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• Dance Now! Ensemble Launches Season in New Little Haiti Home

  
  
  

  Dance Now! Ensemble (DNE) launches its 11th season Dec. 17 at its new home in the fabulous Little Haiti Cultural Center. With its wide open spaces and illuminating layout, the Little Haiti Cultural Center is the perfect location for this evocative, thought provoking [...]

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• A Jolly Spoof of Beloved Holiday Classics in Charlotte

  
  
  

  After 22 years of presenting contemporary, cutting-edge plays, The Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte has definitely established a reputation for being irreverent. Even Christmas is not immune from its slightly askew and whacky view of the world.

  ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!)’ manages to [...]

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• A Jolly Spoof of Beloved Holiday Classics in Charlotte

  
  
  

  After 22 years of presenting contemporary, cutting-edge plays, The Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte has definitely established a reputation for being irreverent. Even Christmas is not immune from its slightly askew and whacky view of the world.

  ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!)’ manages to [...]

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• Following Miami City Ballet’s Fanfare – Meet Maestro Gary Sheldon

  
  
  

  By Rebecca King, Corps de Ballet

  It is Miami City Ballet’s 25th anniversary and what better way to start this season than by bringing the orchestra back!  If you have attended any of our performances so far this season, you have experienced the delight of [...]

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• Akron Art Museum: November Update

  
  
  

  By Akron Art Museum Staff

  In our update last month we discussed generating new digital material to accompany art objects in the Akron Art Museum’s collection.  We’ve also been using new technology to digitize older analog material from our archives. The Akron Art Museum has [...]

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• 2010 Knight Arts Challenge: Borscht Film Festival

  
  
  

  The 2010 Knight Arts Challenge has officially ended and 27 winners are hard at work celebrating and infusing $3.8 million into the local arts scene. The Borscht Film Festival has earned $150,000 of the total to help “shape Miami’s cinematic identity” by [...]

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• Random Act of Culture Comes to Two Markets in Macon

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  Random Acts of Culture arrived in Macon last month as the Macon Symphony Orchestra and the McDuffie Center for Strings surprised shoppers at Kroger and diners at Fresh Market City Cafe with a performance of “Habanera” from Bizet’s opera Carmen. Enjoy the video then click [...]

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• Our Once A Year Museum On the Beach

  
  
  

  Aside from a rarefied, moneyed few,  the art in the Miami Beach Convention Center is for looking, not acquiring. While affordable art can be found in the numerous satellite fairs around town, it’s not in the convention center. But that’s OK.

  Art [...]

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• A Feast of Fresh Music at the New World

  
  
  

  Colin Matthews. (Photo by Maurice Foxall)

  This has been a good season so far for new classical music, with big premieres from Carlos Rafael Rivera and Daniel Bernard Roumain in the past couple of months, and some more fresh music debuting this [...]

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• Why does Knight Foundation fund Random Acts of Culture?

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  Dennis Scholl, Vice President for Arts and Program Director for Miami

  Knight Foundation, like its founders Jack and Jim Knight, focuses on promoting informed and engaged communities. To that end, we strongly [...]

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