On Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest), the theatre is often crowded with local artists, while the rest of the religious city gathers for family meals.
As Detroit continues the fight of its life, artists and visionaries are slowly returning to the city to take advantage of the cheap rent and open spaces.
In 1975 he founded the artistic movement the Brotherhood of Ruralists - artists who had left the city to live in the countryside - with then-wife Annie Ovenden, as well as fellow artists Jann Haworth, Graham Arnold, David Inshaw, and pop artist Sir Peter Blake.
Students bring in money, and the bohemian nature of the city also attracts artists and architects who have helped transform the urban decay into something beautiful.
However, the spirit and creativity of the city live on, and it's the artists themselves who are the driving force behind the city's revival.
The memorials celebrate the lives and achievements of men and women, soldiers and sailors, academics and artists each of whom had an impact on the city and the region.
The project is collaborative, inviting participants from all sections of the city life, including community groups, artists, musicians and the general public.
Mason appeared at In The City in his capacity as co-chairman of the Featured Artists' Coalition, a body that was set up two years ago to fight for musicians' rights.
ArtWalk, starting at 4:30 pm on 18 April, invites participants to gallery hop their way around the city, taking in the multifarious works of established and emerging artists while partaking in complimentary refreshments along the way.
Guests can visit the nearby city of Haifa, a horse-riding farm, the Ein Hod artists' village and go hiking in the forest.
Although reunification undoubtedly hit the city economically, cheap rents and low living costs in the east led to an influx of artists and other creative types and the emergence of a vibrant subculture.
Mr. Fouratt, a Greenwich Village resident, said Ms. Quinn has supported development that has rapidly gentrified parts of the city and made it harder for gay artists to live in New York.
But she eventually ended up in New York City, where she became one of the first artists to sign with Madonna's Maverick label in the early '90s.
They do private shopping tours, not to the ubiquitous boutiques that are identical to every other major city, but to the private workshops of vetted artists and craftspeople where you meet the artists themselves.
The City Opera cast is made up almost entirely of debut artists, with some nice finds among them.
After a successful pilot programme last year, there will also be a series of late-night events in galleries across the city, involving artists, DJs, poets and comedians.
Throughout The Silver City, Messersmith borrows heavily but lovingly from some of his favorite artists.
But over in the Bogside, outside the city's walls, there is a feeling of alienation by local artists.
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As a result, many artists come to our city for concerts and readings, many of which are free and open to the public.
Darat al Funun regularly hosts artists in residence and impromptu concerts and is a great place to dig deeper into the soul of the city.
And artists here like to leave their mark: the Mission has the highest concentration of street murals in the city, according to the San Francisco Travel Association.
Parisian artists have long drawn inspiration from Africa, a relationship recently reinforced thanks to an influx of African immigrants into the city.
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In the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, Nikita Nomerz is famous among street artists for literally giving a new face to derelict buildings.
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"The Bogside Artists have produced iconic work on the streets of Derry which is a huge tourism attraction for people who visit our city, " he said.
"The river was integral to the city's survival for hundreds of years and it was equally essential to the city that it disappeared, " said the artists.
In funding an estimated one-third of the contemporary art exhibitions in Mexico City, Lopez has lifted the careers (and plumped the pocketbooks) of dozens of artists.
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