By Candice Hardie, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia’s premiere summer concert venue, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, is diving into emerging social media trends. Integrating mobile promotions such as Foursquare and Text Your Encore into their programming strengthens their already well- established social media presence on Facebook (The Mann) and [...]
The “DCG Open” at the David Castillo Gallery is a summer group show that aims to illuminate works from Miami area artists who are not represented in galleries and may be off the radar screen of the exhibition circuit. It’s a great idea and a community builder, as long as
By Jean-Marie Allion, Lead Writer “Home Water” The lack of access to water is a worldwide issue that has an increasingly preponderant role in geopolitics. On a smaller scale, here at home, we can see that it is also a burning issue in urban America. When our Community Writing Circle met in November 2010 to write [...]
By Evy Schiffman, Community School of Music and Arts When 7-year old Ethel arrives at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) for her weekly piano lesson, she can’t wait to start playing. She’s been practicing pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky and is eager to put her fingers on the keys. And [...]
You’ll find no flowers when you visit the Susanne Hilberry Gallery to see “In Bloom,” the four-person show on view there until August 6. Not real ones, anyway. There’s a Styrofoam box full of artificial flowers, watered fruitlessly by a half-hearted burble. And there’s an abundant sense of growing and blooming in much of the [...]
In talking the other day to Eduardo Marturet, music director of the Miami Symphony Orchestra, the conductor dropped a phrase I hadn’t heard before: “horizontal empowerment.” It’s central to the Miami Symphony’s operational strategy, he said, which spreads out the responsibilities involved in mounting concerts. “It’s a model for the symphony orchestra which doesn’t happen [...]
Hard to believe it’s already the last weekend in July. Where has the summer gone? Even though we are starting to see “back to school” commercials, there are still a bunch of great summer activities to savor. And if you enjoy music, there’s a wide variety of shows to choose from this weekend. Whether you [...]
Philadelphia was well represented recently at San Francisco’s Brave New Voices poetry slam — the longest ongoing spoken word event in the world. The 2011 competition, which just went down on July 23, was won by a team of Philadelphia poets. Funded by the Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement, a Knight Arts grantee, the five-person team took [...]
In case you missed it, yesterday’s live chat for the Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge has been archived and is available on www.artsjournalism.org. The conversation features Knight and NEA staff responses to questions applicants submitted about things like eligibility (anyone), and the purpose of the challenge: to seek new models for arts journalism in Knight’s eight resident communities. We hope [...]
By Gregory Lucas-Myers, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Twice now, I have visited our museum’s recently installed Dance Theater of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts exhibit. The first time I explored the space, uneasy captivation quickly set-in. Uneasy, not because of anything off-putting, but because of the exact opposite. I can’t quite put it into words. Costumes [...]
