Art Centers

This exhibition is inspired by an artist residency commemorating the National Parks Service Centennial in 2016. These paintings in oil, pastel and acrylic capture very personal impressions of the landscapes of Big Cypress, Fort Jefferson, Biscayne and Everglades National Parks created during this coveted residency. In the gallery, the viewer can also experience a raw-footage video of the artist’s multiple visits to … +

Gallim Dance is one of New York’s leading contemporary dance companies. Artistic Director Andrea Miller creates works of uncompromising language that exert every drop of sweat, every breath, and full abandonment from a virtuosic company of dancers. With each new work, Gallim dives into singular explorations of universal struggles such as love, spirituality, and the tensions between the individual and collective experience. … +

A film performed in real time with overhead projectors, shadow puppets, actors in silhouette, and live music. The film’s setting is the mid-century American Southwest and is inspired by the music of Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and Patsy Cline. Lula Del Ray is a mythic reinvention of the classic coming-of-age story. There will be an O, Miami Poetry Festival Free Closing Night … +

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 … +

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, … +

The exhibition Letter from the Unknown by artist Angela Valella examines what might be referred to as arcane or archaic modes of communication and technologies. It comprises a collection of first found written literary work and drawings by a writer whose work was never published together with the artist sculptures, installation, collages and video. Letter from Unknown (Woman) is a 1922 novel … +

After his ex-girlfriend disappears, Sidney, a glam rock dilettante, is forced to look after his 11-year-old son full-time. His ‘cool dad’ facade quickly falls apart and his life goes into full tailspin as he struggles to let go of his rock-and-roll lifestyle. Meeting with Film’s director after the screening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPeBVnhqLP8 Classroom South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 Street Miami … +

The music of HuDost, the Neo Folk World Rock Ensemble from Montreal and KY, weaves a seamless tapestry of sound that renders tears and laughter in listeners. The duo has toured extensively throughout the US, Canada and Europe since 2008. Their performance here in South Florida will include local tabla sensation, Jeffrey Deen and special guest flutist, George Tortorelli. Their music is … +

Gary Mullen along with his band The Works, delivers the look and the sound of arguably the greatest live band of all time. A concert designed to present hit after hit of Queen’s “never-to-die” anthems, including “We Will Rock You,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “A Kind of Magic,” “I Want to Break Free” and “We Are the Champions.” Main Stage South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts … +

Two-time Tony Award-winner and My Big Fat Greek Wedding comedy star Andrea Martin joins forces with Seth Rudetsky for a night of Broadway music. After getting her start on SCTV, she won her first Tony Award for My Favorite Year, a second for Pippin, and received Tony Award nominations for her roles in Young Frankenstein, Oklahoma, Candide and Noises Off. Andrea Martin … +

From Nobel Prize Laureate Harold Pinter, The Caretaker is a powerful exploration of social class and the human condition. This tangled tale of two brothers and the mysterious stranger who enters their world crackles with absurd comedy that comes to profound tragedy. The Caretaker sold out runs in both New York and London, and remains one of Pinter’s most celebrated and performed … +

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 … +

DRUMLine Live is a show created by the musical team behind the hit movie, it joins 40+percussive musicians, dancers, singers and actors performing intricate choreography that embodies the soulful, high-stepping style of the historically black college and university marching band experience. It includes jazz, ragtime, big band, funk and hip hop. Main Stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nbrn9QzrAU South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW … +

Leading contemporary dance company, Augusto Soledade Brazzdance (ASBD), will premiere their latest piece Think Blue. Their performance will also include excerpts of different works both old and new, giving audience members a sample of ASBD’s diverse repertoire. Think Blue is inspired by the book Why The Sky Is Far Away: A Nigerian Tale, retold by Mary-Joan Gerson. This repertory work, along with … +

Orchestra and Chorus of MIAMI LYRIC OPERA Pablo Hernandez  Chorusmaster Jeffrey Eckstein  Conductor Raffaele Cardone  Artistic and General Director Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American Navy officer, opportunistically engages a marriage broker to find him a house and a wife. A 15-year-old young Geisha, named Butterfly is introduced to him. She falls immediately in love with Pinkerton, converts to Christianity and banishes her relatives … +

Josemi Carmona & Javier Colina directly from Spain present De Cerca, the musical encounter between the flamenco guitar leader of the legendary band Ketama and the double bass playing of Javier Colina (a regular of Bebo and Chucho Valdés or Jerry González). Jazz & Flamenco share common roots in this virtuoso project that joins two essential names of Spanish music nowadays. Carnival … +

One of the finest Indian tabla players in the world, Zakir Hussain, and renowned santoor player Rahul Sharma team up for one legendary night. Zakir Hussain has been awarded the titles of Padma Shri in 1988, and Padma Bhushan in 2002, becoming the youngest percussionist to be awarded these titles, given to civilians of merit by the Indian government. Rahul Sharma on … +

Internationally renowned conductor Osmo Vänskä and the New World Symphony dedicate an evening to Nordic musical masters, featuring Nielsen’s grand sunrise that ascends in what the composer calls a “joyous song of praise.” From Nielsen Helios Overture. Grieg’s famous Piano Concerto comes to life in the hands of pianist Garrick Ohlsson before Sibelius’ magnificent First Symphony. Knight Concert Hall The Adrienne Arsht … +

Returning to Miami following his critically-acclaimed debut in 2014, Jesús Carmona and his company of 11 dancers, musicians and vocalists perform an innovative and emotionally charged program created by Carmona. Titled Impetus (“bursting with energy”), the piece stars Carmona, who also choreographs and directs this powerful dance interpretation of the most famous scores from Spain’s beloved composers, including Albéniz, Riqueni and Escudero. … +

This one-woman tour-de-force performance brings more than 20 Latina characters to glorious life on stage by weaving together tales of love, marriage, immigration, and identity through eccentric stories and whimsical song. A world premiere collaboration between Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer and highly celebrated, three-time Carbonell Award-winning Cuban-American actress Elena María García, ¡FUÁCATA! finds endless humor in what it means to be Latina … +

Max Pollak and his musicians meld Afro-Cuban music and dance with American jazz, body percussion and tap dance. An explosive brass and percussion section evokes a powerful “Orquesta” capturing the deep grooves and charged electricity of Afro-Latin Soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRH-mU83j0 Black Box Theater South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 Street Miami FL 33189 786.573.5316 www.smdcac.org