By Elizabeth R. Miller, Knight Foundation Just in time for National Poetry Month a new report chronicles the rise of Miami’s art scene and the unorthodox ways it brought the art form to life. Exploring how festival organizers dropped poems from helicopters, sewed them into clothes and even shouted them out of a Ferrari (#thatssomiami), […]
Article · March 30, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence For South High School 9th Grader Shameelah Abdullah, apprenticing with the VocalEssence Chorus on the WITNESS Concert is just the challenge she was looking for. 1 of 8 students in the Talented Tenth Apprentice Program (TTAP), a program for urban high school students who may not otherwise have such opportunities to […]
Article · March 30, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company Regarding the world of creative writing, Ernest Hemingway once said that “we are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” The young writers of Rebeck’s caustic comedy, SEMINAR, know this lesson all too well, as they sacrifice their work on the despotic altar of […]
Article · March 29, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company From February 18th to March 3rd the Suzanne Roberts theatre on Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts buzzed with activity. Our 2013 PTC@Play Festival, which hosted over 70 participating artists in 21 plays over the course of nine days, transformed the space into a hub for exciting plays-in-progress, delicious food […]
Article · March 29, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Mythili Kumar, Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose Abhinaya Dance company productions for Spring 2013 start off this weekend with the restaging of Gandhi on Sunday, March 31st at Ohlone College at 4pm and on Saturday April 6th at Cabrillo College at 7pm. This repeated performance of our fall 2012 show was made possible by […]
Article · March 29, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By D.B. Schroeder, Puzzle Piece Theatre You know that moment when you have something really important you want to share, or you’ve had a hellish day and need to vent- what do you do? You reach for the phone. Since I left my home town of St. Louis to begin my professional theatre career in […]
Article · March 29, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Katherine Bergman, Zeitgeist With their third annual Early Music Festival, Zeitgeist examines the profound impact of the electronic signal on music-making, revealing electricity’s transformative power with regard to how we create, how we listen and how we perform. The festival will include influential works from Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alvin Lucier, John Cage, and […]
Article · March 29, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Brandon A. Stanley, Opera Carolina Opera Carolina brought a new cultural event to the Charlotte community with Art to Poetry to Music on January 20, 2013. This event, presented in collaboration with the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art and the Confucius Institute at Pfeiffer University, explored Chinese cultural arts by featuring performance by Chinese […]
Article · March 26, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Roofless Records Now that Roofless has reached the halfway point of raising money to match our grant, our wheels are greased like never before and there is seemingly no end to the momentum. Everything described below is either the direct product of The Knight Foundation’s support, or was greatly enhanced and better realized as […]
Article · March 22, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Sharon Gillberg, Downtown Akron Partnership Colorful art, music, dance, and even gumbo, came together at the Downtown Akron Artwalk on Saturday, March 2. All of this was possible through the help of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The sounds of Dixieland music along with jazz on flute and piano were heard […]
Article · March 22, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Steven S. Klotz, Embrace Music Foundation Big Brother Big Sister of Miami’s annual fundraising gala attracts over 700 guests committed to improving the lives of at-risk youth in their community. Going in, guests know the heartbreaking stories, the odds of survival, the yeoman efforts needed. But what they don’t know is that this evening’s […]
Article · March 20, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad