time, I’m an art collector and a visual arts guy, so the Agnolo Bronzino in the Detroit Institute of Arts was both emblematic of the city’s world-class collections and a personal favorite. But there was so much more:  a city intent on developing minority artists, open to collaboration – one theater boasted 55 partnerships, and fiercely resilience amidst an unrelenting recession.
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    There will be jazz

    Published March 25, 2013 by

    Jazz at Lincoln Center announced that the Coral Gables-based Community Arts Program (CAP) All-Star Jazz Ensemble, with the support of a Knight Foundation grant, is one of the 15 finalists for the 18th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. The competition will take place in New...
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    Mulberry Street Festival moves due to weather

    Published March 25, 2013 by

    The Mulberry Street Festival is conducted by the Middle Georgia Art Association. Rain happens. When weather reports predicted rain over the weekend, members of the Middle Georgia Art Association had to make a quick decision. The Mulberry Street Festival, historically held on Mulberry Street in downtown...