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Flushing Town Hall has been presented with a significant challenge on the 40th anniversary season of the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts: if Flushing Town Hall can raise $40,000 in new or increased donations by February 2019, an anonymous donor will match that with another $40,000.

ESPN announced today a 20-hour, 10-part documentary 'Basketball: A Love Story' from Peabody Award-winning director Dan Klores. The sweeping project, which consists of more than 60 interconnected 'short stories,' will be available across multiple ESPN platforms in a variety of viewing experiences. Klores has created a vibrant mosaic of the game, featuring 165 exclusive interviews. The cast encompasses basketball's most prominent figures, from Bob Cousy, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Dr. J, Yao Ming, Stephen Curry and Diana Taurasi, to Magic Johnson, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant. Klores' short stories explore the complex nature of love as it relates to the game and opens the window to insights and perspectives about race, politics, media, art, business, style and entertainment. The episodes will feature different narrators: Chadwick Boseman, Julianne Moore, Chris Cuomo, Ashley Judd, Michael Che, Ansel Elgort, Ahmad Rashad, Robin Quivers, Daveed Diggs, and Fisher Stevens.

The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered by a partnership of DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, announces its ninth round of funding for artist-generated or artist-centered projects that exemplify unconventional, interventionist, conceptual, entrepreneurial, participatory, or guerrilla artistic practices.

The Kitchen has announced Fall 2022 season programming launching the influential, experimental interdisciplinary organization beyond the walls of its Chelsea building as it undergoes renovations and moves temporarily to another location with a rich avant-garde history: Westbeth.

'And the Things I Draw Come True' - Described as displaying 'brilliance of sound, technical mastery, and stunning expressivity' (I Care If You Listen), violin duo MIOLINA officially commences their 10th anniversary season with a program of works inspired by words and drawings.

On November 7 - 10, the Staten Island Museum is proud to host Black Lunch Table, an ongoing collaboration between artists Heather Hart and Jina Valentine. They will facilitate discussions of issues pertaining to race and culture and create an online oral history archive of the recorded conversations.

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The Kitchen will present Sharmi Basu’s #HOWDOIFINDYOU?, the culmination of the multimedia performance artist, curator, composer, and arts organizer’s participation in the The Kitchen’s 2021 Research Residency, and the first public event stemming from the residency (October 27 at 7pm at The Kitchen’s temporary “home away from home” at Westbeth.

On Saturday, October 21, Flushing Town Hall presents the voice of Venezuela , Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo, for a colorful evening of Afro-Venezuelan dance and music. Guests can participate in a dance lesson before the performance.

Saskwatch is the Australian nine-piece eclectic soul band that has quickly become renowned for its signature ecstatic horns, tight rhythms & soaring vocals- capable of breaking hearts one minute & eliciting frenzied dancing the next.

The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey has  announced the hiring of Kristen Evangelista as its new Director of Exhibitions, effective June 1, 2022. Evangelista will join VACNJ after serving as Director of the William Paterson University Galleries for nearly a decade.

Little Fish Theatre today announced the opening of the next show of its fourteenth season, the charming comedy Oh, Baby written by newspaper humor columnist and playwright Monica Lewis.

The 8th Summerhall Festival Programme is announced today by the year round Edinburgh arts venue. The programme is full of exciting, invigorating and fresh theatre, music and visual arts. Whilst the venue grows into its reputation for hosting new, avant-garde and personal work, it also begins to create partnerships with artists. The Eclipse Award, Fringe of Colour, Autopsy Award and a series of annual artist in residence positions see Summerhall actively supporting artists making new work and responding to our world.

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $60,000 to Flushing Town Hall for performing arts programming. The Art Works category is the NEA's largest funding category and supports projects that focus on the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and/or the strengthening of communities through the arts.

As part of its Southern Exposure Series, which features new and classic literature by Southern writers with Southern inspiration, Tennessee Shakespeare Company this spring returns to its popular Tuesday Literary Salons with the works of two form-breaking southern writers read in fun, intimate settings.

Little Fish Theatre today announced the opening of the next show of its fourteenth season, the charming comedy Oh, Baby written by newspaper humor columnist and playwright Monica Lewis.

Jennifer Schwartz is the new Managing Director for PCPA as of January 2016. Schwartz comes to PCPA having worked for over 15 years as a non-profit arts manager. She was the Finance and Administration Director at the San Jose Repertory Theatre, held finance positions at SFJAZZ, The San Francisco Film Society and The Paul Dresher Ensemble, and was the Associate Managing Director at the Yale Repertory Theatre where she produced The Special Events Series that included artists Don Byron, Meredith Monk and Guillermo Gomez-Pena. She also has worked in Los Angeles for New Line Cinema and Paramount Pictures and as a consultant for Bay Area non-profits including The Magnes Museum, Southern Exposure, Prison Law Office, Glide Community Housing, Root Division, We Care, World Savvy and Youth Speaks.

Garagiste Events today announced that its internationally renowned Garagiste Wine Festival comes to the heart of Sonoma, California on May 12th for the very first time. The festival will showcase the rich variety of small-production wines currently being crafted by some of the most innovative winemakers in Sonoma, Mendocino, Livermore, Lodi, and Napa, as well as other California regions. The non-profit event will be held at the Sonoma Veterans Building near Sonoma's historic downtown plaza. Tickets are on sale today at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1st-annual-garagiste-festival-northern-exposure-tickets-43108506704

Celebrating sixty four years since Betty Bobp founded a group which would come to welcome theater aficionados of all ages to join and take part in the beauty of the dramatic arts, followed by Producing Artistic Director Nina Schuessler's dedication to creating a year-round educational venue on the Cape, the Harwich Junior Theater returns with a triumph with the start of a new, exciting summer season. Audiences have no doubt been telling wondrous tales about The Great American Trailer Park Musical which, simply put, treats audiences to one doozy of a show.

Pianist and composer Cory Smythe evokes cyborg choirs and coastal floods on Accelerate Every Voice, his second release for Pyroclastic Records and the follow-up to 2018 album Circulate Susanna. Bringing together five vocalists from the a cappella, new and improvised music scenes, AEV cradles Smythe's piano in an uncanny valley of voices before submerging it in an undersea expanse. 

The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County brings diverse artistic styles together in Southern Exposure: New Work Now, today, June 20 through August 16, with a special preview party this Thursday, June 19 at 5:30 p.m. Highlighting the work of emerging and mid-career artists, the show integrates visual and performance art that demonstrates varying artistic perspectives, some tackling international issues currently in the news.

Rockefeller Center and Art Production Fund will continue their Art in Focus partnership with a site-specific public art presentation by Los Angeles-based painter HILARY PECIS. Presented in multiple public locations throughout the Rockefeller Center campus, Pecis’ presentation will begin on July 6, 2021. 

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC), the Mid-South's professional classical theatre, today announced its 2014-15 schedule of plays, which includes three by Shakespeare, the Southern Exposure Series, a continuing partnership with Dixon Gallery & Gardens, a new summer partnership with the University of Memphis, and a new Musical Works Festival sponsored by the Broadway licensing company of Memphis, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Color Purple, and All Shook Up: The Music of Elvis Presley.

HERE proudly presents Chiflon, El Silencio del Carbon, by renowned Chilean company Silencio Blanco, a presentation from HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program.  This production plays three performances only, February 24 - 26, 2017 at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, just below Spring Street).  This presentation at HERE arrives as part of a U.S. tour, with dates and venues as follows: MCA, Chicago, IL (January 15-24); FUNDarte, Miami, FL (January 25-29); University of Maryland/The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD (January 30-February 5); Raritan Valley Community College/The Theatre, Branchburg, NJ (February 6-12); Bucknell University/Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Lewisburg, PA (February 13-19); HERE, New York, NY (February 24-26); UCLA/Center for the Art of Performance, Los Angeles, CA (February 27-March 5); Boom Arts, Portland, OR (March 6-9).

HERE proudly presents Chiflon, El Silencio del Carbon, by renowned Chilean company Silencio Blanco, a presentation from HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program.  This production plays three performances only, February 24 - 26, 2017 at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, just below Spring Street).  This presentation at HERE arrives as part of a U.S. tour, with dates and venues as follows: MCA, Chicago, IL (January 15-24); FUNDarte, Miami, FL (January 25-29); University of Maryland/The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD (January 30-February 5); Raritan Valley Community College/The Theatre, Branchburg, NJ (February 6-12); Bucknell University/Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Lewisburg, PA (February 13-19); HERE, New York, NY (February 24-26); UCLA/Center for the Art of Performance, Los Angeles, CA (February 27-March 5); Boom Arts, Portland, OR (March 6-9).

Golden Thread Productions returns with its annual celebration of International Women's Day, What Do the Women Say? on Saturday, March 12, at 8pm at La Peña Cultural Center (3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley). This year's program is a celebration of pioneering Bay Area women artists who have built community through their art.

The Garagiste Wine Festival, which was named America's Best Wine Festival by USA Today in 2018, returns to Sonoma with 40 micro-production winemakers from Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Lodi, Sierra Foothills, and more, on April 13th. The internationally renowned festival showcases innovative winemakers who handcraft under 1,500 cases of wine and who, in most cases, don't have tasting rooms, offering a one-of-a-kind opportunity to taste a range of cutting-edge wine discoveries, with limited attendees, all under one roof.

It's been a year since we lost musician/actor/producer/fashion icon DAVID BOWIE which happened just before the 3rd edition of this show. But while the man may be gone, his work will continue to live on and so we are happy to be bringing you the 4th annual edition of one of our most popular shows dedicated to the music, art, and glamour of David Bowie brought to you by many of the top burlesque stars of L.A. as well as special guests!

Rover Dramawerks continues their 18th Season with the dramedy A Southern Exposure by local playwright Kelley Kingston-Strayer. Performances will be at Rover's theatre in Plano, located in Ruisseau Village at 221 W. Parker Rd, Suite 580, at the northwest corner of Parker and 75. Performances run March 1-17 on Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 p.m. and on Saturdays at 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.

It's been a year since we lost musician/actor/producer/fashion icon DAVID BOWIE which happened just before the 3rd edition of this show. But while the man may be gone, his work will continue to live on and so we are happy to be bringing you the 4th annual edition of one of our most popular shows dedicated to the music, art, and glamour of David Bowie brought to you by many of the top burlesque stars of L.A. as well as special guests!

The Idea Fund will host a panel discussion on December 9, 2016 at 6 p.m. at Project Row Houses with the jurors for Round 9 of The Idea Fund grant: Lu Zhang, Dr. Julia Bryan-Wilson and Dennis Nance, as well as panelist Deana Haggag.

Rover Dramawerks Announces Auditions For A SOUTHERN EXPOSURE by Kelley Kingston-Strayer, directed by Leslie Austin.

The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered by DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announces the Round 7 2015 grantees.

The Garagiste Wine Festival, which was named America's Best Wine Festival by USA Today, returns February 8th - 10th to Solvang, which was named One of America's 10 Best Small Historic Towns by USA Today. Tickets are now on sale.

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) announces the Spring 2019 season of dance, theater, music, and multimedia presentations, running January 30 through May 30. Tickets for BAC Presents performances are on sale now, and can be purchased at bacnyc.org and 866 811 4111. A complete lineup of BAC Residencies-to be announced in January-will provide residencies to artists across disciplines to create new works of dance, theater, music, and multimedia.  

The Skirball Cultural Center concludes its twenty-first anniversary season of Sunset Concerts with the Los Angeles debut of the Venezuelan ensemble Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo today, August 31, at 8:00 p.m. The multigenerational group of dancers and musicians will be celebrating their thirtieth anniversary as well as the upcoming release of their debut album.

The Garagiste Wine Festival marks its 21st festival, and 8th anniversary, at its home base in Paso Robles, November 9th through the 11th, with three days of events, including a Grand Tasting that showcases over 60 micro production winemakers, 20% of whom are pouring at the festival for the first time. Tickets are on sale now at http://californiagaragistes.com/buy-tickets/.

Crowded Fire Theater (CFT), known as a vital home for new play development and production on the West Coast, announce Miaccuicatl Alexander, Alexa Burrell, Brooke L Jennings, Kevin Lo, and Sara Witsch as the sixth cohort of IGNITE FUND awardees. The IGNITE FUND awards a total of $10,000 annually to support the growth of and enhance the working lives of Bay Area theater designers and technicians through a competitive grant process.

The Skirball Cultural Center concludes its twenty-first anniversary season of Sunset Concerts with the Los Angeles debut of the Venezuelan ensemble Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo on Thursday, August 31, at 8:00 p.m. The multigenerational group of dancers and musicians will be celebrating their thirtieth anniversary as well as the upcoming release of their debut album.

This Fall, Atlas Presents Jazz series will feature Argentinian singer, composer, and actress Sofia Viola, as well as contemporary jazz artists Cecily Bumbray and Akua Allrich & the Tribe.

As part of its Southern Exposure Series, which features new and classic literature by Southern writers, Tennessee Shakespeare Company this April returns to its popular Tuesday Literary Salon spotlighting the early poetry and short stories of William Faulkner.

High Concept Laboratories NFP (HCL), a Chicago-based arts service organization and artist incubator, today announced that Sharon Hoyer has joined HCL as its new director, and Yolanda Cesta Cursach has joined as artistic director. Together they will be responsible for advancing HCL's innovative artist programs and developing new community collaborations as the organization celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2019-2020.

Baryshnikov Arts Center presents Estado Vegetal (Vegetative State), an exuberant and polyphonic one-woman show written and directed by Manuela Infante,one of the most prolific voices in contemporary Chilean and Latin American theater (May 2-3).

Little Fish Theatre today announced the opening of the next show of its fourteenth season, the charming comedy Oh, Baby written by newspaper humor columnist and playwright Monica Lewis.

A prodigal son's return home is the focus of Dead Accounts opening at Little Fish Theatre on May 16 for a four-week run. LFT company member Branda Lock directs this story about boiling points and big money from Peabody and Writers' Guild Award winner Theresa Rebeck.