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• What’s Your Idea? Knight Arts Challenge Miami 2011 Launches Soon

  
  
  

  Let the creativity begin! The 2011 Knight Arts Challenge Miami officially begins accepting applications Feb. 7. Created to unite South Florida through the arts, the Challenge has granted over $14 million dollar to 78 nonprofits, companies and individuals in the past four years. 2010 [...]

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• Sixty-Three finalists named in Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia

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  Last fall, we asked the Philadelphia arts community one simple question: “What’s your best idea for the arts in Philadelphia?”  A record-breaking 1,752 people responded with inspiring ideas, and today 63 have been named as finalists.

  We believe the arts inspire and enrich communities.  That’s why the [...]

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• Random Acts of Culture Update: Charlotte

  
  
  

  By Arts & Science Council Staff

  Just in time for Christmas, the Arts & Science Council along with two trumpeters from the Charlotte Symphony brought some holiday cheer to mall goers with our latest Random Act of Culture.

  On Friday, Dec. 10 the [...]

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• Back to the Art Fairways

  
  
  

  Just when you thought the art fairways were emptying, out for another swing comes the Miami International Art Fair (MIA), with its second annual international event held Jan. 14-17. Can Miami handle another major fair? If it is in the proper hands

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• Museum of New South: Courage Is Never Out of Date

  
  
  

  Aesop has nothing on the Levine Museum of the New South.  Both demonstrate the power of story-telling, not just to entertain, but to enlighten and instruct in a world often lacking in moral clarity.

  Some say museums have lost their relevancy in today’s fast-paced, ADD world.  [...]

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• O Fortuna! Random Acts of Culture at the Mall

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  On Sunday, Jan 9 performers from Miami’s Seraphic Fire surprised shoppers at Aventura Mall with a performance of “O Fortuna” from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The performances each featured piano, cymbals, timpani, tamtam, bass drum, and 26 singers. Relive the fun with the video below.

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• María Magdalena Compos-Pons at the Harvey B. Gantt Center

  
  
  

  By Gantt Center Staff

  The Harvey B. Gantt Center is committed to presenting exhibitions which display the best of African-American art, culture and history.  The nine exhibits that were mounted during the Center’s inaugural year included the work of celebrated artists Radcliffe Bailey, Kevin Cole, David [...]

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• The Magic of ‘Small’ Plans

  
  
  

  I have always liked the quote – although sometimes attributed to Machiavelli – “Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”

  But after talking to Robert Bush of Charlotte’s Arts and Science Council, I am inclined to agree with him that small [...]

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• New World’s New House Already Feels Like a Home

  
  
  

  The first thing I thought when I walked into the new concert hall at the soon-to-open New World Symphony building was: This feels like a home.

  Taking a tour of the Frank Gehry-designed structure in Miami Beach earlier this week, I [...]

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• Seraphic Fire’s Miami Choral Academy

  
  
  

  By Michael Burgess, Administrative Associate at Seraphic Fire

  As with most great things, Seraphic Fire’s Miami Choral Academy started as an idea. An ambitious idea, to be exact.  The concept was to provide a free after-school musical education to underprivileged children. It would require free [...]

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