Join Viernes Culturales June 29

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Join Viernes Culturales June 29

Published June 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Viernes Culturales Join us on June 29 at Domino Plaza starting at 7:00 PM in celebrating another Viernes Culturales/Cultural Friday. Little Havana's popular art and culture festival is a great event for the whole family. Enjoy music and discover works by local artists and artisans in and around our...

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Symphony of Americas plans summer concerts

Published June 27, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

The Symphony of the Americas, at a Summerfest concert in Rome. After the excitement of the Fourth fades next week, another venerable South Florida artistic institution steps up to provide some music for the summer. This is the Symphony of the Americas, based in Fort Lauderdale,...

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28th [email protected] is underway at Akron Art Museum

Published June 27, 2012 by Roger Durbin

Bring your favorite fold-out chair, sport some cool shades, come with a small appetite and great thirst, and join the crowds at the Akron Art Museum (AAM) on Thursday evenings for the 28th season of the [email protected] summer music series. This year kicked off with the smooth rhythm and blues...

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Community Supported Art: Macon sprouts first crop

Published June 27, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

Community Supported Art has been sprouting up throughout the United States since it was first conceived by Springboard for the Arts, a Knight Arts grantee, and mnartists.org only a few years ago. In Macon, a local version of the program was introduced through a partnership between The 567 Center for...

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Twin Cities Antiquarian and Rare Book Fair is this weekend

Published June 27, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Vintage photo courtesy of the Twin Cities Rare and Antiquarian Book Fair From rare collectibles worth thousands to used paperbacks going for a couple of bucks a pop, this weekend’s Twin Cities Rare and Antiquarian Book Fair at the State Fairgrounds looks promising. It's the largest...

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GableStage presents Shakespeare for M-DCPS Cultural Passport students

Published June 26, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Joseph Adler, GableStage GableStage has been touring Miami-Dade County Public Schools with productions of Shakespeare's plays since our inception. We estimate that we have played to close to 1 million students. Last year, we brought Julius Caesar to thousands of high schools, presenting over 40 performances around the County....

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Boombox Collective at World Cafe Live

Published June 26, 2012 by CSchwartz

Upstairs on June 24th, World Cafe Live held a special Sunday edition of the Boombox Collective. The event hosted by Kuf Knotz was all ages and free entry and included a number of talented artists from around the Philadelphia area for a night of great music. Vendors were also set...

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The message in the image: AIDS poster art

Published June 26, 2012 by Anne Tschida

From Lanny Sommese, 1989. You'll immediate recognize the colorful, cartoonish painting from Keith Haring hanging on the sixth floor of the Wolfsonian-FIU, but there is nothing cartoon-like in the message he had written: "Ignorance = Fear," "Silence = Death," "Fight AIDS, ACT UP." It's one of...

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Corktown Cinema holds its premiere event

Published June 26, 2012 by Jeremy Schmall

This past Saturday, I was fortunate to be on hand for “Cinema Barbeque VII,” the first event of Corktown Cinema’s summer barbeque series, where I had the pleasure of enjoying two cult classics — “They Live” and “Parents.” Featuring a screen hung on the back wall of a former brass...

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Open Studio Saturdays provide a window into contemporary art

Published June 25, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

Many people find contemporary art difficult, especially if it is abstract. We baffle at the colors and shapes wondering what the artist meant. What was their inspiration? What am I suppose to get out of this? Some of us may turn to a title for guidance, but many artists leave...

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Roofless Records blows roof off MOCA

Published June 25, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

In 2011 Roofless Records won a Knight Arts grant to document music and performance art in Miami. Since then Roofless has expanded beyond its record label roots and is now producing conceptual art events and concerts in movie theaters, art fairs and museums. This Wednesday, June 27th at 7 p.m.,...

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“First Holocaust Theater archive conference a tremendous success”

Published June 25, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By National Jewish Theater Foundation The National Jewish Theater Foundation (NJTF) and NJTF President Arnold Mittelman are pleased to announce the successful completion of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation-sponsored Holocaust Theater Archive (HTA) Conference. The National Jewish Theater Foundation / Holocaust Theater Archive Conference took place in...

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The BFI presents a talk by curator Agatha Wara followed by a benefit dinner for BFI’s big move

Published June 25, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Bas Fisher Invitational The Bas Fisher Invitational is excited to welcome Agatha Wara during her Florida stopover en route to Bergen, Norway, where she will join the team of the Bergen Assembly. Wara will present a public talk entitled "The Appeal" (referencing the Gucci Mane album) which refers to...

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A cheat sheet to this week’s bigger-than-ever Twin Cities Jazz Festival

Published June 25, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

Now in its 14th year, the Twin Cities Summer Jazz Festival has a downright dizzying line-up of musicians in store, on the mainstage and in satellite venues scattered throughout Downtown and Lowertown. Since 2009, when the city of St. Paul wooed the festival to relocate the performance hub to Mears...

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Scenic artist David Sutton enjoys working in Macon

Published June 25, 2012 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

David Sutton, a scenic artist living in Macon, stands on a scaffold outside the Cox Capitol Theatre, a Knight Arts grantee. Sutton hard at work. Even before filming for the movie "42" began in Macon, the buzz had begun on the streets....