Rosanna Law Shuk-pui, the city’s new secretary for culture, sports and tourism, is enjoying quite the warm welcome. Even wearing a red jacket to a Legislative Council meeting to introduce the Blueprint for Arts and Culture and Creative Industries Development three days into her new job was enough to get her compliments. Advertisement This perhaps…

NEWS RELEASECITY OF BARRIE*************************The City of Barrie is now accepting applications for the Arts & Culture Investment Program. This program strengthens Barrie’s arts and culture community through strategic investments in the work of not-for-profit arts and culture organizations. “The City of Barrie welcomes and encourages diversity of cultural and artistic expression and practice,” commented Stephannie…

“This Event Coming to Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky in 2025 Sounds Like a Tall Stacks Revival, and We’re Freaking Excited,” by Katherine Barrier Earlier this year, it was revealed that Cincinnatians will soon have a major new festival to attend, America’s Rivers Roots. The festival, which will take place along the Ohio River from Oct.…

In a year marked by personal losses as well as national strife, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about time. Strange how hours can feel eternal, days brief and weeks like they are bleeding into each other so that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.  I had all that in…

Arts Services Inc. has distributed fifteen “Give for Greatness” Grants providing capacity-building support to arts and culture nonprofits across Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, and Niagara counties. The funding will assist diverse missions and artistic disciplines in helping preserve and enrich the region’s cultural landscape. These $2,000 grants are designed to support WNY’s smallest nonprofits in investing in…

The Brevard County Commission has unanimously approved a $202,000 contract for 2024-25 to help promote arts in the county. The approved contract has the same dollar amount as BCA’s contract with the county for the 2023-24 budget year, which ended Sept. 30. Funding will come from money generated by Brevard County’s 5% tourist development tax…

Sarah Hotchkiss: [00:02:46] My name is Sarah Hotchkiss. I’m a senior associate editor for the Arts and Culture Desk. And my beautiful thing was about taking piano lessons as an adult. Sarah Hotchkiss: [00:02:57] Earlier this year, I. I found myself really thinking a lot about sheet music, which is a strange thing to say,…

Nearly 30 years ago, Shonna McDaniels opened the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum with the hope of bringing art and culture to people in south Sacramento. “We are a community-based museum,” said McDaniels.Over the years, it’s become a creative space for local artists and a vital resource for seniors and youth. “We feed the seniors,…

Narwhals have fascinated and confounded humans for centuries. Now an exhibition at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum is diving into the mystery, history and science of these elusive tusked “unicorns of the sea.” As visitors enter the museum’s Art and Nature Center they’re confronted with a question: “Are narwhals real?” Narwhals feature prominently in modern Inuit…