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The Festival of the Arts, or simply Festival is a three-day arts festival in Grand Rapids held on the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of June. First held in 1970, after the 1969 installation of Alexander Calder's La Grande Vitesse, known as "The Calder" locally, Festival was quite small with only two stages and a few food booths. Since then, Festival has exploded. For three days, nearly 20,000 community volunteers play host to over half a million people that enjoy food, art, music, dance, poetry, film, and more. The 2007 Festival featured 25 food booths, five stages, several hands-on art involvement activities, and several art exhibitions.
According to the Library of Congress, Festival is the largest all volunteer arts festival in the United States.
Various local non-profit organizations run food booths at Festival, each offering a unique taste. Souvlaki, elephant ears, egg rolls, and barbecue are all staples.
The Pacific Arts Corporation, Inc. is a company formed by Michael Nesmith circa 1974 to manage and develop media projects, including the medium and the content. The company is associated with a "drawing" dove logo.
Pacific Arts Corporation, Inc. began as Pacific Arts Productions, Inc when incorporated on October 18, 1974 as a California corporation by Michael Nesmith (incorporated by Nesmith's accountant, Howard Leitner of Leitner, Zander, Sniderman & Co., Los Angeles). The first product released under Pacific Arts Productions was under the subsidy of the Pacific Arts Records label in September 1974 of Nesmith's own concept album, The Prison.
Between 1974 and 1981, Pacific Arts Productions created a large library of various musical artists and built its own independent record distribution system. Nesmith considered Pacific Arts an umbrella corporation over two major divisions, TV and records. It was during this time that Nesmith began to develop music videos, produce PopClips (the predecessor for MTV), and ideas for a non-theatrical home video business.
The Festival of Pacific Arts, Pacific Arts Festival, or FESTPAC is a traveling festival hosted every four years by a different country in Oceania (map). It was conceived by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (former "South Pacific Commission") as a means to stem erosion of traditional cultural practices by sharing and exchanging culture at each festival. The major theme of the festival is traditional song and dance. The 2008 Festival of Pacific Arts was hosted by American Samoa from 20 July to 2 August 2008; it was the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts.
The Pacific Cultural Council (former "Pacific Arts Council" or "Council of Pacific Arts," originally "South Pacific Arts Festival Council") selects the host country and recognizes that each participating country desires the opportunity to showcase its unique indigenous culture by hosting the festival. Host selection is based on principles of equity and preference is given to countries which have not yet hosted. The festival host country pays participants' costs of local travel, accommodation, meals, and other forms of hospitality. Entry to all artistic events is free to the public thereby maximizing cultural outreach and inclusion.
An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts; mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing arts events. They often operate at arms-length from the government to prevent political interference in their decisions. The model has received criticism for being ineffective.
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Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The arts funding system in England underwent considerable reorganisation in 2002 when all of the regional arts boards were subsumed into Arts Council England and became regional offices of the national organisation.
Arts Council England is a government-funded body dedicated to promoting the performing, visual and literary arts in England. Since 1994, Arts Council England has been responsible for distributing lottery funding. This investment has helped to transform the building stock of arts organisations and to create lots of additional high quality arts activity.
Since October 2011, Arts Council England has been responsible for supporting and developing museums, a function it inherited from the now defunct Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
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The most ambitious Festival of the Arts yet bursts onto – and even off – the Sacramento State campus this spring with dancers performing on the sides of buildings, a new arts street faire in downtown Sacramento, plus the traditional Family Sunday Funday, and all the attractions that make up the University’s Arts Experience. This year’s festival (www.csus.edu/festival) runs April 8-12 and features a dance performance along the outside walls of the University Library by BANDALOOP, a company that is reimagining dance and changing perspectives. A pioneer in vertical performance, BANDALOOP (bandaloop.org) seamlessly weaves dynamic physicality, intricate choreography and the art of climbing to turn the dance floor on its side. Under the artistic direction of Amelia Rudolph, the group has perfor...
Thousands of proud citizens from around the region unite in a memorable evening of shared heritage, history and diversity as the Festival of Pacific Arts kicks off from Hagatna, Guam. Witness this unique opportunity to celebrate Guam's culture and that of our brothers and sisters from throughout the Pacific.
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Celebrate the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerces 35th annual Palo Alto Festival of the Arts with 300 fine artists from across the country on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto, Saturday and Sunday, August 27th and 28th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Enjoy Italian Street Painting, Kids' Art Studio and continuous entertainment throughout. For complete details visit MLA Productions dot com or call 650-324-3121.
This was Rapa Nui's final performance on stage to the people of Solomon Islands and the rest of the pacific during the 11th festival of Pacific Arts. This is one of the "Most Loved group" by Solomon Islanders during the festival, now we have areas in Honiara called Rapa Nui. This is just a partial of their one hour show during the night. Hope u enjoy watching it.
Watch this extra special montage of the sights, sounds, culture and friendship on full display from 27 island nations at the historic Opening Ceremonies for the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts.
David Binder is a major Broadway producer, but last summer he found himself in a small Australian neighborhood, watching locals dance and perform on their lawns -- and loving it. He shows us the new face of arts festivals, which break the boundary between audience and performer and help cities express themselves. PHOTO CREDITS for David's 2012 TED Talk: Minto: Live -- Sydney Festival 2011 3 Courtesy of Lone Twin 4 Courtesy of Lone Twin 5 Courtesy of Lone Twin 6 © Pekka Mäkinen 7 © Amrit MacIntyre 8 Courtesy of Lone Twin 9 © Pekka Mäkinen 10 © Pekka Mäkinen 11 © Pekka Mäkinen 12 © Pekka Mäkinen 13 © Pekka Mäkinen 14 © Pekka Mäkinen The Mahabharata 16 © Image Entertainment Einstein on the Beach 17 Spaceship © Lesley Leslie-Spinks 2012 De La Guarda 21 Courtesy of De La Guarda Sleep No M...
Art, Food, Music it's all at Festival Of The Arts in Downtown Grand Rapids. People watching is half of the fun...
Are you ready for a trip down waaay under to South Australia?! Well let's go! Jaycationers, we have landed in Adelaide, home of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the 2nd largest festival of the arts in the world. We also take a trip 30 minutes out to Adelaide Hills and go Wine Tasting at Shaw and Smith and Bird in Hand Wineries. More of a city person? No worries Mate! We also explore Central Market & Rundle Mall in the center of Adelaide. Don't know much about Aussie Sports? Well it's all good because we learn some Cricket, some Aussie Rules Football & go bowling at the Fringe! Jay Jay's Social Media: Blog: onjaycation.com or jaycation.wordpress.com YouTube: youtube.com/c/jayjaymaniquis Facebook: facebook.com/jaycation Twitter: @Jaydaheat Snapchat/Instagram: jaydaheat Yelp: http://jaydahea...
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Festival of the Arts 2016 performance from the Calder Stage
Festival of the Arts Awards Ceremony 2016 April 15, 2016
Festival of the Arts 2015 performance from the Calder Stage
Festival of the Arts 2015 performance from the Calder Stage
Festival of the Arts 2015 performance from the Calder Stage
Festival of the Arts 2016 performance from the Calder Stage
Festival of the Arts 2016 performance from the Calder Stage