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• Random Acts of Culture overcomes snow in Charlotte

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  By Aaron Fiedler, Arts & Science Council

  In January, Knight’s Random Act of Culture initiative gave hundreds of workers in Uptown Charlotte a little lunch time treat, but not before snow put a damper on the plans. ASC scheduled a Random Act of Culture with North Carolina [...]

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• Miami Music Project hosts auditions

  
  
  

  By Miami Music Project Staff

  The Miami Music Project is holding open auditions for the 2nd Annual Miami Music Project Honors Orchestra. It is an excellent opportunity for South Florida’s young musicians to perform under the direction of world-renowned conductor James Judd.

  Audition Information:

  February  [...]
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• Apply now for the Knight Arts Challenge Miami

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  The doors are open, folks. For the next month, we’re accepting applications for the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge Miami – a community-wide contest to fund the best ideas for the arts in South Florida.

  We’re looking for innovative ideas that follow [...]

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• New York Times profiles Random Acts of Culture

  
  
  

  Opera Company of Philadelphia performs a Random Act of Culture. Courtesy: Vince Barone

  The New York Times has profiled Knight Foundation’s Arts Program and its Random Acts of Culture series.

  The piece, written by Carol Kino, begins with a Random [...]

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• New World to share master classes with world

  
  
  

  In 2007, Knight Foundation granted $5 million to the New World Symphony to create the Knight Media Center, helping NWS capitalize on technology and explore new performance formats. Today, Knight Arts’ classical music journalist Greg Stepanich explores some of the initiatives created from the grant…

  The [...]

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• McColl Center for Visual Art welcomes its second Knight Foundation artist-in-residence

  
  
  

  McColl Center for Visual Art is pleased to announced our second Knight Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Quisqueya Henriquez, from the Dominican Republic who will be in residence at the Center from June 1 to July 20, 2011. Born in Cuba, the daughter of a Cuban father [...]

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• McColl Center for Visual Art welcomes its second Knight Foundation artist-in-residence

  
  
  

  McColl Center for Visual Art is pleased to announced our second Knight Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Quisqueya Henriquez, from the Dominican Republic who will be in residence at the Center from June 1 to July 20, 2011. Born in Cuba, the daughter of a Cuban father [...]

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• Miami artists arrive in Philly

  
  
  

  By Lorie Mertes, Director/Chief Curator of Moore College of Art and Design

  Miami artists Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriquez were in Philadelphia last week for the opening of Frances’ latest solo exhibition at Moore College of Art & Design. More than 350 people came out to [...]

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• Miami artists arrive in Philly

  
  
  

  By Lorie Mertes, Director/Chief Curator of Moore College of Art and Design

  Miami artists Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriquez were in Philadelphia last week for the opening of Frances’ latest solo exhibition at Moore College of Art & Design. More than 350 people came out to [...]

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• A passion for writing about history’s unrecognized heroes and heroines

  
  
  

  Some 50 people showed up at the Barnes & Noble in SouthPark on Jan. 27 to meet Charlotte  author Tricia Martineau Wagner and purchase signed copies of her latest book, Black Cowboys of the Old West. The next day we spoke – writer to writer [...]

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