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• Mann Center “reaches for the stars” by joining big name talents with orchestral music

  
  
  

  By Laura McPhail, Mann Center for the Performing Arts

  Innovative programming is the name of the game at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts this summer. In an effort to reach out to new audiences while continuing to entertain the loyal Mann attendees, the popular music [...]

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• Locust Projects and O Cinema present “Never Sorry”

  
  
  

  Ai Wei Wei in “Never Sorry.”

  Locust Projects (a Knight Arts grantee) has come up with a neat idea for “art films & food,” together with another Knight grantee, O Cinema. Starting next week and then periodically through November, films about art (not arty [...]

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• OmniCorpDetroit hosts Open Hack Night

  
  
  

  Last night I had the pleasure of being a part of Open Hack Night at OmniCorpDetroit. Taking place the first and third Thursdays of each month, Open Hack Night invites all who are curious and interested to have a look at the inner workings of [...]

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• Martha Graham Dance Company coming to Goodyear Heights Metro Park

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  Whoever would have imagined the famous Martha Graham Dance Company  performing this weekend in a field in east Akron in Goodyear Heights Metro Park? Apparently — and fortunately — Jane Startzman did.

  Startzman, director of the Heinz Poll Dance Festival, which is being held for the [...]

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• Random Acts of Culture™ hits 1,000th performance

  
  
  

  In coming weeks, hundreds of singers, dancers – even roller skaters in Viking helmets – will surprise crowds in four cities across the United States. The pop up performances are all part of celebrating the 1,000th (yep, 1,000th!) Random Act of Culture™, where Knight Foundation [...]

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• Acclaimed Trey McIntyre Project arriving in Akron this fall!

  
  
  

  By Tom Sarago, DANCECleveland

  The acclaimed Trey McIntyre Project, led by one of the most sought after choreographers working today arrives in Akron this fall for a full week of dance related activities.

  Co-presented by, The University of Akron, E.J. Thomas Hall and DANCECleveland, with lead support made [...]

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• Public artwork to help revitalize North Tryon Street Corridor

  
  
  

  Arts & Science Council logo.

  In July, the Arts & Science Council (ASC) with the City of Charlotte received an Our Town grant totaling $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This grant will help fund public artwork that is part of the [...]

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• PPAC’s 3rd Annual Photography Exhibition

  
  
  

  At the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (and spilling into the adjacent hallways of the Crane Arts building) is the massive sampling platter that is the 3rd Annual Photography exhibition. The exhibit showcases a wide variety of contemporary photography in many different forms. Present in the [...]

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• A sometimes couch potato explores Stillness & Movement

  
  
  

  For me there is stillness in movement and in movement there is stillness. When my body is still and I inhale all of the oxygen my lungs can handle, my mind zooms far from rest and jumps from one thought to the next like a rabid couch [...]

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• Seraphic Fire signs three-year deal with Naxos

  
  
  

  Naxos, a classical music label.

  Seraphic Fire, the Miami-based concert choir that snagged two Grammy nominations earlier this year, announced this week that it’s signed with Naxos of America in a three-year deal to distribute its recordings.

  A news release from Seraphic Fire quotes Jim Selby, the [...]

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