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Team Acacia
Mar 12, 2023
Forbes: Cuebric: Generative AI Comes to Hollywood
By Tom Davenport March 13, 2023 Since the beginning of movies and television, directors have needed to film their stories in particular...

Team Acacia
Mar 1, 2023
BOSS Magazine March Cover: Dream It, Do It
By Damien Martin March 1, 2023 To understand the impact generative AI will have on the creative arts, you have to look back to the...


Team Acacia
Feb 23, 2023
WBEZ Chicago: From Elvis to Nas: DJ Spinderella to show public housing's impact on music in America
By Sasha-Ann Simons and Meha Ahmad February 23, 2023 DJ Spinderella is an iconic figure in hip-hop and music, rising to fame as one-third...


Team Acacia
Feb 22, 2023
MadamNoire: DJ Spinderella Is Lending Her Talents To Curate A Museum ‘Music Room’
By Nahla Abdur-Rahman February 22, 2023 DJ Spinderella will embody a new role, trading in playlists for set pieces, as the curator of the...


Team Acacia
Feb 20, 2023
Wisconsin Journal Times: Wizards and witchcraft in Wisconsin
By Alex Rodriguez February 20, 2023 Chicago-based Otherworld Theatre is bringing Albion: School of Sorcery to the, 600 21st St., March...


Team Acacia
Feb 15, 2023
The Root: Spinderella to Help Connect the Dots Between American Music and Public Housing
By Angela Johnson February 15, 2023 Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum (NPHM), the only cultural institution in the country...


Team Acacia
Feb 14, 2023
Chicago Sun-Times: DJ Spinderella of Salt-N-Pepa to join National Public Housing Museum as curator
By Mariah Rush February 15, 2023 DJ Spinderella spent her formative years living in public housing in Brooklyn, New York, with her...


Team Acacia
Feb 10, 2023
WMAQ-TV (NBC): Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture Invites Visitors on Surreal Journey
By LeeAnn Trotter February 10, 2023 "Semillas" at Chicago's National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is landscape artist Raul...


Team Acacia
Feb 8, 2023
American Cinematographer: Seyhan Lee Unveils Cuebric
By ASC Staff February 8, 2023 Virtual-production studio and developer Seyhan Lee has released Cuebric, which uses AI generative art to...


Team Acacia
Jan 31, 2023
Wednesday Journal: New Festival Theatre artistic director brings youth, diversity
By Kelly Pollock January 31, 2023 Growing up in Milwaukee, Peter G. Andersen knew from a young age that he wanted to work in theater. ...


Team Acacia
Dec 20, 2022
Virtual Producer: "Generative A.I. Accelerates Virtual Production"
By Noah Kadner December 20, 2022 Creative-led artificial intelligence production studio Seyhan Lee announced the launch of Cuebric,...


Team Acacia
Nov 7, 2022
GoPride: The Cleanup washes away a few stereotypes
By Jerry Nunn November 7, 2022 The playwright and producer for The Cleanup, Hallie Palladino attended the night of this review with a...


Team Acacia
Oct 16, 2022
Windy City Times: Queer-inclusive original play 'The Cleanup' set to debut
By Carrie Maxwell October 17, 2022 Playwright Hallie Palladino's The Cleanup focuses on four parents, one of whom is a gay father, as...


Team Acacia
Sep 26, 2022
WTTW "CHICAGO TONIGHT": Chicago Tonight and "Nostalgia for My Island"
By Marc Vitali September 27, 2022

Team Acacia
Sep 23, 2022
TELEMUNDO: Aniversario 40 del Festival de cine internacional LGBTQ
By José González September 24, 2022 La ciudad de Chicago celebra el 40 aniversario del festival de cine internacional LGBTQ+. El festival...


Team Acacia
Sep 22, 2022
WBEZ: Rediscovering Norm Bruns: A Chicago filmmaker whose work was almost forgotten
By Courtney Kueppers September 22, 2022 After his death at age 40, Bruns’s films weren’t shown for nearly three decades. They were...


Team Acacia
Sep 21, 2022
WGN-TV: "All Male: The International Male Story" To Show at Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ Festival
By Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten September 22, 2022


Team Acacia
Sep 20, 2022
WGN-TV: Billy Ocasio discusses "Nostalgia for My Island" and relief efforts for Puerto Rico
By Tonya Francisco and Amy Rutledge September 21, 2022

Team Acacia
Sep 15, 2022
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Puerto Rican museum's rarely seen artworks showcased in Chicago exhibit
By Kyle MacMillan September 16, 2022 Titled “Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, 1786- 1962,”...


Team Acacia
Sep 15, 2022
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL: 'No Bears,' 'Saint Omer' among Chicago fest international selections
By Jeremy Kay September 16, 2022 Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, and Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of...
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