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February 29, 2012

The Future of Music

The National Association for Music Education designates the month of March as Music in Our Schools Month. While homes may be filled with music, either through the radio or a family member playing great-grandmother’s upright piano, schools are often the place where children have access to music on regular basis.
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February 29, 2012

Kick Me

Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s "New Faces of Independent Film" in 2006, Gary Huggins is a Kansas City based filmmaker whose short films have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Clermont-Ferrand and dozens of festivals worldwide. Now he is branching into feature films. "I really have to limit myself when I write and direct shorts. It’s about concise filmmaking."
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February 29, 2012

In Her Own Words

Just Google “female screenwriters” and some of the stories are not so positive about the struggles women writers face in Hollywood. To counter this, the AMC Theatres Kansas City FilmFest has united with Kansas City Women in Film and Television (KCWIFT) on a screenplay contest that is aimed at creating a short film that would be about 13 to 17 minutes in length.
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February 29, 2012

Artistically Branching Out

High school students in the North Kansas City School District benefited from classes offered by the Kansas City Art Institute. The first students took classes in the fall and the spring semester is well underway. The dual-credit studio art classes mark the first time KCAI has partnered with area high schools to offer a dual-credit program.
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February 29, 2012

The Lyric Opera’s Evan Luskin in his own words

So how did I get into opera ... I grew up in Philadelphia and my parents had season tickets to the Philadelphia Orchestra. My father was a chemist, but he and my mother would have friends over and they would play chamber music. I heard classical music all my life, but my parents weren’t opera fans.
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February 29, 2012

The Final Touch

James David Christie, organ consultant for more than four years with the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, has been given the honor to play the 5,548-pipe Casavant Frères organ that graces Helzberg Hall. The concerts March 10 and 11 are sold out. Christie says the honor is humbling.
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December 28, 2011

Wine Temperature

Ronald Searle, one of wine’s great illustrators, once created a great series of posters, with a poster devoted to each of two dozen or so..
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December 28, 2011

An Expression in Culture

Lily Zhang Li Taylor of the Zhang Li Dance Academy believes she has a gift that she must impart with others, especially children. She not only inspires dance, but also wants children to have a cultural appreciation. Taylor has taught dance at the Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas and at the Silk Road Academy.
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December 28, 2011

Local Cinema Leaders Share Hope for Longevity

Screenland Theatres, the Fine Arts Group and the Tivoli Theatre are three of the smaller cinema houses in the metropolitan area working hard to capture..
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