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Dance/USA, the national service organization for dance, has announced its new Board of Trustees. Learn more about the new appointments here!

Most Black History Month stories, news coverage and premium content are available on ABC Owned Television Stations’ newly launched 24/7 streaming channels, in addition to in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh-Durham and Fresno, and its connected TV apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV and Roku.

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Dean Stanley E. Romanstein has announced the addition of Elizabeth Payne to the college's roster of distinguished performing and media arts faculty members. A costume designer with more than 20 years of experience designing for theatre, dance and television,

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the national awardees of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, which was held virtually in convenings for each discipline that began on March 8, 2021 and continued through May 22, 2021.

National Liberty Museum offers several virtual activities for adults highlighting LGBTQ+ issues during June's Pride month available on NLM@Night. 

The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that renowned graphic memoirist and comic book artist Alison Bechdel and former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will judge the 2020 National Poetry Month Poster Contest for Students. The winner of the contest will receive $500 and the winning artwork will be featured on the official April 2020 National Poetry Month poster, which the Academy will distribute to 100,000 libraries, schools, and bookstores nationwide during National Poetry Month. The winning student will also receive signed copies of books by this year's judges and be featured in American Poets magazine and on Poets.org, which reaches millions of readers each year.

Returning to Lincoln Center after critically acclaimed performances with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at last summer's Mostly Mozart Festival, Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Bach's Italian Concerto in F major; Debussy's Images, Book 2; and Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor at Walter Reade Theater on Sunday, May 19 at 11:00 a.m. in a Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts recital presented by Lincoln Center as part of its Great Performers series.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosts more than 120 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the 50th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), which runs April 16-20, 2019 in multiple locations throughout the Center. The Center also announced the national awardees for the KCACTF. Selected awardees and representatives will be brought to Washington, D.C. for an expense-paid trip to participate in the National Festival. These student artists from across the United States have been recognized for their outstanding work from the eight regional festivals that were held January 8 through February 28, 2019.

C. Mondavi & Family announced that Randy Herron has joined the company as head winemaker of the CK Mondavi and Family portfolio of wines. Herron comes to CK Mondavi and Family with 22 of winemaking experience. His vision and expertise pairs well with the CK Mondavi and Family portfolio of approachable yet complex, everyday wines.

On Friday, August 31st (on what would have been his 110th birthday) Pulitzer Prize and Oscar-winning Armenian-American novelist, screenwriter, painter, poet and songwriter William Saroyan had his Fresno home turned into an interactive museum with a Grand Opening Celebration in Fresno, CA. 

Berkshire native and dancer Gina Bashour, praised by the New York Times as a 'powerhouse,' returns home to the Berkshires this summer as choreographer to premiere a site-specific dance performance entitled Unraveled, presented by TurnPark Art Space in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. With a strong ensemble of performers, the work weaves together themes and imagery from the fable of Rumpelstiltskin with a current look at the relationships of men and women and the community around them. The performance, suitable for all ages, is being presented on August 25 and 26, 2018, at noon and 3:00 p.m. and is included with admission to TurnPark ($15/adult; $12 for students and seniors; free for TurnPark members and children under 12).