By Justin Moss, Florida Grand Opera On January 24, 2013, students and invited donors filled the Ziff Ballet-Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. It was dress rehearsal night and excitement filled the hall as everyone prepared to take their seats for a preview of Florida Grand Opera’s […]
Article · February 11, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Benjamin Grosvenor is slated to play in Miami on Feb. 19 and his latest recording is a tantalizing introduction. Armed with an insolent youthfulness and wise beyond his years, Grosvenor is a genuine rara avis. His a career started at the tender age of 11 and has seen a meteoric […]
Article · February 11, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jackie Rivera, The Project [theatre] It seems that everything happens at a pace in February, the weather gets inexplicably warmer, only 28 days, and The Project [theatre] has exactly 3 weeks to put up a show in a hotel. Wait…wait…what?? TRUTH! We are delightfully challenged to stage a one of a kind performance experience […]
Article · February 10, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Carol Coletta, ArtPlace How can creative placemaking strategies drive vibrancy and diversity powerful enough to transform communities? Last week saw a gathering of nearly 200 creative placemakers dedicated to exploring exactly that. ArtPlace, a national initiative for creative placemaking supported by the Knight Foundation, gathered grantees and funders together for a two day “Creative […]
Article · February 8, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Tessa Retterath, Theoroi A program of The Schubert Club, Theoroi is a select group of arts ambassadors ages 21-35 who attend a curated series of arts events and spread the word through social media. Theoroi had a busy couple months in December and January. On December 3, the Theoroi group attended an Accordo concert […]
Article · February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts ArtsFwd provides a nice profile of Knight grantee, Springboard for the Arts. This story and video details Springboard’s experience in the EmcArts Innovation Lab and the changes and new programming that resulted, including a partnership with the Knight Foundation to bring the Community Supported Art (CSA) program to […]
Article · February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By D.B. Schroeder, Puzzle Piece Theatre Puzzle Piece Theatre, Detroit’s newest professional company, will debut with the Michigan premiere of Anthony Clarvoe’s “Show and Tell”. The play’s setting could not be timelier; the plot follows the investigation after an explosion in an elementary school that leaves a class of 24 students dead. “When we announced […]
Article · February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Beverly Blake, Knight Foundation Program Director/Macon Eight years ago, a group of creative folks here in Macon came up with the idea for a film festival to celebrate the craft of the moving image and introduce independent films that rarely appear in Macon and the Macon Film Festival was born. Beginning in 2008, Knight […]
Article · February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Adrienne Arsht Center Staff Opera stars. Prima ballerinas. Legendary violinists. Mayors? Two of the biggest government rock stars of our time – former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz – stepped into the spotlight usually reserved for gifted artists on the grand stage of the Knight Concert Hall on Tuesday, […]
Article · February 6, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Alejandra “Alex” Serna, Florida Grand Opera One of the rarely performed and most beautiful examples of the bel canto genre return to Miami this coming weekend with the opening of Bellini’s La sonnambula on Saturday, February 9, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Florida Grand Opera brings back their resoundingly successful […]
Article · February 5, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Miami Biennale Team Residents and visitors of Wynwood can now enjoy the neighborhood’s first permanent artistic crosswalk, marked by a work that seeks to transform the intersection of Northwest Second Avenue and 25th Street. The effort is part of the Miami Biennale and WADA’s ‘Wynwood Ways’, a collaboration to make the neighborhood a more pedestrian-friendly cultural […]
Article · February 5, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad