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Category Archives: Current Affairs
Feminist artists, groups awarded grants
The Kentucky Foundation for Women has awarded 10 Artist Enrichment Grants totaling more than $24,000 to “Central Kentucky feminist artists and arts organizations committed to creating positive social change throughout the state,” according to a news release. The release says … Continue reading
Posted in Arts administration, books, Central Kentucky Arts News, Classical Music, Current Affairs, dance, fundraising, media, Music, Public art, Theater, video, Visual arts
Tagged Artist Enrichment Grants, Kentucky Foundation for Women
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Earthquakes, hurricanes and UK Theatre
Students in the University of Kentucky’s Theater Department were treated to a lot of New York experiences while they were there late this month to present their oral history play, Civilian, at the New York International Fringe Festival. They rode … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Theater, UK
Tagged Civilian, New York International Fringe Festival, University of Kentucky Theatre
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Art asking questions at City Hall
Marjorie Guyon doesn’t think of her new art project as an art project. “I’m calling it a democracy project,” Guyon said. “I’m using this because they’re so visually attractive. They grab you.” They are 10 panels with 6-foot, 8-inch figures … Continue reading
Posted in Central Kentucky Arts News, Current Affairs, Visual arts
Tagged Jim Gray, Lexington City Hall, Linda Gorton, Marjorie Guyon, Nation of Nations
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Is the sellout back?
The afternoon of Feb. 6, I was standing in line at the Singletary Center for the Arts box office behind a handsomely dressed couple that looked like they had just come from church to see the final performance of the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts administration, Central Kentucky Arts News, Classical Music, Country music, Current Affairs, Lexington Opera House, Music, Musicals, Norton Center for the Arts, Opera, Rupp Arena, Singletary Center for the Arts, Theater
Tagged 42nd Street, Carl Hall, Cats, Chris Isaak, Emmylou Harris, Gustavo Dudamel, Itzhak Perlman, Jason Aldean, Kathy Griffin, Lexington Opera House, Luanne Franklin, Michael Grice, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Norton Center for the Arts, Porgy and Bess, Rascal Flatts, Rupp Arena, Singletary Center for the Arts, Steve Martin, University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic
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Cultural leaders rally supporters against cuts
The last decade, there was a piece of spam that would pop up in my email box every few months from various friends warning about proposed cuts to cultural funding – i.e., the National Endowment for the Arts, the National … Continue reading
Posted in Arts administration, Central Kentucky Arts News, Current Affairs
Tagged Americans for the Arts, Andres Serrano, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kentucky Humanities Council, KET, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Public Radio, NEA, NEH, PBS, Rand Paul, Robert Mapplethorpe, Shae Hopkins, Tea Party, Virginia G. Carter, WEKU, WUKY
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National Anthem: Everybody Sing!
This is the post in which I will actually advance an idea from my sister – trust me, no one will find this more bizarre than her. Anyway, she chimed in on a Facebook chat about the latest horrendous rendition … Continue reading
Word from Audio A’s orphanage in Haiti
Owensboro native and Audio Adrenaline frontman Mark Stuart was visiting the orphanage in Haiti that is the center of the band’s Hands and Feet Project when Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquakes struck. “The Haitian people are numb, and sadly, very used to … Continue reading
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Tagged Audio Adrenaline, Cyvadier, earthquake, Haiti, Hands and Feet Project, Kentucky Christian College, Mark Stuart, Port Au Prince
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2009: The year in Central Kentucky arts
New Year’s Day 2009, I assumed by New Year’s Eve I would have written about at least one Lexington arts group closing its doors. The economy was buried nose-first in the ground and theaters and other arts organizations were closing … Continue reading
Posted in Actors Guild of Lexington, Arts administration, Balagula Theatre, ballet, Central Kentucky Arts News, Classical Music, Current Affairs, dance, LexArts, Lexington Ballet, Lexington Opera House, Lexington Philharmonic, Lexington Singers, LexPhil conductor search, Music, Opera, Singletary Center for the Arts, Studio Players, Theater, UK, Visual arts, Woodford County Theatre
Tagged A Bluegrass Tapestry, Actors Guild of Lexington, Always Patsy Cline, Balagula Theatre, Bob Edwards, Heather Parrish, James Archambeault, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kentucky Humanities Council, Kim Shaw, LexArts, Lexington Ballet, Lexington Children's Theatre, Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, Lexington Singers, Long Time Travelling, Lorne Dechtenberg, Luis Dominguez, Norton Center for the Arts, Our Lincoln, Paragon Musisc Theatre, Richard St. Peter, Robyn Peterman-Zahn, Scott Terrell, Studio Players, The Christmas Presence, The Infamous Ephraim, The Koln Concert, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, The Magical Tales of Beatrix Potter, The Woodford Theatre, Token of Affection, University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
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