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Denver Arts Week features 620 arts and cultural events
VISIT Denver holds Denver Arts Week every year to amplify the city’s arts and culture scene. There is a lot to celebrate. Arts and cultural organizations generate nearly $3 billion in economic activity. More than 13,000 people work in the arts in Denver. During the kickoff news conference, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston talked about the…
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Coffins, colors and culture: Sugar Skull Art Walk returns to Placerville
A celebration of the spirits is coming back to Main Street Placerville Saturday, Nov. 2, with Arts and Culture El Dorado’s popular Sugar Skull Art Walk event returning for a second year, just in time for Día de los Muertos. For the past month ACED’s Switchboard Gallery has been home to community-made ofrendas — altars…
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Resource Depot Receives 2024 Hats Off Arts & Culture Impact Award from Nonprofits First®
Resource Depot Recognized as Leader in Environmental Stewardship and Community Education in Southeast Florida West Palm Beach, FL – Resource Depot, a creative reuse center in West Palm Beach, was granted the 2024 Hats Off Arts & Cultural Impact Award by Nonprofits First®, an organization that accredits and provides resources to nonprofits in Palm Beach…
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Hartford, concert promoter to enter five-year deal to promote arts and culture in the city
The Revivalists perform at the Capitol Groove festival at Hartford’s Bushnell Park on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Andrew DaRosa/Hearst Connecticut Media The inaugural Capitol Groove festival held its first day of music at Hartford’s Bushnell Park on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Andrew DaRosa/Hearst Connecticut Media HARTFORD — The city has entered into a tentative agreement…
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Seattle’s ARTS Enlivens Cultural Scene with $13M in Project Funding and Intentional Selection Panels
The Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, colloquially known as ARTS, isn’t just another faceless municipal funder. Instead, it’s got its fingers in the pot of cultural creativity, backing an eclectic mix of projects to the tune of about $13 million a year across Seattle, as reported by Art Beat Seattle. Go to a show…
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The arts are getting a boost as Manitoba pledges $13.7 million to support culture
The Manitoba government has increased its funding for the Manitoba Arts Council to $13.7 million this year, an eight per cent boost announced Friday at the Centennial Concert Hall. The investment aims to strengthen the province’s arts sector, supporting artists, Indigenous knowledge keepers, and organizations that shape Manitoba’s cultural landscape. “Art, dance, and music bring…
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Denver Arts Week kicks off Friday to celebrate arts and culture
Denver Arts Week kicks off Friday to celebrate arts and culture – CBS Colorado Watch CBS News Denver Arts Week kicks off Friday to celebrate 10 days of arts and culture with activities and events for every taste. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events,…
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Explore and Experience the Creativity and Culture of Denver Arts Week 2024
Today, the Mile High City transforms into a canvas for art, innovation and culture, celebrating the colorful backgrounds of our city with Denver Arts Week. Set against the backdrop of crunchy warm-toned leaves and the cool autumn air, Colorado’s favorite annual festival brings thousands together for one week of museum hopping, theater-going and supporting our…
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Student Wins Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission Art Contest
Published on November 01, 2024 Artwork featured throughout 2025 MLK March and Commemorations. SAN ANTONIO (November 1, 2024) – After receiving more than 40 submissions citywide, the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission (MLK Commission) has announced that 12-year-old Ashlynn Sokolowski, a Robert G.…
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ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Local cultural center features Gullah-Geechee exhibition
By an act of Congress in 2006, the Gullah-Geechee National Heritage Corridor was created. Running from Pender County, North Carolina, to St. John’s County in Florida, this 12,000-square-mile strip along the Atlantic coast was once the destination of countless West and Central African people enslaved and transported to these shores for the cultivation of rice,…