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The Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program, with guidance from the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council, develops, coordinates and promotes the performing and visual arts groups in Miami Beach. To date, Cultural Affairs has awarded over $10 million in grants to approximately 130 diverse not-for-profit arts groups, which contribute so richly to the artistic landscape of the City, proving that the Council plays an integral leadership role in supporting, promoting and advocating the unique and extensive scope of cultural offerings in Miami Beach. For more events visit: www.mbculture.com Email Us Visit MB Webpage
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TONIGHT!!
SOUNDSCAPE CINEMA SERIES presented by Citi®: Mr. and Mrs. Smith FREE
Wednesday, February 10, 8:00 p.m.
Exostage @ Miami Beach SoundScape, 500 17 Street
Enjoy free movies every Wednesday night!
This week:
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) Directed by Doug Liman; with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The FREE SoundScape Cinema Series presented by Citi® encourages you to bring your blanket or beach chair and picnic! No glass please.
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The Golem of Havana
Thursday through Sunday, February 11 - 14, 2016
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road
The Golem of Havana tells the story of a Hungarian-Jewish family living in Batista's Havana on the brink of the Cuban Revolution. When their maid's son, a guerrilla fighter, is injured, they must choose between protection him and guarding their fragile prosperity since emigrating to Cuba after World War II. $65 premium seats includes one ticket and a drink on stage with the cast after the show. There is also a $10 student rush ticket on performance days.
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45 Years
Thursday, February 11, 6:30 p.m.
O Cinema Miami Beach, 500 71 Street
Kate and Geoff are a couple preparing to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. But a stunning revelation-the body of Geoff's former lover has been discovered fifty years after she fell from a mountain in the Swiss Alps-suddenly changes everything. Consumed with questions about her husband's past, Kate reconsiders everything she's known about her entire marriage and, as the anniversary party draws nearer, finds herself at a potentially life-changing crossroads.
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Dance Band Night: Hot Club of the Americas FREE
Thursday, February 11, 7:00 p.m.
North Beach Band Shell, 7275 Collins Avenue
Every 2nd Thursday, it's Dance Band Night! This month we present Federico Britos' Hot Club of the Americas, and a pre-concert dance lesson. For years Federico Britos has performed sets all over the world that include the music of the Hot Club of France and Latin Jazz. It is a band that performs a unique blend of Latin and Gypsy Jazz.
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SPEAKING IN CINEMA #8
Thursday, February 11, 7:00 p.m.
Miami Beach Cinematheque, 1130 Washington Avenue, First Floor
SPEAKING IN CINEMA explores cinema's past, present and future as the medium that encompasses spatial, temporal and visual aspects of art.
Special guests: Producer of the films of Todd Haynes CHRISTINE VACHON and Rolling Stone Film Critic DAVID EHRLICH. Hosted by Bill Cosford Cinema Director and TRAE DELELLIS discussing the films of Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon: "Alternate Heavens".
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The Big Short
Multiple screenings February 11 - 17, 2016
O Cinema Miami Beach, 500 71 Street
In 2005, eccentric San Jose-based money manager and heavy-metal music enthusiast MICHAEL BURRY (
Christian Bale
) studies thousands of individual loans bundled into highly rated mortgage bonds and makes a startling discovery... The financial products are loaded with delinquent home loans. Burry invents a financial instrument called the credit default swap in order to "short" the booming housing market.
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Live Music Series at The Betsy FREE
Thursday, February 11: Tom Lippincott
The Betsy-South Beach offers great live jazz Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m.! Enjoy great classic cocktails; no cover, no drink minimum, just a warm, welcoming atmosphere where everyone can be themselves. Settle in for an evening of great live music (mostly jazz) in a relaxed setting, with sofas and oversized chairs in our Lobby Salon.
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Bryson Tiller T R A P S O U L Tour
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 p.m.
Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater, 1700 Washington Avenue
Bryson Djuan Tiller is an American singer-songwriter and occasional rapper. His debut studio album, T R A P S O U L, released on October 2, 2015. Bryson Djuan Tiller was born on January 2, 1993, in Louisville, Kentucky. His mother died when he was four years old. He has three siblings.
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"Earthbound Musings" by Carlos Spartacus FREE
Continues through February 12, 2016
Miami Beach Urban Studios, 420 Lincoln Road
"My conceptual art is rooted in Buddhist philosophy where I concentrate my energy into the present moment. Whether it is sensory responses through mark making, or responding to the surface of a wall, I am always conscious about the moment I am creating...The embrace of life itself is a theme I observe in my art. I make art as a way to practice my spirituality". -Carlos Spartacus.
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The Club
Multiple screenings February 12 - 18, 2016
O Cinema Miami Beach, 500 71 Street
Shipped off to a seaside monastery for various venial transgressions, four Catholic priests have their cozy exile disturbed by charges of molestation, in this incendiary, blackly humorous drama from Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín.
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EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO
Multiple screenings February 12 - 17, 2016
Miami Beach Cinematheque, 1130 Washington Avenue, First Floor
In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Peter Greenaway's film explores the mind of a creative genius facing the desires and fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of the career of one of the greatest masters of Cinema.
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FIU PERFORMANCE: The Signalman FREE
Friday, February 12, 7:00 p.m.
The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue
FIU Honors College students present a staged reading of Charles Dickens' ghost story "The Signalman," a short story first published in the 1866 Christmas edition of "All the Year Round."
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MFA Girls' Eye View FREE
Opening Reception: Friday, February 12, 7:30 p.m.
Continues through March 25, 2016
Miami Beach Urban Studios, 420 Lincoln Road
The co-Curators of the upcoming MBUS exhibition MFA Girls Eye View: American Collages and Photomontages invited FIU's female MFA-Visual Arts students to respond to the current American socio-political environment. The eleven artists who agreed to participate in the show are painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, videographers, conceptual artists, sculptors, and Fibers-artists.
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Madeon
Friday, February 12, 9:00 p.m.
Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater, 1700 Washington Avenue
Hugo Pierre Leclercq, better known by his stage name Madeon, is a French electronic music producer from Nantes, France. He initially gained popularity by means of his video "Pop Culture", a mash-up of nearly forty different popular songs in real-time using a MIDI controller, which was published to YouTube and subsequently received millions of hits in its first few days of broadcast on the Internet.
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Gay and Lesbian Walking Tour
Saturday, February 13, 11:00 a.m.
Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive
The Miami Design Preservation League has joined forces with the Miami-Dade Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau to bring you this ninety-minute guided walking tour on the second Saturday of each month. Tour departs from MDPL's Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive at 10th Street. Tickets are $20.
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Portfolio Classes FREE
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 p.m.
bassX at Miami Beach Regional Library, 227 22 Street
Weekend art workshop helps young artists develop a portfolio and explore various mediums, techniques and tools for art-making. Reservations required.
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Day at the Beach: Descemer Bueno
Saturday, February 13, 4:00 p.m.
North Beach Bandshell, 7275 Collins Avenue
Community Arts and Culture kicks off their 2016 season of events with a bang with a performance by c
lassically-trained Cuban guitarist, singer/songwriter and producer, Descemer Bueno who co-founded the band Yerba Buena.
The show opens with a Guitar Over Guns showcase of a variety of youth performers and alumni at the at-risk youth program spearheaded by CNN Heroes recipient Chad Bernstein. Tickets are $25, on sale
online, or $35 at the door.
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Nestor Zurita Quintet
Nestor Zurita is constantly searching for new ways to create new melodic ideas, with improvisations that are always beautiful and intricate. The Nestor Zurita Quartet always givs their all to the public and their music is guaranteed to keep the audience at the edge of their seats!
VIP Admission is $30, $20 General, $15 for seniors and students.
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SOUNDS OF THE TIMES: A MODERNIST EXPLOSION
Saturday, February 13, 7:30 p.m.
New World Center, 500 17 Street
Composer, conductor and music director of Paris' Ensemble Intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher skirts the cutting edge with his own expressive Five Pieces for Orchestra, a tribute to the Second Viennese School. Pintscher is joined by Ensemble Intercontemporain colleague Jérôme Comte for a spellbinding Concerto by Unsuk Chin, a South Korean native who moved to Germany to study with György Ligeti.
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Royal Ballet: Rhapsody / Two Pigeons
Sunday, February 14, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.
O Cinema Miami Beach, 500 71 Street
Direct from Britain's The Royal Opera House at the iconic Covent Garden Theatre in London, This delightful Frederick Ashton double bill opens with his setting of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, using the music's dark turbulence and brilliance to inspire some of his most thrilling choreography. The second half of the programme features Ashton's delicate, deceptively comic The Two Pigeons - a work rarely performed and a real treat for ballet fans everywhere.
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Black History Month: Nicole Henry Ensemble FREE
Sunday, February 14, 2:00 p.m.
Collins Park, 2100 Collins Avenue
Featuring Pete Wallace, Eric England, and Dave Chiverton. Nicole is a dynamic, sexy and original talent whom I greatly admire. She continues a tradition of the classic jazz singers yet creates a totally fresh and contemporary sound with her own formidable voice. There's simply no one like her. -Michael Feinstein
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Day at the Beach: Grassroots Preview FREE
Sunday, February 14, 4:00 p.m.
North Beach Bandshell, 7275 Collins Avenue
Community Arts and Cultural continues a weekend of great music at the Bandshell. The Day at the Beach concert series Sunday February 14, brings a special preview of the
Virginia Key Grassroots Festival
- filled with live music, great food, yoga workshops, arts and craft bazaar, and more. Featured acts include headliners Big Mean Sound Machine from Ithaca, New York, and locally-based favorites
Big Brooklyn Red and
Jean P Jams.
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Tuesdays with Julian: A Series of Musically-Illustrated Conversations FREE
Tuesday, February 16, 7:00 p.m.
Miami Beach Urban Studios, 420 Lincoln Road
Join Julian Kreeger, President of Friends of Chamber Music, as he listens to and discusses Violin Performances with UM Professor and Violinist, Charles Castelman. Free and Open to the public.
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Maria Lino FIU MFA '08: Bread Work FREE
Continues through February 17, 2016
Miami Beach Urban Studios, 420 Lincoln Road
Bread Work springs from an interest in the rhythm and repetition of manual labor and from the love of bread, not only as food, but as a social and cultural identifier, as well as an ephemeral object of visual beauty.
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Tour of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach FREE
Wednesday, February 17, 12:00 p.m.
Holocaust Memorial, 1933 Meridian Avenue
Join a docent led tour of the Holocaust Memorial that will, in the words of its creator, Ken Treister, lead the visitors through "a series of outdoor spaces" and "a procession of visual historical, and emotional experiences with the hope that the totality of the visit will express, in some small way, the reality of the Holocaust."
The Holocaust Memorial is an integral part of the landscape of Miami Beach and it's message resonates with all who visit.
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Lecture: Virginia Key
Wednesday, February 17, 7:00 p.m.
Art Deco Museum, 1001 Ocean Drive
This lecture will introduce the 20-year record of measurements from the tide gauge on Virginia Key. Trends of sea level rise over the entire period as well as more recent years will be discussed, followed by an overview of forecasts of regional sea level rise rates. Speaker: Brian McNoldy, Senior Research Associate at the University of Miami.
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SOUNDSCAPE CINEMA SERIES presented by Citi®: Terminator Genisys FREE
Wednesday, February 17, 8:00 p.m.
Exostage @ Miami Beach SoundScape, 500 17 Street
Enjoy free movies every Wednesday night!
This week:
Terminator Genisys (2015) Directed by Alan Taylor; with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The FREE SoundScape Cinema Series presented by Citi® encourages you to bring your blanket or beach chair and picnic! No glass please.
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Jérémy Gobé FREE
Continues through February 28, 2016
bassX at Miami Beach Regional Library, 227 22 Street
Jérémy Gobé presents Freedom Guiding Wool, a room-sized textile installation. Gobé, who lives and works in Paris, will be creating a new installation during his Fountainhead Residency in Miami. The work will use video, drawing and kinetic sculpture to explore man's tendency to imbue objects with human consciousness and a will of its own.
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Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern
Continues through February 28, 2016
The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue
Central and South American flora take center stage in Philodendron, a sprawling exhibition that charts the migration of tropical plants from their native habitats to North American and European gardens and interiors. Spanning three centuries and drawing together objects from the Amazon, Caribbean, and beyond, the survey explores this often-overlooked, Pan-American cultural exchange to deconstruct the "social lives" of the plants.
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Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage
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Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Avenue
This exhibition details the dramatic recovery of historic materials relating to the Jewish community in Iraq from a flooded basement in Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters, and the National Archives' recovery work in support of U.S. Government efforts to preserve and make these materials available. Guest Curator, Gabriel Goldstein will present an insider's view to the story behind the history of the recovery of the items and preservation project. Presentation and Brunch: $18 JMOF-FIU Members; $25 Non-members.
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MAA Students Thesis Projects FREE
Continues through March 11, 2016
Miami Beach Urban Studios, 420 Lincoln Road
Coordinated with Professor Gray Read with FIU Master of Arts in Architecture advanced thesis work by Sara Garaulet, Jeanne Canto, Manny Ferro, Selene Varela, Marco Campa, and Marny Pareda.
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Mark Podwal: All This Has Come Upon Us....
Continues through March 13, 2015
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Avenue
The artist, author and illustrator is best known for his drawings on The New York Times OP-ED page. The exhibition features Podwal's drawings and paintings of historical threats of antisemitism, combined with verses from the Book of Psalms. With so many recent incidents of antisemitic acts throughout Europe and the U.S., and even right here in Florida, the topic has never been so relevant.
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New Sculpture by Sylvie Fleury
Continues through May 31, 2015
bassX at Miami Beach Regional Library, 227 22 Street
Sylvie Fleury
is known for her seductive works that re-contextualize status symbols, luxury goods and brand slogans. Eternity Now 2015, her newest site-specific neon, will be installed on the façade of the Bass Museum of Art's Art Deco building as part of bassX, the museum's series of artist projects presented during its year-long renovation.
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Watercolors-English and American
Ongoing
World Erotic Art Museum, 1205 Washington Avenue
The extraordinary persona of Sylvie Jones, the famed London artist who has also written such popular children's books as "Who's in the Tub," will be on view. Tickets are $15 with no one under 18 admitted.
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| Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from the Wolfsonian Collection Ongoing
Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue
305.531.1001 www.wolfsonian.org The nearly 300 works on display, 1885 to 1945, provide insight into the ways design has influenced and adapted to the modern world. |
Artcenter/South Florida Artists-In-Residence FREE
Ongoing
Artcenter/South Florida, 924 Lincoln Road
305.674.2728 www.artcentersf.org
ArtCenter/South Florida ("ACSF") announces the arrival of four new Artists-in-Residence and welcomes visitors to their working studios.
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| MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida
Ongoing
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Avenue 305.672.5044 www.jewishmuseum.com More than 500 photos and artifacts that depict the Jewish experience in Florida since 1763. The exhibit includes three films and a timeline wall of Jewish history. |
| Jazid Nightly - Varying Times 1342 Washington Avenue 305.673.9372 www.jazid.net Jazid is proud to be the longest-running nightclub on Miami Beach with live music every night of the week. Jazid's diverse music includes a multi-cultural mix of Latin and American jazz, funk, cumbia, reggae, rock, and more. |
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Free Fridays at the Wolf FREE
Fridays, 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue
FREE gallery admission with the support of The Miami Herald. Tours begin at 6:00 p.m. with innovative programming at 7:00 p.m.
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Guided, Private and Self-Guided Tours of the Art Deco Historic District
Ongoing
Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive
All tours take approximately 90 minutes. Prices vary.
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| Art Deco Bike and Segway Tours
Ongoing
Bike and Roll, 210 10 Street
$39 adults/$29 kids and students. |
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