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• Opera Carolina opens the door for nearly 4,000 first-time operagoers

  
  
  

  By James Meena, Opera Carolina

  In mid 2011, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded Opera Carolina an Audience Development grant to create a bold new initiative for the company to exponentially increase its audience. With this grant, the Knight Foundation purchased 90% of the [...]

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• Report from the Glades part 2: Danielle Austen, Artist-in-Residence Everglades National Park

  
  
  

  By Danielle Austen, Artist-in-Residence Everglades National Park

  Roseate Spoonbill

  Birds, Alligators, Crocodiles…OH MY!!!!

  The one thing I cannot get enough of in the Everglades is the Wildlife… especially the birds! In the past five years while visiting the glades, I have noticed the amount of birds that come and go… [...]

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• Report from the Glades part 1: Danielle Austen, Artist-in-Residence Everglades National Park

  
  
  

  By Danielle Austen, Artist-in-Residence Everglades National Park

  Watch for SNAKES!!! … and I am not talking Burmes Pythons either!

  There is something to be said about “ignorance is bliss”….in the previous years visiting the Everglades I had never given much thought about snakes… boy was that stupid. There [...]

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• The Knight Arts Challenge’s Emmy-winning “Ideas in Motion” hits the small screen

  
  
  

  Breaking news – WPBT Channel 2 will air the Emmy-winning “Ideas in Motion” documentary Tuesday, Feb 21 at 7:30pm. Produced by Knight Foundation, the  27-minute special showcases the Knight Arts Challenge and its winners.  “Ideas in Motion” gets inside the studio and behind the curtain with five winners of the [...]

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• Asian Arts Initiative presents “Marvels & Monsters”

  
  
  

  Knight Arts Challenge Finalist Asian Arts Initiative currently has on display “Marvels & Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics 1942 – 1986”. Curated by Jeff Yang, the show is a collaboration with the Asian / Pacific / [...]

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• Opera Carolina performs “Pinocchio” as a family opera

  
  
  

  Opera and family are not two ideas that usually go together. But, to think of it another way, children who experience live performances — of opera or other classical music — are often more inclined to participate, enjoy and support the arts as adults.

  Now take the children’s [...]

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• “Ask Your Mama” opens at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center

  
  
  

  Note on Commercial Theatre

  You’ve taken my blues and gone —
  …
  And you fixed ‘em
  So they don’t sound like me.

  …
  But someday somebody’ll
  Stand up and talk about me,
  And write about me —
  Black and beautiful —
  And sing about me,
  And put on plays [...]

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