FORT LAUDERDALE — Neda Ulaby, arts and culture reporter for National Public Radio, will speak June 24 to the closing session of the Broward County Cultural Divison’s Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute.
Ulaby, whose talk is called “Arts Journalism in a Fractured Cultureverse,” reports on arts, digital media, entertainment and cultural trends for NPR’s Arts Desk. Born in Amman, Jordan, she grew up in Kansas and Michigan and is a graduate of Bryn Mawr and the University of Chicago.
A former editor and contributor to Chicago’s Windy City Times and the Washington City Paper, she joined NPR in 2000. Her weekly podcast, Culturetopia, is the winner of a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation.
Ulaby’s talk coincides with the closing forum for Restrospective, an all-media exhibition highlighting seven years of works by artists who graduated from the Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute. The exhibit, reception and talk all take place at ArtServe, 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale.
The reception begins at 6 p.m. June 24, and Ulaby speaks at 7 p.m. The public is invited to the free event, but seats are limited. Please visit http://bit.ly/ArtsJourn1 to RSVP.
The Broward County Cultural Division collaborated this year with the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at Syracuse University and the same university’s Janklow Arts Leadership Program to deliver arts journalism training programs for media professionals who post arts-related story content.
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Maltz Jupiter Theatre offers training program for high school graduates
JUPITER — The Maltz Jupiter Theatre has established a two-year professional training program for young performers that aims to offer rigorous instruction for high school graduates who want to pursue careers in the performing arts.
The Professional Training Program, which will culminate with a certificate, will train young actors for careers in musical theater, film and television. The competitive, audition-only program will enroll eight to 12 students per class. The faculty will be composed of Broadway and South Florida theater professionals. Students will train 35 hours a week in acting and acting for the camera, Alexander Technique, voice and speech, musical theater styles, dance (ballet, jazz, tap, modern), music theory, Shakespeare, stage combat, piano fundamentals, career prep, classical clowning and more.
“We are offering an unsurpassed opportunity for students to gain the skills necessary to pursue a successful career in the performing arts,” said Andrew Kato, the Theatre’s producing artistic director. “The goal is to create working actors who are ready for the marketplace.”
Auditions for the Professional Training Program’s inaugural class will take place Saturday, June 20, from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the theater. Auditioning students are asked to come prepared with two contrasting 16-bar cuts with sheet music (no recorded music; accompanist will be provided) and a one-minute monologue. Auditioning students should be prepared to be led through a dance class (including ballet, tap and jazz) and will be interviewed by the adjudicators.
Appointments are require. To schedule an appointment, please contact Julie Rowe, director of education, at 561-575-2672, ext. 1, or email jrowe@jupitertheatre.org.
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Norton brings back free summer Thursdays; free Saturdays expanded to weekly for two years
WEST PALM BEACH — Once again this summer, the Norton Museum of Art is offering free admissions on Thursdays for Florida residents.
Throughout June, July, August and until Sept. 3, Florida residents can visit the museum for free, including the Art After Dark programs on Thursday evenings. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. each Thursday.
Also, the museum’s Free Saturday program has been expanded from once a month to every week for two years, thanks to a generous gift from Damon and Katherine Mezzacappa. In addition, the gift expands the museum’s Family Studio program from the first Saturday of every month to every Saturday, and lowers the cost to just $1 from $8.
For membership information, call 561-659-6786 or visit norton.org.
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FAU’s Center for Book Arts seeks artist-in-residence proposals
BOCA RATON — Florida Atlantic University’s Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts is accepting proposals from artists for its Helen M. Salzberg artist-in-residence program.
The semester-long program, established in 2011 at FAU’s Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton campus, has drawn interest from artists all over the country. Artists anywhere in the world who are working in the book arts and other media — as long as the creative project can be considered book arts-related — are encouraged to apply for this prestigious and competitive award.
While at the Jaffe Center, the artist produces a creative project using the Jaffe Center’s studios, teaches a workshop for FAU students and the general public and mentors FAU students. The artwork of the program’s sponsor, Salzberg, an award-winning artist who lives in Connecticut and Florida, has been displayed in private and public collections.
The deadline to submit a proposal is June 15. For more information, visit http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/JaffeCenter/AIR.php.