Before taking the helm at the Kauffman Center, Chu had served as fund executive at the Kauffman Fund for Kansas City; vice president of external relations for Union Station; and vice president of community investment with the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.
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Ruby Dee, 91, Actress And Civil Rights Activist
Over a seven-decade career in theater, television and film, often in partnership with husband Ossie Davis, she greatly expanded the range of roles black actresses could play in the U.S.; gave landmark performances in Shakespeare and soap opera, Hansberry and Fugard and Spike Lee; picketed theaters that refused to cast her African-American colleagues; and played a high profile in the wider civil rights struggle.
Culture Data: Follow It Or Be Informed By It?
The Culture Track research found that culture is “social first,” meaning a big part of the attendance decision is based on making connections and spending time with friends and family. This holds true especially for millennials, who are the least likely to participate in an event alone.
17 Bookstores Everyone Should See At Least Once
These amazing stores celebrate books in unique ways. The experience of being in them changes how you think about the books you buy.
Essential: Moving The Goalposts For Testing Artificial Intelligence
“As computers become more powerful and pervasive, our standards shift. Fifty years from now, a soccer-learning, header-calling, wise-cracking machine might seem more like a party trick than a thinking being.”
Questions About Management Of Toronto’s Sony Center For The Performing Arts Detailed
“It’s an enormous laundry list of indiscretions,” said Councillor Pam McConnell, who recently joined the theatre’s board. Ms. McConnell said anyone who reads the report will understand why the city’s audit committee is recommending council take tighter control of the theatre by installing a temporary board.
Plan A ‘Ring’ Cycle With A Digital Orchestra, And An Epic Battle Will Break Out
“Staging a Ring cycle in Connecticut with a digital orchestra is the dream of Charles M. Goldstein, a musician and would-be impresario who was once an extra chorister at the Met, and who founded the Hartford Wagner Festival with the idea that one day Connecticut could become the only place outside of Bayreuth, Germany, to perform entire Ring cycles every year.” Not surprisingly, lots of people in the music world object.
Charles Wright Named U.S. Poet Laureate
“Charles Wright once said, ‘I want to be the anonymous author.’ But for 44 years this modest Southerner has been publishing poetry, and the accolades have kept arriving: a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Bollingen Prize.” And now the biggest honor an American poet can have.