By Miami City Ballet Gary Sheldon, principal conductor for Miami City Ballet, will begin his second season with the Company in October. He came to Florida from San Francisco where he conducted for the San Francisco Ballet in numerous performances from 2004-2009. This summer, Maestro Sheldon traveled with MCB to Paris for the troupe’s Parisian [...]
By Debby Samples, Cleveland International Film Festival The 2011 – 2012 Film (and other ARTS) Feasts series is just around the corner and we have something for everyone’s arts appetite! From visual arts, to sport stories, to culinary delights we cover the spectrum of unique events that will leave you with a smile. Join us [...]
By Matthew Jaber Stiffler, PhD, Arab American National Museum From Sept. 8–10, 2011, StoryCorps, the award-winning non-profit that has already recorded 30,000 oral history interviews, set up shop at the Arab American National Museum (AANM), a Knight Arts grantee, to record remembrances of September 11, 2001, and its impact on the nation and the Arab [...]
By LeToya Stairs, Rhythm of Africa Music Program & 2010 Knight Arts Challenge Winner Meet Andy. One of 60 special students from Lauderdale Lakes Educational Complex that will perform at Rhythms of Africa: Music Around the World on October 15, 2011 at Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale because of John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, [...]
By Park Square Theatre Friday, Sept 16 was opening night of the new season—and August: Osage County roars to life on Park Square’s stage. We’ve just finished a week of previews, with solid houses and great audience response. I saw two of the three dress rehearsals, which were powerful. Yet it continues to amaze me [...]
By Scott Provancher, Arts & Science Council Three weeks ago the Arts & Science Council (ASC) launched power2give.org, an innovative new way for people to give to arts, science and history/heritage projects in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The launch was the culmination of more than a year of work by ASC and the power2give team [...]
By Margot Helm, Opera San José Opera San José, a Knight Arts grantee, proudly opened its 28th Season on September 10th, with the company premiere of Mozart’s Idomeneo. Made possible by the generous support of David W. Packard and the Packard Humanities Institute, this epic production has been met with critical acclaim and garnered high praise from [...]
By The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Earlier this week, we at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, together with our colleagues at Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, were pleased to announce a $100,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to support our new strategic alliance. We are extremely grateful to Knight Foundation for providing this start-up capital [...]
By G. Pilar Wilder, Hayiya Dance Theatre This month has been absolutely wonderful at Hayiya Dance Theatre! On Friday the 9th we performed at the first ever Otis Redding Day, here in the Magnificent Macon, GA and on Saturday the 10th, we performed by request for the Redding family at the Otis Redding evening of respect [...]
By Penumbra Theatre Company Playwright Christina Anderson returned to Penumbra Theatre Company’s New Play Development program, OKRA, with a new piece entitled “Hollow Roots.” The play was part of The Gym: a weeklong developmental workshop for ideas that are not yet in script form. Penumbra’s Associate Artistic Director-New Play Development Dominic Taylor directs the OKRA [...]
