As the broader Kansas City cultural landscape reemerges from the depths of a pandemic, the Charlotte Street Foundation has inaugurated a new funding stream to benefit some of the community’s smallest creative organizations.
Concert to Come: Collaboration as Imaginative Impetus
In their second collaboration, Bach Aria Soloists and Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company are combining Baroque music and modern dance — with a twist.
Broadway suffered an unprecedented blow in 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in the aftermath of a year and a half in the dark, Broadway is poised for a comeback.
Arts News: Sandbox Percussion Group at UMKC is Grammy Nominee
The quartet Sandbox Percussion, currently serving as percussion faculty and ensemble-in-residence at the UMKC Conservatory, are nominated for a Grammy Award for their album, “Seven Pillars,” with composer Andy Akiho.
Arts News: UMKC Conservatory Launches Music Program at Lansing Correctional Facility
Musicambia, a non-profit that works with universities and prisons all over the country to bring music into correctional facilities, launched its first program in Sing Sing in New York in 2017 serving 32 inmates.
Arts News: Dance Visionary from KC Named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow
Choreographer, educator, dancer, entrepreneur and visionary Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is part of the 2021 class of MacArthur Fellows, one of 25 selected from across the United States for this prestigious award.
