I’ve written about this before but I had to post again.
The Knight Foundation is an organization which, among other things, seeks to promote the arts.
To quote from the web site
Knight Foundation invests in artistic excellence, funding arts projects that engage the Knight resident communities in collective cultural experiences. We look for innovative, high-quality ideas. Our grantees represent both emerging artists and organizations and the oldest and most venerable institutions. The projects all have one thing in common: they enrich and engage the communities that produce them.
The program is in its first year, and emerging areas of interest include digitization of museum collections, development of arts incubator spaces, arts contests in which all community members are eligible for funding and a Random Acts of Culture program that brings fine art to the population and breaks down barriers that prevent consistent engagement in the arts.
One of the things they do is called Random Acts of Culture.
In eight different cities they arrange for artistic groups like musicians, singers, dancers, etc to simply show up at a public place and perform a work of art.
They’ve done Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s A Little Night Music, a performance of the tango and other classics.
I think it’s a wonderful gift to the people who live in those cities and would love to see it spread to other communities as well.
To check out some of the performances, go to the web site