Seraphic Fire performed “O Fortuna” at Aventura Mall on January 10 in South Florida.
Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on promoting informed and engaged communities. To that end, we strongly believe in the potential of the arts to engage residents, and bring a community together. More…
Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on promoting informed and engaged communities. To that end, we strongly believe in the potential of the arts to engage residents, and bring a community together. Hearing Handel, or seeing the tango in an unexpected place provides a deeply felt reminder of how the classics [...]
This week, Knight Foundation awarded $3.8 million to the newest winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami – and the ceremony at the Knight Concert Hall was imbued with art. Singers from the Florida Grand Opera, dressed as regular attendees, surprised the audience with a performance Toreador Aria, from Bizet’s Carmen – a nod to [...]
Random Acts of Culture ™ are making quite a national impression. After surprising shoppers with a 650-person performance of Hallelujah in Philadelphia (the YouTube video has 5 million hits and counting), Knight partnered with the Florida Grand Opera and the Arsht Center to surprise shoppers at the Macy’s shoe department in Miami with six performances of “Toreador” [...]
Random Acts of Culture ™ arrived with a bang in San Jose last week as Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale surprised audiences with spontaneous performances of Amazing Grace, Simple Gifts and Shenandoah.
Who loves Random Acts of Culture™? You do! Knight Foundation’s national initiative to bring the classics out of the performance halls and onto the streets has caught your eye – to the tune of over 500,000 page views on KnightArts.org and three million YouTube hits, most notably the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s performance of Hallelujah [...]
Random Acts of Culture™ hit Aventura last month as the Frost School of Music performed six spontaneous jazz performances on a busy Saturday afternoon. There was shopping, snacking and lots of smooth jazz — all three big crowd pleasers. Random Act of Culture ™ – Aventura, FL from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
The biggest Random Act of Culture® yet took place in Philadelphia Saturday – with more than 650 singers bursting into Hallelujah from Handel’s Messiah in the middle of a downtown Macy’s. The world’s largest pipe organ – with 28,000 pipes – accompanied them. I could go on, but the video tells the whole story. You [...]
The Random Acts of Culture™ continue to roll along in Charlotte! We had performances in two more venues this month. On Monday, October 18, we took a string quartet from the Charlotte Symphony and two very talented tango artists to concourses D and E at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Using lessons from our first airport [...]
Random Acts of Culture™ met the Tango this week as musicians from the Charlotte Symphony partnered with two Tango dancers to perform at the Charlotte Douglass International Airport. This was the fourth RAC performed in Charlotte – click the video below to see the RAC and crowd reactions.
Wow it’s been a busy month around the Arts and Science Council! Since our first Random Act of Culture at the Atherton Mills Market located in historic South End in late August we’ve already been able to do two more. On September 17, our friends at Wachovia/ Wells Fargo hosted ASC and Opera Carolina at [...]
