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.
Gruff speech, confusion out the wazoo, outrageous characters — that’s just the start of what’s in store for you when you go to see New World Performance Laboratory’s (NWPL) finely-performed production of Dorota Maslowska’s “A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians” (CPPSR) at the Balch Street Theatre. On surface, the story seems like familiar picaresque stuff, [...]
By Joanne Green, Akron Symphony Orchestra The Akron Symphony Orchestra’s string quartet and members of the Ohio Conservatory of Ballet performed several Random Acts of Culture™ at the Akron Artwalk in downtown Akron. RACs occurred at several locations along the main trolley stops, including the We Gallery, Summit Artspace galleries on the first and third floors, [...]
Several high school-aged kids in the Akron area won’t have any problem saying what they did during their summer vacation. Students from many public and private high schools, along with at least one home-schooled student, responded to a city-wide call for auditions put out by the Akron Civic Theatre in cooperation with the Advocates for [...]
The Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet has a past. And what a history it is. As Mia Klinger, its artistic director tells it, CVYB (a Knight Arts grantee) is one of the oldest youth ballets in the country. Fourth probably. It also has a wonderful tradition of creating new ballets that are made for young dancers, [...]
Jim and Vanita Oelschlager have amassed nearly 800 pieces of Native American art and cultural objects and have recently made the big leap to lend about 200 of them for public display at the Center for the History of Psychology (CHP) at The University of Akron. Strange how collections come into being, and stranger still [...]
“Art should pervade” our world. That’s what Fred Bidwell, executive director of the advertising firm JWT Action, said during the installation of “The Shopper Dreams,” a work that he commissioned for his employees and the interested public. Bidwell’s agency promotes marketable items and is meant to lure shoppers in. “Most people,” he said, begin shopping “with [...]
Summer in the city will be rocking at Lock 3 (a Knight Arts grantee) in downtown Akron. Tribute bands galore will be performing on most Friday evenings, with groups doing take-offs on such notable acts as Bob Seger; Bon Jovi; Elton John; Aerosmith; AC/DC; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Rascal Flats; Chicago; Abba; KISS; Pink Floyd; [...]
Stan Hywet Hall ranks among the top 10 historic houses in the U.S. in usable footage (65,000 square feet). Add the Gardens to its name and you’ve got a gigantic estate that was built 1912-1915 by F. A. Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. It was given by the family to the City of [...]
Double-dealing and double lives. That’s the stuff of farce because it leads to mistaking one person or situation for another. In the right hands, serious issues can be turned into laugh-a-minute comedy, and that’s nowhere more apparent than in the well-wrought productions running concurrently at Weathervane Community Playhouse (a Knight Arts grantee) through May 20 [...]
Right before the curtain went up on “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” the usher said quietly that the show would be slightly over two hours with a very short intermission. Someone beside me groaned and said, “This better be good.” Actually it turned out to be a wonderfully funny, highly entertaining evening of [...]
