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By Nichole Canuso, Nichole Canuso Dance Company This weekend (January 5-8, 2012) The Nichole Canuso Dance Company will remount TAKES in New York, which premiered in 2010 at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. New York performances will be held at 3LD Art and Technology Center in lower manhattan. TAKES is the predecessor to NCDC’s upcoming knight funded [...]
By Bruce Warren, WXPN Each week WXPN’s local music website The Key makes available as a free digital download a studio recording session with a local Philadelphia band. Quarterly, thanks to the grant from Knight, we’ve been taking these sessions on the road to a local club for a free show and recording the bands. [...]
“Pines: A Cinematic Exploration” is a film currently in production by Philadelphia-based director and editor David S Kessler. The exploration sets out to uncover and document stories and images of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Sparse, yet teeming with diverse flora and fauna, the Pine Barrens capture the imagination and, in turn, Kessler and his [...]
By Al-Bustan Music Program On Friday, December 9, 2011 Al-Bustan presented the third event of the Arab Music Concert Series, featuringThe Philadelphia Arab Music Ensemble and guest poet Suheir Hammad, to an audience of 320+ who filled the Great Hall of Trinity Center for Urban Life in Center City Philadelphia. The evening opened with The Philadelphia Arab [...]
By Gary Steur, Chief Cultural Officer City of Philadelphia Cross-posted from Arts, Culture & Creative Economy: Much has been written about the decline of cultural journalism in America, an outgrowth of the larger challenges being faced in the journalism sector. The now defunct Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program published a study in 2003 “Reporting [...]
The first of three curated, guest artist exhibitions in Knight Arts grantee Vox Populi‘s 2011-12 program, December’s exhibit through its critical take on abstraction, art-world fame and fictional narrative. Michael May presents “Ten Valiant Efforts,” which are paintings created under the premise that they were really painted by some sort of unreliable narrator. The fictional [...]
Just a quick update on the progress of the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, a community based sculpture workshop made possible by a Knight Arts Challenge Grant. So many exciting things have been happening lately: We successfully matched our Knight Arts Challenge Grant through our Kickstarter campaign! Our backers were able to donate in return for “rewards” [...]
By Christine Cox, BalletX We launched our *eXpand the eXperience* program with our November dance series and it was a huge success. In addition to presenting two original new ballets and a work from our repertoire, we wowed audiences with unexpected performances in the lobby of the Wilma Theater before the shows and in the theater during intermissions. The feedback [...]
By Robin Barnes, Philadelphia Live Arts Philadelphia Live Arts announces the launch of Scratch Night as part of the organization’s year-round programming at the Live Arts Brewery (LAB). Beginning on January 12, 2012 Scratch Night is a monthly salon designed to foster the social, interactive, and accessible qualities of art-making while investing in artists’ creation of [...]
Opening at Space 1026 on Jan. 6 will be the show “Unsustainable” by Jay Hardman. In the exhibit, Hardman’s work explores contemporary building practices and their effect on communities through construction of small-scale installations. By far the most inviting aspect of the work is its building material. What does Harman use to create his scenes of [...]
