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Support SPR’s Arts and Culture Coverage
What’s your WHY for loving SPR? This week, it’s important for SPR to celebrate the programming that makes us unique. From our valuable news reporting, to our beloved arts & culture programming, your support today is essential to keeping your public radio locally produced and on the air for all to enjoy. Is your WHY…
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October Culture Power Breakfast: Glen Echo Park Saved by Artists, Dancers
When Glen Echo Amusement Park closed in 1968, its attractions — the 1921 Dentzel Carousel, the 1923 Scooter (later Dogem and now the Bumper Car Pavilion), the 1933 Spanish Ballroom and others — went to seed. The consensus: Tear them down. It didn’t happen. Because by the time the National Park Service took ownership of…
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City of Nanaimo invites nominations for the 2024 Culture Awards
The City of Nanaimo announces 2024 Culture Awards nominations are open with a deadline of January 28, 2024 NEWS RELEASE – Distributed October 23, 2023 4:00 PM Summary The City of Nanaimo is seeking nominations from the community for the 2024 Culture Awards. The awards recognize outstanding organizations, groups and individuals in arts and culture.…
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Kitsap YWCA marking 75th anniversary at annual Women of Achievement event
The YWCA of Kitsap County will mark 75 years of service to the community while also honoring its annual class of Women of Achievement this week. From its founding in 1948 in a small store front on downtown Bremerton’s Second Street, the YWCA has grown to an organization that serves more than 10,000 residents annually,…
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The Arizona arts and culture sector generates over $1 billion in economic activity
Annika Cline/KJZZ Arizona Broadway Theatre in Peoria. Newly released data by Americans for the Arts shows Arizona’s nonprofit arts and culture sector generated over $1 billion in economic activity in 2022. The data is part of the Arts and Economic Prosperity 6 study. Chris Elliott co-managed the data gathering effort for the national agency on behalf…
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U.S. Navy Band to perform at Historic Thomas Center
Published on October 23, 2023 The City of Gainesville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department will host the United States Navy Band Commodores – its premiere jazz ensemble – during a stop on its 2023 national tour. When: Friday, Oct. 27 at 6:30 p.m. Where: The city’s Historic Thomas Center, 302 NE Sixth Ave. The…
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Helmholz gallery: An evening of community art and music
A sold-out crowd attended the VSO Jukebox Color Theory performance at the Helmholz Fine Art Gallery in Manchester on Sunday night. The event featured live painting by artist Julio Desmont, born in Haiti but now a resident of Vermont, to the accompaniment of the Jukebox Quartet.
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£20 million support for The Harlow Arts and Cultural Quarter (Levelling Up Fund 2)
£20 million from the Levelling Up Fund has been awarded to Harlow Council to create a new cultural quarter in the heart of Harlow Town Centre. Harlow Playhouse Pavilion Funding will help create a diverse art and vibrant quarter, establishing the area as a destination for art and cultural events; with Harlow Playhouse and…
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Myrtle Beach Jazz Festival celebrates culture, community
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – The annual Myrtle Bach Jazz Festival was back in the Grand Strand, celebrating culture and community for another year. It’s something Debra Thomas, visiting Myrtle Beach, experienced for the first time. “We’re celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary, so we decided to come to Myrtle Beach,” said Thomas. “Got here last…
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Jump Into Jewelry Making With the ‘Radical Jewelry Makeover’
By Erin Williams— MUNCIE, IN—The Muncie Arts and Culture Council (MuncieArts.org) and PlySpace, an artist in residence program funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, offer a calendar of thought-provoking events this fall as part of the Radical Jewelry Makeover. Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM) has been traveling nationally and…
