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.
Art museums seem to take on a whole different character when the show being exhibited has its focus in one way or another on children. That’s the case with the current display at the Akron Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee. “The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats” – an exhibition that [...]
Summit Artspace, a Knight Arts grantee, has a thing for every now and then coming up with puzzling ideas or themes and challenging artists to make them meaningful. The resultant juried show – for nine years now – is “Fresh Art.” This year organizers came up with this – do something reflecting on the letter [...]
Heinz Poll, who co-founded and directed the Ohio Ballet for nearly 30 years, received posthumous honors recently. Verb Ballets paid tribute to the late company director with a performance titled “Honoring Heinz Poll” at the Akron Civic Theatre (a Knight Arts grantee). Poll’s Ohio Ballet had significant impact on the arts in the Akron area, and on contemporary dance nationwide, as the [...]
In case you missed “The Intimate Bach, Part I” from Apollo’s Fire, a Knight Arts grantee, here’s your chance to redeem yourself, for the celebrated Baroque orchestra will be coming again to appear at Fairlawn Lutheran Church on Thursday evening. This performance has the subtitle “with his friend Telemann,” referring to Georg Philipp Telemann, who [...]
Yo Yo Ma is perhaps foremost a renowned classical cellist, but he’s also a well-known popular performer (who doesn’t have at least some idea of who he is?). Years ago he put together his Silk Road Ensemble to bring together ancient and modern, musical traditions from east and west, and fashion for one heck of [...]
Wrap your head around this – ragtime pianist and composer Scott Joplin and the classical ballet style of the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet. Sounds unlikely, right? But it’s not when put in the hands of choreography Tom Gold of Tom Gold Dance. He will make the magical happen in his dance “Joplin Jamboree” (a current [...]
One thing about farce, French or not, it allows some potentially serious intimate (and often sexual) topics and situations to get on stage and not outrage its audience. Take Georges Feydeau’s “A Flea in Her Ear,” a turn-of-the-last-century comedy that is being performed in the Sandefur Theatre at The University of Akron this month. Set [...]
Although Mardi Gras is over and the last king cake has been eaten, you can still experience art, music and theatre – New Orleans style – at ARTi Gras on Saturday, March 2 from 5-10 p.m. in Downtown Akron. Downtown Akron Partnership (DAP) continues its event series, Downtown Art Works, in conjunction with the free [...]
Mark Morris is coming to the area and DANCECleveland, a Knight Arts grantee, is bringing him in. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Mark Morris Dance Group will perform at the Palace Theatre in Playhouse Square on March 2. There are so many cool things about MMDG, but maybe the top one is that this renowned choreographer makes [...]
By Tom Sarago, DANCECleveland Last weekend , DANCECleveland, a not-for-profit presenter of modern and contemporary dance, hosted a very special sold-out, two-day workshop dedicated to helping the Parkinson’s population. The event took place February 16-17 at Cleveland State University. The workshop, conducted by David Leventhal, manager for Dance for PD, a program of Mark Morris Dance [...]
