Around the campfire: Art & story in place

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Around the campfire: Art & story in place

Published March 7, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Wendy Call, AIRE We were all sitting around a campfire, or so it seemed. After three weeks in the Everglades National Park, I traveled to Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood to offer a writing workshop: “You Are Here: Creating a Sense of Place on the Page.” Thanks to the work of...

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The Project [theatre] March 2013 update

Published March 7, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jackie Rivera, The Project [theatre] Holy excel spreadsheets, reality tv, and rainclouds, Batman! Is it March already?? February for The Project [theatre] was a blink… 4 weeks where, we devised a show completely through improvisation, constructed and stuck to a strict budget, thwarted what could have been a natural...

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Jazz at Studio Z / crow with no mouth

Published March 7, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Katherine Bergman, Studio Z Studio Z, operated by the new music group Zeitgeist, opened in 2009 and serves as a gathering place for the composers, performers, and audiences that make up our Twin Cities new music community. Designed with chamber music in mind, Studio Z provides our community with...

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Violinist’s recital partly a composer’s travelogue

Published March 7, 2013 by Gregory Stepanich

Lara St. John. Photo by Martin Kennedy Some new music is coming to the Sunday Afternoons of Music series this weekend with a recital by the fine Canadian violinist Lara St. John, who will play a fresh-off-the-stocks work by the New Zealand composer John Psathas. The...

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Ivette Cepeda opens Global Cuba Fest

Published March 7, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

FUNDarte and Miami Light Project open the 6th Global Cuba Fest, a month-long festival of performances that celebrates the contemporary music and artists of Cuba and the Caribbean Diaspora, with a historic first-ever U.S. performance by Cuban songstress Ivette Cepeda on March 9th at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Ivette Cepeda,...

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Three notable exhibitions at the Mint Museum closing

Published March 7, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

Vases by Phil Morgan. As winter comes to an end, so do three notable exhibitions at the Mint Museum Randolph (a Knight Arts grantee). “A Thriving Tradition-75 Years of Collecting North Carolina Potter” closes on Sunday, March 10; “Sophisticated Surfaces: The Pottery of Herb Cohen” ends...

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AIGA Philadelphia presents “MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps”

Published March 7, 2013 by CSchwartz

While it is true that the map is not actually the territory, a group of artists at the AIGA Philadelphia Space prove that these useful representations can serve as much more than orienteering tools. For the show “MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps,” some 15 individuals and a couple of groups including...

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Artistic expressions of Our Lady, Cachita

Published March 6, 2013 by Anne Tschida

José Bedia. It’s not hard to understand why La Virgen de la Caridad, Our Lady of Charity, is the patron saint of Cuba. As legend has it, a statue of her was found floating in the water by three men in a boat 400 years ago,...

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Macon Arts Alliance’s Ovations365.com wins Gold Addy Award for marketing campaign

Published March 6, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Holding the Gold Addy Award and Gold Addy Certificate outside Macon Arts Alliance. Photo by Jim Burt Ovations365.com was recently honored with a Gold Addy Award from the local chapter of the American Advertising Federation for its marketing efforts. The award was presented to Burt&Burt Design...

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Hundreds expected to hit the capitol for Arts Advocacy Day this Thursday

Published March 6, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

Arts Advocacy Day 2009. Photo courtesy of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts Hundreds of arts-friendly folks are expected to descend on the capitol this Thursday to lobby their legislators on behalf of Minnesota artists and arts funding. The statewide advocacy organization, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts...

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Macon Concert Association to present ‘Late Night with Leonard Bernstein’

Published March 5, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

'Late Night with Leonard Bernstein' is a glittering and intimate journey into the life the the charismatic conductor and composer. The Macon Concert Association (MCA) will present “Late Night with Leonard Bernstein,” in Porter Auditorium at Wesleyan College on Friday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets...

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Moore opens submissions for “Film al Fresco”

Published March 5, 2013 by CSchwartz

Moore College of Art & Design has released a call for submissions for the upcoming “Film al Fresco” juried competition and outdoor film series. The Galleries at Moore received a $20,000 Knight Arts Grant to establish the series in response to Knight’s question: “What’s your best idea for the arts...

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Big Brother meets “Six Characters in Search of an Author” at Gremlin Theatre

Published March 5, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

John Middleton as "The Father" in Alan Berks & Co.'s "Six Characters in Search of an Author." Photo courtesy of Alan Berks. “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” playwright Alan Berks’ new adaptation of the Luigi Pirandello’s classic 1921 meta-theatrical “comedy in the making,” opens...

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“Good, God, Go” goes wild

Published March 5, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

Letty Bassart's “Good,God, Go” for Miami Made 2013 was a wonderfully entropic, energetic, comedic and well-timed performance packed with a plethora of elements and symbolism that flew over my head like the wooden canaries hovering above me.Those yellow canaries, which served a symbolic backbone for the performance, referenced their proverbial...

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Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet going ragtime in Tom Gold dance

Published March 5, 2013 by Roger Durbin

Wrap your head around this – ragtime pianist and composer Scott Joplin and the classical ballet style of the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet. Sounds unlikely, right? But it’s not when put in the hands of choreography Tom Gold of Tom Gold Dance. He will make the magical happen in his...