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Encouraging leaders of the city’s 76 Business Investment Districts to expand support for local arts and arts education Holding “the biggest festival the country has ever seen” once it is safe to do so, including “arts organizations from every borough”   Dianne Morales, 2021. Courtesy of Dianne Morales for NYC. “Dianne understands that NYC has lost nearly 35,000 jobs in the arts and culture industry since the pandemic began, which has devastated our economy and ravaged an industry...

Panel 1 Description: Since the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19, thousands of acts of anti-Asian hate incidents have been reported throughout the United States alone. Acts of physical violence and racism on Asians and people of Asian descent have spread globally as the virus itself spreads. These incidents connect to a long history of anti-Asian racism that has been supported by laws, institutions and representations, along with a long history of resistance by Asian Americans in solidarity with other ...

Marking the launch of the MEI Art Gallery exhibit, In This Moonless Black Night: Syrian Art After the Uprising, MEI is pleased to host a conversation exploring how Syrian artists in exile have addressed the hope, trauma and displacement of the past decade through their art.

Grazina Wade - photography Sumati Colpitts - ceramics "We are excited to once again highlight five of our magnificent Sedona women artists. Sedona is graced with a vast array of women with extraordinary creative vision. It is a pleasure to honor each one and their work," said city of Sedona Arts and Culture Coordinator Nancy Lattanzi. In 1993, Kliewer won a competition to create a monument of Sedona Schnebly for the city of Sedona. The ten-foot high sculpture of the citys namesake was installed...

Solomon Amorao , Ph.D., is an assistant teaching professor and director of the Dimensions of Culture Program at UC San Diego’s Thurgood Marshall College. She lives in Chula Vista. In 2000, I enrolled in a first-year seminar at the University of San Francisco entitled Chinatown Literature. It was my first semester, and I needed a class to fulfill the “cultural diversity requirement.” I had occasionally been mistaken for Chinese but was actually the daughter of Filipino immigrants and had g...

Submitted by paula on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 5:44pm SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - City Council approved the strategic plan that lays out the direction the City of South Lake Tahoe will go over the next five years during their meeting Tuesday. The new plan includes 101 action items and Council and staff plan to tackle 21 of them in the next year and have already started on "six or seven" of them. “It’s an exciting time for South Lake Tahoe. We are looking toward the future of the City,” s...

Havana Students in Havana will have the opportunity to study Spanish language, Cuban culture, and humanitarian studies at the prestigious University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana). Come re-explore one of our closest neighbors, and experience the vibrancy of Cuba through study abroad in... more Barcelona This program is designed for students who want study abroad in Barcelona to learn more about Catalan art, culture, and i...

February 23, 2021 / 3:44pm / Debra Domal Krannert Art Museum has announced a call for community art submissions for a pandemic-themed exhibition. Submissions for Pandemic as a Portal to Change: A Community Exhibition are due by April 19th, 2021. Pandemic as a Portal to Change: A Community Exhibition is collaboration between Krannert Art Museum, the Museum of the Grand Prairie, The Urbana Free Library, Urbana Arts and Culture Program, the College of Fine and Applied ...

Not Your Usual Yiddish Language & Culture Program Cost: $10 - $250 Not Your Usual Intensive Spring Yiddish Language and Culture Program via distance learning, with Yiddish classes, activities, and cultural programs. All-Inclusive Package (one class package + the cultural package), four level-specific class packages (Beginners 1, Beginners 2, Intermediate, and Advanced), a Cultural Package, and a Learn Yiddish Through Song Package. You can also register to the cultural events, such as the song w...

Print This is a continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. Lectures & learning •The Carmel Valley Democratic Club recently will hold its February virtual monthly meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m. via Zoom. The United States is experiencing an upsurge in attacks on and discrimination against Asian Americans. The club will host a discussion about the nature of this surge, and what can be done to create a better community...