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    By Laura Quinlan, Big Night in Little Haiti The September 20 edition of Big Night in Little Haiti brings the color and extravagance of One Miami Broward Carnival to the plaza of the Little Haiti Cultural Center, along with two top Haitian bands live in concert.  Costumed masqueraders from Carnival, which comes to town in […]

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    By Etain Connor and Laura Bruney Attorney Daniel Novela cannot point to one moment that cemented his interest in the arts. It was a natural and gradual process.  When he and his wife joined a young professionals group for the Perez Art Museum of Miami (formerly Miami Art Museum). It was to attend creative social […]

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    International writer Thomas Kennedy spent a week in residence in the Writer’s Room at the Betsy Hotel this summer. The Writer’s Room was awarded a $60,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant to help brand South Florida as a muse for authors. Kennedy wrote about his experience for a recent presentation at Books and Books. Click here […]

    Article · September 12, 2013 by

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    Knight Foundation recently announced the 56 winners of Knight Arts Challenge Detroit – and the buzz is following. The Detroit Free Press covered the announcement and the winners in its September 10 edition. Read below for an excerpt and click here to read the complete story. Photo courtesy of the Detroit Free Press Reprinted from […]

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    By Connie Shaver, Concrete and Grass Lowertown Music Festival This weekend’s 7th annual Concrete and Grass Lowertown Music Festival brought just about everything musical to Mears Park, covering over three nights the talents of a classical chamber orchestra; opera soloists; brass ensemble; African beats; and the instruments and voices of rock, pop, and jazz. The […]

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    By Locust Projects 2013 marks Locust Projects’ 15th Anniversary as an experimental exhibition space with a mission to serve artists and the community. To mark this milestone we will inaugurate Locust Talks, a new lecture series that brings visiting curators and directors from innovative institutions across the country and internationally. Each art professional will give […]

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    By Nicholas Mirra, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia Philadelphia’s search for its next artist-designed bike rack is nearing an important first deadline. The last day to submit a design is September 30th. That deadline was extended to increase the number of submissions received, and to give artists time to react to a change made in […]

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    By Anarrah Ross, Gantt Center Words are incapable of conveying how grateful I am to have been a part of the opening of The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey- Where Art and History Intersect.” My first day as an intern at the Harvey B. Gantt Center coincided with the launching of […]

    Article · September 6, 2013 by

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    By Nina Johnson-Milewski, Miami Rail Knight Foundation supports the Miami Rail to provide arts and culture coverage about Miami for local and national distribution via print and online platforms. Below, Nina Johnson-Milewski, publisher of the Miami Rail, writes about their work from the past year. Photo by Gesi Schilling The Miami Rail has provided a […]

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    By Jennifer Weismann, VocalEssence The US premiere of acclaimed English composer Jonathan Dove’s There Was a Child opens the 2013-2014 VocalEssence season on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 4 p.m. The one and only performance will be held in the newly refurbished Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, and will feature the 100-voice VocalEssence Chorus and 32-voice Ensemble […]

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