Celebrate Viernes Cultural/Cultural Friday Oct 26

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Celebrate Viernes Cultural/Cultural Friday Oct 26

Published October 24, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Pati Vargas, Viernes Culturales Join us on October 26, 2012 for another Viernes Cultural/Cultural Friday. Little Havana's popular arts and culture festival. Enjoy music, discover works by local artists and artisans in and around our iconic Domino Plaza on SW 8th St and SW 15th Ave, and visit the...

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Locust Projects, Miami’s premier experimental art exhibition space, celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2013

Published October 22, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Chana Budgazad Sheldon, Locust Projects One part raffle, one part kickin’ party, the Locust Projects celebrates the 10th year of their annual “Smash & Grab” fundraiser. South Florida art collectors will convene at Locust Projects’ Design District gallery space for a slice of the action on October 27 where...

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City of Biloxi Center for Ceramics Ribbon Cutting and Art Fair ExtraOHRdinaire at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

Published October 21, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art On September 15, 2012 a ribbon cutting by Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway, Harrison County Supervisor Windy Swetman, Biloxi City Councilman George Lawrence, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art Board President Larry Clark and Emeritus Board Member Jerry O’Keefe officially opened the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum’s new...

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Miami City Ballet brings Random Acts of Culture™ to the October Wynwood Art Walk

Published October 21, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Caroline Murray, Miami City Ballet On October 13, Wynwood Art Walk goers were minding their business at popular spot, the Wynwood Walls. No one expected a ballet dancer in street clothes to strike a pose right smack in the middle of the crowd as the DJ changed her tune...

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Leap of faith accelerates growth of South Florida’s cultural community

Published October 21, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Mayur Patel and Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation Five years ago, Knight Foundation took a leap of faith and launched the Knight Arts Challenge, a $40 million initiative to accelerate the momentum in South Florida’s cultural community. We called it a leap of faith because the arts challenge was one...

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Miami Poetry Festival releases a vinyl recording of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry

Published October 18, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By P. Scott Cunningham, co-founder and director of O, Miami Poetry Festival The idea of making recordings of poets reading their work is as old as records themselves. Ezra Pound, Vachel Lindsay, T.S. Eliot, and many others poets put voice-to-vinyl in the early days of the technology; Sylvia Plath’s voice...

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The Russian Soul and The Vivid Disguise of Despair

Published October 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer The New World Symphony embarked on its 25th season with The Russian Soul as motif and figurehead. The festive atmosphere that permeated opening night posed an invitation to play with meanings and coincidences at a concert that was simultaneously conventional and...

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MDC Live Arts presents Yemen Blues’ debut in Miami

Published October 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sue Arrowsmith, Miami Dade College International music sensation Yemen Blues will dazzle Miami audiences with an eclectic brew of West African grooves, American jazz, blues, and funk one night only at 9 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 10, at Grand Central, 697 N. Miami Ave., downtown Miami. This special performance is...

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Arsht Center launches permanent art collection

Published October 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Hannah Sampson, The Miami Herald The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts wants you to come for the show and stay for the art. With the help of a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the center has launched a permanent art collection and...

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Why do successful business executives support the arts?

Published October 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council Why do successful business executives join arts boards and support the arts? The Arts & Business Council of Miami asked that question of Miami’s very own dynamic duo, Dennis Edwards and Mark Steinberg. They define what it means to be good corporate citizens....

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La bohème on the Mall

Published October 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Michael Bolton, Opera Company of Philadelphia On Saturday, October 6, 2012 the Opera Company of Philadelphia treated 2,500 area residents to La bohème on the Mall, a free, open-air broadcast at Independence National Historical Park of the Company’s season-opening production of Puccini’s beloved opera. For the second consecutive year,...