Local artist Christina Pettersson invites viewers to learn more about the lost histories of Florida. Pushing aside the undeserving, bloodthirsty white industrialists too long held up as heroes, she explores instead its Bahamian pioneers, frontier women, and unique landscape and animals, as well as its history of racial injustices. Through original writing, site-specific video documentation, […]
The Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources Office of Film and Entertainment (FilMiami) introduces its free movie and TV map tour! This map guides users through more than 80 of the most popular movies and television series that were shot on location in Miami-Dade County, and includes information about each location, as well […]
Get VIP front-row access to intimate and thrilling performances by Miami musicians and other performing artists! Stay connected with the Adrienne Arsht Center, the arts, and one another with Arsht@Home. Unleash your creativity and create a masterpiece with your family alongside local teaching artists. Watch as Miami actors perform monologues from your favorite plays and […]
“You may think the right to vote is a small matter, and if you do, I would bet you have never had it taken away from you.” Thus begins the story of Desmond Meade and his inspiring journey to restore voting rights to roughly 1.4 million returning citizens in Florida – resulting in a stunning […]
In partnership with the acclaimed visual artist Hank Willis Thomas, the nonprofit architecture firm MASS Design Group, and the production team Openbox, Incarceration Nations Network presents The Writing on the Wall, a pop-up art installation made from writing by people in prisons around the world. In an effort to raise awareness about mass incarceration and […]
Eduardo "Echo" Martinez is Florida’s first Luis Hernandez Prison Poet Laureate. Echo has been published in Cuban Counterpoints, Scalawag, Don’t Shake the Spoon: A Literary Journal, the Miami Herald, Anthology BeKindr, and PBS NY.
When Richie Hell moved from Buenos Aires to Miami in 2015, he saw how the gumbo limbo tree’s bark peeled off, like a snake shedding its skin. He saw it as a positive sign: nature supporting this new beginning. His new full-length “The Gumbo Limbo Experiment” is an album that takes you to another place. […]
Aaron Davidson’s documentary films on Jewish themes have all been created in South Florida, but transcend their local flavor and are at once familiar and nostalgic. With the passage of time his earliest films have become both historical records and time capsules, documenting places that have since closed or become unrecognizable and now live on […]
The Koubek Center presents a special edition of Little Havana Social Club ¡en casa! for MBF's Here In Florida program, bringing home the sounds and spirit of the Caribbean with a contemporary Miami touch! Rooted in tradition but also electric and cosmopolitan, this monthly concert series features artists such as reggae powerhouse Jahfé, singer-songwriter Leslie […]
There is something astonishing about the ardor with which Carol Frost articulates and sings the sorrows of our disappearing in her newest poetry collection, Alias City. There's something so wise in the song, in the music of her tough, clear seeing. Her poems have a fierce, unswerving purity of purpose and design, their embodying language […]
Live program + Q&A! Starts @ 6:30 p.m. EST. In Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who brought the Sunshine State’s panther back from the brink of extinction, the ones who nearly pushed the species over the edge, and the cats […]
Ramón Fernández Larrea presenta la reedición ampliada de sus populares semblanzas musicales. La Feria del Libro de Miami siempre ha sentido la necesidad de dar espacio en su programación a otras manifestaciones artísticas que se interconectan con la literatura y el universo editorial. La música es una de ellas. La edición del 2020 no será […]