October 1, 2012
The Opera Company of Philadelphia is just days away from the free, big-screen broadcast of Puccini’s romantic blockbuster La bohème, an innovative modern production inspired by masterpieces from The Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This Saturday, October 6 at 7 p.m., Independence Mall will play host to a huge pop-up movie [...]
Read more»July 24, 2012
In an effort to strengthen the relationship between local artists and their community, Mayor Nutter and the Knight Foundation recently announced two new grassroots Community Supported Art (CSA) initiatives. As a fun twist on the quickly expanding Community Supported Agriculture model, the Philadelphia CSA initiative is based on a successful model developed by Minnesota’s Springboard [...]
Read more»April 26, 2012
The second annual Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide fund for engaging Philadelphia through the arts, has awarded 35 creative thinkers with the resources to execute inventive arts-related ideas. Thanks to their Knight grants, AMLA will present “pop-up” performances via a portable stage; Art Sanctuary will present Hip H’Opera, a fusion of opera with urban life stories; and Dilworth Plaza will get a dramatic new public art installation. GPTMC was also awarded a Knight Arts Challenge grant — stay tuned for more on that soon. A full list of recipients is available online. [Knight Arts Challenge]
February 7, 2011
The New York Times profiled the Knight Foundation’s popular Random Acts of Culture, making specific mention of the pop-up performance by the Opera Company of Philadelphia at Reading Terminal that we mentioned last month. Also given a tip of the hat is the Opera Company’s Macy’s Hallelujah chorus pop-up, the biggest Internet sensation by far [...]
Read more»January 10, 2011
This past Saturday, January 8th, the Opera Company of Philadelphia partnered with Reading Terminal and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to produce one of the Knight Foundation’s “Random Acts of Culture” in Philadelphia. (You might remember the Random Act at Macy’s this past October.) More than 30 singers from the Opera [...]
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