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Surprise Opera Performance, Poetry Reading Help Celebrate Knight Arts Challenge Miami 2010 Winners
This week, Knight Foundation awarded $3.8 million to the newest winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami – and the ceremony at the Knight Concert Hall was imbued with art.
Singers from the Florida Grand Opera, dressed as regular attendees, surprised the audience with a performance Toreador Aria, from Bizet’s Carmen ‘ a nod to Knight’s Random Acts of Culture series.
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Poet Scott Cunningham, founder of the O, Miami poetry festival, read an original work about seeing a photograph of a painter for the first time.
The audience saw’ a sneak peak of a video about how challenge winners are transforming the South Florida arts.
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And one challenge winner, Lucas Leyva of the Borscht Film Festival, sported a ‘KF’ for Knight Foundation shaved into his head.
Take a look at more photos from the evening’s ceremony ‘ and check out this year’s Knight Arts Challenge winners at KnightArts.org.
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