Category: Arts and Culture

  • New Wheaton Nonprofit Launched to Elevate Arts and Culture

    New Wheaton Nonprofit Launched to Elevate Arts and Culture

    A new nonprofit is expected to ramp up arts, culture, and business in Wheaton. “Creative Wheaton” aims to elevate Wheaton’s identity as an artistic and economic hub. County Councilmember Natali Fani-González joined Creative Wheaton board members and community members to launch the new nonprofit on Friday at 3 Brother’s Lounge on Price Avenue.

  • Trump hosts the Kennedy Center board as he seeks to remake arts and culture in America

    Trump hosts the Kennedy Center board as he seeks to remake arts and culture in America

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hosting the Kennedy Center ‘s leadership at the White House on Monday night, reinforcing how much attention he’s devoting to remaking a premier cultural center as part of a larger effort to overhaul the social and ideological dynamics of the national arts scene. The meeting of the center’s…

  • Cultural organisations team up to promote trans inclusion amid ‘increasing hostility’

    Cultural organisations team up to promote trans inclusion amid ‘increasing hostility’

    Cultural organisations from across the UK have signed up to a new partnership to help the sector counter “increasing hostility, discrimination and violence” facing trans communities. So far eight institutions have joined the partnership, which is being led by the University of Leicester’s Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) and supported by national art…

  • Arts district to embrace culture and community

    Arts district to embrace culture and community

    A new arts district brings colour and culture to George Town. – Photo: Supplied Nestled at 84 Archive Lane in George Town lies a blossoming arts district dedicated to bringing Caymanian culture and heritage alive through creative displays. The inspiration behind the arts district came from local creative directors Jamie McLaughlin, Josh ‘Josh Pearl’ Hydes…

  • ArtDependence | Ulaanbaatar Biennale participating Artists announced

    ArtDependence | Ulaanbaatar Biennale participating Artists announced

    Ulaanbaatar Biennale is a new biennale initiated by the City Mayor in cooperation with the Arts and Culture Department of the City Implementing Agency and the Arts Council of Mongolia. Led by Chief Curator Tian Zhang, On the horizon, under the moon explores the poetics and politics of land and homelands. The Biennale invites local…

  • Leading the Crowd: creativity and culture attracts private investment

    Leading the Crowd: creativity and culture attracts private investment

    Leading the Crowd: creativity and culture attracts private investment We’ve published a new report called ‘Leading the Crowd’ – showing the important role that public investment in England’s arts and cultural sector plays in attracting further income from private investors and earned sources.  The report demonstrates the importance of the ‘Crowding In’ effect. It is this mixed…

  • ‘We need the energy’: Gen Zs to get a seat on NSW cultural boards

    ‘We need the energy’: Gen Zs to get a seat on NSW cultural boards

    May 19, 2025 – 7.23am Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe now Already a subscriber? The NSW government will create an extra seat for a director aged between 18 and 28 on each of its cultural institution boards, in an Australian first aimed…

  • “Wonderful Town” Revival Fell Flat

    “Wonderful Town” Revival Fell Flat

    “Such interesting people live on Christopher Street,” sings a chorus of tourists who swoon at the writers, actors, and other artists inhabiting Greenwich Village, the “quaint” and “sweet” “place for self-expression” hailed in Leonard Bernstein’s 1953 musical Wonderful Town. Director Zhailon Levingston’s recent revival for City Center’s Encores! series, which presents classic Broadway musicals as…

  • Durham Invites Residents to Shape Arts and Culture at Hayti Heritage Center Town Hall

    Durham Invites Residents to Shape Arts and Culture at Hayti Heritage Center Town Hall

    Durham residents interested in arts and culture are invited to participate in an Arts Town Hall on May 24, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Hayti Heritage Center. Rebecca Holmes, manager of the City’s Cultural & Public Art Program, said, “We’re inviting residents to share their stories and dreams to shape a cultural plan…

  • Stec applauds new state funding for local art initiatives

    Stec applauds new state funding for local art initiatives

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