Knight Arts Challenge winner Michigan Arab Orchestra makes headlines this month. The ArabAmericanNews.com reported on the orchestra’s Building Bridges through Music program at Detroit’s Woodward Academy. Click here to read the complete article and/or read an excerpt below… The Michigan Arab Orchestra Cross-posted from ArabAmericanNews.com After spending eight centuries in the Iberian Peninsula, Arabs left […]
Article · November 3, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jackie Rivera, The Project [theatre] (Gasp!) Please believe us when we say this is the first breath of air we’ve been able to take since July. I know we were irresponsible and left you guys out in the cold to forage our facebook page for whatever crumbs we were dropping about our goings on. […]
Article · November 3, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Nov. 15, five small South Florida arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Diliana Alexander talks about why the Indie Film Club should get your vote. To see the other nominees and to text to vote, visit knightarts.org/peopleschoice. Q. Why should your group win […]
Article · November 1, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Susan Silas, AIRIE Fellow The South Florida Collections Management Center is tucked inside Everglades National Park at the end of Research road. Inside its temperature controlled and darkened drawers, birds that inhabited the park as far back as the 1960’s are laid out, each with a handwritten tag carefully tied to its feet, in […]
Article · November 1, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Nov. 15, five small South Florida arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Jan Mapou talks about why the Mapou Cultural Center should get your vote. To see the other nominees and to text to vote, visit knightarts.org/peopleschoice. Q. Why should your group win […]
Article · October 31, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Laura Quinlan, Rhythm Foundation Last Thursday, October 24th, Arcade Fire – one of the most popular rock groups in the world today – played a secret show at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. For real! Of course it wasn’t so secret because thousands of people turned out, even though they called themselves “The Reflektors.” […]
Article · October 31, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Steve Murray, critic-in-residence with Art Matters: Engaging the Community through Embedded Arts Journalists Holding the neck of his cello in hand, Karlos Rodriguez explained to his young audience where they might have heard “The Goldberg Variations” before. You know the music during the opening credits for that gruesome, cannibal-psychiatrist TV series, “Hannibal”? No response. OK […]
Article · October 31, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Nov. 15, five small South Florida arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Jim Hammond talks about why The Puppet Network should get your vote. To see the other nominees and to text to vote, visit knightarts.org/peopleschoice. Q. Why should your group win the […]
Article · October 30, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Nov. 15, five small South Florida arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Ian Welsch talks about why The Motivational Edge should get your vote. To see the other nominees and to text to vote, visit knightarts.org/peopleschoice. Q. Why should your group win the […]
Article · October 29, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Bill Haugen, VocalEssence “You’ve got what you need inside of you,” explains WITNESS guest artist Melanie DeMore, modeling the art of body percussion in the middle of a circle of teenaged boys and girls at the Hennepin County Home School. “Just break it down into little pieces.” Timid and skeptical at first, the students […]
Article · October 28, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
Now through Nov. 15, five small South Florida arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, author and playwright Teo Castellanos talks about why he should get your vote. To see the other nominees and to text to vote, visit knightarts.org/peopleschoice. Q. Why should your group win […]
Article · October 28, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad