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• The Schubert Club’s Arts Ambassadors: Theoroi

  By Tessa Retterath, Theoroi

  A program of The Schubert Club, Theoroi is a select group of arts ambassadors ages 21-35 who attend a curated series of arts events and spread the word through social media. Theoroi had a busy couple months in December and January. On December 3, the Theoroi group [...]

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• Springboard for the Arts featured on ArtsFwd

  By Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts

  ArtsFwd provides a nice profile of Knight grantee, Springboard for the Arts. This story and video details Springboard’s experience in the EmcArts Innovation Lab and the changes and new programming that resulted, including a partnership with the Knight Foundation to bring the [...]

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• Puzzle Piece Theatre debuts Anthony Clarvoe’s “Show and Tell”

  By D.B. Schroeder, Puzzle Piece Theatre

  Puzzle Piece Theatre, Detroit’s newest professional company, will debut with the Michigan premiere of Anthony Clarvoe’s “Show and Tell”.  The play’s setting could not be timelier; the plot follows the investigation after an explosion in an elementary school that leaves a class of 24 students [...]

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• Macon Film Festival: Where creativity meets community

  By Beverly Blake, Knight Foundation Program Director/Macon

  Eight years ago, a group of creative folks here in Macon came up with the idea for a film festival to celebrate the craft of the moving image and introduce independent films that rarely appear in Macon and the Macon Film Festival was [...]

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• A one-two mayoral punch on behalf of the arts

  By Adrienne Arsht Center Staff

  Opera stars. Prima ballerinas. Legendary violinists.

  Mayors?

  Two of the biggest government rock stars of our time – former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz – stepped into the spotlight usually reserved for gifted artists on the grand stage of the Knight Concert [...]

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• Macon Film Festival announces kick-off screening of “The Buddy Holly Story”

  It’s no secret that the film industry has invaded Georgia. Feature films and television series are regularly filmed throughout the Atlanta area. While the concentration of filming is in Georgia’s largest metropolitan area, Macon is no stranger to the filmmaker’s lens. In early 2012, Clint Eastwood, Justin Timberlake and Amy [...]

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• Rose Ensemble brings medieval chant to life with selections from Hildegard von Bingen and the Minstrel

  The St. Paul-based Rose Ensemble will soon open “Sibyls of the Rhine,” a series of candlelight concerts highlighting medieval chant and polyphony from Germany and France. For this show, the internationally-known ensemble will focus on the sounds of the Gregorian Vespers, with the atmospheric, 13th century “Song of Songs” [...]

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• Summit Artspace branches out to theater in performances of “The Emperor Jones”

  Word has it that famous playwright Eugene O’Neill had a great first year when he got to Broadway in 1920 with his plays. One of the reasons was his second Broadway production – “The Emperor Jones.”

  The play tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African American who kills a' [...]

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