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Celebrating Diversity at Multi-Cultural Arts Festival
ALBUQUERQUE – Today, the City of Albuquerque welcomed families from across the metro area to the third annual Multicultural Arts Festival at the Singing Arrow Community Center. This vibrant event showcased the incredible talent of our local arts community, featuring approximately 40 artists displaying and selling their work. Attendees enjoyed a diverse array of multicultural…
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100 Years of Special Collections Library Celebrated with New Exhibition at Albuquerque Museum
A new exhibition at Albuquerque Museum explores the history of the Special Collections Library, the city’s first public library, which now houses a vast collection of materials documenting the history and culture of Albuquerque. Through books, ephemera, art, and photographs, Open to All: A Century of Access at the Special Collections Library, looks at the history…
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Celebrating Diversity at Multi-Cultural Arts Festival
ALBUQUERQUE – Today, the City of Albuquerque welcomed families from across the metro area to the third annual Multicultural Arts Festival at the Singing Arrow Community Center. This vibrant event showcased the incredible talent of our local arts community, featuring approximately 40 artists displaying and selling their work. Attendees enjoyed a diverse array of multicultural…
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Jamboree welcomes springtime in Boulder City
The Spring Jamboree, an annual festival in Boulder City, drew a large crowd on Saturday at Bicentennial Park. The festival has been held in Boulder City since 1977, and is considered the city’s first major public festival of the year, according to the city’s website. It is also the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce’s primary…
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From murals to indigenous art, Darwin, Australia’s culture draws
Exploring murals in the Australian city of Darwin is an enlightening experience, especially when you have artist David Collins as a guide. Advertisement Collins is director of the Darwin Street Art Festival (DSAF), an annual event whose legacy can be seen in 130 large-scale works dotted around the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory. Just do…
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Artists with disabilities let their creativity soar at this Utah studio
Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. John Yang: Artists with different physical and developmental abilities sometimes have to be creative, not just with the content of their art, but also how they make it. One studio in Utah is trying to do just that.…
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Music Release Roundup: April
Camila Surinach/Niner Times Let’s face it: pollen sucks, but so does a dull playlist. April has showered listeners with new music, and many artists have released surprise and highly anticipated singles, EPs and albums. From debuts to long-awaited comebacks, flowers are not the only thing blooming this season. Why Not More? by Coco Jones Coco…
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New arts commission meets the neighbors
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL The Arts and Culture Commission met for the first time early in the year to discuss its role in city government. The city’s newest citizen oversight group has decided the best way to do their job is to stay in touch with the people they speak for, so they’re having an…
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Carol McKinnie named Innisfail Arts & Culture Award winner
Carol McKinnie has been named this year’s Arts & Culture Award winner for The Town of Innisfail. Carol is a dedicated and influential member of the Innisfail community, whose contributions to education, the arts, and community service have made a lasting impact. As a teacher at John Wilson Elementary, she shaped the lives of countless…
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The Ethiopian bookbinder connecting a city’s people with its forgotten past
Harar, Ethiopia – When Abdallah Ali Sherif was growing up in eastern Ethiopia, his parents never spoke about the history of his city. “When I asked my parents about our history, they told me we didn’t have one,” the kind-faced 75-year-old recalls as he reclines on a thin mattress on the floor of his home…