Welcome to your weekly Miami Beach Arts & Culture guide. View below digital event highlights for the week and be sure to check out our
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LOSE QUARTERS COMMISSIONS LAUNCHES TONIGHT!
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Oolite Arts is launching its first ever online film festival
Close Quarters Commissions
, showcasing the creativity of South Florida filmmakers during this trying time of tight spaces and limited resources.
Twelve filmmakers were each commissioned to make a film up to 3-minutes long during 2 weeks of quarantine.
Participating filmmakers include:
- Ronald Baez, “Buscando” (Searching)
- Rachel Benjamin, “Day in Life”
- Valerie Brooks, “Never Eat Soggy Waffles”
- Alexa Caravia, “Nagasaki”
- Juan Castaneda, “Echo Chamber”
- Avram Dodson, “Mommy, Will You Play with Me?”
- Anton Forbes, “Mad Chef Disease”
- Pamela Longsword, “Kairi During COVID”
- Christopher Lopez, “LOL_onlymiami”
- Frantzy Moreau, “New Normal”
- Carmen Pelaez, “Caridad y Gallo” (Caridad and the Rooster)
- Gabriela Serra, “Lil Haiti 115 NE 76 Calle”
RSVP
to join Oolite Arts on Wednesday, July 15, at 7 p.m., to see their only in Miami stories at their new online micro-film festival.
Looking for COVID-19 related news? The City of Miami Beach has created a comprehensive resource detailing business assistance resources, travel & transportation details, useful tools and more.
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North Beach Social: Forró Cravo & Canela Live Stream
July 16
8 PM - 9 PM
The Rhythm Foundation
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Zen and the Art of...with Gidi Grinstein
July 20
7 PM
FIU-MBUS & The Betsy
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MBUS Live Art Talk 2020: Gretchen Scharnagl
July 20
5:30 PM
FIU-Miami Beach Urban Studios
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Thursday at Three:
Jacqueline Goldstein with Jordana Pomeroy
July 16
3 PM
FIU-The Jewish Museum of Florida
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Coloring Pages from the Bass' Collection
On Demand
The Bass
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Symphony in Place: The Virtual Symphony, Part I
On Demand
New World Symphony
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Kareem Tabsch
is the co-founder and co-director of Miami's largest art house cinema, O Cinema, an Award-winning documentary filmmaker and an Arts Advocate who strongly believes in the power of the arts, particularly film, to enrich lives and revitalize communities.
Kareem's most recent directorial work,
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
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is currently tending on Netflix. Every day for decades, Walter Mercado — the iconic, gender non-conforming astrologer — mesmerized 120 million Latino viewers with his extravagance and positivity.
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Nu Deco Ensemble
performs a symphonic suite of Aretha Franklin's music at The Adrienne Arsht Center's Knight Concert Hall in Miami, FL.
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The City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs staff is available to assist artists and arts organizations in identifying nationwide and local recovery resources for artists and arts organizations. If you or your organization has been impacted by Covid-19, you may be eligible for assistance. Learn more at our
Recovery Resources
portal. The site is frequently updated, so be sure to check back often.
Still have questions? Some of them may be answered in the
Arts & Culture Small Business Webinar
, hosted by Mayor Dan Gelber. Originally hosted on Monday, April 6, the archive is available on Facebook
here
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