By Anne McCrary Sullivan, AIRIE My good people, I guarantee you monster weather events— gargantuan winds of epic proportions— more authentic than anything you’d ever see at Epcot Center. Come aboard the Wilma Tram at Flamingo: You’ll live the hurricane! —from “Step Right Up,” Karla Merrifield April is National Poetry Month, and all April long poems […]
Article · May 7, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Joanne Green, Akron Symphony Orchestra The Akron Symphony Orchestra officially kicked off its 2012 Random Acts of Culture™ program on May 1st. Akron Symphony Orchestra musicians enthusiastically performed at several popular and highly visible locations around Akron. Tuesday was a particularly great day to be out and about in Akron. If you kept your eyes (and […]
Article · May 7, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By National Jewish Theater Foundation The National Jewish Theater Foundation (NJTF) is pleased to announce its upcoming Holocaust Theater Archive (HTA) Conference, scheduled to take place in Miami in two sessions: May 15th & 16th and May 22nd & 23rd. This invitation-only, working two-day conference is generously supported by the John S. and James L. Knight […]
Article · May 7, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Victoria Galan, Miami-Dade Public Library System The Miami-Dade Public Library System is thrilled to announce that Ms. Kekla Magoon has been selected to serve as its Young Adult Writer-in-Residence. Ms. Magoon was selected from nearly 20 applications from around the country. “We are so excited to welcome Ms. Magoon to beautiful South Florida,” stated Library […]
Article · May 3, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Arsht Center Staff What will we call it? How will people get there? What needs to happen to encourage people to live, work and play there? As the Adrienne Arsht Center leads an ongoing community-wide discussion about the evolution of its downtown Miami neighborhood, the questions – and possible solutions – keep coming. The latest […]
Article · May 3, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Barbara Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art’s free Studio Ohr event for the month of April was held on Saturday, April 7, 2012. Talented members of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Long Beach, Mississippi held a special Pysanky egg decorating workshop and donated all of the supplies that were used. The […]
Article · May 2, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Last Friday and Saturday, lovers of music and the visual arts were treated to a fascinating interdisciplinary production that showed off the possibilities of Miami Beach’s New World Center and restored the glory of Béla Bartók’s sole, magisterial opera: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (A kékszakállú herceg vára). It was […]
Article · May 2, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Reina Chadwick, Arts & Business Council Cultural Tourism is exploding here in a Miami – in a good way according to Bruce Turkel, CEO of TURKEL, a travel and tourism marketing Firm in Miami. “It makes sense that when you have people coming from all around the world there are so many advantages,” says […]
Article · May 2, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
The 2012 Knight Foundation’s Philadelphia Arts Challenge has awarded a $400,000 grant to Center City District to construct the innovative public artwork of artist Janet Echelman to help transform historic Dilworth Plaza (Philadelphia City Hall) into a focal point for the city’s thriving downtown. Echelman created “Pulse”, an artwork inspired by the site’s historic association transportation, […]
Article · May 1, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Margie Salvante, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia This past winter, the Arden Theatre’s hugely successful production of Charlotte’s Web completed a run of 98 performances. It set records for attendance and revenue—not just for the Arden’s children’s theatre but for all its theatre. Thirty-four thousand people came to see the family play, generating nearly […]
Article · April 30, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad
By Susan Jedrzejewski, McColl Center for Visual Art On July 2, 2012 McColl Center for Visual Art welcomes two artists, Guthrie Ramsey and Kellie Jones, to begin one-month terms as Knight Artists-in-Residence. While this husband and wife team will have individual residences, their experience will overlap when they partner to explore the musical and visual cultures […]
Article · April 27, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad