30422: Hermantin(News)Two charities hand out $275,000 to arts groups (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Miami Herald


Posted on Wed, May. 09, 2007

THE ARTS

Two charities hand out $275,000 to arts groups
Funding Arts Network, a local philanthropic group, and the John S. and James L. 
Knight Foundation presented $275,000 in cash awards to local arts groups.

BY DANIEL CHANG
dchang@MiamiHerald.com

A contemporary opera inspired by a Cuban novelist's work about Haiti's first 
slave revolt won a $50,000 grant from the local philanthropic group Funding 
Arts Network and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation on Tuesday.

The opera, titled Macandal, is by New York-based artist Carl Hancock Rux and 
will premiere at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in December 2008.

Rux, the African Diaspora artist in residence at the Carnival Center, will work 
with two Miami-based Haitian-American artists on Macandal: composer Daniel 
Bernard Roumain, who will write the music, and artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, who 
will create the visual designs.

The libretto for Macandal was inspired by Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier and 
the work of Duval-Carrié, and it tells the story of two groups of refugees in 
the 1980s -- one Haitian and one Cuban.

''It speaks to Miami in a powerful way,'' said Michael Maidenberg, vice 
president and chief program officer for the Knight Foundation.

Maidenberg presented the $50,000 award to Carnival Center CEO Michael Hardy at 
the Funding Arts Network's annual awards luncheon, during which the 
philanthropic group gave away an additional $225,000 to more than two dozen 
local arts groups.

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