On April 12, the Macon Syhpmony Orchestra surprised employees at Gieco’s cafeteria with a quintet performing the “Can-Can” from Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on promoting informed and engaged communities. To that end, we strongly believe […]
Article · April 27, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Rick Shoimi, Artistic Director Mu Performing Arts I want to address the impact the Knight Foundation grant had upon Mu’s relationship with CHAT (Center for Hmong Arts and Talent). From the 1990’a through to about 2008, Mu has had a cordial though somewhat distant relationship with CHAT. At times we employed the same actors or theater artists, […]
Article · April 25, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Flex your creative muscles – you’re got less than one week left to enter DawnTown 2011, Downtown Miami’s annual international architecture ideas competition. Created in 2007 to attract national & international attention to Downtown Miami’s emerging architectural needs, the Knight-supported competition has been an ideas boom for Miami, with past projects including a new seaplane […]
Article · April 23, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Patrick Dewane, Minnesota Opera Tuesday night the Minnesota Opera did an eight camera High Definition video shoot of its production of Wuthering Heights. The HD video made for a night of many firsts—a first for any Twin Cities major cultural organization, a first for the Minnesota Opera and a first for this major work […]
Article · April 23, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Borscht 7 arrives at the Arsht Center this Saturday, bringing 12 short films telling Miami stories made by local filmmakers. The films were commissioned by Borscht as part of its seventh “quasi-yearly” Knight-funded Borscht Film Festival. Miami rapper turned mayoral candidate Luther Luke Campbell is featured in one of the 12 films. Directed by Jillian […]
Article · April 20, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
The Akron Symphony’s Knight-funded production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess took the stage last Friday and Saturday April 15-16, 2011. The shows were nearly sold out and reviews overwhelmingly positive. The330.com calls Porgy and Bess a “rare treat,” noting that seeing the show on opening night “felt like history in the making.” “The massive, two-night […]
Article · April 18, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Park Square Theatre Staff Park Square Theatre’s sold out production of To Kill a Mockingbird is applauded by local critics, patrons and our most honest and critical audience of students from schools in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. In April and May, more than 9000 students will visit Park Square to see To Kill a […]
Article · April 18, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Knight Arts grantee The Playground Theatre celebrates the world premiere of The Red Thread Saturday, April 16. Inspired by Chinese folklore, this 90-minute original play is designed for children eight years and older and tells the story of a widowed weaver and his three daughters. The production is heavily influenced by local talent – it’s […]
Article · April 15, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Miami’s seventh “quasi-yearly” Borscht Film Festival runs from April 9-23, bringing films telling Miami stories created by regional filmmakers to iconic venues throughout Miami. Funded by Knight Foundation, the Festival hopes to forge Miami’s cinematic identity and generate global interest in the city’s film industry. In doing so, Borscht commissioned local teams of directors and […]
Article · April 15, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
By Siobhan Canty, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Knight Foundation One of the great things about O Miami! is how it shows that poetry can be a daily and fundamental way of improving our lives. When placed in everyday spots, poems remind us that there are other ways of seeing the world. On the side […]
Article · April 14, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad
Explore the next generation of Miami’s emerging artists at bey(on)d paper – an exhibition of drawings, prints and books by New World School of the Arts college students. Held at the New World Gallery in Wynwood and curated by Knight Arts grantee Kathleen Hudspeth, the show showcases a “coming together of sorts of the printmaking/book […]
Article · April 13, 2011 by Valerie Nahmad