The Knight Arts program is now seeking grant opportunities in Akron that can create transformational and sustainable change through artistic excellence and collective cultural experiences. If you’re interested in learning more about working with Knight in the arts, please contact Akron Program Director Jennifer Thomas.
Dancing in the parks. It’s a great summertime activity – and it’s free. The City of Akron has been putting on free dance performances for 37 years straight now since the former Ohio Ballet offered to tour the metropolitan park system and dance out of doors. It’s been a rousing success all that time. Since [...]
Eight plays that all use a vintage microphone as part of their narrative gave some funny and ironic takes on the device in Weathervane Playhouse’s 8 x 10 Theatrefest held July 13-15 — a precious historical object of the dethroned Tsars in Joe Lauinger’s “The Silver Bullet,” a brandished sword in Barbara Bleier’s “Goodnight, Sweet [...]
Old Will Shakespeare was onto something when he said, “the play’s the thing.” At the Ohio Shakespeare Festival’s stage at the Lagoon area in Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, director Nancy Cates and company keep things to a minimum during current performances of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — much as plays would have been produced [...]
Eight plays each lasting 10 minutes. That’s a heap of theater variety. It gets better. You can watch all eight plays for $10. That’s a no-nonsense bargain. Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, will be holding its 2nd annual “8 x 10 Theatrefest” this weekend. The key to the whole thing, according to Eileen Moushey, [...]
Citified music in a rural setting. Sounds great. It’s not exactly taking art to rural places for people who can’t get to the big city music halls. No one really lives all that close to where some of the musical performances are being held. It seems more about getting people out and about, luring them [...]
In at least one way, Akron is the center of it all. The Erie-Ohio Canal, which ran northward to Cleveland and southward to Portsmouth on the Ohio River, measured itself from Akron – Locks 1 and up north through the finish in the Flats area of Cleveland and Locks 1 and up heading south. Lock3Live, [...]
There’s something about standing face-to-face with the ocean across an expansive sandy beach. Not timelessness as lots of folks write about it, but a quickening of life, a feel of force, room to take a breath. Not everyone sees it that way, of course, including four Akron-area photographers who got together to present their collective [...]
Bring your favorite fold-out chair, sport some cool shades, come with a small appetite and great thirst, and join the crowds at the Akron Art Museum (AAM) on Thursday evenings for the 28th season of the Downtown@Dusk summer music series. This year kicked off with the smooth rhythm and blues sounds of the Wanda Hunt [...]
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That’s a concept that Ghana-born abstract artist El Anatsui seems to thrive on. Twelve of his best pieces are being shown at the Akron Art Museum (AAM), a Knight Arts grantee, in a mammoth display called “Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui.” Anatsui takes the detritus [...]
Want to laugh, chuckle, and have wacky fun watching live theater? Go to Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, and see its current production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.” There are lots of reasons why this show is successfully done – a slick and lively script for one from Tony Award-winning writers Bob Martin and Don [...]
