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• Historic Macon to celebrate 171st birthday of Sidney Lanier

  In 1975, the Sidney Lanier Cottage was restored and opened to the public by the Middle Georgia Historical Society, as well as placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Photo courtesy of Historic Macon Foundation

  Macon, Georgia is known for its music, past and present. From modern artists like [...]

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• 2013 at the Miami Lyric Opera

  By Raffaele Cardone, Miami Lyric Opera

  The recent year end recess has given the opportunity to reflect with maturity on MLO’s upcoming challenges and how to face the in moments of economic uncertainty. Needless to say that our tenacity and enthusiasm has been reinvigorated by the artistic success of the [...]

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• The Writers Room at The Betsy Hotel– a respite for writers on South Beach

  By Deborah Briggs, Betsy Writers Room

  Many Miami pre-war hotels had ‘Writing Rooms’ for travellers and guests. In a continuing effort to link past and present through the arts, The Betsy-South Beach opened a ‘Writers Room’ in Spring 2012 during National Poetry Month; poets Tom Healy, Billy Collins, Daniel Halpern, [...]

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• Eduardo Marturet led The Miami Symphony Orchestra in a Viennese musical new year with a Miami twist

  By Matthew Marshall, The Miami Symphony Orchestra

  Eduardo Marturet and The Miami Symphony Orchestra added a new twist to the Viennese New Year tradition with “Ocean Drive in Vienna” on Sunday night before a large and very enthusiastic audience at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall.  Thanks to the [...]

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• Inside and out for art on the weekend

  While the rest of the country is in a deep freeze, we are enjoying almost perfect South Florida weather. So it’s also perfect timing for the Bass Museum to join up with the Miami Symphony Orchestra for a free outdoor concert in the newly revamped Collins Park on Sunday. If [...]

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• The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra hits the “Ballroom!”

  Clement Joly and Tatiana Kazakova,
  premier instructors and co-owners, Metropolitan Ballroom. Photo courtesy of Charlotte Symphony Orchestra

  Experience the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (CSO) (a Knight Arts grantee) in a new way with the rhythm and movement of the Metropolitan Ballroom dancers at 7:30 p.m. on January 25 [...]

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• “Beauty is Embarrassing” and the DFT is enchanting

  Artist Wayne White takes a puppet head of Lyndon B. Johnson for lark through the Hollywood Hills.

  For whoever’s counting, the Detroit Film Theatre (DFT) is off to a monster start in 2013, with a second consecutive weekend featuring a documentary about a particular artistic process. Previously, it was the [...]

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• “Fiction” tells the murky truth in Actors’ Summit production

  If you like “talky” dramas, go see “Fiction” that is being put on by Actors’ Summit, a Knight Arts grantee. Unfortunately I don’t, and that’s too bad because the playwright, Steven Dietz, is a gifted scriptwriter.

  The language, the references and allusions to literary works and philosophical ideas [...]

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• Explore an arts journalism funding opportunity from NEA

  The National Endowment for the Arts is hosting a webinar next week to answer questions on how to prepare a strong application for arts journalism project grants. The webinar is January 29, 4-5pm ET on arts.gov. Click here to join or listen to the archive. There will be an [...]

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• YoungArts poetry finalist Peter LaBerge is brave as a lion

  Peter LaBerge was just nominated for 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and may be the next Poet Laureate of the United States because anything thing seems possible from this young, energetic 2013 YoungArts Week Writing Finalist in Poetry. LaBerge’s poetry, and personality, is thoughtful and electric, intense yet [...]

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