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• Knight Arts Challenge Winner Profile: The Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby Gets the Community Moving

  
  
  

  Last spring, the New Kensington Community Development Corporation was named a Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia winner for the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby. Founded in 2007, the annual derby strengthens the cultural and economic fabric of the Kensington community by celebrating the talents of local [...]

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• Art made for different beats

  
  
  

  "after/for/with(Mingus_Ellington_MJQ)" Adler Guerrier.

  There’s jazz in the photographic imagery hanging in the unlikely venue of a dentist office waiting room. There is music in the truncated snapshots, in the blurred visions, in the dimmed light, of hands and arms in motion, spinning [...]

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• Shared humanity takes different forms in “Modulate”

  
  
  

  Opening on Thursday, Oct. 27 at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists is the show “Modulate.” The reception on Thursday lasts from 5 until 7 p.m., and the exhibit itself runs through Nov. 22. The show features two artists: Allison Kaufman [...]

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• Students Attend first Knight Artistic Engagement Fund concert

  
  
  

  On October 7th, Community School of the Arts’ students and their families enjoyed their first free concert as part of the new Knight Artistic Engagement Fund.  The Fund connects underserved music and art students with outstanding professional music concerts and art exhibitions at no [...]

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• Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Cultural Passport Program is in full swing

  
  
  

  By Matthew Sabatella, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

  Cultural Passport is an innovative educational initiative designed to provide all Miami-Dade County Public Schools students in grades K-12 with a different cultural field experience each school year. In partnership with South Florida’s finest cultural organizations and venues, this [...]

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• Detroit’s poetry movement now in motion

  
  
  Images provided by “[sic]” Achille Bianchi and Jonathan Rajewski

  This poem is called ”Punchline related to Ulysses by James Joyce,” read John Brown this past Saturday at the independent bookstore Leopold’s Books during the launch of “[sic],” Detroit’s freshest take on exposing [...]

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• A poetic vision for a globalized world in Ed Bok Lee’s ‘Whorled’

  
  
  

  “Whorled,” Ed Bok Lee’s recently published collection of poems, is a far bigger book than its modest page count suggests. In it, the award-winning St. Paul-based poet addresses a broad sweep of subjects  — globalization, war, love and loss; the distinctions of culture, [...]

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• Dream makers and risk takers come out for TEDxCharlotte

  
  
  

  The second TEDxCharlotte conference was recently held on Saturday, Oct. 15 at Queens University. This independently organized TED event was of the same “TED” non-profit that started in 1984 as an event bringing together people from the technology, entertainment and design worlds. [...]

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• Inkub8 workshop series

  
  
  

  One of my favorite lines from Jeanette Winterson’s essay “Art Objects” goes like this: “If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy [...]

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• Viernes Culturales/ Cultural Fridays: Your passport to Latin America and beyond

  
  
  

  By Yvette Rodriguez

  Who needs to travel abroad when the sights and sounds of Latin America and the Caribbean can come to you?  Little Havana’s monthly arts & culture festival, Viernes Culturales/Cultural Fridays, is ready to take festival-goers on a tour through Colombia, [...]

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