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PCMI Releases 2011 Guidelines

Posted by Mia Breitkopf | September 8, 2010

Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative (PCMI) has just released its application guidelines for 2011 grant applications.

PCMI will host application information sessions on September 14 and 15 to explain changes to the guidelines since last year and introduce the online application system for all panel-adjudicated grants.

PCMI Guidelines Information Sessions
Tuesday, September 14, 3:30–5 p.m.
Wednesday, September 15, 9:30–11 a.m.
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
1608 Walnut Street, 18th floor
Philadelphia
To RSVP, contact Senior Program Associate Shaneka Dawsonia at 267.350.4910, or by e-mail at sdawsonia@pcah.us.

Learn more, see if your organization is eligible to apply to PCMI, and download the 2011 grant guidelines >
Check out the 10 panel-adjudicated grants PCMI awarded in 2010 >

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Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Pick: TAKES

Posted by Mia Breitkopf | September 7, 2010

 

Watch a trailer for TAKES.

Performances are already starting to sell out for TAKES, Nichole Canuso’s Dance Advance-funded exploration of dance and cinema viewable from 360 degrees. The audience is invited to move around and shift perspective during the show which features Canuso and Dito van Reigersberg, a 2002 Pew Fellow in the Arts. During the day, visitors to the TAKES installation can create their own performance.

TAKES
Nichole Canuso Dance Company
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
Theater West at the Hub
626 North 5th Street
Philadelphia
Click here for tickets.

Read about Dance Advance’s 2010 grant to Nichole Canuso Dance Company >
Learn about the TAKES daytime installation >
Get more information on gallery hours for the TAKES installation and how to sign up to make your own duet >

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Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Pick: CHICKEN

Posted by Mia Breitkopf | September 3, 2010

Photo by Jay Dunn

A nuclear-powered submarine carries three government workers in charge of a classified mission. Perhaps it’s the recycled air that has pushed them to pursue each other's destruction. Devising absurd plots of revenge has become their greatest amusement. CHICKEN is an expressionistic clown play that magnifies our most intimate fears.

CHICKEN was conceived and written by Philadelphia Theatre Initiative grantee, Charlotte Ford, and directed by Pew Fellow in the Arts, Geoff Sobelle.

CHICKEN
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
Live Arts Studio
919 North 5th Street
Philadelphia
September 3–6, 2010
Click here for showtimes and tickets.

Learn about Philadelphia Theatre Initiative’s 2009 grant to Charlotte Ford to develop and produce CHICKEN > 
See more about Geoff Sobelle, director of CHICKEN and 2006 Pew Fellow >
Read Philadelphia City Paper’s cover story on CHICKEN >

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Labels:  charlotte ford  chicken  geoff sobelle  live arts festival  philadelphia theatre initiative 

Cosmic Pageantry: a conversation with the Sun Ra Arkestra

Posted by PMP | September 2, 2010

"We play African music, outer space music, joyous music..."

The Sun Ra Arkestra was founded in mid-1950s Chicago by the jazz composer, musician, bandleader, philosopher, Afro-Futurist, mystic (and also graphic designer, poet, activist, and self-proclaimed Saturnian) Sun Ra (1914–1993). In 1968, Sun Ra brought the Arkestra to Philadelphia, its home for the next four decades. The group still performs here today under the leadership of composer and multi-instrumentalist Marshall Allen, an Arkestra member since 1958.

In August 2010, Matthew Feldman and John Pettit spoke to Allen and Arkestra musicians Danny Thompson, Michael Ray, Dave Davis, and Wayne Smith, Jr. about the group’s past, present, and future. Click the play audio link below to listen.

On September 12, the Arkestra will perform as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival’s Bang on a Can marathon. For more details: http://livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=12728


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