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Video: SQUID GAME Sets Season 2 Release Date
by Josh Sharpe - Aug 1, 2024

Netflix has announced that Season 2 of Squid Game will premiere on December 26, 2024, with the final season coming in 2025. The news was relayed to global fans through a heartfelt letter written by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the Executive Producer, Writer, and Director of the series. Watch the date announcement video!

Rehearsed Reading Of WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR ONE AND ONLY YOUTH is Coming to The Other Palace
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 8, 2022

What Are You Going To Do With Your One And Only Youth is a rehearsed reading of a musical play. Performed by young English artists, British East and South East Asian artists and artists from Korea, it'll be presented for an industry audience at The Other Palace studio (17 & 18 Nov).

34th Chicago Duo Piano Festival Returns In Person, July 8�"17
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 4, 2022

The Music Institute of Chicago presents the 34th season of its Chicago Duo Piano Festival featuring four public events July 8–17, 2022 at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston.

Illinois Arts Council Agency Announces 2021 Artist Fellowship Award Recipients
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 22, 2021

The Illinois Arts Council Agency has announced the 2021 Artist Fellowship Award recipients.

Illinois Arts Council Agency Announces 2021 Artist Fellowship Award Recipients
by Stephi Wild - Jun 22, 2021

Finalist Awards of $1,500 were also awarded to 10 Illinois artists for a total of $15,000. The Finalist Award category recognizes and encourages additional applicants who demonstrate considerable talent.

GRACE AND GRIT - DANCE IN THE TIME OF COVID Drive-In Film Event For Arts Advocacy Comes to Santa Monica
by Stephi Wild - Sep 15, 2020

Westside Ballet of Santa Monica announces Grace and Grit to be presented at the Santa Monica College Bundy Campus, East Parking Lot, on Saturday & Sunday October 9th & 10th, at 7:30 & 10pm as a Drive-In Movie venture in conjunction with Santa Monica College's Public Policy Institute Annual Arts Forum and the SMC Dance Department.

Pianist Liza Stepanova to Release New Album E PLURIBUS UNUM
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 16, 2020

Pianist Liza Stepanova has announced the August 28, 2020 release of her new album E Pluribus Unum on Navona Records. This collection showcases nine renowned American composers with immigrant backgrounds, including Lera Auerbach, Anna Clyne, Gabriela Lena Frank, Kamran Ince, Reinaldo Moya, Pablo Ortiz, and more.

Duo Piano Featured At Winter Mini-fest
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 31, 2020

The Music Institute of Chicago's Chicago Duo Piano Festival (CDPF) celebrates the joy of two-piano and four-hand piano performance at the CDPF Winter Mini-fest March 6a?"8 at the Evanston East campus, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston. Registration deadline is Saturday, February 1, 2020.

Celebrate Valentine's Day Weekend at the Music Institute of Chicago
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 10, 2020

For 'date night' on Valentine's Day weekend, the Music Institute of Chicago presents 'From the Heart,' a concert featuring members of the Music Institute's internationally renowned faculty performing romantic music, Saturday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston.

Chicago Duo Piano Festival Celebrates Crumb's 90th
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 3, 2019

The Music Institute of Chicago announces two concerts for its 31st Chicago Duo Piano Festival (CDPF), featuring performances by renowned Chicago piano duo performers and a mix of favorite repertoire for four hands at one and two pianos, as well as eight hand piano performances. The concerts take place Sunday, July 14 at 3 p.m. and Friday, July 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston. Registration for the educational component is available at musicinst.org/cdpf-summer-festival.

Li-Young Lee Selects Leah Naomi Green As 2019 Walt Whitman Award Recipient
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 25, 2019

The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Li-Young Lee has selected Leah Naomi Green as the recipient of the 2019 Walt Whitman Award for her manuscript, The More Extravagant Feast, which will be published by Graywolf Press in April 2020.

NYU Steinhardt To Stage L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES
by Julie Musbach - Nov 26, 2018

NYU Steinhardt's Program in Vocal Performance will present L'Enfant et Les Sortileges (The Child and the Magic Spells) from November 30 to December 2. The one-act opera features music by Maurice Ravel and libretto by Colette and will be sung in English. NYU Steinhardt's Garth Bardsley directs.

DODGE POETRY FESTIVAL at NJPAC Announces Highlights Of The Upcoming Four-Day Event
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 20, 2018

Martin Farawell, Director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, has announced highlights of the upcoming 17th biennial four-day event, October 18-21, featuring bestselling authors, literary legends, Pulitzer Prize winners, slam champions, and Academy of American Poets Chancellors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Pulitzer Prize-winners Sharon Olds and Gregory Pardlo, as well as much-published and award-winning poets Sandra Cisneros, Sapphire, Eileen Myles, Ntozake Shange, Kwame Dawes, Alberto Rios, David St. John, Henri Cole, Gregory Orr, Mary Ruefle and David Young will be giving Featured Readings during the Festival and are among the dozens of acclaimed poets who will participate in the four-day event, which takes place at the