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• Knight Foundation’s Tatiana Hernandez joins the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures

  We’re living in a time of incredible change. In 2011, the nation’s Hispanic population reached 52 million, an increase of 48% from 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. Now more than ever we have the chance to engage our country’s diverse people in helping build more inclusive local [...]

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• Behold None Too Fragile’s “A Behanding in Spokane”

  None Too Fragile’s “A Behanding in Spokane” isn’t in the “gotta see” category of one-act dramas, but it certainly is in the “worth seeing” group, especially because of the stellar performances by the cast – Michael Regnier (Carmichael); Nick Yurick (Mervyn); Kelly Strand (Marilyn); and Brian Kenneth Armour (Toby).

  As [...]

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• An astonishing night of Cage at the New World

  Jessye Norman and New World fellows in John Cage’s “Song Books.” Photo by Rui Dios-Aidos

  There are concerts and there are concerts, and then there are explosions of art, bursts of concentrated, disciplined energy that sweep in like a wind and leave everything leveled and changed.

  Such was the performance I [...]

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• Riot Act Reading Series takes the Clown Lounge stage this Sunday

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  Punk poet Paul D at the Turf Club. Photo by Sharyn Morrow, courtesy of Riot Act Reading Series

  I’ve seen hundreds of author readings in bookstores and libraries over the years, but the usual routine – writers who stand at a podium and hold forth – hardly makes for a compelling [...]

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• Mercer Jazz Ensemble to present ‘The Colors of Jazz’

  The Mercer Jazz Ensemble performs. Photo courtesy of Mercer University

  Mercer University, a Knight Arts grantee, offers some of the best performing arts programming in the region, and Macon is all the better for it. The university is the home of the Townsend School of Music, the Robert McDuffie [...]

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• Abhinaya Dance Company January 2013 update

  Mythili Kumar, Abhinaya Dance Company

  January 2013 came and went by in a whirl. The year began with remembering my late father by whose initiative and drive alone, my career in dance took off. It was therefore appropriate for the local Indian senior center where he had been active to [...]

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