“You’re here because, like us, you believe the arts are the highest form of human expression. They describe beauty, speak to our soul, engage and enrage. They celebrate our community’s diversity and etch our shared experience. The arts inspire. It’s your turn to inspire South Florida’s growing local arts scene.”
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is seeking ideas and innovation in the arts from nonprofits, companies and individuals.
According to Lisa Palley, the Knight Foundation and the upcoming Knight Arts Challenge, will be for one month, Feb. 21- March 19, KnightArts.org accepting idea submissions to an amazing opportunity:
The Foundation is encourage everyone to think of the best idea they can to bring people together with and through the art and continue to make Miami-Dade County an amazing place to live, work, and play!
Such projects now have a home here in town because of the Knight Arts Challenge:
Miami International Film Festival. Cleveland Orchestra and Miami City Ballet together. DDA's Downtown Miami Concert Series Summer Shows at the Gusman. Noches Tropicales/Tropical Nights free music and dance concerts in Miami Dade Parks. City Theatre's CityWrights training mentorship project. Teen Writing Workshop at the downtown branch of the Miami Dade Library. New World School of the Arts. AIRIE Encountering art in the Everglades. Miami-Dade County Public Schools Cultural Passport. Little Haiti Cultural Center's Haitian Heritage Art Project. Florida Grand Opera in unexpected places. Free Gospel Sundays at the Arsht. Dawntown Architecture Contest. Playground Theatre's world premiere production of "The Red Thread." Cuban Museum's Sweet Home Museo Cubano. Rhythm Foundation's Big Night in Little Haiti. Karen Peterson's Inclusive Dance for MDPS students. New World Symphony's Sound and Sight Video series. Sleepless Night Miami Beach. Bass Museum's TC Temporary Contemporary public art project. Borscht Film Festival. O Cinema. South Florida Composers Alliance's The Listening Gallery. Bas Fisher Invitational's Weird Miami Bus Tours. Seraphic Fire's Miami Choral project. Peter London Global Dance Theater. Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation. Commissioned site-specific contemporary art works at Vizcaya....and so many more.
And as per Lisa’s word’s…“all it took was a good idea!”. “The contest is part of Knight Foundation’s five-year, $40 million Knight Arts initiative, to help bring the South Florida community together through the arts. Over the past four years, the Knight Foundation has invested almost $19 million in this community based contest”.
There are three simple rules:
1. The idea is about arts.
2. The project takes place in or benefits South Florida.
3. You find other funding to match the Knight Foundation grant.
So, take the opportunity to make a great difference!
Visit http://www.knightarts.org/ and be part of a wonderful art’s world!
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