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• You can still get your classical music fix in the Twin Cities this holiday season

  Recent announcements of still more cancelled concerts, now stretching through December for both Minnesota Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (a Knight Arts grantee), hit the news last week in the face of as yet-intractable contract disputes between the musicians and board/management for both vaunted institutions. [...]

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• The Gallery at Macon Arts Alliance hosts second annual holiday trunk shows

  When she’s not writing, author Glenda Bozeman creates these beautiful scarves, on display now at Macon Arts Alliance.

  The Gallery at Macon Arts Alliance will hold a series of trunk shows beginning Friday, November 30, with additional Trunk Shows on December 14 and 21. Receptions will be held on each [...]

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  By Steve Klotz, Embrace Music Foundation

  Three sessions into the 9-week program, the budding percussion ensemble of 35 teenagers from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami has jelled at record speed.  According to “Reggae Ambassador” Willie Stewart — Knight Arts Challenge grantee, and former co-director and master percussionist in the [...]

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• No time like the present: the Detroit Historical Museum celebrates its grand reopening

  The main hall, featuring a 100-year timeline of Detroit, highlighting a history of powerhouse franchises.

  The Detroit Historical Museum held a marathon reopening over Thanksgiving weekend, with free admission and extended hours. The DHM remained open for 60 continuous hours over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and drew visitors of [...]

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• Shizu Saldamando’s slices of life at Moore

  The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design are currently exhibiting a large solo show entitled “All Tomorrow’s Parties” by Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando in the Goldie Paley Gallery. This artist’s style is heavy in portraiture but fueled by a number of underlying concepts [...]

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• The 567 launches art education program for adults & kids

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  By Melissa Macker, The 567 Center for Renewal, Inc.

  The 567 Center for Renewal in downtown Macon launched a new arts education program this fall, thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The first class, “Corks & Canvas,” has been offered four times since its [...]

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• Quiet exhibits before the storm

  Buika. Photo by Luis Olazabal

  Next week at this time, Miami will be in the midst of Art Basel madness. So maybe this week is a good time for quiet time, to take in a few shows that won’t be screaming.

  One such show is at the WDNA Jazz Gallery on [...]

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• Florida Grand Opera: A promising 2013-14 season announced

  By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer

  Susan Danis wasn’t joking when she said, “This Florida Grand Opera 2012-13 season is one of transition.” The new CEO of FGO is keeping her promise, announcing a 2013-2014 opera season sure to spark more than one controversy and elicit applause from the [...]

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• The release of Patricia Kirkpatrick’s new collection “Odessa” marks an auspicious beginning for Milkweed’s annual regional poetry prize

  This Wednesday evening, Milkweed Editions will celebrate the publication of its inaugural collection from the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, a competitive annual award of $10,000 and a book contract, open to writers currently living in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The first of the [...]

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• Art Public opening night at the Bass Museum

  Get ready for My Barbarian (horde) to invade the Bass Museum lawn for Art Public Opening Night next week with their kitsch theater antics when they perform an excerpt from “Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater.” My Barbarian is a Los Angeles-based performance collective formed by Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon [...]

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