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Noted NYC-based choreographer Reggie Wilson brings his dance company, Fist and Heel Performance Group to Miami. In CITIZEN, Wilson drills down into the human desire to belong with exponentially expanding questions: “Do the injustices in today’s America engender a feeling of belonging? What supports belonging? Is belonging solely something internal, inside the individual? Is a sense of belonging or not belonging, a … +

Tigertail’ FIRE festival closes with a solo concert by jazz and guitar legend James Blood Ulmer. Ulmer is among the most distinctive and influential free jazz electric guitarists to emerge in the past four decades. He has worked and recorded with Ornette Coleman, Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, Arthur Blythe, David Murray, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Vernon Reid and George Adams as bandleader and … +

Climakaze Miami 2017 is highlighting profound female voices from Haiti and Australia in a unique event, Miami-grown songstress Inez Barlatier and Melbourne’s riveting cabaret priestess Moira Finucane get together to address climate issues through the arts and dialogue. The Rapture by Moira Finucane (Australia) Fri May 5, 2017, 8:30 PM Inez Barlatier in Concert (Miami-Haiti) Sat May 6, 2017, 8:30 PM Eco-Theater … +

Vocalist Vivian Sessoms will be in Concert to celebrate International Jazz Day. Dr. Ed Calle’s student jazz ensemble will open the afternoon, and there will be a farmer’s market courtesy of the Market Company. Vivian Sessoms has been a featured vocalist for several artists, including Chris Botti (Jazz trumpeter), Harold Mabern (legendary jazz pianist), Eric Benet, Will Downing, Towa Tei (Dee-Lite), Ryuichi … +

Actor Raúl Arévalo (Marshland, I Am So Exited) makes an impressive directing debut with The Fury of a Patient Man, a revenge thriller that tells a surprising and cruel story through photography and mise-en-scene. Starring Antonio de la Torre (Marshland, Volver), the film is one of the biggest surprises out of Spain cinema last year, it won the Goya Award as Best … +

The MiFo LGBT Film Festival is a bi-annual film festival with a mission to inspire and educate the public encouraging a sense of community through international and culturally diverse film, video and other media that offer historical and contemporary perspectives on the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience. This year the festival opening night will screen Handsome Devil(2016). Ohter films included are: … +

Soprano Yetzabel Arias Fernandez performs for the first time for Miami Bach Society audience with the program La Lucrezia (Georg Friedrich Handel) directed by Jay Bernfeld. La Lucrezia includes Cantata Spagnuola a voce sola; Pensieri Notturni di Filli HWV 134; Cantate La Lucrezia HWV 145; Sonata a Flauto e Cembalo HWV 362 and Suite for Harpsichord d minor HWV 428. Yetzabel Arias … +

Drawing from his personal pantheon of artist heroes, López’s work evokes the powerful imagery of 19th-century master portrait photographers like Nadar (Gaspar Félix Tournachon) and Julia Margaret Cameron. The series exemplifies Lopez’s acute interest in the continuation of formal photographic processes through carbon printing, which produces very beautiful, high-quality images that are rich in pigment and outstanding in visual resolution; a quality … +

Hernan Bas (b. 1978, Miami, Florida) creates works born of literary intrigue and tinged with nihilistic romanticism and old world imagery. Influenced by the Aesthetic and Decadent writers of the 19th century, in particular Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysman, Bas’s works weave together stories of adolescent adventures and the paranormal with classical poetry, religious stories, mythology and literature. His work is part … +

The 11th Annual All Kids Included Family Arts Festival provides a full day of activities and cultural experiences for children with and without disabilities. This event will include: productions by Magic Morgan and Miami Childrens Theater’s Beauty and the Beast; music and performers inside and outside ASL storytelling; face painting, rock wall and food; free surprises and book giveaway of Misty Copeland’s … +

One of the boldest films to come out of Cuba in recent years, Marilyn Solaya’s feature film debut, His Wedding Dress (Vestido de Novia), won the Audience Award at two of the most important Spanish-language film festivals: Havana and Málaga. The film is set in 1994, the worst year of Cuba’s so-called special period, which began with the collapse of the Soviet … +

High Anxiety: New Acquisitions presents selections of artworks from 32 artists acquired since 2014, many of whom explore polarizing social and political concerns through a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practices. In gauging the output and energies of these artists we find creative currents that speak to our shared state of uncertainty, nervousness and pessimism. On view through Aug 25, 2017 Rubell … +

OUTSIDE IN, curated by Laura Marsh and Jill Weisberg includes site specific installations, sketches, and objects that attempt to define the parameters between painting and sculpture, graffiti, street art, and public art. The aim is to further define the importance of constructing dialogues between urban walls and activating everyday spaces. It includes the artists Andrew Antonaccio, Jay Bellicchi, Diana Contreras, Filio Galvez, … +

Master of modern music Reinbert de Leeuw returns to the New World Symphony for the U.S. premiere of one of his own works and an explosive violin concerto. With a name exposing a clash of sacred and profane, Kaija Saariaho’s Graal théâtre is inspired by writings of King Arthur and the Grail, and spectacularly tackled by contemporary music advocate and consummate violinist … +

Broward College brings the Fringe Festival back to South Florida for the third year in a row. The three-day event is set to be held on Friday April 21st – Sunday, April 23rd. This diverse, cutting-edge, and uncensored live theater event aims to fuse the art scene with the local community by bringing the true nature of creation to the stage and … +

Carlos Averhoff, Jr. is a Latin Grammy nominated Cuban tenor saxophonist, he is a contemporary Afro-Cuban Jazz composer and educator. His debut album iRESI released in April 2015 at Boston’s Scullers Jazz Club has been applauded by international critics and major jazz blogs. Carlos has also collaborated with Louis Hayes, Jimmy Cobb, Bob Moses, Cuban drummers Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez and Calixto … +

“If Barrueco is not the greatest living guitarist on the world stage today, I don’t know who is” -Fanfare Magazine “Barrueco is a mature artist at the height of his power…his technique is absolute, his expression restrained but always moving, always in the finest of state…what the guitar should sound like” -American Record Guide (2017) The Florida Guitar Foundation is extremely proud … +

An eclectic group of live bands will take the stage at ArtServe, as this notable cultural location converts into a live music venue for a one-night extravaganza.  Headlining band, Musidora, offers a broad musical palette ranging from pummeling alt rock to ethereal-chill tunes.  Featured acts include C***Monsters, Escape the Clouds, Chris Kay and other special guest artists. Delicious snacks and a bountiful … +

The Frost Studio Jazz Band presents a concert featuring new music by Stephen Guerra, Jr. as conductor and graduate assistant William Longo, with members of the Frost Studio Jazz Band. UM Gusman Concert Hall Frost School of Music 1314 Miller Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 Ph: 305-284-2241 www.miami.edu/frost/

       A live film adapted from a graphic novel by DJ Kid Koala that is equal parts theater, cinema and music concert. A robot love story is animated by puppets and miniature sets while being lit, filmed and projected onto the silver screen — as Kid Koala accompanies and turntables, and the Afiara Quartet on strings. “nothing short of magical” –Eugene … +

The Foundation NAEMI (National Arts Exhibition of the Mentally III Inc) presents its 29º Anniversary Annual Art Brut Exhibition opening on April 21st 5-7pm at Borders Picture Framing & Gallery (1601 SW 1st St Miami, FL 33135). Works from Misleidys Castillo, Isaac Crespo, Christopher Paul, Sebastián Ferreira, Damián Valdés Dilla, Lucia Ballester and Peyi Rodríguez Cabrera are for sale. There is free … +