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, […]
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, […]
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. […]
Honoree, 2020 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 In Luster, we meet Edie, a 23-year-old Black woman working in New York publishing who’s barely making rent each month, trying to make sense of her life, and finding herself tangled in a suburban white couple’s open marriage. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual mores […]
2020 National Book Award Finalist Keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class, the critically acclaimed Leave the World Behind tells the story of two families, strangers forced together over a long weekend gone terribly wrong. Shielding themselves in a charmingly secluded house that’s suddenly become a dubious refuge from whatever monstrous thing may […]
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 […]