OPERA America has announced the inaugural participants of the IDEA Opera Residencies (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) program, a new initiative that provides New York City-based composers and librettists of color an opportunity to explore opera as an expressive medium. The program is supported by the Katherine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund of The Scherman Foundation.
Coming February 26, 2021, Los Angeles soul singer Chris Pierce’s new album, American Silence, has already gathered critical acclaim from NPR and Rolling Stone!
This Saturday, December 26 at 3pm EST, Live For Live Music in partnership with HeadCount, presents Georgia Comes Alive, a one-day virtual music festival to promote voter participation in the upcoming Georgia runoff elections.
The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan announces the lineup for its 2nd annual Cinematters: NY Social Justice Film Festival, which will run virtually January 14-18, 2021.
On Saturday, December 26th at 3 PM ET, Live For Live Music, in partnership with HeadCount, presents Georgia Comes Alive, a one-day virtual music festival to promote voter participation in the upcoming Georgia runoff elections.
Creative Youth has announced the latest recruits in their Young Creatives panel, a platform for emerging young creatives to help take the charity forward in an exciting and crucial time in its development and growth.
On United Nations Human Rights Day, which is December 10, 2020, award-winning artist, and activist John Legend has been awarded the High Note Global Prize for social justice, presented by United Nations Human Rights, Partner of the High Note Global Initiative, and David Clark Cause.
Emmy®-nominated producer Jesse Collins, Oscar®-nominated producer Stacey Sher and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will produce the 93rd Oscars®, Academy President David Rubin announced today.
On Tuesday, December 15 at 8pm EST, tune in for Georgia Artists for Georgia’s Future: A Benefit Concert to Flip the Senate! The one-night event stars and celebrates performers, playwrights, and politicians born in or currently living in Georgia, and benefits the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff Senate campaigns.
Borrowing from the words of the late John Lewis, “Good Trouble” is a new audio musical created by Blindspot Collective with music by award winning musical theater writers Richard Allen and Taran Gray who have announced a presentation and talkback with the cast and creatives will be streaming on their Facebook page this Friday at 8pm (ET) as part of Allen and Gray's ongoing monthly New Voices Concert Series.
Crowded Fire, Magic Theatre, and Playwrights Foundation, will launch in February 2021 Making Good Trouble: Anti-Racist Trainers --a training program with a goal of empowering Bay Area artists and staff to become anti-racism trainers. Currently, the theatre industry is experiencing a racial justice reckoning demanding for more anti-racist training and practices, and this program will further that cause.
Theatre East, a New York City based off-Broadway theatre company, in partnership with the Division of Theatre and the Meadows School at Southern Methodist University, will be launching the WET INK SERIES on Monday.
Theatre East, a New York City based off-Broadway theatre company, in partnership with the Division of Theatre and the Meadows School at Southern Methodist University, will be launching the WET INK SERIES on Monday. The series of readings will include 7 new short plays by SMU students with mixed casts of students and professional actors.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the New York Civil Liberties Union present their annual Sing Out For Freedom benefit concert tonight, Monday, November 2 at 6:30PM (EST).