Diversity News

The LA Art Show, LA's largest and longest-running art fair, will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center on February 15-19 to kick off the city's 2023 art season. The 28th edition will include a wide variety of exhibitions from Europe, Japan, North America, Latin America and South Korea, plus events and performances.

The French Institute Alliance Française is offering their New York audiences the best in French and francophone culture this November and December.

The 49th London International Festival of Early Music (LIFEM) will welcome audiences and visitors to Blackheath venues in London from 9 - 12 November 2022.

On October 29, Always Love Lucy Theatre and the Trenton Free Public Library will hold a staged reading of The War of the Worlds, just in time for the 84th anniversary of the historic broadcast.

Satirical comedy He Had it Coming, performed by Kim Blanche Adonis, directed by Daniel Richards, and written by Mike Van Graan, will play The Drama Factory on 27 and 28 October.

Ballet Kelowna will open its 20th anniversary season with an exhilarating mixed program, Aspirations, at the Kelowna Community Theatre, November 4 + 5, 2022 at 7:30pm. A dynamic collection of short works by three virtuosic Canadian choreographers, Aspirations offers audiences an evening of dazzling premieres and returning classics, including the world premiere of an uplifting and highly musical new work by award-winning choreographer Robert Stephen.

Alberta Bair Theater will welcome Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt Together on Stage on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. 

Since 1917, Settlement Music School's Presser Hall, at the Mary Louise Curtis Branch, has been one of the most significant recital halls in the city, serving community and professional musicians alike, built on a commitment to diversity and equity, working to meet the community where they are and involving them in the School's development.

The Carmel International Arts Festival would like to recognize the 2022 winners from their recent event. The winners hail from all across the United States.

The Lamplighter Sessions return to Boston with a unique multi-night, one-room festival, of improvisational music, spoken word, visual art, and theater.

The American Dance Guild will return to live performance with their yearly ADG PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, their first live production since the Covid pandemic. Return, Renew, Rejoice! will take place over four evenings, Dec 1 - Dec 4 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, in New York City. The work of 34 contemporary choreographers will be shown.

The region's top bacon focused food truck is going brick and mortar! Owner and Chef Justin Coleman has announced that Bake'N Bacon will open a new bacon themed restaurant in South Philly this winter.

Twennies is Dragonette’s first full-length release since 2016’s Royal Blues, and fans have already had a taste of the new collection with the infectious power-pop anthem 'New Suit,' describe as a “mash-up of retro and contemporary sounds and imagery,” and the title-track dancefloor single “Twennies.” 

La Jolla Playhouse has announced the cast and creative team for its production of As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, co-directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley, the Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse, and Helen Hayes Award winner Will Davis. It will run November 15 – December 11.

Documentary 'Broadway Rising', which chronicles the reopening of Broadway after the 2020 shutdown due to COVID-19, has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment for North American, United Kingdom, and Ireland distribution rights.

Introducing NYC's newest global music festival: HARLEM MEET AFRICA, a free, one day concert and cultural event taking place on Sunday, October 16th, 2022, from 3:00-7:00 PM at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park.

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre, alongside Leeds Playhouse and New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, are now unveiled as the finalists for this year's UK's Most Welcoming Theatre Award at the UK Theatre Awards. Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre is the only Scottish organisation to be nominated alongside the two other theatres which were selected from a very large number of submissions.

Adelaide Festival Centre's inSPACE Development Program has launched two new spaces for creativity – firstSPACE, and writeSPACE, along with 10 new and exciting works-in-progress selected for development in 2023.

Dallas Theater Center (DTC) recently announced that Jeffrey Woodward will retire from his position as managing director in April 2023 after almost 8 years of leadership. 

After 20 years of presenting acclaimed concerts in visual art spaces, Look + Listen has decided to end operations. To thank the many artists and community members who have supported the festival in the past two decades, Look + Listen is presenting a free 'Farewell Concert' on Saturday, October 29 (7 pm) at the Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen St. in Brooklyn, NY.