Articles by

Valerie Nahmad

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    Around the campfire: Art & story in place

    Published March 7, 2013 by

    By Wendy Call, AIRE We were all sitting around a campfire, or so it seemed. After three weeks in the Everglades National Park, I traveled to Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood to offer a writing workshop: “You Are Here: Creating a Sense of Place on the Page.” Thanks to the work of...
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    The Project [theatre] March 2013 update

    Published March 7, 2013 by

    By Jackie Rivera, The Project [theatre] Holy excel spreadsheets, reality tv, and rainclouds, Batman! Is it March already?? February for The Project [theatre] was a blink… 4 weeks where, we devised a show completely through improvisation, constructed and stuck to a strict budget, thwarted what could have been a natural...
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    Jazz at Studio Z / crow with no mouth

    Published March 7, 2013 by

    By Katherine Bergman, Studio Z Studio Z, operated by the new music group Zeitgeist, opened in 2009 and serves as a gathering place for the composers, performers, and audiences that make up our Twin Cities new music community. Designed with chamber music in mind, Studio Z provides our community with...
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    Opera Returns to Second Saturday Art Walk

    Published March 5, 2013 by

    By Alejandra Serna, Florida Grand Opera Last year, Florida Grand Opera (FGO) made a splash when it debuted at Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk with a preview event that brought opera to the young, art-loving hipsters of the neighborhood. Winning the company the honor of “Best Arts Outreach 2012” by...
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    Winning sponsorships in the arts

    Published March 4, 2013 by

    By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council Over 60 arts executives and corporate representatives gathered at the Adrienne Arsht Center this week to explore collaborations at the Arts & Business Councils Miami Arts Marketing Project program on corporate sponsorship. In today’s economy and corporate landscape both sponsor and beneficiary must...
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    567 Center for Renewal February update

    Published March 1, 2013 by

    By Timothy Durski, 567 Center for Renewal Is it fair to say, yet, that everyone is a photographer? It’s not that everyone could be a photographer; it’s that we all have that camera on our phone, in our pocket, even those of us still holding out with our budget-model flip...
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    VocalEssence WITNESS remembers Marian Anderson

    Published February 28, 2013 by

    By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence “Raise your hand if you ever saw Marian Anderson perform live!” someone shouts and thirty or so hands shoot into the air. This brief meeting took place amongst audience members at WITNESS: Marian Anderson, a concert paying tribute to the celebrated African American contralto’s life as...
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    Opera makes reading fun again

    Published February 28, 2013 by

    By Stefanie Hew, Florida Grand Opera From maracas to the triangle, every child has the opportunity to play a part in the story with Florida Grand Opera’s Read Along, Sing a Song program – a free literacy workshop series that incorporates music into the reading process. In partnership with Miami-Dade...