The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) will host “Experience Cuba,” a weekend celebration of Cuban music, dance, and culture, on Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and is included with museum admission. Museum members may attend for free. The event will immerse visitors in…

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“Connection: Land, Water, Sky – Art & Music from Indigenous Australians” is now open in The Lume at Newfields.  The multi-sensory digital exhibition opened to the public on May 10 and celebrates the music, art and storytelling of indigenous Australians — the world’s oldest continuous civilization, according to Indianapolis Museum of Art Director Belinda Tate.…

“Connection: Land, Water, Sky – Art & Music from Indigenous Australians” is now open in The Lume at Newfields.  The multi-sensory digital exhibition opened to the public on May 10 and celebrates the music, art and storytelling of indigenous Australians — the world’s oldest continuous civilization, according to Indianapolis Museum of Art Director Belinda Tate.…

Culture Works, the Dayton region’s arts and culture service agency, lost its federal grant for its Grants for Arts Projects program. The grant came from the National Endowment for the Arts. In a statement, Culture Works says it received the email from the NEA notifying them of the grant’s termination on May 2. The agency…

Culture Works, the Dayton region’s arts and culture service agency, lost its federal grant for its Grants for Arts Projects program. The grant came from the National Endowment for the Arts. In a statement, Culture Works says it received the email from the NEA notifying them of the grant’s termination on May 2. The agency…

Weavers participate in a 2024 neighborhood festival at Springboard for the Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Thai Phan-Quang) Exit polls from the 2024 US election showed that three-quarters of voters nationwide felt negatively about the way things were going in the country, and many Americans continue to feel a profound sense of unease…

A Fort Worth area nonprofit is the latest Tarrant County arts organization to lose grant funding as the National Endowment for the Arts continues to withdraw awards from cultural institutions across the country. Maroon 9 Community Enrichment Organization learned May 2 that the NEA terminated a $10,000 grant supporting the organization’s summer program, facility reservations…

A Fort Worth area nonprofit is the latest Tarrant County arts organization to lose grant funding as the National Endowment for the Arts continues to withdraw awards from cultural institutions across the country. Maroon 9 Community Enrichment Organization learned May 2 that the NEA terminated a $10,000 grant supporting the organization’s summer program, facility reservations…

A community arts centre and an organisation tackling inequalities in education have been selected for a national culture programme run by the British Museum. Metal Peterborough, an arts centre, and The Kite Trust, which supports the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ young people in Cambridgeshire, will take part in the initiative called “Where we are..”. The programme…