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Fifty Squared Art Prize open for entries, plus winner of Calibre Essay Prize and finalists of wearable art, and more!

Antipodes Theatre Company has announced the Lead Artists and projects participating in the fifth Winter Lab, an annual accelerator for bold work and new ideas, taking place 1 - 13 July, 2024 in Melbourne.

Shakira is a working class, mixed race and queer performer-writer from Portsmouth living in South London.

Santa Fe is known for its rich artistic culture; one that is ever-evolving.

The Sundance Film Festival 2022 lineup will premiere new films from Tig Notaro, Amy Poehler, Jesse Eisenberg and many more

Philbrook Museum of Art Acclaimed documentary director, editor, and producer Sam Pollard joins us to talk about his recent films Black Art: In the Absence of Light, MLK/FBI, and his storied career. From serving as Spike Lees longtime editor (Jungle Fever, Clockers, 4 Little Girls) to directing one of the earliest films on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (Goin Back to T-Town, 1993), Pollard has made an indelible impact by telling Black stories through film.  © 2021 Public Radio ...

Sundance Film Festival will let you hang out in space next to the ISS (apparently) The fests New Frontier program -- always packed with virtual reality and other tech-driven storytelling -- is pulling out all the stops next month during Sundances mostly virtual festival. Listen - 08:13 Sundance typically takes place in Park City, Utah.  Getty Images The Sundance Film Festival is going more virtual tha...

Save this story for later. When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah, there won’t be a long line of people standing outside the Eccles Theater, watching their breath catch in the cold winter air—and Main Street surely won’t be packed with revelers and sponsor activations, either. Instead, on account of the coronavirus pandemic, next year’s Sundance will actually expand amid the contraction of live events. Rather than relying solely on in-person ex...