Articles by

Valerie Nahmad

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    Cultural Passport Biodiversity: We are all in this together

    Published July 25, 2012 by

    By Laura Tellez, Discovery Program Coordinator, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden This year, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden partnered with the Foundation for New Education Initiatives, Inc. to participate in the Cultural Passport program. Each grade level focuses on a specific topic, and seventh grade’s topic is ecology, which is a branch...
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    Janet Echelman: Curious, inspired, adventurous

    Published July 23, 2012 by

    By Linda Harris, Center City Philadelphia Janet Echelman pursued many subjects in school: Visual Art at Bard College in New York; Counseling Psychology at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Chinese calligraphy and landscape painting at the University of Hong Kong; Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, where she graduated...
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    Philadelphia Theatre Company finds “reasons to be pretty”

    Published July 19, 2012 by

    By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company Last month, we lived in the kingdom of playwright Neil LaBute here in Philadelphia. The final play in LaBute’s Beauty Plays trilogy, the purposely lower-cased reasons to be pretty closed the 2011-2012 PTC season in a triumphant Philadelphia premiere. In a celebrated standard for...
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    Random Acts of Culture™ hits the Aspen Ideas Festival

    Published July 19, 2012 by

    Random Acts of Culture™ arrived with a bang at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival as musician Wu Tong surprised the Making Cities Sing panel audience with a traditional flute performance. Why Does Knight Foundation Fund Random Acts of Culture™? Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on...
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    The Circus Comes to City Hall

    Published July 19, 2012 by

    By Josh Dubin, Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy City of Philadelphia Image courtesy of Amanda Brandt for the City of Philadelphia It's 5:30pm on a Wednesday in the Philadelphia. The City Hall Courtyard, a key pedestrian corridor and public transit access point in...
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    Summer shapes up at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center

    Published July 17, 2012 by

    By Julia Ford-Carther, Gusman Center Miami Lyric Opera (MLO) returned to the Olympia Theater stage last month for the company’s second Red Curtain Series presentation. Artistic and general director Raffaele Cardone brought some of opera’s most promising rising stars and recognized voices to downtown Miami for a rendition of Madama...
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    Broken Crow: The Bigger Picture Project

    Published July 16, 2012 by

    The Bigger Picture Project, an Artplace grantee, is a set of four murals painted on locations along St. Paul's central corridor. Artists John Grider and Mike Fitzsimmons (known together as Broken Crow), designed the images to fit together to create one Bigger Picture along the route of the light rail....
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    Enjoy Sipping & Showing with Locust Projects

    Published July 16, 2012 by

    By Chana Budgazad Sheldon, Locust Projects Tickets are still available to tomorrow night’s Riesling Pizzeria extravaganza at Harry’s Pizzeria to celebrate Summer of Riesling, the annual occasion from June 20 through September 21 when hundreds of the finest dining establishments across the nation celebrate the world's most misunderstood and versatile...
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    Knight Arts chats with Barry’s Blog

    Published July 16, 2012 by

    Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation VP/Arts, chats with Barry's Blog about thinking out of the box, the evolving needs and trends in arts philanthropy and the challenges facing the arts philanthropic community. Enjoy an excerpt from the interview below and click here to read the interview in its entirety. BARRY: In...