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Breaking news – WPBT Channel 2 will air a 27-minute special showcasing the Knight Arts Challenge and its winners on Thursday, July  7 at 7:30pm. Produced by Knight Foundation, “Ideas in Motion” gets inside the studio and behind the curtain with five winners of the Knight Arts Challenge. Highlighted artists include the Florida Grand Opera, Teatro [...]

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Susi Westfall, City Theatre co-founder and literary director, created CityWrights Weekend, a four-day intensive program that focuses on practical, professional development and creative hands-on participation. The Weekend is packed with a full schedule of workshops and readings by master playwrights

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By Gregory Lucas-Myers, Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History When the word “jazz” is spoken, minds tend to race one of two ways for artists to reference. When looking back, names such as Armstrong, Coltrane, Monk, and Davis stand tall with long, deep shadows. When looking to the music today, those who are not [...]

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Published on June 21, 2011 by in Miami

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Most people know Tigertail Productions because of the cutting-edge performance, dance and spoken word the organization both nurtures and delivers to South Florida. And rightly so. Since 1979, Tigertail has introduced local audiences to an eclectic mix of dance and performance from across the globe that never would have rolled up on shore without the [...]

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By Brian Woods, The Schubert Club—a member of The Arts Partnership Quilters & culture are a great match! Random Acts of Culture™ took the Minnesota Quilters’ 33rd Annual Quilt Show and Conference by storm this month, surprising attendees & convention center staff with 15 performances throughout the three-day conference. From June 16-18, a string quartet from [...]

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The Random Act of Culture® love continues to spread. HuffPost named Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation VP/Arts and Random Act of Culture® creator, its Greatest Person of the Day Monday, June 20. The HuffPost piece outlines Random Act of Culture’s intention (“Scholl wondered if the most modern way of promoting classical music and performance was to [...]

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Belle Isle is spectacular. The Detroit island park is home to dense woods, weeping willow-lined lakes, vast fields, dramatic views of the skyline and passing freighters, and some truly inspired architecture. The contemplative tranquility of its natural and man-made beauty also makes it a perfect place to encounter art, as the folks at Access Arts [...]

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What happens to choreography after the dance ends? Miami Herald reporter Jordan Levin probes this issue in a recent audio piece about Merce Cunningham and his namesake dance company. Produced in partnership with WLRN, the story explores the legacy and future of the legendary choreographer’s work, noting: “Though Cunninghman focused on the here and now, [...]

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Open studios are not new. For years, artists opened up their world to others. Often when one thinks about an “open studio,” we envision the artist in their recently tidied space with brushes or other supplies neatly put away. But McColl Center for Visual Art (the Center) is on the cutting edge of contemporary art [...]

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The acclaimed International Hispanic Theatre Festival (IHTF) of Miami, presented by Teatro Avante, American Airlines (the festival’s official airline) and the Adrienne Arsht Center, is celebrating its 26th anniversary season with a tribute to Chile. The festival will present some of the best theatre companies from

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