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Akron arts community receives $6 million boost from Knight Foundation
Institutions of all sizes, grassroots projects gain support and community-wide arts challenge to launch in 2015
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Arts15 minutes in 2014: Warhol’s legacy in a cabaret operaLike many artistic collaborations, this one began over yoga, solidified over pizza and blossomed over chicken cacciatore. John Jarboe and his Philadelphia cabaret group, The Bearded Ladies, had an idea to create a performance piece on Andy Warhol. The idea intrigued David Devan, who was intent on rethinking the city’s opera company. After running into […]
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ArtsA new performing arts venueLibraries are often quite and studious spaces; sometimes they are venues for community engagement, and certainly they are conduits of information. But rarely do they become spaces for the performing arts, and yet this is exactly what Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents have been experiencing this March in their community libraries through the Library Acts of Culture program. […]
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ArtsLibraries come alive with pop-up performances across PhiladelphiaJazz bassist Warren Oree performs a Library Act of Culture If you’ve stepped into your local library recently, you know that it’s a vital community resource and a vibrant hub of creativity – a space that is as much about creation as collection. A recent article in the Pacific Standard touted the importance of libraries […]
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ArtsCelebrating #LibraryActsofCulture
Library Acts of Culture from Knight Foundation on Vimeo A few years ago, Knight Foundation set out to bring art and culture into people’s everyday lives by presenting surprise opera and classical ballet performances at markets, parks and airports. More than 1,000 of these Random Acts of Culture took place in eight communities across the […]
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ArtsCelebrating #LibraryActsofCulture™
A few years ago, Knight Foundation set out to bring art and culture into people’s everyday lives by presenting surprise opera and classical ballet performances at markets, parks and airports. More than 1,000 of these Random Acts of Culture took place in eight communities across the United States. The reaction each time was amazing to […]
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ArtsKnight Foundation VP/Arts Dennis Scholl joins Cleveland’s NPR stationKnight Foundation heads west today as VP/Arts Dennis Scholl joins Cleveland’s NPR station WCPN to discuss his Oct 25 appearance at the City Club of Cleveland. Click here to listen to the interview. Scholl is heading to the City Club of Cleveland to discuss what today’s audiences want from the arts. He’ll will give examples […]
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ArtsA final feast of Christmas musicFlorida’s Singing Sons Boychoir. If you’re anything like me, the late Thanksgiving this year has meant that Christmas has crept right up on you and caught you nearly unawares. Musically, that has meant a great pile-up of holiday concerts in the past couple weeks, but even though the window is closing fast, there are still […]
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ArtsFrom Black Boxes to Random Acts of Culture: Opera Companies Find New Ways to Connect with Audiences – Non Profit News | Nonprofit QuarterlyNecessity just may be the mother of new opera, as companies around the globe experiment with smaller venues, opera in unexpected places and other innovative ways to nurture new audiences and emerging artists.
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ArtsDomesticated dogs and humans with Ryan McCartney at Rebekah TempletonEach of the objects placed into the small space of Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art pines for the familiar and the accessible, but somewhere along the way, these creations lose their way. Artist Ryan McCartney impresses the weight of the banal upon the viewer with simplified process pieces that excel at innuendo without revealing their true […]
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ArtsO, Miami in the newsO, Miami, Miami’s first monthlong poetry festival, made the press this weekend. The Sun Sentinel’s Stephen Goldstein called the festival a revolution, writing: “It started in 2011, gained momentum this year, and has the potential to transform the region for the good beyond our wildest collective imaginations. And it’s all because of poetry.” Click here […]
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