Category: Performing Arts

  • Grants awarded to local performing arts groups

    Grants awarded to local performing arts groups

    The Skagit Community Foundation has awarded $96,192 in McIntyre Hall Local Performing Arts Grants in the program’s second annual grant cycle. According to a news release from the foundation, the grant total was tenfold in the second year of the program. During the 2022 grant cycle, the foundation awarded $9,000.  × This page requires Javascript.…

  • Performing Arts WA Awards: the winners

    Performing Arts WA Awards: the winners

    The independent dance production Petrushka, Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA and WA Opera were the most awarded companies in this year’s Performing Arts WA Awards Ceremony, held on Monday 30 October in the Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth. The annual ceremony celebrates achievement in Western Australian professional live performance in 2022 across the mainstage…

  • John Mellencamp announces 2024 “Live and In Person Tour”

    John Mellencamp announces 2024 “Live and In Person Tour”

    John Mellencamp has announced new dates for his 2024 “Live and In Person Tour.” Mellencamp will bring his North American trek to 27 cities, including Rochester, Newark, Madison, Duluth, Little Rock, and more, wrapping up in Savannah, Georgia on April 23rd. A Live Nation ticket pre-sale begins Tuesday, October 31st at 10:00 a.m. local time (use…

  • San Diego’s Crawford High School Performing Arts Center Earns National Praise for Design and Impact

    San Diego’s Crawford High School Performing Arts Center Earns National Praise for Design and Impact

    Crawford High School’s new Performing Arts Center in San Diego has received national accolades due to its design, functionality, and social impact. San Diego Unified reports that American School & University’s “Educational Interiors Showcase” has included the center, an endorsement of the substantial investment in facilities enhancements shaping education across the nation. Architects, educators, and…

  • Mason Artist-in-Residence Silkroad Ensemble Leads Events Across Campus and Community

    Mason Artist-in-Residence Silkroad Ensemble Leads Events Across Campus and Community

    Body Returning for their second of three years as a Mason Artist-in-Residence, Silkroad Ensemble and Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens present the world premiere of American Railroad, an initiative that maps American music through the various communities involved in building the late-1800s Transcontinental Railroad and its connecting railways. In its description of the project, Silkroad explains that though corporations and…

  • LTE: Longmont deserves a performing arts center

    LTE: Longmont deserves a performing arts center

    The Longmont Leader accepts contributions, photos, letters to the editor, or LTEs, and op-eds for publication from community members, business leaders and public officials on local topics. Publication will be at the discretion of the editor and published opinions do not represent the views of the Longmont Leader or its staff. To submit a contribution,…

  • MIOpera pulls remainder of 2023-24 season, leaves the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts

    MIOpera pulls remainder of 2023-24 season, leaves the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts

    Four months after moving productions to the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, MIOpera has pulled the remainder of its season from the downtown Bloomington venue. Performances of “Don Giovanni,” “A Christmas Carol” and the previously rescheduled “Romeo and Juliet” have been canceled and tickets refunded, the BCPA confirmed. In a statement on its website,…

  • Fine Arts Showcases – Richardson ISD – RISD We Are One

    The entire RISD community is invited to join the Fine Arts Department for an evening celebrating the visual and performing arts in the Lake Highlands learning community on Wednesday, Nov. 8, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. A fine arts showcase of the schools in the Richardson High School learning community is set for Nov.…

  • The Forbes Center for the Performing Arts to Host Holiday Food Drive Benefiting the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank

    The Forbes Center for the Performing Arts to Host Holiday Food Drive Benefiting the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank

    Held November 6 – December 15 Benefiting the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank College of Visual and Performing Arts <!– **** START TAGS USED **** TAGPATH:/_tags/source/college-of-visual-and-performing-arts/college-of-visual-and-performing-arts TAGPATH:/_tags/Featured Items/News TAGPATH:/_tags/_topics/jmu-in-the-community TAGPATH:/_tags/Audience/JMU Community/Faculty and Staff TAGPATH:/_tags/Brand Attributes/Connected Community TAGPATH:/arts/_cascade/_tags/cvpa-home-items ***** END TAGS USED ***** –> by Morgan Mowbray Image courtesy of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.…

  • Artists Colony ‘celebrates art and the performing arts’

    Artists Colony ‘celebrates art and the performing arts’

    ENGLEWOOD — The Artist Colony celebrates art and the performing arts. Last season, artists began setting up their individual galleries, displaying, selling and creating art at their Permanent Outdoor Gallery held on the first and third Wednesday of each month in Pioneer Plaza on Englewood’s West Dearborn Street. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is…