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Performers, inductees and representatives returned to the MSU Riley Center stage for a rousing, revival-like close to the The MAX Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
South Arts selected Sipp Culture and the B.B. King Museum to receive $300,000 over three years, in partnership with the Ford Foundation.
Preserving heritage and cultural pride are driving forces for Gloria Gipson Suggs’ visual art.
“Slippin’ Through the Cracks: The Musical Journey of Bobby Rush” features a who’s who of blues music, some funny ego battles, a broken marriage, tragic losses in Rush’s life, his move to Mississippi, his tracing roots of enslaved ancestors, a dabble in gospel and linking with Malaco Records.
Rob Cooper, a Jackson-based stained-glass artist, received a commission from award-winning British novelist and comic-book writer Neil Gaiman to create a window for the latter’s London home.
“9 to 5, The Musical” premiered in Los Angeles in 2008, opened on Broadway the following year, and has since earned nominations for 15 Drama Desk Awards and four Tony Awards.
After Biloxi Little Theatre’s production of “Barefoot in the Park” concludes on May 22, 2022, the community theater will still put on a children’s show, a teen show and a musical revue through the summer.
Local businesses along Farish Street have allowed the Mississippi Museum of Art to install art displays relaying words of wisdom to help guide readers through life lessons.
Starting Wednesday, March 23, 118 films will celebrate the diversity of the art form, the compelling stories it can share, connections it can make and provocative conversations it can spark at the Oxford Film Festival.
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