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• The SPCO is back on the stage

  By Kelly Belich, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

  The SPCO returned to the stage on May 9 – 11 for the first time after a lengthy contract dispute. With multiple standing ovations, the musicians performed Mozart’s much-loved overture to The Marriage of Figaro, Schumann’s stunning Cello Concerto with guest cellist Steven [...]

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• Announcing 66 finalists in Miami Knight Arts Challenge

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  Seraphic Fire; Photo Credit: Terry Lee

  Today, I’m excited to present the 66 finalists in the Miami Knight Arts Challenge.

  Our goal is to make it so that everywhere you go in South Florida, you have an encounter with art. In that vein, one of the things that excites us most [...]

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• MDC Live Arts Lab a learning hub for professionals

  By Sue Arrowsmith, Miami Dade College

  Miami Dade College’s (MDC) MDC Live Arts is pleased to announce Live Arts Lab, a professional development laboratory for local working artists. Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Nora Chipaumire, who was first introduced to South Florida audiences last year during MDC Live Arts’ 2011 – [...]

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• The Detroit Symphony Orchestra takes Carnegie Hall

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  The old joke goes like this: A tourist stops a New Yorker on the street and asks “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” The local pauses for a minute and then replies “practice, practice, practice…”

  Well, the world class Detroit Symphony Orchestra must  have been practicing. They were in [...]

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• Weekend preview: “Mobile Homestead” opening at MOCAD & “Able Objects” closing at Public Pool

  Objects more able than they appear: “blue bench, pick it fence, and foot lamp” by REAL OK DESIGN.

  This Saturday, May 11, promises to be an extravaganza of household objects made art, as Public Pool hosts the closing of “Able Objects,” sculpture by Real OK Design (a.k.a. artist Aaron Blendowski), with an [...]

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• “Page at a Time” at The Wolfsonian-FIU

  Just because National Poetry Month and the O, Miami Poetry Festival are over, it doesn’t mean the world will come to an end—at least not yet.

  
  As of yesterday and through Sunday, June 2, The Wolfsonian-FIU presents “Page at a Time.” “Page at a Time” is a 15-year-long [...]

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• Weathervane Playhouse’s “The 39 Steps” chock full of laughs

   

  Weathervane Playhouse’s “The 39 Steps.”

  Patrick Barlow went for the gusto when he decided to script a play based on the famous Alfred Hitchcock film “The 39 Steps,” which was itself taken from an earlier novel. The result is a frantic, fun, zany spoof that Weathervane Playhouse, [...]

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• Mainly Mozart Festival opens 20th season this weekend

  Poster for the Mainly Mozart Festival.

  This Sunday, the 20th incarnation of South Florida’s Mainly Mozart Festival launches at the Coral Gables Museum, and will last over the next six weekends.

  As the festival’s title suggests, the music of Mozart is a central focus, and will be featured in each of [...]

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• EcoFab Trash Couture was a visual thrill

  The ecoFab Trash Couture Fashion Show (which I wrote about earlier this month) hit the runway with glitz, bravado and Barbie doll heads! Twenty-three artists took their assignment to create fashion out of at least 25 percent recycled materials and the rest using re-purposed, reused or sustainable materials to [...]

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• A closer look at Ranjana Warier, the creative soul behind the “From Bharatanatyam to Bollywood

  By Original Noise

  Entertainer. Educator. Facilitator. Innovator. The embodiment of power who can fight social injustice.

  This is Indian Dance, a heroine who takes an audience through a journey from her divine origin to present day.

  This is also in some ways Ranjana Warier, the creative soul behind the “From Bharatanatyam to Bollywood [...]

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