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• Community Supported Art continues to spread organically across the country

  
  
  

  By Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts

  What we’ve learned about the Community Supported Art model is that it is tremendously malleable to fit the needs of communities of very different sizes, geographies, and artistic disciplines. As long as a few core values are in place, all [...]

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• Make This Your Year: The Knight Arts Challenge opens Sept. 17!

  
  
  

  Now in its third year, the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia will call for your best ideas for the arts in Philadelphia Sept. 17. – Oct. 15. The $9 million initiative seeks the most innovative cultural ideas to engage and enrich Philadelphia’s neighborhoods.

  Launched in 2010, the challenge [...]

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• “Los Siervos/The Serfs” highlights the genius of Virgilio Piñera

  
  
  

  Tropical Storm Issac, with its medium rains and so-so winds, nevertheless ruined my plans to see “El juego de Electra/Electra’s Play,” which is part of FUNDarte’s fabulously fun and must-see Absurd Celebration: The First International Festival of Virgilio Piñera’s Theatre. The festival, which opened August 17th, [...]

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• Vote for a president and new art in 2012

  
  
  

  “Porcupine Cabinet” by Sebastian Errazuriz, 2011.
  Courtesy of Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York

  In a brilliant nod to the 2012 Presidential election, the Mint Museum (a Knight Arts grantee) is holding its own election: “Vote for Art.” This project gives museum visitors a chance to [...]

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• Macon’s Grand Opera House plans exciting new season

  
  
  

  “Catch Me If You Can” will be held at The Grand Opera House in Macon in December.

  The 2012–13 season at The Grand Opera House promises to delight with both the Butler Lexus Broadway Series and the Variety Series. According to Betsy Fitzgerald, executive director of The [...]

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• Starting from Scratch

  
  
  

  After a summer full of performing, fundraising, and a lot cardboard, The Bearded Ladies are finally ready to begin our Cabaret Revolution! Like any healthy revolution, this one is starting slowly with a few people and a lot of books and meetings.  The Bearded Ladies begin our year-long [...]

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