This weekend, a Miami landmark takes an important step into the digital future of film. The Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts is hosting a benefit concert Saturday, bringing together local leaders and talent as part of its new campaign to digitally upgrade the 86-year-old theater. The effort is part of an overall [...]
In 2009, Hidden City Philadelphia launched a 5-week site-specific arts festival that activated 9 buildings in neighborhoods around Philadelphia. Now with the help of a Knight Arts Grant, Hidden City Philadelphia is currently planning for its 2013 Hidden City Philadelphia Festival to begin May 2013. Twenty prospective sites have been selected from communities around Philadelphia, [...]
By Vincent Geels, The Philadelphia Orchestra The goal of any successful web program, application, or piece of technology is for the end-user’s experience to be seamless when interacting with the technology. When your web browser starts to get choppy or grinds to a halt, it’s almost as if you snap out of a trance: The [...]
By Sue Arrowsmith, Miami Dade College Dubbed the finest state-of-the-art theater in the South in 1926, the Tower Theater is now Miami’s premier art cinema and continues to serve as a historic and cultural gathering place. In fact, USA Today named it one of the “10 great places to see a movie in splendor.” Under the [...]
By Josh Dubin, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy Launched last month with support from a 2011 Knight Arts Challenge grant, City Hall Presents is a new series of free events that welcomes Philadelphia’s performing arts into the spaces of City Hall. Theater, dance, spoken word, music of all genres [...]
In New London, CT, the Monte Cristo Cottage- the summer home of playwright Eugene O’Neill – provides the setting for two of his best known works, namely AH! WILDERNESS! And LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. If you visit the cottage, you can actually position yourself in the rooms as they are described in the stage [...]
By Tessa Retterrath, Theoroi Theoroi is a project coordinated by The Schubert Club which consists of 26 young individuals (ages 21-35) who attend a curated schedule of various Twin Cities arts performances and share about the experience using their choice of social media. Each event consists of an arts performance, an educational event, and a social gathering. This project [...]
By Elizabeth Miller, Knight Foundation Visitors to Miami Beach don’t have to go too far to get a little culture – in the winter it’s often broadcast on a 7,000 square-foot wall. Members of the community are encouraged to bring a blanket, share a picnic dinner and enjoy the sights and sounds of the New [...]
On Monday, tune in to find out the winning projects of the 2012 Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia! More than 1,200 ideas were submitted by artists, artist-run groups and organizations who pitched their big ideas for engaging the Philadelphia community through the arts. Earlier this year, Knight announced the 55 finalists. Our reviewers whittled the list down [...]
The Hirshhorn places artists at the center of all it’s programming. ARTLAB+ workshops are no different. Over Spring Break, Boris Willis, a professional dancer with Elizabeth Streb and a professor of computer game design at George Mason University, facilitated a workshop with ArtLab mentors that exposed teens to art installation, dance, music, and theater in [...]
