By: Craig Peterson, Director, Live Arts Brewery and Philly Fringe Festival The Live Arts Brewery program is rounding the halfway mark of its third year and we show no signs of slowing down. When Live Arts began the LAB program in 2009 we had no idea how many lessons were in store for us. In [...]
By Eric Woodhams, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hands-down, the best part of working at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is hearing our amazing musicians perform in Orchestra Hall. The intimate connection between the stage and audience, the beauty and history of the building, and its acoustical warmth make every concert a joy to be a part of. As [...]
Random Acts of Culture™ gains a bit more national attention this month as Doug Borwick, president of the Board of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, writes about the program in Engaging Matters, a blog that explores community engagement and the arts community. Borwick calls the Random Acts of Culture™ one of the best funded and [...]
By Janet Batet, Miami Arts Journalist Next February 10, The Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library will be hosting Miami Moments, its first annual fundraising event and under the suggestive title, The Three Graces, this inaugural evening will be dedicated to three exceptional women: Margarita Cano, Helen Kohen and Barbara Young, who for more than forty [...]
By Michael Knoll, South Florida Folklife Center, HistoryMiami The South Florida Folklife Center (SFFC), a division of HistoryMiami, is pleased to announce the launch of the Heritage Spotlight series, an annual artist-in-residence program. The series showcases local traditional artists, cultural expressions, and the area’s diversity. Over the course of 2012, SFFC will feature three artists [...]
By Ned Warwick, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia It is awfully easy to take for granted the cultural riches that abound in Philadelphia. Vaguely, we assume they have always been here—a natural and inevitable part of our heritage—and that every community is similarly blessed. But listening in for the past six months to what people have [...]
By Petet Leggett, Walker West Music Academy In February, Walker West Music Academy will be offering two new programs intended to help support the development of emerging artists. The Young Artist Professional Development Training Program (YAPTP) will provide students the opportunity to compose, record and promote their own original music by forming a small ensemble in [...]
By Susan Myers, Project Manager, Fairmount Park Art Association In preparation for the Knight-funded public art project Open Air by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, the Art Association’s Project Manger and Development/Communications Manager recently had the opportunity to travel to Montréal and view Lozano-Hemmer’s installation, Articulated Intersect, commissioned as part of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal’s [...]
By Iris Shiraishi, Mu Daiko Artistic Director Mu Daiko is three weeks from the opening of its 15th anniversary concert at the Ordway’s McKnight Theatre! Rehearsals are in full swing – we’re premiering three new works and are in the process of resurrecting and polishing long-standing audience favorites. And, we’re commemorating this milestone concert with [...]
By Nora LeRoux, Teatro del Pueblo This March, in collaboration with Pangea World Theater, Teatro del Pueblo will bring the Twin Cities theater community, Outside the Circle, a new play by Andrea Assaf and Samuel Valdez, examining the nature of love, and what happens to love when we internalize society’s phobias. In the story a straight [...]
