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15 May 12 - Arts News

Calls for overhaul of the nation's main arts organisation
No organisation has more clout in the world of the arts in Australia. The blueprint calls for a more conventional board structure, at the expense of existing boards which specialise in different art forms like music, literature, dance or visual arts.

Arts performers show excellence on stage
Her dedication to dance has seen her master difficult techniques and also excel in the VCE last year at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. Hamilton, who is studying classical ballet at the Jane Moore Academy of Ballet, ...

Multi-skilled grant recipients embrace digital age
ROBOTIC arts, a 360-degree cinema that responds to viewers, art for the blind and deaf, and a ''quadracopter'' that films from the air are among the projects that have received $860000 from the Australia Council for the Arts. The 11 recipients of the ...

The Queen of arts: Enter our Jubilee prize portrait contest for kids
To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, we're running a children's portrait of the Queen competition. There are prizes for seven and under, eight to 12, and teenagers up to 18, and they can enter any form of picture of Her Majesty.

Arts Report: Brainiacs Eye Karate Kids and Mini Violins
In the comments, reader Bob Dorn added a recommendation for the book "This Is Your Brain on Music," and suggested reading it will "make even a neocon want to take up the clarinet, if not fund the arts in public schools." You're reading the Arts Report, ...

Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Teams with Bentley University to ...
BOSTON, May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, a non-profit organization committed to strengthening the region's arts economy, today announced it has partnered with Bentley Microfinance Group of Bentley ...

Parents Fight Arts Cuts in D. 65
As part of a plan to reduce the budget following a failed referendum in March, District 65 has proposed to cut some full-time arts teachers from the district and share more arts teachers among schools. Parents say those cuts would hit low income ...

Arts boycotts, hunger strikes and the defence of Israel
Israel's ambassador, Daniel Taub, is right to say the Unison boycott is discriminatory (From boycott to bigotry, 9 May). That is the unavoidable crudity of all boycotts, which are usually last-resort expedients when governments do nothing.

Arts forge new disability link
Picture: Mark Brake Source: The Advertiser SOUTH Australian stage designer Gaelle Mellis will use a Federal Government fellowship to explore radical new territory in disability and the arts. Ms Mellis was yesterday awarded one of five inaugural $100000 ...

Art Center Opens In Growing Downtown Tulsa District
Today children from Zarrow School were busy learning about art by making it themselves. Summer camps are planned, along with regular classes for all ages.

A New Marketing Campaign -- With Art Philadelphia(TM) -- Launches To Promote ...
The two-year, $2 million (to date) campaign aims to leverage the energy of the Barnes Foundation opening in order to generate sustained attention on one of the world's great art destinations, draw new and engaged audiences and spur overnight stays from ...

Arts, Music to Usher In New Era at Beach Gala
New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation An extensive celebration of the arts will be part of the Hampton Beach State Park Gala, scheduled for June 1 and 2 at Hampton Beach.

Arts show to gauge interest in Opelika Cotton District
The arts show is from 7 to 9 pm, while the music starts at 9 pm Where: Two locations in the 700 block of North Railroad Avenue in Opelika.

Supervisors want veterans, arts groups to negotiate on War Memorial
By Steve Schultze of the Journal Sentinel Milwaukee County supervisors Tuesday tossed to veterans and arts groups the hot-button issue of whether control of the War Memorial Center should shift to deep-pocket tenant the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Significant figures for the arts community
Just as the nation has sweated over the meaning of the surplus we had to have, in recent weeks there's been similar preoccupation with the bottom line of performing arts companies. It's reporting season in the arts, and hardly a day goes by without ...

Gasworks Arts Park leads the way with ETC Source Four Fresnel lighting fixtures
by Jands ETC Source Four Fresnel lighting fixtures were installed at the Gasworks Arts Park, a vibrant arts precinct producing a range of high-quality arts programs, workshops and activities for every age, ability, interest and audience.

Herb Alpert Foundation Awards Huge Grants to 5 Artists!
This week I watched in astonishment as the Herb Alpert Foundation gave its 18th annual awards to five brilliant artists in different fields.

Santa Fe festival will honor Navajo artist
The work will be hanging in the entry of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture as part of the annual Native Treasures Indian Arts Festival, which opens in Santa Fe on May 25 with Abeyta being recognized as this year's "living treasure.

Cavalia's horses take the spotlight in new show Odysseo
Quebec theatre producer Normand Latourelle is back with Odysseo, the newest production of his equestrian and performing arts troupe Cavalia. The latest large-scale circus extravaganza from the Cirque du Soleil veteran features 60 horses and 20 acrobats ...

Our museums are thriving, but for how much longer?
A network of worthy institutions and people sustains our exciting arts scene - but every one of them is being squeezed by austerity.