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Congratulations go out to Lynne Barrett on winning the Gold for General Fiction at the Florida Book Awards, which every year honors the best work produced by Sunshine State writers. The English professor will collect her award – which celebrates Magpies, her latest collection of short stories – at the Florida [...]
WHAT: Florida International University’s fall 2011 theater production “The House of the Spirits,” written by Caridad Svich and based on Isabel Allende’s novel, has been invited to participate in the 2012 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. A group of 24 students and five faculty members have been nominated in [...]
The next screening in the Frost Art Museum series is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, March 1 The Frost Art Museum wants you to help pick the next movie we’re watching. Yup, after successful outdoor screenings of the documentary I Am and the Halloween classic Beetlejuice, the powers that be at [...]
In the last year, FIU demonstrated its commitment to community engagement through the arts, encouraging students and friends to participate in several creative initiatives. Last summer, FIU worked with hundreds of people of all ages on its Worlds Ahead Mural and Ship of Tolerance projects, as well as The Art [...]
FIU Theatre’s third production of the season brings In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play) to the Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Black Box Theatre at Modesto A. Maidique Campus beginning on Friday, Jan. 27, at 8 p.m. The show will run through Sunday, Feb. 12. Directed by international guest [...]
Florida International University’s Office of Multicultural Programs and Services will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a two-week long celebration inspired by King’s life and work. The MLK Commemorative Celebration between Jan. 11 and Jan. 25 is one of the most anticipated annual FIU events [...]
Congratulations are in order for The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU: After a rigorous process that examined all aspects of its operations, the museum has achieved accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM) once again. This is the highest national recognition for which a museum can [...]
English and Creative Writing professor Campbell McGrath was recently named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow. McGrath was one of 52 recipients across the nation to receive the unrestricted $50,000 grant Dec. 5. The fellowships support artists in the fields of architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, media, [...]
The FIU Student Government Association and the International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) office celebrated International Education Week 2011 with art exhibits, lectures, information fairs, brown bag lunches and film showings at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Events at the Biscayne Bay Campus included the International Hospitality Games presented by the [...]
FIU’s Alternative Theater Festival continues its tradition of presenting an innovative version of E.T.A Hoffman’s The Nutcraker with two shows taking place Wednesday, Dec. 7, and Saturday, Dec. 10, benefiting FIU theatre and music scholarships. This year’s presentation, directed by FIU Theatre associate professor Phillip Church, integrates the tradition of narrative [...]
