Performing Arts
Orlando Jacinto Garcia Creates “prohibido”
On Sunday, January 26, 2025 (2 pm) at the New World Center in Miami Beach, the Fellows of the New World Symphony will perform the world premiere of Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto García’s “prohibido” for string orchestra, conducted by Aram Demirjian, choreographed by Ariel Rose, with dancers Lucy Nevin and Alexander Kedan.
read moreBroadcast Journalist Jan Fox: From Shelbyville to D.C.
JAN FOX is a 4-Time TV Emmy Award Winner and holds the prestigious National Consumer Affairs Reporter Award for her work on life-saving Protective Child Car Seat Checks. That long term series of reports also netted her the Annual Total Station Community Service Award for the Washington, D.C. CBS affiliate, WUSA -TV 9.
read moreJay Critchley: Performance Artist, Activist
JAY CRITCHLEY’s visual, conceptual and performance work and environmental activism have traversed the globe, showing and/or performing in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany, Columbia and the United States. He was featured in the LOGO channel’s “Ptown Diaries”, and interviewed by BBC/UK. His solo exhibition at Freight + Volume Gallery in Chelsea, New York City received exciting reviews from the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Village Voice.
read moreBill Schwartz for Dummies
BILL SCHWARTZ is an actor, playwright, ventriloquist, and retired police officer. He served as Commander of the Miami Police Public Information Office for 14 years.
read moreTony Kahn: Public Broadcasting Pioneer
TONY KAHN has written, produced, narrated and hosted more than fifty radio and television programs and series for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), Nickelodeon, A&E Cable, Monitor Radio, CBS Cable, and Boston television stations WGBH and WCVB.
read moreConductor Lidiya Yankovskaya
LIDIYA YANKOVSKAYA (b.1986) is a Russian-born conductor and a fiercely committed advocate for Slavic masterpieces and contemporary works on the leading edge of classical music. She has conducted more than 40 world premieres, including 17 operas, and her strength as a visionary collaborator has guided new perspectives on staged and symphonic repertoire.
read moreHannah Baumgarten: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Dance NOW! Miami
HANNAH BAUMGARTEN grew up between Santa Cruz, California, and Jerusalem, Israel where she began her dance training. She co-founded Dance NOW! Miami (DNM) with Diego Salterini in 2000, and with DNM has toured the US, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Europe.
read moreMichael Eckroth: A Musician of Many Genres
“I’m a pianist, keyboardist, arranger and composer working in the genres of jazz, Latin jazz, Cuban, Brazilian, and various American popular styles.” — MICHAEL ECKROTH
read moreLawrence Wright: “Mr. Texas” +
LAWRENCE WRIGHT is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He received a Pulitzer Prize for “The Looming Tower.” His latest novel is called “Mr. Texas.”
read moreIris Adler: A Life in Public Radio
IRIS ADLER is a former reporter, News Director and Executive Director for Programming and Podcasts at WBUR Radio in Boston. In these roles she has reported widely on Boston and New England, overseen the station’s news coverage, special projects and national and local programs.
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