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    “La Reunión” is…um… awesome

    Published November 10, 2014 by

    Suddenly, I'm jerked back to life and I'm out of my funk. It's like witnessing the first night launch of the space shuttle as a child. As it ascends like a reverse meteor headed for the blackened sky, everyone around you is crying and you don't know why, but your...
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    PBS to livestream, cover Miami Book Fair International

    Published November 10, 2014 by

    Each year, Miami Dade College throws a party for book lovers in Downtown Miami. About 200,000 people join us to hear from some of the world’s greatest authors, in one of the biggest book fairs in the country, under our warm November sun. Related Links "PBS Brings Miami Book Fair International to National Audiences" - Press release (11/10/15) "Broadsides and craft brews at Miami Book Fair’s the Swamp" on by Lissette Mendez on Knight Blog   "Teatro Prometeo gears up for Play Time! An international children’s theater festival" on KnightArts blog.  This year, if you can’t join us Nov. 16-23 in South Florida, we’re making it easier for you to join the fun.  In its first major book event coverage, PBS will be livestreaming the Miami Book Fair International’s main weekend, Nov. 22 and 23, and providing a nightly recap show to stations around the country, thanks to Knight Foundation’s support. You can watch six hours a day of coverage online, or watch daily wrap-up shows with Jeffrey Brown, Chief Correspondent for Arts, Culture and Society for PBS NewsHour and three-time New York Times bestselling author Kelly Corrigan, with additional live on-the-street segments by WPBT Miami host Kalyn Chapman James. The coverage, filmed by Detroit Public Television, includes a daily live stream presentation of selected interviews, panels, and on-the-street fair segments via BookViewNow.org, PBS.org and other PBS websites, as well as mobile websites, and across PBS’s diverse portfolio of video apps on the iPhone, iPad, Xbox, Roku and Apple TV. 
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    Hattie Mae Williams: Dancing to Miami’s History

    Published November 9, 2014 by

    By Fernando González, Miami-based arts and culture writer For dancer and choreographer Hattie Mae Williams, the question is not whether all the world’s a stage but why shouldn’t it be? She has taken her self-described guerrilla approach to dance performances to supermarkets and churches, subway platforms and cemeteries. “Culture Concrete,”...
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    Weighty new shows hold up the Frost

    Published November 7, 2014 by

    Wang Qingsong, "New Women." The Frost Art Museum is opening up its two main Art Basel-time shows tomorrow – they couldn’t be more different, but both have real heft. “Wang Qingsong: ADifinitum” is the freshest, with huge photographic prints covering the entire third floor from the...
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    Yeti or not, here comes Dave Eggers and 826 National

    Published November 7, 2014 by

    Dave Eggers took Detroit by storm this week, with a presentation at the 2014 Richard C. Van Dusen Urban Leadership Forum at Wayne State University, titled “Buccaneers, Robots, Yetis, and Other Agents of Social Change.” The title of the presentation refers to the eclectic storefronts that act as an interface...
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    Hattie Mae Williams: Dancing to Miami’s History

    Published November 7, 2014 by

    Photo: Hattie Mae Williams dancers in "Miami Sites Project" at Miami Marine Stadium. For dancer and choreographer Hattie Mae Williams, the question is not whether all the world’s a stage but why shouldn’t it be? She has taken her self-described guerrilla approach to dance performances to supermarkets and churches, subway platforms and cemeteries. “Culture Concrete,” her site-specific dance film project staged and shot at historic, and long-closed, Miami Marine Stadium, premieres Saturday, Nov. 15, at The LAB Miami in Wynwood. “Culture Concrete” is part of Williams’ Miami Sites Project, a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge Miami winner. It includes not only dance and film but music, photography and installations. In fact, Williams and her company, The Tattooed Ballerinas, will dance at the showing of The Miami Sites Mini Episodes series, short videos featuring guerrilla dance performances at places such as Target and bus stops, at Miami Book Fair International on Nov. 21. The project also includes plans to celebrate another historic place in South Florida, the 90-year-old Venetian Pool in Coral Gables. The idea is not only to explore the history and current life of these places, but, as she puts it, “reclaiming and reframing spaces through site-specific/context-specific dance, film, photography and narratives.”
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    Theatre Charlotte’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”

    Published November 6, 2014 by

    Actors Finn and Blamy in Theatre Charlotte's "To Kill a Mockingbird." The Queen’s City community theater, Theatre Charlotte, has succeeded again in presenting a stirring production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Harper Lee’s novel is one of the most popular coming-of-age stories in Southern literature, and...
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    Christina Day at Philadelphia Art Alliance upends the everyday

    Published November 6, 2014 by

    Human beings are far from the only creatures that construct habitations for themselves, but the process of architecture certainly poses significant challenges that other species are blissfully ignorant to. At the Philadelphia Art Alliance, these very same obstacles become objects for alteration, investigation and amusement at the hands of artist...
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    Inside Reading Terminal Market’s October performances

    Published November 5, 2014 by

    By Ann Mintz, Reading Terminal Market An exciting mixed bag of performances took place at Reading Terminal Market during October including a popup dance performance, the winner of Philadelphia Magazine’s award for “Best of Philly” street singer, the 30th anniversary celebration of the longest running free jazz performance series in...