Open Figure Drawing At Bakehouse Arts Complex (BAC)

Alette Simmons-Jimenez’s work is motivated by the dynamic relationships between shapes, form, and color resulting from a spontaneous integration of the known and the unknown. Beginning with layering, overlapping, and binding things together, Simmons-Jimenez then physically tears her work apart to see what abstractions are revealed. Her approach uses the traditional elements of color, composition, line, and form to consider human vulnerability … +

South Florida Symphony Orchestra performance will be the last of its current season, bringing Mendelssohn’s popular Hebrides Overture opening the concert and Tchaikovsky’s fateful 5th Symphony’s brilliant fortissimos bringing the season to a majestic end. The SFSO has joined an international consortium of orchestras by co-commissioning a work written for returning pianist Jeffrey Biegel by composer/satirist Peter Schickele’s fictitious 18th Century alter … +

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood holds Dual Frequency  as part of South Florida Cultural Consortium 2017. The exhibition includes interdisciplinary work from 14 preeminent South Florida artists selected to receive awards in 2017 of either $15,000 or $7,500. These awards are among the largest of such honors accorded by local arts agencies to visual and media artists in the United States. … +

Following 36 critically acclaimed productions and 20 Carbonell Awards, the 2017/18 lineup features four  plays from Miami’s own Zoetic Stage—including “Best Musical” Tony Award winner Fun Home—and the New York Times “Critics’ Pick” Off-Broadway hit, Small Mouth Sounds by Drama Desk Award winner Bess Wohl. This Season of Theater Up Close will include: Topdog/Underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Stuart Meltzer November … +

The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood celebrates the 10th anniversary of Girls’ Club with the exhibition Change Agents: Six South Florida Artists Making Things Happen. The show presents new works by artists from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz. The concurrent exhibit is Mottos, raising social awareness by challenging pre-existing stereotypes. Events at the Center: November 18, 12 – 8 … +

Martha Graham Dance Company and the SFSO come together for the Symphony’s 20th Anniversary celebration performing Stravinsky’s revolutionary ‘Rite of Spring’ and Copland’s legendary Appalachian Spring to Martha Graham’s original choreography. Graham 2 choreographer Virginie Mécène brings alive the WORLD PREMIERE performance of her new work, A New Place, inspired by the creative genius of Tom Hormel’s Legend of Bird Mountain. Tickets … +