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• Honoring his musical legends: Josh Rzepka’s “Trumpet Genesis” coming to Akron Civic Theatre

  Maybe it’s a tradition among musicians, but frequently music directors, choir directors, musical comedy directors, and the like will provide a certain kind of spotlight tribute to the people who have helped them or been significant in their artistic lives.

  If it’s not a practice, it wouldn’t hurt if it became [...]

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• Get your teens ready for All City Slam

  The Tigertail Spoken Word Workshops and Slam begins Thursday, June 27th at Miami Beach Botanical Garden with free workshops for Miami-Dade teens (13-19 years old). All City Slam starts off with an afternoon of intensive workshops given by poetry stars Alexis Caputo, Teo Castellanos, Rudi Goblen and Deborah Magdalena who [...]

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• Tatiana Hernandez: Art is joy

  By Elizabeth Miller, Knight Foundation

  As an artistically-inclined child, Tatiana Hernandez gravitated toward dance. Flamenco and tap helped her find her own rhythm. Years later, her experience working with a group of local artists and performers ignited that same passion.

  “I wanted to know and do things that were joyous,” [...]

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• Announcing 84 finalists in Detroit Knight Arts Challenge

  In Detroit, a large-scale video projection in which an artist’s paintings are brought to life through animation features a nearly life-size whale. Photo credit: Dlectricity.

  Wow, Detroit. You completely blew us away. After receiving a record-breaking 1,400 applications to this year’s Knight Arts Challenge, we weren’t sure what to expect. And then [...]

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• “Connectivity”: artistic intersections

  Janet Echelman, “Wave Drawings.” Photo courtesy of the McColl Center for Visual Art

  “Connectivity,” the collaborative exhibition between the McColl Center for Visual Art (a Knight Arts grantee) and Cynthia-Reeves Projects, ends this Saturday, June 15. Exploring and mapping the complex intersections of inspiration and creativity, [...]

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• Painting’s absurdity and Samuel Beckett at Fjord

  Up north on Frankford Avenue stands a lone building unattached to the nearby flurry of galleries, pizza joints and coffee shops. This establishment – Fjord – is home to a number of artist studios, as well as a first-floor gallery space that showcases the work of members and [...]

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• “Music Man” scores with audience in Weathervane Playhouse production

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  The audience on opening weekend at Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, really got into “Music Man,” Meredith Willson’s joyous musical comedy. Who knows, maybe it was because there had to be lots of relatives of the 40+ members of the cast.

  That would do it, but that’s not [...]

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• Macon Arts Alliance to host arts advocacy breakfast at Macon’s Grand Opera House

  Macon-Bibb County Arts Advocacy Breakfast invitation.

  Macon Arts Alliance (a Knight Arts grantee) will present a Macon-Bibb County Arts Advocacy Breakfast at the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon on June 13. Doors will open at 7:30 a.m. and the program will begin at 8 a.m. The breakfast is [...]

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• Minnesota Opera’s Opera Under the Stars offers free outdoor concerts of “La Boheme” this weekend

  Minnesota Opera’s Opera Under the Stars concert performances of “La Boheme” will run June 14, 15 and 16.

  Minnesotans are in for a rare treat this weekend, weather permitting*. Minnesota Opera is offering an Opera Under the Stars series of free outdoor concerts, beginning with a performance on [...]

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• Kinsey family travels

  By Brandon D. Nixon, Gantt Center

  Bernard and Shirley Kinsey’s journey together began in 1963 as two college students in Tallahassee, Florida attending Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). They began their travels in the mid-1960s when Bernard Kinsey worked briefly as a park ranger at the Grand Canyon.

  Fifty years [...]

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