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• 9 ways to celebrate National Poetry Month

  By Elizabeth R. Miller,  Knight Foundation

  Today kicks off National Poetry Month and O, Miami – the biennial, South Florida poetry festival – has lined up a myriad of creative ways to deliver a poem to every single person in the city. So don’t worry if poetry readings [...]

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• It’s a bird, it’s a plan, it’s a poem!

  By Elizabeth R. Miller, Knight Foundation

  Just in time for National Poetry Month a new report chronicles the rise of Miami’s art scene and the unorthodox ways it brought the art form to life.

  Exploring how festival organizers dropped poems from helicopters, sewed them into clothes and even shouted [...]

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• TTAP students experience WITNESS firsthand – from on stage

  By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence

  For South High School 9th Grader Shameelah Abdullah, apprenticing with the VocalEssence Chorus on the WITNESS Concert is just the challenge she was looking for. 1 of 8 students in the Talented Tenth Apprentice Program (TTAP), a program for urban high school students who may not [...]

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• Debuting the spring lines from the museums

  Salvador Dalí “Cuillére avec montre-peigne (spoon with comb).”

  Several museums just opened up shows in time for springtime, and in fact many of them have a light touch to them, or at least don’t feel too heavy.

  MOCA (a Knight Arts grantee) unveiled its 15th  anniversary exhibit, filled with works [...]

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• “Nature Unrepentant” by Gary Mayer strikes a delicate balance at the Cass Cafe

  A full house at the Cass Cafe for the opening of “Nature Unrepentant” by Gary Mayer.

  On a long enough timeline, it can become difficult to discern if a legacy is earned or merely granted for tenacity. Artist and illustrator Gary Mayer hails from Detroit and graduated from Wayne State [...]

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• “The Way We See It” is to be seen at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church art gallery

  This isn’t a complaint about the five women photographers (Karen Ciamente, Pamela Z. Daum, Sandra Holata, Christine Morrow and Diane Seskes) who have a wonderful exhibit going for them at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church art gallery. Their stuff is fine, but more on that later.

  What I wish is that galleries [...]

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• Philadelphia Theatre Company enrolls in Theresa Rebeck’s SEMINAR

  By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company

  Regarding the world of creative writing, Ernest Hemingway once said that “we are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” The young writers of Rebeck’s caustic comedy, SEMINAR, know this lesson all too well, as they sacrifice their work [...]

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• Philadelphia Theatre Company celebrates new work at the 2013 PTC@Play Festival

  By Carrie Chapter, Philadelphia Theatre Company

  From February 18th to March 3rd the Suzanne Roberts theatre on Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts buzzed with activity. Our 2013 PTC@Play Festival, which hosted over 70 participating artists in 21 plays over the course of nine days, transformed the space into a hub [...]

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• Abhinaya Dance company: Spring 2013 update

  By Mythili Kumar, Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose

  Abhinaya Dance company productions for Spring 2013 start off this weekend with the restaging of Gandhi on Sunday, March 31st at Ohlone College at 4pm and on Saturday April 6th at Cabrillo College at 7pm.  This repeated performance of our fall 2012 [...]

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• Puzzle Piece Theatre spring 2013 update

  By D.B. Schroeder, Puzzle Piece Theatre

  You know that moment when you have something really important you want to share, or you’ve had a hellish day and need to vent- what do you do? You reach for the phone.  Since I left my home town of St. Louis to begin [...]

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