Black Iris Project News Today

The annual festival serves as an opportunity for arts and advocacy to intersect in discussions of justice and equity.

Get ready for an unforgettable experience at BAC's ARTS IN ACTION FESTIVAL, featuring acclaimed artists like Tonya Pinkins and Kara Young. Join in for a celebration of talent and creativity as these performers bring their artistry to the stage. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of an amazing arts festival.

Broadway Advocacy Coalition's annual festival serves as an opportunity for arts and advocacy to intersect in discussions of justice and equity.

After an extensive international search guided by Arts Consulting Group, the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance (DPAA) introduced the next Ballet Artistic Director, Brandon Ragland.

San Diego’s largest healthcare provider, Sharp, began notifying more than 60,000 patients this week that cyber criminals may have their personal information. Then, how community outcry sank a plan for a cement factory on a Port of San Diego terminal. Plus, long-time Ocean beach resident Jay Kahn, who died in 2022, left the San Diego Foundation a surprise $100 million gift in his estate. How the money is being used to help some small San Diego music nonprofits. Next, choreographerJeremy McQueen...

San Diego native Jeremy McQueen's award-winning ballet company produces original works that center Black voices — but struggled to bring his ballets home. This week, the works will be performed here for the first time.

The Black Iris Project, a ballet focusing on telling Black stories with Black performers, comes to San Diego this week. Its Artistic Director/Choreographer hopes it inspires the next generation.

From the organizers:Broadway veteran & San Diego native Jeremy McQueen brings his Emmy® award-winning New York City–based ballet collaborative to San Diego for the west coast premiere of two original ballets: WILD and A Mother's Rite.The Black Iris Project's mission is to harness the Black community's inherent creative spirit to encourage and inspire youth of color to pursue art, movement and music as an expressive outlet and a means for collective healing. “Since its inc...

During that time, the museum has welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors to live performances by a diverse group of artists.

This week, San Diego's Human Rights Watch film festival, Jeremy McQueen brings his Black Iris Project home, Filipino stories of healing, Motown in Escondido and more