Archives: October 2011

10/12/11 Broward Cultural Division Presents Legal Issues for the Contemporary Artist

Broward County Commission's Cultural Division, ArtServe, Inc., and the South Florida Artists Association will present Legal Issues for the Contemporary Artist with the Associate Director of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, Esq. This unique set of training sessions to assist individual artists working in all disciplines, will be held on Saturday, October 22, 2011, 9: 00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., at ArtServe, Inc. 1350 sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale.

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10/01/11 Official Business

Nominations have closed for the 2012-2014 term of office.

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10/01/11 How Do You Make Money From Music?

As one component of its Artists Revenue Streams project, the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) is conducting an online survey from Sept 6 - Oct 28, 2011 to gather crucial information about the ways that US-based musicians and composers are currently generating income from songs, recordings or performances, and how this has changed over the past five years.

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10/01/11 South Florida Symphony to Begin Season in Debt to Musicians

South Florida Symphony is gearing up for its 2011-12 seasons in Key West, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach despite still owing tens of thousands of dollars to its musicians, and the orchestra has refused to tell the musicians if or when they will be paid.

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10/01/11 That Union Thing

The Florida Education Association and the Sarasota Classified/Teachers Association have filed a lawsuit against the new merit-pay law.

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10/01/11 Local and Industry News

Miami City Ballet's founding artistic director Edward Villella will retire from the company at the end of the 2012-2013 season. Villella had been with the Ballet since he founded it in 1986.

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10/01/11 Membership Roster Changes

New, Reinstated, Resigned, and Suspended members for September 2011

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