Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of the Vizcayne and Nikki Beach Summer Party on Thursday, June 23, 2011. Â Had a great time and what an awesome view from Vizcayne pool area, I would be out there every day.
Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to his flickr page or his facebook page.
Mia Lounge Internationa Saturdays. Free Admission on Rick’s List!
6/25/11, 10:00PM
Mia Lounge Downtown Miami
20th Biscayne Blvd
Downtown Miami
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Vizcayne and Nikki Beach Summer Party on Thursday, June 23, 2011. Â Had a great time and what an awesome view from Vizcayne pool area, I would be out there every day.
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Sunday, August 21 at 2 pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami
HistoryMiami invites you to join us for a screening of news footage, films, and home movies reflecting Miami’s aviation history. Hosted by Miami Dade College’s Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, this program will feature a discussion by aviation experts, including historian Dr. Paul George.
Free and open to the public.
Info/RSVP email: e.info@historymiami.org
July 6 from 5 pm – 8 pm
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
First Wednesday of the Month
Relax and mingle with young professionals and downtowners for an evening of live entertainment, networking and wine. Enjoy live music by the Oscar Fuentes Combo and see our latest exhibition, Aviation in Miami: The First 100 Years.
Members & County Employees Complimentary Glass of Wine
FREE General Admission & Parking Available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue
$15 wine and food bar or $5 per drink
Culinary Treats and Drinks provided by 2B Asian Bistro
RSVP by May 30
Call 305-375-1614 or email rsvp@historymiami.org
Thursday, June 30 5:30 pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami
Fly away with HistoryMiami for an evening of celebration and discover how aviation has impacted Miami and its residents in the 20th century. Enjoy live music, hors d’oeuvres and bar.
RSVP by June 17 to 305-375-1618 or membership@historymiami.org.
Free general admission
Summer Flickin’ Movies at Gusman
Thursday, June 23rd
Happy Hour 6pm
Movie 7:00pm
Gusman Center
174 E. Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33131
Followed by Dancing on Stage to the tunes of DJ Mr. Pauer!
Our “Flickin’ Summer” movie series returns for a third season as we showcase four classic teen movies followed by an onstage dance party with DJ MR PAUER. At only $10 per ticket, it’s a cool way to spend a hot summer night!
We kick off Flickin’ Summer with Pretty in Pink, the classic 1986 romantic comedy from director John Hughes. Molly Ringwald stars as a poor girl who must choose between the affections of her doting childhood sweetheart and a rich but sensitive playboy.
Come early to enjoy happy hour specials starting at 6 p.m., and stay afterwards to dance onstage with retro classics from DJ, MR PAUER!
Flickin’ Summer is sponsored by the Miami Downtown Development Authority.
CANCELLED
Miami-Dade County Mayoral Debate
Wednesday, June 22nd
6:00pm-7:30pm
Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
Carlos Gimenez and Julio Robaina, candidates for mayor of Miami-Dade County, square off in a public debate. Free and open to the public. Doors open at 5 p.m.
Sponsored by the Miami Downtown Development Authority and the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.
The After Party presented by 42BELOW Vodka
Saturday June 11, 10:30pm
Grand Central
697 N. Miami Ave.
Enter the Nineties
Reception: Thursday, June 16, 7-8:30 p.m.
Main Library
2nd floor exhibition space
101 W. Flagler Street
With a special collaboration from MARILYN GOTTLIEB ROBERTS and THE END
June 16 – September 13
This summer, as part of its year-long 40th anniversary celebration, the Miami-Dade Public Library System remembers the 1990s. That decade was a memorable time for the Library’s summer art tradition: exhibitions organized around one simple, culturally-loaded object or theme — shoes, boats, the alphabet, food, landscape, sound, dogs — with broad participation from many artists. Enter the Nineties adopts that format by inviting artists, writers, librarians, and cultural producers from Miami and elsewhere to trade zines (independent, do-it-yourself magazines or fanzines) with the Library. The Art Services and Exhibitions Department made a 90s throwback zine called Poetry and Power and will exhibit all the zines received in exchange.
Although zine culture dates back to 1930 or before, it flourished in the nineties. The show includes permanent art collection work from past summer shows, artists’ publications and seminal artists’ periodicals recently added to the permanent art collection; and the extensive array of traded zines and a lounge area for reading them.
For more information and a list of participating artists to date, check out the Library Exhibitions website. And you can also keep up with us on Facebook!
Downtown Votes! Downtown Miami Hosts Mayoral Debate
Candidates to Face-Off on Issues Critical to Growing Downtown Community
Wednesday June 22, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
174 E. Flagler Street
Miami
This Event Is Free And Open To The Public
As a kick-off of the Miami Downtown Development Authority’s Downtown Votes! campaign to encourage voter registration amongst new residents, the agency will partner with Miami Dade College and the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts to host a special debate between mayoral candidates, former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Carlos Gimenez, in advance of the June 28 run-off election.
At the event moderated by Michael Putney, the host of “This Week in South Florida†on WPLG, downtown constituents will have the opportunity to ask questions of both candidates regarding their plans to support continued growth and development within Miami’s urban core. City of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado will also be in attendance and will provide a few brief remarks prior to the commencement of the debate.
More than 80 residential condo buildings were erected in downtown Miami during the boom, injecting new life into the district and forever changing the City’s skyline. Out of the ashes of the boom-turned-bust, a 24-7 community has emerged with more than 70,000 new residents now calling downtown Miami home.
And more residents mean more voters: since 2003, Downtown Miami’s registered voter population has surged 184% — giving a much needed voice to the County’s largest employment center and economic hub.
Opening Reception and Artist Talk for Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
Saturday, July 16, 2011 ï 6-9pm
Artist talk begins 6:30pm (Space is limited. First come, first seated.)
Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami, FL 33130
MAM members free, Non-members $20
Free event parking at 50 NW 2nd Ave.
RSVP@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.1704
The Board of Trustees of Miami Art Museum welcomes members and guests to the opening reception for Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other. Neuenschwander will discuss her work during an Artist Talk beginning at 6:30pm. Guests will enjoy a festive reception with Fresh Fruit Caipirinhas provided by Leblon Cachaca.
Miami Art Museum Presents Brazilian Artist Rivane Neuenschwander’s First Mid-Career Survey
Artist’s Collaborations with Musicians, Forensic Artists, Bar Patrons, Nature and Exhibition Visitors Result in Poetic, Yet Playful Works
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other
July 17 – October 16, 2011
Rivane Neuenschwander, Chove chuva / Rain Rains, 2002. Aluminum buckets, water, steel cable, ladder. Dimensions variable. Private collection. / Rivane Neuenschwander, Primeiro amor / First Love, 2005. Pencil on paper, police sketch artist, table and chairs. 11 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. each. .29 x 21 cm. Installation view New Museum, New York. Courtesy the artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. / Rivane Neuenschwander, Eu desejo o seu desejo / I Wish Your Wish, 2003. Silkscreen on fabric ribbons. Dimensions variable. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Juan and Pat Vergez Collection. All images courtesy New Museum, New York. Photo by Benoit Pailley
Miami Art Museum will present the first mid-career survey of the work of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) focusing on over ten years of innovative practice. Neuenschwander’s work, which includes painting, photography, film, sculpture, immersive installations and participatory actions, combines conceptual rigor, sensory appeal, poetic evocation and viewer interaction. Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other (July 17 through October 16, 2011) punctuates the elements that have led to her reputation as one of the most unique contributors to contemporary Brazilian art.
Inspired by nature, time, life cycles, mysteries of perception and human exchange, Neuenschwander creates playful, sensual and often participatory artworks that blur distinctions between author, artwork and viewer. For some of the work on view, Neuenschwander is the sole creator. Other pieces are the result of collaborations with entities as varied as musicians, forensic artists, bar patrons, nature and the exhibition’s visitors. Motifs that repeat with regularity include mapping, measuring, trading and categorization.
“Rivane Neuenschwander is a very unusual artist in that many of her artworks are collaborations with ‘partners’ over which she has little or no control–rain, gravity, ants, the public,†said Peter Boswell, assistant director for programs/senior curator, Miami Art Museum. “She initiates situations and then lets them go, giving up control. That kind of generosity and openness is pretty rare and the results are often amazingly poetic.”
The exhibition, presented in Miami Art Museum’s plaza-level gallery, will include two of Neuenschwander’s immersive, viscerally beautiful installations, Rain Rains (2002) and I Wish Your Wish (2003). Rain Rains is an environment of dripping buckets, suspended from the ceiling to create an artificial rain environment. I Wish Your Wish is inspired by a tradition of a church in Bahia, Brazil, in which the faithful bind ribbons to their wrists and to the gates of the church; according to tradition, their wishes are granted when the ribbons wear away and fall off. In Neuenschwander’s version, visitors choose from thousands of ribbons printed with the wishes from past visitors to the installation and replace them with wishes of their own, turning private aspiration into collective responsibility.
The importance of film and literary sources can be seen in The Conversation (2010), a skewed homage to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 film, and First Love (2005), a psychologically complex adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novella by the same name. The Conversation, realized especially for this exhibition, is an immersive installation that investigates paranoia in an age in which privacy is no longer an individual’s natural right. In Neuenschwander’s First Love, visitors describe their ‘first love’ to a police sketch artist. The pencil sketches hang in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition, creating a very personal portrait gallery of perpetrators. In another work, A Thousand and One Possible Nights, Neuenschwander creates a calendar of constellation-like collages made by punching holes in pages of The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Miami Art Museum has organized a satellite installation at Miami Dade College InterAmerican Campus, featuring a video art work in Miami Art Museum’s permanent collection entitled Quarta-Feira de Cinzas/Epilogue (Ash Wednesday/Epilogue). The video depicts ants laboriously hauling glittering pieces of multi-colored confetti into their holes, a reference to the aftermath of Carnival festivities in Brazil. The installation will be on view at InterAmerican Campus, 627 SW 27th Ave., Miami, FL 33135, from July 14 through August 7, 2011.
Cubic Collaboration: Brick x Brick reception and exhibition
Thursday, June 9, 3-5pm
Flagler Art Space
172 W. Flagler Street
Miami, 33130
Free and open to the public
Miami Art Museum presents the end-of-year reception and exhibition for its after school teen program, Brick x Brick. Entitled “Cubic Collaboration,” the exhibition will feature a large mesh wall hanging, portrait banners, clay sculptures, “vacant lot” paintings and more, all created by students from Girl Power and Mater Academy. Brick x Brick is an innovative after-school program aimed at teens who live near the Museum’s new home in Museum Park. It uses MAM’s building project to inspire integrated problem-solving and provide direct experience in fields such as architecture, computer graphics, geography, landscape design and sociology. To get the latest update on Brick x Brick from the participants themselves, check the Brick x Brick blog.
Meet your Neighbors
Thursday, June 30, 2011
HistoryMiami
101 W Flagler Street
5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
This is your opportunity to make new friends and get to know your DWNTWN. Participating Downtown Miami restaurants will be serving up tasty appetizers, Kork Wine & Cheese will be serving wine and Magners Irish Cider will be serving beer. Come explore Aviation in Miami the first 100 years.
HistoryMiami Members only preview from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm.
Exhibition opens to the public at 6:30 pm.
Enjoy live music throughout the evening.
We’ve taken care of everything you just need to bring yourself to Meet Your Neighbors!
Please RSVP at (305) 379-7070 or by email to info@downtownmiami.net
The Welcome Channel VIP Kickoff to Summer Soiree at Largo Bar and Grill on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Â Had such a great time and the food was so good, loved the fish dip.
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Introducing the Miami Debut Art Avenue “A Different Way of Seeing Artâ€
Saturday, June 11, 2-10pm
Bodegon de Brickell
801 Brickell Bay Drive #2
Four Ambassadors [Restaurant & Bar]
Miami, FL 33131
Introducing to the public for the first time, a series of multi-media events from a pair of unique creators with a truly entrepreneurial vision. “Art Avenue†debuts this Saturday, June 11th, 2011 from 2pm-10pm at the Four Ambassadors Bodegon de Brickell (restaurant and bar) located at 801 Brickell Bay Drive #2 Miami.
“Art Avenue†Is: An event series and Art initiative where visual and fine arts meet production. The concept was created by CEO Laura Morello and Operations Manager Carina Belmonte who together started “Art Avenue†in Venezuela. Morello, with a background in social media and well on her way to achieving her Masters in film production here in Miami, and Belmonte, with a journalism degree who has worked closely with prominent media companies in Venezuela, are a tireless team with a grand vision of helping emerging and professional Artists of all genres achieve a voice and a platform in Miami for their work to be seen and sold.
Highlights: The debut “Art Avenue†event will include pre-recorded interviews playing on big screens featuring each individual artist’s talent and products for buyers and enthusiasts to preview. Clothing and accessory designers, some from Miami International University of Design including Morello’s own line of “So Kyut†accessories, will be featured on the “Art Avenue†runway next to booths where Artists; painters, designers, sculptors and otherwise creative minds will display their works both live and virtually by utilizing TV screens and the Internet. There will surely be surprises for guests to enjoy along with complimentary entrance, entertainment by a live local DJ and gourmet catering and cocktail specials.
Location: Brickell is the financial center of the major Arts and Entertainment – driven City of Miami, where multi-media and Art industry professionals collide. Today represents a new era of recession and do-it-yourself, where Art has been assigned a new identity by an information technology – obsessed and entrepreneurial generation. “We are holdong our first event in Brickell, where there are so many people who want to support the Arts†says Belmonte. “Art Avenue†is another creative solution born of the idea of the importance of bringing Art to the people.
In the Future: “Art Avenue†will be held every two to three months based on public demand and its creators’ instincts on where they feel the public will most likely enjoy it. With such an amazing start and the vision and drive of the professionals behind the concept, “Art Avenue†will surely be a name we all continue to hear about in Miami.
For More Information or to Participate
Call: 954-609-8703 / 786-564-2239
Email: Contact@ArtAvenue2011.com
Visit: www.ArtAvenue2011.com
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El Reencuentro
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Sábado, 23 de Julio, 8:00 PM
James L. Knight Center
400 SE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL
1-800-745-3000
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Wine Down Wednesday at HistoryMiami on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Â I love this monthly event it is free and you get to see the museum (which is a awesome museum) and you get to meet some great people. Â Â FREE General Admission & Free Parking Available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue and $15 open wine and food bar or $5 per drink.
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NFL Players Bartend for Charity at The Ultimate After Work Party
Friday June 3rd, 6pm
The Grand Central Miami
697 North Miami Avenue (at 7th and Miami ave 3 blks from AA Arena)
Miami, FL 33136
SET Magazine will be hosting this After Work Cocktail Party Series featuring NFL players as they show off their bartending skills mixing juice, smoothies, energy drinks, and specialty elixirs. Event proceeds benefit SET Cares. Advanced tickets at www.celebevents.eventbrite.com
Nineteenth Annual Miami International Map Fair
Saturday, February 4 and Sunday, February 5, 2012 from 10 am to 5 pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami, FL
This annual event showcases antique maps, rare books, panoramas and atlases from around the world.
Peruse and purchase antique maps from some of the finest map dealers in the world. Learn about maps through a series of lectures by experts in the field and enjoy special events held throughout the weekend.
Proceeds from Map Fair go toward maintaining and improving HistoryMiami exhibitions, educational programming and community outreach programs.
HistoryMiami Members: $5 Non-Members: $15
Tickets may be purchased at the door.
Admission includes entrance to the international dealer’s marketplace, access to expert opinions on your own map(s) and the opportunity to win door prizes.
For more information regarding HistoryMiami’s Miami International Map Fair, call 305-375-1492 or email mapfair@historymiami.org.
The Fitzgerald & Kanner Trust for Historic Maps was established to endow the Miami International Map Fair, to support the growth of HistoryMiami’s map collection, and to foster an appreciation of historic maps through exhibitions, publications and educational programming.
In 1990 an anonymous donor established the Joseph H. Fitzgerald Trust for Historic Maps as a part of the museum’s endowment. The Trust is named after Joseph H. Fitzgerald in honor of his long service to HistoryMiami and avid interest in maps. The Trust has grown through donations of generous friends and map enthusiasts.
To make a contribution to the Trust, call 305-375-1615 or email development@historymiami.org.
Screening & Discussion: “Planes on Filmâ€
HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami
Sunday, August 21 at 2 pm
HistoryMiami invites you to join us for a screening of news footage, films, and home movies reflecting Miami’s aviation history. Hosted by Miami Dade College’s Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, this program will feature a discussion by aviation experts, including historian Dr. Paul George.
Free and open to the public.
Info/RSVP email: e.info@historymiami.org
Family Fun Day: Trouble In The Tropics: Hurricanes
Saturday, August 13 from noon – 5pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami
Will you be ready for the big one when it threatens our region? HistoryMiami invites you to learn how to prepare and create your own hurricane in a bottle. See a fascinating presentation by eco-Historian Frank Schena about Miami’s infamous hurricanes.
Free and open to the public.
Info: Call: 305-375-1629
Family Fun Day: Come Fly With Us
Saturday, July 9 From Noon – 5 pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami
HistoryMiami invites you to join our special guest Wings Over Miami Air Museum and enjoy a thrilling day exploring our brand-new exhibit Aviation in Miami: The First 100 Years. See how this industry has influenced our region, and continues to be a vital part of our economy. Make vintage, gliding model airplanes and fly them on our plaza.
Free and open to the public.
For more information call: 305-375-1492
HistoryMiami Event Listings – Spring/ Summer 2011
Wine Down Wednesday
HistoryMiami, 101C West Flagler Street
First Wednesday of the Month
June 1 from 5 pm – 8 pm
Stock up on those business cards and join HistoryMiami’s Flagler Street Society and the 11th Judicial Circuit Historical Society along with members of the Young Professionals Network for an evening of wine, food and networking.
Members & County Employees Complimentary Glass of Wine
FREE General Admission & Parking Available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue
$15 wine and food bar or $5 per drink
Culinary Treats and Drinks provided by 2B Asian Bistro
RSVP by May 30
Call 305-375-1614 or email rsvp@historymiami.org
Tropical Adventures Summer Camp
Beginning June 10 to August 19 from 9 am – 5 pm
HistoryMiami’s Summer Camp is a unique program designed to engage campers in thematic programs and activities that allow them to learn while having fun. For 10 weeks, campers are exposed to indoor and outdoor hands-on activities, including gallery games, music, arts and crafts, drama, field trips to historic sites and many more exciting summertime experiences.
Members: $165/week Non-Members: $190/week
Free before and after care (8:30-9 am and 5-5:30 pm)
To register, call 305-375-1629, email: education@historymiami.org, or online at www.historymiami.org.
Miami River Boat Tour
Saturday, June 11 10 am – 1 pm
Bayside Marketplace, 401 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
Enjoy this leisurely boat ride with HistoryMiami’s historian Dr. Paul George four miles upriver along the same banks where ancient Tequesta Indians settled. Discover the hidden communities, parks, restaurants, freshwater springs and the site of the rapids. Advance reservations and payment required.
Members: $44 Non-Members: $49 Children: $25
Info/RSVP: Call: 305-375-1621 or email: citytours@historymiami.org
Family Fun Day: The Majestic Andes
Saturday, June 11 from noon – 5pm
Join the Masis Bolivian Cultural Center at HistoryMiami for an exciting performance of traditional music and dance from the Andean regions of South America. Then, get the chance to make your own beautiful Inca jewelry.
Free and open to the public.
Info: Call: 305-375-1629
Aviation In Miami: The First 100 Years
Thursday, June 30 5:30 pm
HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami
Fly away with HistoryMiami for an evening of celebration and discover how aviation has impacted Miami and its residents in the 20th century. Enjoy live music, hors d’oeuvres and bar.
RSVP by June 17 to 305-375-1618 or membership@historymiami.org.
Free general admission
CEO Power Breakfast: “Breakfast in the Cloud: What You Need to Know About Cloud Computingâ€
Miami Finance Forum
7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Thursday, June 9
The Bankers Club
2 South Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33131
Members: $20; Non-members: $55
RSVP: Elena@MiamiFinanceForum.com
Leading South Florida Technology Executives To Discuss Practical Applications
Of Cloud Computing For Legal, Financial And Other Professional-Services Firms
Miami Finance Forum’s CEO Power Breakfast and Discussion Moderated by Kaufman, Rossin & Co., Features Speakers from Terremark, CareCloud, Compuquip Technologies and ICG
The Miami Finance Forum (MFF) will serve as host to a “CEO Power Breakfast†and panel discussion titled, “Breakfast in the Cloud: What You Need to Know about Cloud Computing.†The panel, moderated by Jorge Rey of Kaufman, Rossin & Co., will seek to demystify cloud computing and answer the main question on the minds of legal, finance and other professionals: “What exactly do ‘I’ need to know about cloud computing, and how can it support my business goals?†Unlike other panels that have covered cloud in broad, technical terms, this high-level discussion will provide practical strategies and tactics to leverage cloud services to benefit businesses. The event takes place at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, June 9, at The Bankers Club, 2 South Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33131.
At the event, industry leaders will take a narrow approach to discuss and reveal practices that specifically relate to South Florida businesses in the professional-services industries. In addition, panelists will explore ways that cloud services can reduce a company’s IT expenses, enhance computing power, leverage software as a service (SaaS) applications and protect critical data.
Panel speakers include Marvin Wheeler, chief strategy officer with Terremark Worldwide, the operator of the Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas, the only facility of its kind specifically designed to link Latin America with the rest of the world. The NAP of the Americas was sold to Verizon last month for approximately $1.5 billion to accelerate Verizon’s cloud computing strategy. Other speakers include:
· Albert Dosal, President & CEO, Compuquip Technologies
· Ed Gross, President, ICG
· Albert Santalo, Founder, President & CEO, CareCloud
The Miami Finance Forum (MFF) is a not-for-profit organization supporting the growth of South Florida’s network of finance and investment professionals. It is dedicated to expand the knowledge base and professional practices of its members while ensuring the region continues to attract and retain top talent. Its membership roster is comprised of professionals experienced in private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, commercial banking, investment banking, wealth management, legal, accounting and other related professional-services industries. Since its founding in 2006, the MFF has been known for its event series, including its panel discussions, private roundtables, and happy hour mixers. More information is available at www.miamifinanceforum.com.
On May 25, Downtown Miami & Brickell Chamber of Commerce launched their first Movers and Shakers Biz Happy Hour at La Barra Brickell. This was an opportunity for many local businesses not only from Downtown Miami but also businesses from nearby cities to experience what this chamber has to offer. Just as the invite stated, “to do business with Downtown Miami & Brickell’s brightest, most affluent, vibrant and desired zip codes. And by the way: Great people too!” This described exactly what this event and the true purpose of the evening was about. It’s President and CEO, Evelio Medina was the force behind the creation of this new Chamber of Commerce as this will be the first in a series of launch event. So stay tuned!
Lite Bites and Cocktail Bar sponsored by Brugal, L’Chaim Vodka, La Barra Brickell and Latin American restaurant-Cafeteria.
Congratulations to a great launch as we welcome Downtown Miami and Brickell Chamber Commerce. A new era of networking!
For more information on the chamber and to become a new member, please visit www.miamibrickellchamber.com; email: join@brickellchamber.com; Phone: (786) 728-0008
Photographs by Betty Alvarez
Wine Down Wednesday
The first Wednesday of every month!
5pm to 8pm
HistoryMiami
101 W Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
www.historymiami.org
Mix. Mingle. Sip. Unwind. Listen to live local music favorites, browse through our open galleries and exhibitions, enjoy culinary treats and drinks!
$15 for open wine and food bar
We have lanallamas monifonica playing and have partnered with Miami Chamber Young Professionals Network.
Free parking available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue
Generously Sponsored by:
2B Asian Bistro
The River
Berger Singerman Law Firm
Soul of Miami
Life is Art
Bayside Marketplace Artists’ Square
Every Saturday and Sunday
Bayside Marketplace
401 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL
Bayside marketplace’s artists’ square is held every Saturday & Sunday (plus this holiday Mon) from 11am to dusk
Happy Hour at the Hard Rock Cafe
Thursday, June 9, 6:30 – 9:30 PM
Hard Rock Café at Bayside
401 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33
More Info and Registration.
Please come support the Zoological Society of Florida on June 9th at our fundraiser at Hard Rock Café – Bayside. Join us for the unveiling of the limited-edition Zoo Miami Hard Rock Café pin, featuring Zoo Miami’s own jaguar, an endangered species . Enjoy a live band, hors d’oeuvres, and raffle entry to win various prizes. It’s sure to be a fun-filled evening! Please click on the image below to purchase a ticket for admission- your $10 donation benefits ZSF. Hope to see you there!
National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill Holds 23rd Annual Exhibition Opening reception:
Friday, May 27, 2011. 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Borders Art Gallery
1601 SW 1st Street
Miami, FL 33135
Dates: From May 27 through June 24, 2011
The National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill (NAEMI) marks its 23 years of service to outsider art with its 23rd Annual Exhibition on May 27, 2011 at Borders Art Gallery.
NAEMI’s mission is to reduce the stigma associated with mental disabilities by discovering, studying, promoting, exhibiting and preserving the art of artists with mental disabilities. NAEMI strives to increase public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of art that is conceived and created by artists with mental disabilities, and to provide opportunities for their employment through the exhibition and sale of art works. Art created by artists with mental disabilities, also referred to as Outsider Art, pertains to art produced by self taught individuals, usually without any formal artistic training, whose work arise from an intensity of innate-personal vision. Although there is an explosion of interest in this art, it remains difficult for the work of artists with mental disabilities to be discovered or seen.
For over 24 years NAEMI’s deep concern with the lack of opportunity for artists with mental disabilities to have equal access to art exhibitions and employment in the arts has created notable exhibitions and catalog books. This project seeks to further the understanding of Outsider Art, the creative process, and the art exhibition experience with a uniquely enthralling art interpretation performance as well as through the work of artists with mental disabilities. The absence of this artistic expression in the cultural mainstream limits the scope of study of the human creative process, marginalizes the presence of a member in the community, and may perpetuate the stigma of mental illness. Experts uniformly contend that the whole community should be educated on the impact of mental illness and advocate for its complete parity with physical illness.
NAEMI collaborates with international arts organizations, local civic leaders, and artists to provide penetrating presentations and creative workshops on issues relating to mental illness, creativity, and advocacy.
Featuring the works of artists from the U.S., England, Spain, Chile, Mexico, and Paraguay. The exhibition is open to the public and sponsored by Miami Dade County Cultural Affairs Council and the Miami Dade county commissioners, Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceutica.
All 40 works featured in the exhibition will be available for sale with proceeds benefiting the artists and NAEMI’s goal of helping artists with mental illness from around the world.
The exhibition begins with an opening reception May 27 from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. – offering attendees a chance to meet the featured artists – and will continue through June 24.
NAEMI an international organization dedicated to discovering, promoting and exhibiting work by artists with mental illness launches a new exhibition with an opening reception Borders Art Gallery.
For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com
The nationally renowned iStandard Producer Showcase returns to Miami
Tuesday, May 24th and Wednesday, May 25th!
Eve
1306 N Miami Ave
Miami, FL 33136
Buy Tickets Now and Save $10 via Paypal.
This time we’re bringing a few special surprises!
But first, the guts of the event…Over these 2 evenings, 24 producers will showcase their tracks in front of an esteemed industry panel and the most vibrant and conducive setting! Winner will receive a prize package consisting of IK Multimedia SampleMoog & Amplitube 3, Ableton Live Intro, Indamixx USB, and much more (Full Product Details Below)…
May’s judges include Lamb (Grammy Nominated Platinum Producer for Missy, Monica, Keyshia Cole and more) Streetrunner (Grammy Nominated Platinum Producer for The Game, Ludacris, Lil Wayne and more), Mike Katz (Entertainment Attorney for Poe Boy Records), Drew Money (Producer for Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z, etc.), Sean Pizz (Director of A&R Slip-N-Slide Records) and The Renegades (Producers of DJ Khaled’s Smash Hit ‘Welcome To My Hood’ & More), and VERY SPECIAL GUEST – Malice of The Clipse!
Malice will not only be looking for Miami’s dopest new producers and judging the showcase, but he will also be signing copies and selling of his new book “Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind & Naked” at the iStandard Producer Showcase – Miami Style!
Thursday, May 26th, 7:00 p.m.
Biscayne Boulevard between N.E. 6th and N.E. 8th Streets
The Miami HEAT in conjunction with the Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA), will stage a Miami HEAT White Hot Road Rally, hosted by T-Mobile SK4G, starting at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 26th when the HEAT takes on the Bulls in Chicago for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Game 5 will be broadcasted live on MiamiMediaMesh, the 3,400 square foot LED screen-the largest of its kind in the Southeast-which is affixed to the front of AmericanAirlines Arena. In addition to the game broadcast, in partnership with Burger Beast, 19 of South Florida’s food trucks will be set up on Biscayne Boulevard. Fans are encouraged to bring folding and/or lawn chairs, but no coolers will be allowed on the property. The Road Rally is free and open to the public.
The HEAT will provide entertainment including performances by hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco, the HEAT Dancers, the Humana Golden Oldies, and the Miami HEAT Rhythm Section. HEAT mascot Burnie, and the Xtreme Team. In-Arena P.A. Announcer Michael Baiamonte, in-Arena Host Dale, and DJ Irie will also be in attendance.
Starting at noon on May 26th, Biscayne Boulevard will be closed between N.E. 6th and N.E. 8th Streets to accommodate the event. Parking in the AmericanAirlines Arena P2 parking garage will cost $5.00 per vehicle. Due to the Biscayne Blvd. street closure, HEAT fans will be able to access the P2 garage through the Port Boulevard entrance. Both the Miami Hoops Gear store inside the Arena as well as a new retail trailer stationed outside will be open for business.
For more information, please visit WhiteHotHEAT.com
Marriott Biscayne Bay, one of Miami’s long standing landmarks was the place for guests to witness the realization of a $31 million dollar renovation on May 17. Noted as “the bridge to everything Miami,” this hotel is right in the middle of every popular area in Miami: Downtown, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Design District, etc.
As one entered the hotel, lovely hostesses greet you and indicated to proceed to the outside area were the celebration was. Upon entering the area overlooking the beautiful blue Miami waters, guests were treated to cocktails and food ranging from Paella, pulled pork sandwiches and pull pork on top of tostones. In the middle, where was a raw bar shaped boat with oyters and shrimp to the delight of the guests. In the dessert area, a sumptuous array of mini delicacies awaited you such as mini cheesecake, chocolate on a stick, coffee flavored indulgence etc. Libations and delicacies were provided by Catch Grill and Bar.
One big moment in the event was the actual christening of the Marriott Biscayne Bay which the general manager broke the champagne bottle on top of the rail marking the beginning of more years to come for this landmark hotel.
Congratulations to a great hotel!
Photographs by Betty Alvarez
Miami Art Museum Contemporaries Social With 10×10 Miami on Saturday, May 21, 2011.
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Cirque Eloize iD Kickoff Party on the Plaza at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Thursday, May 19, 2011. Â This is going to be an awesome show, so want to go see it.
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Go Green Fashionista & Expo 2011
Saturday, June 25th 6pm
Mia at Biscayne
20 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
Silent Auction includes art by Romero Britto, Tagua & Orange Peel Jewelry by Catalina Mora, certificates, items from ALL eco friendly designers,vendors and more!!
Free Raffle ticket for guests that donate to ANY charity!
Tickets: www.gogreenfashionista2011.eventbrite.com
Fab C., Miami Social Media Group, Romero Britto Art Gallery, and The Fashion Designers Expo cordially invites you to “Go Green Fashionista” 2011, an annual event going 3 years strong in honoring eco-friendly fashions and styles ranging from vintage clothing to original eco-friendly accessories and wardrobe vamping. “Go Green Fashionista” will be an evening of high fashion at its smartest. With the help of these new era designers, Stylist’s will assist and showcase along with the designer’s on our mission to have others to be inspired in this new way of style, and to provide another utilizing fashion idea, while lessening their expenses. A Special Japan tribute showcasing the uniqueness of Japanese fashion , styled by Celebrity Stylist Joey Rolon, pulling pieces from his South Beach store “Funky Sexy Coutureâ€. Rolon is known for enhancing fashion with a cutting edge, styling for fashionista’s such as Lady Gaga, Pink, Lil’ Kim, Ciara, Madonna and more. Rolon has his styles featured in high fashion magazines such as Elle, W, and of course Ocean Drive to name a few. You can also catch styles by Joey Rolon worn by celebs on many red carpet appearances. He is also behind the creation of the famous decorated eye wear glasses worn by “Jersey Shore†cast member Snooki.
Fashion Showcase will also include: RAX Collection, jewelry and accessories that are Earth friendly and handcrafted with natural materials from the environment; Inta Gansone’s funky style dresses made out of newspaper and other recycled products; Haitian Hand Bag Designer, Adjanie Muller, embodied by the environment with natural materials and great influence from her Caribbean lifestyle. You can find her collection in various stores in South Florida. AshikoBela by Jessica Jimenez designs exquisite handcrafted one-of-a-kind frames with designs adorned with reused chains, lace, studs, and crystals, with her personal artist (Joel Arellano) to hand-paint to transition their style. Vintage fashion is also one of the most popular fashion forward steps to going green. Enjoy fashion showcase filled with styles ranging from the 60’s to the 90’s with a bit of today’s edge by RagHouse:Vintage Indie Fashion. Joining “Go Green Fashionista†this year will be Miami’s own, The Fashion Designers Expo who will be coordinating the entire fashion show production.
Guests attending will be able to sample eco-friendly products as well as visit different vendor booth presenting their “green” products such as natural soaps, beauty products, skin care amongst others. Complimentary organic food, vegetarian appetizers, natural juices, fruits, and more!! Also enjoy Organic Vodka tasting inside!
This year, our eco friendly fashion designer’s will each represent a charity organization dealing with the environment, clothing the poor, donations, amongst others and help. ALL guests will be able to help their favorite designer by helping them in fundraising and donations to their chosen charity, including relief efforts for Japan and Haiti. Guests will also be provided with information on all organizations for their support. Enjoy a night of eco friendly fashion showcasing and art, while helping each with the awareness of their charity.
www.habitat.org
www.friendsoftheorphans.org
www.oglhaiti.com
www.thebigblueandyou.com
www.peaceloveinternational.org
www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com
www.miamirescuemission.com
www.fredomisnotfree.com
Wednesday May 18, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Stearns Weaver Law Firm
150 West Flagler Street
3rd Floor
Miami, FL, FL 33130
Join Stearns Weaver and Dream in Green this Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 5:30pm- 7:30pm, to celebrate our Green Schools Challenge teachers and principals who have led the way in greening their schools this year.
Our teachers and principals are at the frontline of the future and their abounding energy and passion for creating a greener world is truly inspirational. Come out and show your appreciation for the awesome job they do every day!
Complimentary parking in the Museum Tower.
R.S.V.P. required, just click here.
For the first time ever Rik Rak Salon & Spa and Gilt City Miami, the widely acclaimed online destination for luxury services and experiences, are teamed up to host the SPRING INTO BEAUTY event at Rik Rak’s newest location, JW Marriott Marquis Miami.
Rik Rak and Gilt City friends relished in an evening of lavish pampering, delicious treats and savory cocktails while toasting to guilty pleasures. Guests experienced Rik Rak’s wide spectrum of miniature luxury services including eyelash applications, manicures and neck & hand massages, while indulging in frosted treats from Buttercream Cupcakes & Coffee.
Gilt City Miami has been delivering insider access to some of the most coveted and exclusive lifestyle experiences. To launch the SPRING INTO BEAUTY event, Gilt City Miami offered members a choice of two select packages: 50 minute Tropical Body Polish and Signature Manicure as well as a Women’s Cut, Style and Blow Dry. Both packages include a VIP invitation to the SPRING INTO BEAUTY event at the JW Marriot Marquis Miami.
For more information about Rik Rak Salon & Spa at the Marriott Marquis please call (305) 371-7324 or visit www.rikrak.com
Photographs by Betty Alvarez copyright 2011
Smash Art: A Piñata Breaking Performance
May 21, 7 – 10 p.m.
Flagler Arts Space
172 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
flaglerartsspace.com
Flagler Arts Space will unveil its newest interactive experiment, ‘Smash Art: A Piñata Breaking Performance,’ on Saturday, May 21, from 7-10 p.m. at 172 W. Flagler St., across from the Miami Art Museum.
This show, a collection of dozens of fine-art piñatas built by Flagler Arts Space members and other local artists, will feature a series of ‘you buy it, you break it’ piñata destructions. The hidden contents of each purchased piñata will be revealed, fulfilling the artwork’s purpose, and enabling viewers to appreciate the artist’s ideas. The show will remain open by appointment until Friday, June 4.
The gallery and studios were recently opened by a cooperative of eight local artists working to build welcoming and interactive exhibits in downtown Miami. The artists — Annie Blazejack, David Olivera, Juan Travieso, Leonardo Castañeda, Nicole Mucher, Nicole Serize, Noah Garcia, Ray Lopez, and Reinier Gamboa — began their art-making at Miami magnet arts high schools, and have recently returned from continuing their studies at some of the nation’s top art schools. Gallery and studio space has been donated by The Thomas Center, a real estate company committed to enlivening downtown Miami.
For more information, email flaglerartsspace@gmail.com or visit http://flaglerartsspace.wordpress.com
KCC Productions and the Miami Jazz Society present baritone LeNard Rutledge at Skylounge
May 11 at 7 PM
Skylounge
100 SE 2nd Street
Miami
The Downtown Jazz Series, now in its fourth year, is free. Parking is available in the building for a $10 event rate, and the free Metro Mover’s Knight Center stop is in the building. Food and beverage are available in the Sky Lounge. For more information call 305-539-7084.
Captivating, soul stirring, earthy and funky. These are just some of the words used to describe the song stylings of LeNard Rutledge. Growing up in Miami, Florida, LeNard was always surrounded by many different musical styles. His parents had an extensive music collection ranging from Classical, Jazz, Hymns and the funk of James Brown.
In the fall of 1984, LeNard went to St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, NC. LeNard was awarded a Band Scholarship by Dr. Harold Jeffries (Director of Bands). It was in Raleigh when LeNard’s musical journey took flight. In the fall of 1984, he recorded two jingles for WLLE, a local AM radio station. He played drums, co-wrote and sang background vocals. He played timpani and general percussion in the Concert band and was the back–up drummer for the Jazz Ensemble. After a year of hinting and periodic begging, LeNard got his first big break. In the fall of 1986, LeNard sang the ballad “Teach Me Tonight†at the Annual Spring Concert. His confidence grew as he sang more songs, which led to other projects such as studio work and voice-over jobs. For fear of letting his drumming chops falter, LeNard played at area clubs to keep the rust away. A musical friend (Rick Best) introduced him to song writing.
In 1992, Stanley Baird, an area saxophonist, asked LeNard to submit songs for his upcoming CD, Stop, Look & Listen. Stan recorded three of his songs and released them on his label, Saxony Records. In 1995, LeNard submitted two of those songs to the Billboard Songwriting Contest. One of the songs, “So In Love (with you)” placed in the top 1% of 50,000 R&B entries. In the fall of 1995, he returned for a while to Miami. Needing extra cash to return to school, a childhood friend, Alan Morley told him he could earn extra money producing Rap and Hip-Hop Music. He introduced him to Gary Bradshaw (a Miami Rapper). From October 1995 to January 1996, LeNard “ghost wrote†and produced 9 original tracks for Gary. After returning to school in January of 1996, LeNard made the Dean’s List and Graduated in May 1997 with a B.S. Degree in Industrial Hygiene and Safety.
In May 1997, LeNard moved back to Miami. In October 1997, LeNard auditioned as a vocalist for the Melton Mustafa Orchestra. He got the gig and was the featured vocalist until 2003. LeNard has been a featured vocalist at area jazz spots in South Florida. The Museum of Contemporary Art, the Van Dyke Café and O’Hara’s Jazz Pub are the most notable. LeNard has shared the stage with a number of highly respectable jazz artists such as: Nnenna Freelon, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kenny Drew Jr., and Harry Allen. In May of 2006, LeNard was named BEST JAZZ ARTIST, by the Miami New Times magazine. His first CD, Hello World, was released in November.
Join Miami’s Young Professional Cultural Community At The Annual Mam Contemporaries Social With 10×10 Miami
Saturday, May 21, 7-10pm
Miami Art Museum
101 W Flagler St.
Miami, FL 33130
FREE garage parking at the Cultural Center Garage, 50 NW 2nd Ave.
Cost: Free for MAM Contemporaries and members of participating organizations.
Guests $10
(Organizations who wish to participate should contact mamcontemporaries@miamiartmuseum.org / 305.375.2617.)
Contact: mamcontemporaries@miamiartmuseum.org / 305.375.2617
Join the MAM Contemporaries and Miami’s non-profit and cultural organizations for an artful evening at the annual MAM Contemporaries Social. Learn about the organizations that have contributed to the cultural vitality of South Florida, and hear from 10 creative Miami minds during a special 10×10 Miami presentation with emcee Brandi Reddick, Art in Public Places, and: Stephanie Ansin, Playground Theatre; George Sanchez Calderon, Artist/ Tomorrowland; Claudio Faria, Ornare; Thais Fontenelle, Design Curator; Richard Haig, Panic Bomber; Michael Laas, ECS- Environmental Creative Solutions; Julian Martin and Erika Morales, Lemon Yellow; Ofer Mizrahi, Miami Ironside Studios; and Chad Oppenheim, Architect.
Partners include: ArtCenter/South Florida, Best Buddies, Community Partnership for the Homeless, Cornell Club, Ecomb, Girls’ Club, HistoryMiami, LegalArt, Miami Science Museum, NextGen, Rotaract, Surfrider Foundation, University of Chicago Alumni Association and Wynwood Art Fair.
Open, donation bar. Support provided by Novela Law. Hors d’Å“uvres provided by The Local. Media partner: SocialMiami.com. Decor provided by Koncept Events.
MAM Contemporaries Social on Facebook.
MAM Contemporaries, Miami Art Museum’s dynamic support organization, is a group of young professionals who are curious about Miami’s constantly evolving art scene. This cosmopolitan group, open to MAM members between the ages of 21 to 41, offers those interested in the visual arts the opportunity to contribute to the cultural vitality of South Florida through art-related events and programs.
Saturday, June 11 from noon – 5pm
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Join the Masis Bolivian Cultural Center at HistoryMiami for an exciting performance of traditional music and dance from the Andean regions of South America. Then, get the chance to make your own beautiful Inca jewelry.
Free and open to the public.
Info: Call: 305-375-1629
Beginning June 10, 2011 from 9 am – 5 pm
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
HistoryMiami’s Summer Camp is a unique program designed to engage campers in thematic programs and activities that allow them to learn while having fun. For 10 weeks, campers are exposed to indoor and outdoor hands-on activities, including gallery games, music, arts and crafts, drama, field trips to historic sites and many more exciting summertime experiences.
Members: $165/week Non-Members: $190/week*
Free before and after care (8:30-9 am and 5-5:30 pm)
To register, call 305-375-1629, email: education@historymiami.org, or online at www.historymiami.org.
Every first Wednesday of the month from 5 – 8pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami
Don’t sit in rush hour traffic when you can be drinking wine, listening to live music and mingling with other professionals at HistoryMiami.
Free parking at 50 NW 2 Ave.
Free and open to the public.
Members: Complimentary Glass of Wine
RSVP to 305-375-1614 or rsvp@historymiami.org
Saturday, May 14 from noon – 5pm
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
For years, tourists have flocked to our region and returned home with mementos, such as those on view in our latest exhibit, Souvenir Maps and Plates of Florida. Come to HistoryMiami and have a look at them and enjoy making your own kitschy souvenirs!
Free and open to the public.
Info: Call: 305-375-1629 or email: education@historymiami.org
Britney Spears Announces Miami Concert Date for Her “Femme Fatale†Tour with Special Guest Nicki Minaj
July 22, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
AmericanAirlines Arena
601 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
Britney Spears returns to the AmericanAirlines Arena for an out of this world concert performance on July 22, 2011 as part of her Femme Fatale Tour, joined by special guest Nicki Minaj. The pop superstar’s highly anticipated summer tour will feature hits from her seventh studio album including “Till The World Ends†and “Hold It Against Me.†The all female line-up will also include Jessie and the Toy Boys and Nervo.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 30th at 10:00 a.m. through Ticketmaster.
To find out more about show updates, upcoming events and the latest news at AmericanAirlines Arena, visit www.aaarena.com or connect with us on Facebook.com/AmericanAirlinesArena and Twitter.com/AAArena.
Wine Down Wednesday at HistoryMiami on Wednesday, May 4, 2011.  We enjoyed live music by Raffa & Rainer and delicious mini cupcakes by Nom! Nom! Nom! Cupcakes.
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May 11, 5-7pm
111 SW 1st AVE
Miami, FL 33130
Wok Star cooking class
April 30, 2011, 12-3pm
Jungle Walls Miami
129 NW South River Drive
Downtown Miami River
FL 33128
wokstar.us/Classes.html
Celebrate Mother’s Day with a Wok Star cooking class at Jungle Walls Miami! Transform weeknight dinners with my easy technique and Wok Star Kit without recipes or measuring.
3 dishes savored with drinks sponsored by Gancia Prosecco and Fiji Water
Visit my class page for MENU, PREPAYMENT OPTIONS.
Giveaways, tons of tips, chance to stir fry and meet cool people.
Prepay and get Half Price Class ($32 instead of $65) :
1. if you bring a guest or
2. if you purchase a Wok Star Kit
Wednesday, May 4, 5-8pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL, 33130
Join HistoryMiami the first Wednesday of the month to experience new wines, new exhibitions, and new people with HistoryMiami’s Wine Down Wednesday!
Mix. Mingle. Sip. Unwind. Don’t sit in rush hour traffic when you can be drinking wine, listening to live music and mingling with other professionals.
Free General Admission Free glass of wine for HistoryMiami members & Miami-Dade County Employees.
FREE Parking available at: 50 NW 2nd Avenue
To RSVP call: 305.375.1614 or e-mail rsvp@historymiami.org.
WWE Kicks Off South Florida’s Road To Wrestlemania 28
May 2, 2011, 9:30 a.m.
AmericanAirlines Arena
601 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
Dwayne “The Rock†Johnson Joins John Cena, Randy Orton,The Miz, CM Punk and More for Kmart presents WWE Monday Night Raw Live at AmericanAirlines Arena
The people’s champion, Dwayne “The Rock†Johnson, returns to his hometown of Miami to celebrate his birthday, and joins WWE and Smackdown superstars for the biggest and most out of control birthday celebration on television, live at AmericanAirlines Arena on May 2, 2011.
The evening’s tag team main event will feature John Cena and Randy Orton vs. WWE Champion The Miz and CM Punk. Fans will also witness WWE stars King Sheamus, John Morrison, Daniel Bryan, Natalya, The Nexus, R-Truth and more.
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster charge by phone at 800-745-3000 and the AmericanAirlines Arena box office, starting at just $20.
Young Stars Music Showcase celebrating the Latin Billboard Awards 2011
Tuesday April 26, 9pm
Mia Biscayne
20 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, Fla.
No Cover All Night
www.conexioneurolatina.com
Celebrating Latin Billboard Music Week in Miami, Conexion Eurolatina invites you to the Young Stars Music Showcase at Mia Biscayne.
Performing that night…Katia Nicole, Cyndi Moon, Jackie Rugel, Don Kino, Yrs. Truly, Angel Valdez, Louiso and Dyverse !!
Spinning live DJ Shotgun!
Red Carpet begins at 9pm / Showcase begins at 10:15pm
RSVP for vip, media and red carpet: leandy@conexioneurolatina.com
VIP and Bottle Service Available…please RSVP !
Don’t miss the “Latin Billboard Awards’ Thursday April 28 at 7pm, broadcast live on the Telemundo Network.
If you would like to attend the event free please send a message to the page:
Miami Bouquet: Works from the Flagler Temporary Collection
May 7, 2011, 5-10 pm
Flagler Arts Space
172 W. Flagler St.
Miami, FL 33130
flaglerartsspace.com
Miami Bouquet: Works from the Flagler Momentary Collection
Miami, FL – Flagler Arts Space will open its ‘Miami Bouquet’ exhibit from 5 – 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, at 172 W. Flagler St., across from the Miami Art Museum.
This juried show will feature paintings by local artists Fabian de la Flor, Edgar Cuarezma, David Bennett, and others. Curated by Ray Lopez and David Olivera, ‘Miami Bouquet’ will remain open by appointment through May 16th.
The gallery and studios were recently opened by a cooperative of eight local artists working to build welcoming and interactive exhibits in downtown Miami. Space has been donated by The Thomas Center, a real estate company committed to enlivening downtown Miami.
For more information, email flaglerartsspace@gmail.com or visit http://flaglerartsspace.wordpress.com
image is a painting by Fabian de la Flor, ‘everyones fault but mine’
Souvenir Maps and Plates Opening Reception at HistoryMiami on Thursday, April 21, 2011.
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Every Thursday 5pm-10pm
The Intercontinental Miami Hotel
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami FL 33131
RSVP Here.
Happy Hour 5-7pm
$3 Beers $4 Wines $5 Cocktails & Priceless Networking
Hosted By: Miami Match www.miamimatch.com
Suited For Success www.dressforsuccess.org
“Dating With A Purpose†–
Ladies donate handbags & Men dontate shoes & belts
Tony Major Events
Business Networking Happy Hour
“Where Business Happens… Face to Face”
*No Cover This week come meet CEO’s Entrepreneurs and Business Owners of all Industry Types.
*$4. Valet
Happy Hour Specials Bring Lots of Business Cards!
Register Today And You Will Be Entered To Win! Lunch For 2 At: Intercontinental Hotel Miami Indigo Bar & Restaurant 100 Chopin Plaza Miami, FL
*Must be present to win
Register in advance and our staff will go to work to find the right connections for you…our #1 goal is your success! We want to connect you with the people that can help grow your business.
Easter Sunday Brunch @ db Bistro Moderne
April 24, 2011, 11am-3pm
db Bistro Moderne Miami – in the JW Marriott Marquis Miami
255 Biscayne Blvd Way
Inside – JW Marriott Marquis Miami
Miami, FL 33131
Website.
Delicious 3 course Easter Brunch for $38 per person.
Enjoy such dishes as moules poulette, lamb shank, roasted striped bass, duck confit and also the original db burger.
Also there are plenty of other options available such as oyster and shellfish platters, assorted French cheeses and salads.
Bikini Week 2011 Tour at Marriott Biscayne Bay on Saturday, April 16, 2011.
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Friday, April 29, 6:30pm-9:30pm
MIAC III, Away From the Horde
Miami Dade Public Library System’ Main Library, Cultural Plaza
101 West Flagler St.
Miami, FL 33130
The art exhibit will take place from April 29 to May 29.
An exhibition presented by the Miami International Cultural Alliance (MICA) and directed by Sophie Videment.
The third edition of the MIAC, the MIAC III, Away From the Horde is a thematic group exhibition about the psychological, spiritual and emotional states of mind which appear when being physically or personally apart from others. Each work explores several aspects of self introspection, free spirit, underground worlds and wisdom.
You fill find works from world renowned artists dialoguing with young talent’s, all originated from eleven countries represented in our vibrant, multicultural city.
The MIAC III, Away From the Horde features a selection of paintings, videos, photographs, and sculptural installations by artists Daniel Azulay, Daniele Ballerini, Michèle Beaudin, Alice Betancourt, Perez Celis, Ofra Ben David, Ira Eduardovna, Rodrigo Fló, Horst Kohlem, Friedrich Kunath, Paulo Laborne, Wanderson Marccio, Marithou, Jill Mulleady, Philip Ross Munro, Nelson Neirner, Rafal Olbinski, Tomasz Rut, AnalÃa Sandleris, Serge Strosberg, Guy Syllien, Alicia H.Torres.
The MIAC is an annual exhibition presented by the Miami International Cultural Alliance (MICA) and directed for the third consecutive year by Sophie Videment. Art Advisor, member of the European Chamber of Expert-Advisors in Fine Arts, Sophie Videment has curated several exhibitions in Europe and the United States, and is a contributor on contemporary art and culture for French and American magazines.
Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association17th Annual Inn Key Awards Luncheon
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Allied Member Expo: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Awards Luncheon: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
InterContinental Miami
100 Chopin Plaza
Greater Miami & the Beaches Hotel Association; 250+ Miami Dade County Hotel Employees; Hospitality, Corporate and Government Leaders
17th Annual Inn Key Awards Luncheon to Honor Miami Hotel Employees and Hotels
On Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 the Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association (GMBHA) honors over 250 hotel employees across Miami Dade County. The event attracts over 400 hospitality, corporate and governmental leaders to join our hoteliers, their management team in recognizing their hourly employees, the “heart†of our tourism industry.
The 21 employee categories range from Bellman, Housekeepers, to Culinary and Engineering. There are also 5 hotel awards in the categories of Diversity, Environmental, Quality, Community Relations and Employee Relations that are recognized. Last year’s hotel awards were given to InterContinental Miami for Community Service, Mandarin Oriental for Guest Relations, The Setai for Diversity, Clifton for Environmental Recognition and Canyon Ranch for Employee Relations.
A portion of the net proceeds benefit The GMBHA Academy of Hospitality and Tourism (Miami Dade County Public Schools) Stuart L. Blumberg Scholarship Fund.
For additional information, please contact:
Vanja Majkic, Vanja@gmbha.com, for tickets and sponsorship information
Cherry Bongiorno, cherry@gmbha.com, for allied member expo information.
Telephone #: 305-531-3553
Cost: $50.00/members; $60/guests & non-members; and sponsorships from $1,500 to $10,000.
All Youth Cast Write And Perform, The Story Within Me An Original Musical Production
Saturday, April 30, 2011 @ 7:00p.m.
The Gusman Center For The Performing Arts
174 E. Flagler St.
Miami, Fl 33131
Voices United, (VU) a Miami-based non-profit organization designed to promote cross-cultural understanding through the arts, is proud to present, The Story Within Me, an uplifting musical written and performed by a dynamic and multi-cultural cast of 72 students, ages 10 to 18. It is the story of a group of people, with diverse backgrounds and experiences stuck at an airport together. Social issues such as discrimination, substance abuse and pollution are addressed through compelling scenes, heartfelt songs and energetic choreography.
The culturally diverse ensemble is comprised of student actors, singers, dancers, musicians & visual artists, representing 30 schools in Miami-Dade & Broward Counties.
Tickets: General Admission: $10, Special Seating: $25, VIP Seating & Reception: $75
To purchase tickets for The Story Within Me please visit http://voicesunited.org/voicesunited/calendar or contact Katie Christie, Founder & Artistic Director, 305-726-4822, e-mail Katie@voicesunited.org.
Photos attached: 2876 jpg. Caption: Katie Christie, Founder & Artistic Director for Voices United and cast members creating the plotline for The Story Within Me during a rehearsal. 2922 jpg. Caption: Nick Williams, 18, and Bianca Sirgany, 16, composing a song for The Story Within Me presented by Voices United. Photos by: Voices United.
Alejandra Czarny
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Next@19th
137 NE 19th Street
Miami
Tickets: $10 and $6 for students, seniors and artists
Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com
Argentinian performer Alejandra Czarny’s and special guest Aaron Kula infuse Guava Rugelach Lounge with their rhythmic compositions of Latin American and Yiddish songs.
Czarny has been a singer and song-writer for more than 20 years, and has released two albums, “Under the White Stars†and “Songs about Songs.†Aaron Kula serves as Director of Music Collections and Performance at Florida Atlantic University, conducting the student symphony and teaching music theory. Kula became musically inclined at an early age, attending Broadway shows each week as a child and many years later, going on to found the Klezmer Company Orchestra in 1997. Together, Czarny and Kula will present several Jewish-inspired Spanish arrangements for all to enjoy.
Wine Down Wednesdays
May 4 from 5 – 8pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami
Don’t miss local favorites Raffa & Rainer for happy hour! Enjoy live music, open galleries, select wines
and delicious food!
Free parking at 50 NW 2 Ave.
Free and open to the public.
Free General Admission
Members and County Employees Complimentary Glass of Wine
$15 open wine bar and light snacks
$5 per glass
FREE Parking available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue
RSVP to 305-375-1614 or rsvp@historymiami.org
Souvenir Maps and Plates
Thursday, April 21 at 6 pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami
Join HistoryMiami for the opening our latest exhibit. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Members: Free Non-Members: $10
RSVP by April 18 to 305-375-5356 or membership@historymiami.org.
Thursday, April 14th, 5pm-10pm
Intercontinental Miami
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, FL 33133
*No Cover
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This week come meet CEO’s Entrepreneurs and Business Owners of all Industry Types. *$4. VALET Happy Hour Specials Bring Lots of Business Cards! Register Today And You Will Be Entered To Win! Lunch For 2 At: Intercontinental Hotel Miami Indigo Bar & Restaurant 100 Chopin Plaza Miami, Fl *Must be present to win. Register in advance and our staff will go to work to find the right connections for you…our #1 goal is your success! We want to connect you with the people that can help grow your business.
Thursday Business Networking Happy Hour
What sets our Networking Happy Hour apart from others is that we are working for you!
Register and tell us who you want to meet and we will personally connect you with people seeking to do business with you.
Our #1 Goal is your success! We want to connect you with the people that can help grow your business.
Public Wizard, Inc & Major Event Marketing Present: Guilty Simpson First ever performance in South Florida
Friday, April 15th, 10:00pm- Till
Eve
1306 N. Miami Avenue
Downtown Miami
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Also Performing Live on Main Stage:
Shadowman Boogie (SoFlo)
Saheed (MEM)
J.Nic$ (C9)
Sounds by: DeeJay K-N-S & DJ Guilletine
Hosted by: Parable
The Red Room
Powered by Miami Beat Wave & Footwork 4 Self
Performances By:
DaVincci & AG Lyonz (J-Dilla Tribute)
Omniscient (SoFlo)
Angel Ocean (Dangerflow)
Jabrjaw
Lox Tha Rippa
Sounds By: DJ Icecold
Media Sponsors
Antisteez.com
2DopeBitches.com
GoodLifeMiami.com
KevinNottingham.com
CrackedAtoms.com
AshleyOutrageous.com
The305.com
Also Sponsored By:
Stones Throw Records
Mupalia Pictures
Foot Soldiers
8+9 Clothing
Pyramid Builders
Last Rights
SoFlo Entertainment
This is a Public Wizard, Inc & Major Event Marketing production
SocialBuzzTV.com Network at MiamiShared.com on Monday, April 11, 2011. Â Had such a great time and met some awesome people with complimentary beverages provided by Premiere Beverage Catering..
SocialBuzzTV hosts monthly networking events to bring the community together and support each others events! This event was brought to you by: Lola & Me Cupcakes, Star of Hope 4 Kids, Ultimate Auto Werks, The Firm, Miamishared.com, Discounts for a Cause, Premier Networking Alliance, @SocialMedia305 and Soul Of Miami.
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Focus Gallery: Mark Boulos opening reception and artist talk
Thursday, April 21, 2011 ï 6-9pm
Talk begins 6:30pm, doors open 6pm (Seating is limited. First come, first seated.)
Preview and reception 7:30-9pm
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
MAM members free, Non-members $10
RSVP to RSVP@miamiartmuseum.org
Miami Art Museum will premiere a newly-acquired video installation by Mark Boulos, All That Is Solid Melts into Air (2008), on Thursday, April 21, 2011. The installation will open with a talk by Boulos beginning at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm), followed by a preview and reception from 7:30 until 9pm. Boulos, an artist-filmmaker working in London and Amsterdam, makes multi-screen documentary videos about religious ecstasy and political militancy. All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a two-channel video installation, with images screened on opposite walls of a room. In the projected images the corporate colonization of Nigerian oil resources creates the occasion for a contrast of cultures and beliefs. All That Is Solid Melts into Air will be on view in the Focus Gallery section of Miami Art Museum’s Permanent Collection installation from Friday, April 22, 2011 through Sunday, July 31, 2011.
In the installation, one screen features images shot in the Niger delta, featuring militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which has declared ‘total war’ on the foreign oil corporations that extract and export oil from their territory. The guerillas are shown preparing themselves for battle and asking for blessings from Egbisu, their god of justice and war, who inspires and protects them from bullets. On the opposite screen are traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the largest commodities exchange in the world, who speculate on oil and other commodity futures. Paradoxically, Boulos’ video purposely underscores the similarities as well as the differences between these two groups at opposite ends of the oil “pipeline:†Members of each group appear in costume, perform ritualized actions, and whip themselves into emotional frenzies. Through this juxtaposition, Boulos highlights the combination of emotional intensity and ideological abstraction that characterizes both groups.
When All That Is Solid Melts into Air premiered at the Sydney Biennial in 2008, Art in America hailed Boulos as “one of the real discoveries of the exhibition,†and praised the video installation as “lush and enthralling.†When it was presented at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, LA Weekly called it “visceral.†Of his 2010 exhibition at the Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, which included All That Is Solid Melts into Air, the Vancouver Observer wrote, “At first blush this work seems more like documentary filmmaking than art. But Boulos’ creative juxtapositions and keen eye for detail transports his work to a higher, poetic level.â€
All That Is Solid Melts into Air premiered at the 16th Biennale of Sydney in 2008 and has been shown at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2008, the Berlin Biennial in 2010, and the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. The video was acquired by MAM in 2010 when a group of museum supporters saw it at the Berlin Biennial and contributed the funds to purchase it. This is the first time it is being shown at MAM.
Mark Boulos studied visual art at the Rijksakademie in Holland as a Fulbright Scholar, documentary filmmaking at National Film and Television School in England, and philosophy at Swarthmore College and Deep Springs College in USA. He has filmed guerrillas in the Philippines (No Permanent Address, 2010), oil warriors and commodities traders in Nigeria and Chicago (All That Is Solid Melts into Air, 2008), and religious mystics in London and Syria, (The Word Was God, 2006 and The Gates of Damascus, 2005). He has had solo presentations at the Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, Ar-Ge Kunst in Bolzano, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His group shows include the Thessaloniki Biennale 2009, the Sydney Biennale 2008, EASTinternational 2006 at the Norwich Gallery, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005 at the Barbican, and Beck’s Futures 2004 at the ICA London. His work has been supported by Film London, the Arts Council England, the Channel 4 British Documentary Film Fund, the Netherlands Film Funds, and the Netherlands Funds for Visual Arts (Fonds BKVB).
Exhibition organization and support
Focus Gallery: Mark Boulos is organized by Miami Art Museum and supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund.
Mark Boulos
All That Is Solid Melts into Air, 2008
Two-channel video installation
Running time: ca. 15 minutes
Collection Miami Art Museum, gift of Ana Carolina & Luiz Guilherme Affonso, Steven and Kathleen Guttman, Patricia and William Kleh, Monique and Alex Halberstein, Carole and Ira Hall and Aymee and Peter Zubizarreta, commemorating the 2010 MAM International Committee visit to Berlin, Germany.
Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of Art in the Park Miami at Bayfront Park on Saturday, April 10, 2011.
Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to his flickr page or his facebook page.
Photographs of Art in the Park Miami in Bayfront Park on Saturday, April 9, 2011.
United Hearts of America – Community Art Project. Â Under the direction of neo-pop artist Ed King, thousands of participants will come together in an ambitiousartistic undertaking to create a series of American flags — solely comprised of hearts. Citizen artistswill be given an opportunity to paint a heart and record their own personalized message on whateducation means to them. The artwork and community voices will be delivered to the President of the United States, each member of Congress, and to the Supreme Court justices
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Virtual Bowling, Billiards and Dancing for Miami’s Only Emergency Shelter for Children and Teens
Saturday, April 16
JW Marriott Marquis Miami
The event is $200 for a single reservation. Anyone interested can call 305.636.3520.
Miami Bridge to Host Highly Anticipated Bridge to the Stars Fundraiser
Poolside soirée to help “build a bridge†to a better future for abused, neglected and abandoned children and teens
As the sun sets over downtown Miami next Saturday, April 16, the ‘stars’ will be out in support of Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services, Inc. Dozens of notable community leaders and activists will be in attendance for the not-for-profit’s 26th annual fundraiser, Bridge to the Stars, taking place at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami hotel. The event, the “must attend†of the season, will be poolside and will feature virtual bowling, billiards, music and dancing.
“This fundraiser, the biggest to date for Miami Bridge, is sure to be one of the most memorable in our organization’s history,†said Mary Andrews, Executive Director of Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services, Inc. “Bridge to the Stars will pay tribute to our network of supporters whose dedication to cause and community has helped further our mission, rescuing those in greatest need from a life of victimization and crime.â€
Miami Bridge, the City’s only emergency shelter for children and teenagers ages 10-17, provides critical services to youth in crisis including counseling, family counseling and education. Funds raised through Bridge to the Stars will go toward bolstering that outreach.
Attendees will not only have access to some of the JW Marriott Marquis Miami’s renowned amenities, including its virtual bowling alley, but a silent auction, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.
Bridge to the Stars will be co-chaired by Kim Bacardi, Alfred Karram, Jr., Natasha Lowell, Natacha Munilla and Judy Reinach. Sponsors include Bacardi, BenTrust Financial, Coastal Construction Group, Lamar Homes and Thunder Electrical Contractors, Inc.
About Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services
Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services, Inc, a not-for-profit organization operating out of Northwest Miami-Dade and Homestead for more than 20 years, provides emergency shelter, food and counseling for troubled youths and their families. The organization, which acts as a catalyst for new beginnings, works to rescue kids from lives of victimization and crime, and provides them with structure in a stable and nurturing environment. Miami Bridge shelters more than 800 children and counsels more than 550 families every year, providing them with solutions, alternatives and hope. For more information on Miami Bridge or to get involved, call 305-636-3520 or visit www.miamibridge.org.
Wine Down Wednesday at HistoryMiami on Wednesday, April 6, 2011.
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Taylor Swift’s SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR 2011 PRESALE
April 7, 2011, 10:00 am – 10:00 pm
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601 Biscayne BLVD, Miami, FL 33132
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Taylor Swift’s SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR 2011 comes to AmericanAirlines Arena on Nov. 13th! Pre-sale one day only: Thursday, April 7th from 10am – 10pm. Get your presale passcode by simply completing the form below and have the presale password delivered to your email inbox. http://www.aaarena.com/default.asp?aaarena=82&objId=14
The Bryan Brothers and the tennis elite united at Icon Brickell for the launch party for TennisDaily.com. The social networking site is similar to that of Facebook but solely for professional tennis players and enthusiasts. Grammy-winning artist Melky Jean (Wyclef Jean’s sister) and The Bryan Brothers performed along with Grammy nominated singer/songwriter James Slater and Brian Lynch, husband of Kim Clijsters.
The event was held at the famed 15th floor pool deck of Icon Brickell, the highest-profile building in Miami continuously recognized for breaking sales records thanks to Fortune International. A gifting suite for professional tennis players and celebrities in Café Icon featured items from Sony Ericsson, Trini in Private, Molly Dooker wines and more.
The event also commemorated TennisDaily.com’s launch of a custom section on the social network for residents of Icon Brickell to share, connect, view and post pictures and videos. The webpage also makes it easy to download Icon Brickell’s mobile application—the first residential real estate, property-specific mobile app for the iPhone and iPad in the USA, available in the iTunes Store.
Notable attendees: Melky Jean, Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan–better known as The Bryan Brothers, James Slater, Brian Lynch (Kim Clijsters husband), Nikolay Davydenko, Robin Söderling, James Blake, Nicolás Almagro, Edgardo and Ana Cristina Defortuna, Sean and Ana Wolf
Photographs by Manny Hernandez
Friday, April 8
Art Fair at 6PM
Concert at 8PM
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
464 NE 16 Street
Miami, FL. 33132
Presents The Haiti Philharmonic Orchestra in Concert
$25 in advance/ $30 at the door
All proceeds will go to rebuilding the Music School at Trinity Cathedral, Port au Prince
For tickets: telephone 305-374-3372
www.trinitymiami.org
Join us April 7th for Business Networking Happy Hour! Where Business Happens… Face to Face.
Weekly Event – Every Thursday: 5:00 PM
Intercontinental Miami
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, FL 33133
No Cover
RSVP Here.
Thursday Business Networking Happy Hour
What sets our Networking Happy Hour apart from others is that we are working for you!
Register and tell us who you want to meet and we will personally connect you with people seeking to do business with you.
Our #1 Goal is your success! We want to connect you with the people that can help grow your business.
Let It Rock! Celebrate the Big Season Finale featuring Kevin Rudolf!
Friday, April 8th, 5:30pm
Bayfront Park
We have had an awesome 3rd season with great artists like the Spin Doctors, South Florida Jazz Orchestra, Locos Por Juana and so many other amazing bands.
Kevin Rudolf’s music mixes rock anthems with urban city sounds. His Billboard top 10 hit “Let It Rock†jams in sports arenas across the nation and rocked the NBA 2009 AllStar game. Since storming onto the scene he has worked with top artists including Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Flo Rida and the Black Eyed Peas.
Don’t miss this concert, we won’t be back ‘til October kicking off Season 4 of the DWNTWN Miami Concert Series.
As always this show is a sunset happy hour and food and drinks are available.
Marking the airlines’ continuous growth and international presence in South Florida, IBERIA announced the first ever direct flight from Miami to Barcelona yesterday during an exclusive VIP inauguration ceremony at which top executives from Spain’s number one airline announced the new route from IBERIA, attended by Mayor Tomas Regalado, local dignitaries and the region’s top CEOs at The Mandarin Oriental hotel in downtown Miami.
The occasion was marked with a special Catalonian-themed evening of food and entertainment featuring some of Spain’s most acclaimed maestros of cuisine. Emmy Award-winning international journalist, anchor and author, Marian de la Fuente, welcomed attendees, after which speeches were given by Manuel López Aguilar, Executive VP Commercial and Clients of IBERIA and José MarÃa Alvarado, Country Manager for IBERIA USA and Canada.
One of Spain’s top master chefs and the Michelin Star award-winning founder of Fonda Gaig in Barcelona, Carles Gaig, created a series of his own aesthetically pleasing signature classic and contemporary Catalán dishes for attendees at the event.
The star of Antoni Bassas’ weekly programme on Catalunya Rà dio and Albert Om’s El Club programme on TV3 in Spain, internationally acclaimed Chef Nandu Jubany also demonstrated his excellence in Catalán cuisine.
Hailing as a graduate from the London Academy of Bartenders and from his Cocktail Academy in Lisbon, Portugese Master Bartender and Mixologist, Paulo Ramos, exhibited his acrobatic flair in the art of cocktail creation during the event.
Iberia now operates now three non-stop flights weekly to Barcelona on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Passengers coming from other U.S destinations, such as Dallas, Houston, Orlando and Tampa can connect to the new route via American Airlines. At Barcelona airport, travellers can link with Iberia Regional / Air Nostrum and Vueling flights to cities such as Bilbao, Majorca, Malaga and Valencia in Spain or Milan, Nice, Paris and Rome in Europe. Iberia expects to carry 53,000 passengers on this route in the first year of operation.
The non-stop Miami-Barcelona flight will be the second U.S route inaugurated by Iberia this week as the airline has also started flying this past Monday, March 28, between Los Angeles and Madrid. Iberia offers now three non-stop flights weekly from Los Angeles on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays – with an additional Friday flight from July to September.
The aircraft used on these routes will be a 254-seat Airbus A-340/300, with a 36-seat Business Plus section, recently redesigned, that offers 2.20 meters of space for each passenger and seats that unfold into horizontal beds.
To promote the new Miami-Barcelona route , Iberia is awarding triple frequent flyer points for tickets acquired in iberia.com through May 31st. The 1,800 points obtained flying from Miami to Barcelona are enough to pay for three return Madrid-Barcelona shuttle flights, for two return trips between Madrid and Casablanca, or for one return flight between Madrid and Athens, Istanbul, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, or other cities in Europe.
Now Iberia operates 10 weekly flights from Miami to Spain: apart from this new Miami-Barcelona route, it flies daily from Miami to Madrid. Iberia’s operations in Miami began on August 3, 1972. These new routes, together with the overall capacity increase on its flights from Boston, Chicago and New York to the Spanish capital will consolidate the United States as Iberia’s most important long-haul market. In 2011 the airline will offer a total of 1,164,000 seats between the Spain and USA, representing a 13 per cent increase from 2010.
The new flights and the overall capacity increase are part of the joint business launched in October last year by Iberia, American Airlines and British Airways for routes over the North Atlantic. Customers of the three airlines have now more travel options available, with more frequencies, more destinations and better connections across their networks. The three airlines’ combined route network serves 433 destinations in 105 countries with almost 5,200 daily departures.
American Airlines and British Airways will also start new services as a consequence of the joint business. Beginning April 5th, American launches service from JFK to Budapest and on May 1st, it begins a new flight from Chicago to Helsinki. Also, British Airways will begin service from San Diego to London on June 2nd.
Photographs of the event
The InterContinental Miami was the host for its Chefs With A Purpose: Haiti partnership with Project Medishare for Haiti, Inc. and International Firefighters Assistance, Inc. (IFA). The second annual Chefs With A Purpose: Haiti fundraising event was held on March 30 at the InterContinental Miami and benefitted the Haiti rebuilding efforts of these two nationally recognized, 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.
Both organizations have been providing assistance to Haiti well before the 2010 earthquake and were present, ready to assist, in the Port-Au-Prince ‘ground zero’ at the moment tragedy struck. This year, the organizations are joining forces and leveraging their resources to collaborate on efforts to train emergency responders and critical care medical workers in Haiti.
IFA’s mission and work in Haiti initiated in 2002 with a small helmet and bunker coat donation from South Florida firefighters. It was founded by Lieutenant Nate Lasseur, a 13 year veteran of the West Palm Beach Fire Rescue on a trip to Haiti, his parents’ homeland. The need in early 2000 remains the same now as there continues to only be two firefighter stations in the country. IFA has since grown to provide humanitarian assistance, support, education and training to firefighters and emergency rescue workers in underprivileged countries.
Project Medishare has been on the ground in Haiti since 1994, founded by Drs. Barth Green and Arthur Fournier from the University of Miami School of Medicine. The organization has evolved into a vital component of Haitian life running the only trauma and critical care hospital in Haiti with the only Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the first spinal cord injury unit for paralyzed patients in the country. As a healthcare provider in Haiti, Project Medishare also trains healthcare professionals, funds sustainable health programs and provides technology, supplies and equipment to their clinic in Haiti and surrounding areas.
The Chefs With A Purpose: Haiti event was conceived after the devastating Haiti earthquake in 2010. At the time, the InterContinental Miami reached out to its staff to determine how many were from and/or had family in Haiti. Nearly 90 employees, approximately one-fifth of the hotel’s staff, were affected. The hotel assisted its employees and families in a variety of ways such as assistance in locating lost loved ones and monetary and product donations. The fundraising event was created shortly thereafter to be able to have a greater reach in assisting the people of Haiti.
The InterContinental Miami organizes this event by donating its staff time and event space and services with 100 percent of the event proceeds going the Project Medishare and IFA. “Chefs With A Purpose: Haiti was born of compassion and the urgency to partner with local community organizations in the relief efforts. We are honored to partner for the second year with International Firefighters Assistance and to begin a new partnership with Project Medishare,“ said Robert Hill, General Manager of the InterContinental Miami. “One year later, this event takes on a greater importance because Haiti is not forgotten. More than ever we need to continue to promote awareness and provide much needed help that is still required.“
Dr. Barth A. Green, Co-Founder and President of Project Medishare stated, “Project Medishare is delighted to be partners in the exciting Chefs with a Purpose: Haiti event. Project Medishare serves hundreds of thousands of people throughout Haiti with programs ranging from community health and development to trauma and critical care. The most important ingredients in our recipe for Haiti are creating infrastructure and sustainable programs including capacity building (i.e. train the trainers) which are all mixed together to create a final product labeled long-term commitment.â€
“There is strength in unity and we feel so fortunate to be partnering with the InterContinental Miami again, as well as Project Medishare,†said Lt. Nate Lasseur, Founder and President of International Firefighters Assistance. “Together we can leverage resources to do more and empower the Haitian people to respond to and prevent the numerous public safety and health concerns they face. We can’t stop emergencies from occurring, but we can help Haiti better prepare for them.â€
Guests of Chefs With A Purpose: Haiti were greeted with music by renowned Haitian performers Mushy Widmaier and Phyllisia Ross. The event was featured over 20 tasting stations each offering a signature menu item by the participating top chefs. The evening’s silent auction will feature items ranging from hotel stays, unique dining experiences, art and other luxury items. A new addition this year is a Haitian art exhibit by Michele Frisch, Haiti’s leading art curator and collector. From March 16 through April 6, the lobby of the InterContinental Miami will feature Haitian art from the Galerie Marassa collection and coincide with arteaméricas, the premier fair of art from Latin America.
About InterContinental Miami
Celebrating 25 years as an icon of the Downtown Miami skyline, the InterContinental Miami is located at the crossroads of Miami’s Business and Arts & Entertainment districts. A beacon for business and leisure travellers alike, the hotel rises 34 stories over the city with breathtaking views of the Atlantic Ocean, Biscayne Bay and the Port of Miami. The hotel features 641 luxury guest rooms, including 34 suites; 32 meeting rooms with over 84,000 square feet of meeting and exhibition space, including a spectacular, newly renovated, Grand Ballroom and a 196-seat theater; 3 restaurants, including Table 40, the only Chef’s Table in Downtown Miami; full-service fitness center and spa at mySpa Miami; and rooftop pool deck with gardens. The InterContinental Miami is a proud corporate citizen of the Miami-Dade community, invested through its annual InterContinental Miami Make-A-Wish Ball, Chefs With A Purpose, and other charitable events. For more information and to make reservations, contact the InterContinental Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza, Miami, Florida 33131, at 305.577.100 or by visiting www.icmiamihotel.com.
About Project Medishare for Haiti, Inc.
Project Medishare is a United States 501(c)(3) that has been in Haiti since 1994, with a focus on community health and development, including programs in healthcare, education, clean water, malnutrition, protection for orphans and vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS treatment, agriculture and women’s empowerment programs. Project Medishare programs include running the only trauma and critical care hospital in Haiti, with the only Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the country caring for Haiti’s sickest children, a prosthetics program which has put limbs on over 200 amputees with plans to do hundreds more, a comprehensive rehabilitation program including Haiti’s first spinal cord injury unit for paralyzed patients, an amputee Soccer Team composed of Project Medishare patients, a major Cholera treatment center, and a school based health center program that treats over 20,000 children a year, and a community health program that provides comprehensive healthcare services to over 100,000 people in Haiti’s poorest area. For more information, visit www.projectmedishare.org.
About International Firefighters Assistance, Inc.
International Firefighters Assistance, Inc. (IFA) is a non- profit organization that provides humanitarian assistance, support, education and training to firefighters and emergency rescue workers in underprivileged countries. The work of the IFA has been crucial to the Haiti’s rescue and recovery efforts in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. They have trained hotel staff in Haiti on first aid skills which they were able to use during the earthquake, coordinated and trained a group of over 20 Haitian firefighters in a fire training facility in the US, participated in the search and rescue mission and rescued many victims from the rubbles during the earthquake and they’ve delivered tents and care packages to the Haitian firefighters, their families, providing shelter to over 200 homeless earthquake victims. Additionally, the IFA has designed Project HELP: Haiti Emergency Lifesavers Program. This is a relief program designed to assist communities in taking care of their families and neighbors in the aftermath of major disasters as well as personal emergencies. Over 100 Scout Leaders from throughout Haiti participated in this three day certification program. This was a Train the Trainer session which provided each leader with the training and the manual to return to their areas to train other Scouts within their regions. For more information, visit www.ifarelief.org.
Photographs by Betty Alvarez
Saturday, April 9, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 10, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Bayfront Park
Downtown Miami
artintheparkmiami.com
Join us April 9-10 as fine artists will fill Bayfront Park, downtown Miami’s premiere outdoor venue with an outdoor art exhibition destined to be a staple for years to come. Art in the Park Miami, showcases some the best contemporary fine art and craft from around the country.
The Inaugural Art in the Park Miami is destined to be a can’t miss annual Arts experience. Located in beautiful Bayfront Park, located in the heart of downtown Miami on breathtaking Biscayne Bay.
The Festival showcases the works of international fine artists and craftsmen. Visitors have the opportunity to meet with exhibiting artists, sample fine cuisine, enjoy live entertainment and experience the local artistic culture.
Live form Tina Hills Pavilion
SATURDAY: APRIL 9
12 pm – Robert Elias
1:45 pm – Chris Alvy Band
3:30 pm – The Mann Sisters
5:15 pm – Jacob Jeffries Band
SUNDAY: APRIL 10
12 pm – Omine
1:30 pm – Phil Jacobson
3 pm – Vic Kingsley
4:30 pm – Sylvia Emmerson
5:30 pm – Dreaming in Stereo
Art Gone Wild! Family Festival
Saturday, April 9, 1-4pm
Free to the public
Sand Art! Nature badges! Windsocks! Florida Flora and Fauna Mural! Live Wildlife Presentation from the Science Museum! FREE! A special Second Saturdays are Free for Families, this nature-themed MAM Family Festival features multiple art activities, entertainment, tours and more. For more information, contact 305.375.5466 or education@miamiartmuseum.org.
A special Second Saturdays are Free for Families, this nature-themed MAM Family Festival features multiple art activities, entertainment, tours and more. Contact 305.375.5466 or education@miamiartmuseum.org for information.
Images: Mark Dion, The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit: Mobile Laboratory, 2006 Mixed media installation, 18 feet, 11 inches x 7 feet, 7 inches x 8 feet, 11 inches Collection Miami Art Museum, gift of Lin Lougheed.
Bate Papo Informal com Luis Fernando Verissimo
April 15, 2011
From: 12 pm – 2 pm
Botequim Carioca
900 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
Register Here.
BACCF & CCBU Members: $30
Walk-ins: $45
Presentation will be in Portuguese
Book Signing
Networking Event in Downtown Miami!
Monday April 11, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
SocialBuzzTV.com Offices
990 Biscayne Blvd (In the 900 Biscayne Building)
Suite 501 (5th Floor)
Downtown Miami, FL 33132
(Park on Street or Valet in back of building on 2nd Avenue)
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Complimentary Beverages provided by Premiere Beverage Catering
Event brought to you by: Lola & Me Cupcakes, Star of Hope 4 Kids, Ultimate Auto Werks, The Firm, Miamishared.com, Discounts for a Cause, Premier Networking Alliance, @SocialMedia305 and Soul Of Miami
Mark Your Calendars and Join us for an evening of Networking and fun at our new offices in Downtown Miami!
SocialBuzzTV hosts monthly networking events to bring the community together and support each others events!
Who should attend?! Anyone that wants to network and grow their business by making contacts locally! Be sure to bring lots of business cards and a smile of course! Important: Parking Instructions Here.
“Smooth Operator” Sade will perform live with very special guest John Legend
July 16th, 2011, 8:00-10:00 PM
American Airlines Arena
601 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33130
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The legendary “Smooth Operator” Sade will perform live with very special guest John Legend at the AmericanAirlines Arena on July 16th.
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Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10am!
La Nueva 88.3 FM Presents: Marcos Witt 25 Conmemorativo
June 24, 2011, 8:00 – 10:00 PM
American Airlines Arena
601 Biscayne Boulveard
Miami, FL 33130
La Nueva 88.3 FM brings Marcos Witt to American Airlines Arena for the first stop on his iconic Spanish Contemporary Gospel music tour! Marcos Witt will share the stage with ALEX CAMPOS and his LENGUAJE DE AMOR tour on June 24th at 8pm.
Tickets go on sale, Friday, April 1st at 10am.
Buy Tickets at Ticketmaster.
For more information, please visit www.lanuevafm.net
Flagler Arts Space closing reception for its ‘Muralis’ mural exhibit
Friday, April 8, 5 – 10 p.m.
172 W. Flagler St.,
across from the Miami Art Museum.
Nine artists collaborated to paint every square inch of wall space in the gallery. Chunks of the wall can be purchased by the square inch. An interactive space was painted by visitors to the gallery over the past two weeks, and visitors can keep adding to the public mural until the last minute.
Refreshments will be served. The closing reception is free.
The gallery and studios were recently opened by a cooperative of local artists working to build welcoming and interactive exhibits in downtown Miami. The artists — Annie Blazejack, David Olivera, Juan Travieso, Leonardo Castañeda, Nicole Mucher, Nicole Serize, Noah Garcia, Ray Lopez, and Reinier Gamboa — began their artmaking at Miami magnet arts high schools, and have recently returned from continuing their studies at some of the nation’s top art schools. Gallery and studio space has been donated by The Thomas Center, a real estate company commited to enlivening downtown Miami.
For more information, email flaglerartsspace@gmail.com or visit http://flaglerartsspace.com
“POWER” by Nadine Daskaloff
March 31, 2011, 7 – 9pm
Miami Shared’s “D” Gallery
990 Biscayne Blvd
#501
Miami, Fl. 33132
305-929-8688 ext 122
http://MiamiShared.info
The 21st century has seen the City of Miami become an artistic free-zone, where artists from around the world come to find the freedom to create. This incredible freedom has attracted a new wave of daring artists willing to push their imagination to a higher level of consciousness, portraying subtle human emotions that transcend both language and culture.
This Thursday, MiamiShared.com is honored to present the arrival of the collection of artworks by Nadine Daskaloff, a brilliant international artist making a splash in the center of Downtown Miami. Please join us for an open reception to meet the Artist, Enjoy some wine and discuss this beautiful collection.
About the artist:
Born in Marseilles, France, Nadine Daskaloff traveled extensively during her formative years. She received her artistic training at L’Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and was honored with her first solo exhibition at the age of 21 at Bellas Artes of Mexico City. Her major exhibitions include showings at the Biennial of Young Artists in Paris as well as the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. Also a print maker, her prints are displayed in various major museums in Mexico and Japan. She currently works and resides at her studio in East Hampton, New York.
The best way to get to the building from Brickell or Downtown is to take the Metromover to the Park West station, cross NE 2 Avenue at NE 9 Street, and walk around to the building’s main entrance on Biscayne Boulevard (The 900 Building)
There is $5 valet parking behind the building on NE 2 Avenue; this is designated event parking with large signs.
If interested on displaying your artwork at MiamiShared.com please contact Bessy Montenegro at 305-929-8688 ext. 122 or montenegro@miamishared.com
Thursday March 31st, 5pm
Intercontinental Miami
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, FL 33133
Register Now.
*No Cover
This week come meet CEO’s Entrepreneurs and Business Owners of all Industry Types.
*$4. Valet
Happy Hour Specials
Bring Lots of Business Cards!
Register Today And You Will Be Entered To Win! Lunch For 2 At: Intercontinental Hotel Miami Indigo Bar & Restaurant 100 Chopin Plaza Miami, Fl *Must be present to win
Register In Advance And Our Staff Will Go To Work To Find The Right Connections For You…Our #1 Goal Is Your Success! We Want To Connect You With The People That Can Help Grow Your Business. Tony Major Founder and President of Tony Major Events Inc.
Caribea, a latin fusion party was the hit of the night at Dolores or you can call me Lolita on March 24. Brugal served as one of the major sponsors hosting the event. At the start of the evening, all guests walked the red carpet like the star that they are. The passed appetizers and Brugal infused cocktails were the talk of the evening. Lastly, inside Dolores, the night exploded as latin music played by a resident DJ. It made the guests dance until the morning.
It was truly an unforgettable night.
Photographs by Betty Alvarez copyright 2011
After a long hiatus, ‘2 Degrees’ networking event made its return on March 24 at Level 25 in the Conrad Hotel, Downtown Miami. Young professionals experienced a relaxed and informal networking event. Being a networker myself, it was a great way to get to know people in other lines of business and also being among true networkers made the whole experience worthwhile. There was a high level of professionalism and truly it seems that everyone made every effort to introduce themselves to one another.
The networking area where everything took place was in Level 25’s chic bar area which was really nice with booths to sit and over looked the beautiful ocean and its surrounding cities. I really enjoyed that. Thank you to Jason Carter (CresaPartners), Brandon K. Davis (Johnson Controis), Kevin Michael (Invizio), and Truscott Miller (Orange Bowl Committee) who were the hosts of this wonderful event.
Definitely at the end of the evening, everyone experienced what it meant to be connected by 2 Degrees.
Photographs by Betty Alvarez copyright 2011
A Night with Poetry Everywhere
with Liam Callanan and Campbell McGrath
as part of O, MIAMI, a county-wide poetry festival
Thursday, April 14, 6:30-8:30p.m.
Main Library Auditorium
101 W. Flagler Street
Liam Callanan, executive producer of Poetry Everywhere, and award-winning poet Campbell McGrath will host an evening of screenings, readings, and discussions dedicated to poetry in the public sphere. Poetry Everywhere consists of a series of 30 short animated poetry films. The texts for the films come from a broad, diverse range of contemporary poets, ranging from Miami’s own Campbell McGrath to the current Santa Fe Poet Laureate Valerie MartÃnez, former US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan and Nobel Laureate WisÅ‚awa Szymborska. The films, screened on public television and in buses, libraries, and classrooms, are meant to bring poetry into public life.
This event is presented in collaboration with University of Wynwood, University of Wisconsin, and the Poetry Foundation as part of O, MIAMI, a county-wide poetry festival inaugurating in April 2011. Its goal is for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem during the month of April.
Paint for Education at United Hearts of America.
April 9th and 10th!
Bayfront Park
Join Our Community Art Project for Education
On April 9 & 10, our “Citizen Artists” will assemble in Bayfront Park at the inaugural Art in the Park Miami art festival in downtown Miami. Armed with paint brushes and a healthy love for education, these citizen artists will paint four huge American flags comprised fully of hearts, showing love for education!
The finished heart flags and videos will be delivered to the White House, Congress, and the Secretary of Education. This art project is democracy in action — an artistic revolution of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Visit our website! Join Our Facebook Page! Get your school, family, friends, and office involved in this historic event. Event hours are Saturday and Sunday from 10am – 6pm, all day. Join Us Any Time!!
Wednesday, April 13 at 9:00 pm
Next@19th
137 NE 19th Street
Miami, FL 33132
www.nextat19th.org
$10 Adults
$6 Seniors, students and artists
Available at www.brownpapertickets.com
In celebration of National Poetry Month and the University of Wynwood’s community-wide poetry event, O Miami in April, Next@19th invites writers, poets, creative minds and the brave to take out their soapbox and share with audiences.
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April as an occasion for publishers, literary organizations, schools and poets around the country to join hands in recognition of poetry’s eminent place in American culture. Next@19th proudly invites literary lovers from all walks of life to contribute their own written works as part of Heebster Haiku’s ongoing program.
Heebster CHaiku features its house band, Treif (a Yiddish word meaning not kosher) who groove between poems and open up for a participatory jam after the poetry – bring your own instruments to jam.
Next@19th was founded in July 2010 to engage South Florida’s diverse community in fresh culture, learning and spiritual experience through a Jewish lens. Producing original programming, the organization will host a range of events and activities. This 2010 – 2011 season promises celebrations of music, literary arts, visual art, education and spirituality as well as dynamic projects in partnership with Miami Book Fair International, the Jewish Film Festival and University of Wynwood. Next@19th is located at 137 NE 19 Street, Miami FL 33132, on the campus of Temple Israel’s historic site in downtown Miami. For more information please call 305.542.7732 or visit the website at www.nextat19th.org.
Miami’s Only Live/Work Residency for Artists Debuts at Special “Private Eye†Party
April 7, 7 to 10 p.m.
the Residency
1035 N. Miami Ave.
For tickets and more information, visit www.legalartmiami.org.
General admission is $30. For $150, partygoers will take home a limited edition work from one of nine artists that will be selected for them during a unique performance art piece by Clifton Childree.
Partygoers Go Behind the Scenes to Experience Artists’ Creative Process Building Designed by an Artist, For Artists
LegalArt and Board Chair Daniel Arsham will celebrate Miami’s first and only live/work residency for artists at a special launch party April 7. The theme: “Private Eye,†as partygoers will get behind the scenes access to the artistic process on two levels.
First, they will tour the LegalArt Residency, a 1920’s era warehouse converted into seven, 600-square-foot studios plus communal living space at 1035 N. Miami Ave. The building is a true work of an artist for artists. Arsham, a visual artist with commissions from Dior Homme and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, along with his firm Snarkitecture, designed the interior space.
In addition, the silent auction will offer special Behind the Scenes art experiences with some of Miami’s best-known visual artists. Items include a pasta dinner with Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain, a bike tour of Wynwood’s graffiti with Primary Flight and a home cooked dinner by the LegalArt Residency artists where the bonus is a portrait session with Jiae Hwang. (A list of all silent auction experiences is available at legalartmiami.org.)
“For eight years, LegalArt has created innovative programming for Miami’s visual arts community. The ‘Private Eye’ event introduces our biggest accomplishment to date, the opening of our residency program and headquarters. With ‘Private Eye,’ LegalArt continues to cultivate new collectors while celebrating our city’s dynamic and vibrant artists,” said Carolina Garcia Jayaram, LegalArt co-founder.
The highly competitive LegalArt Residency is home to five local artists, including two collaboratives, with additional studios set aside for a visiting national or international artists and a writer, scholar, or curator. Designed as an incubator, the Residency offers artists access to exhibition, lecture, legal counseling spaces and an upcoming resource library. Living communally allows them to collaborate in ways only a residential model can offer.
In addition, as part of the residency, all artists produce a project that gives back to the community. Projects this year include Jiae Hwang’s computer technology series for artists including instructions in digital image formatting, Facebook marketing and metadata for images. Manny Prieres’ art in the classroom project brings professional artists into high school art classes. In addition, the TMSisters will be hosting a series of salons to discuss the intersection of art and science, technology, literature, architecture and modern life.
“This building, with its industrial bones and modern design, provides the kind of infrastructure Miami needs to foster and attract artists to South Florida year-round,†said Kathleen Carignan, LegalArt executive director. “Research indicates that communal live/work environments have been the most sustainable and successful for both the artists and the community. With its national and international artists, writers, and curators, as well as innovative programming, we look forward to all that the LegalArt Residency can help bring to Miami’s arts scene.â€
The LegalArt Residency is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge, a $40 million effort to bring South Florida together through the arts. The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs are providing additional support.
“Private Eye†event sponsors include Chivas, which will offer three signature cocktails including Chivas Smash and Out of This World Punch along with Chivas 18, Magners Irish Cider, neMesis, a new restaurant going in downstairs being created by Top Chef Season 3 contestant and owner of The Wandering Chef catering company Micah Edelstein. An after party will take place at The Vagabond.
Special thanks to the Host Committee members who include Bert Rodriguez, Steven Giles, Amir Ben Zion, Norelkys Blazekovic, Hadley Henriette, Mitchell Kaplan, Carmel Ophir and others.
About LegalArt
LegalArt empowers artists by providing affordable legal services, professional development services, the Live/Work Residency, grants and educational opportunities. The SeminArt series brings experts to educate artists on wide-ranging subjects including strategic planning, marketing, wage theft, winning arts commissions, and public speaking. LegalLink, a legal assistance and education program which partners with University of Miami Law School and local attorneys, provides legal services on a pro bono, barter or reduced rate basis. LegalArt’s professional staff made up of attorneys and arts advocates offers training in copyright and trademark, incorporation, portfolio management, writing skills and maintains the LegalArt headquarters where South Florida artists are welcome to seek guidance, support, resources and a greater sense of community with their peers. For more information, visit www.legalartmiami.org.
About Snarkitecture
Snarkitecture is a collaborative practice operating in territories between the disciplines of art and architecture. Working within existing spaces or in collaboration with other artists and designers, the practice focuses on the investigation of structure, material and program and how these elements can be manipulated to serve new and imaginative purposes. Searching for sites within architecture with the possibility for confusion or misuse, Snarkitecture aims to make architecture perform the unexpected. Snarkitecture was established by Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham and is represented by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. More at Snarkitecture.com
Party Crashers Special Events
Thursday , 5PM-10PM
The Intercontinental Maimi Hotel
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami FL 33131
Invites you to attend a Very Business Savvy
Networking Happy Hour Event
$3 Beers $4 Wines $5 Cocktails & Priceless Networking
www.Intercontinental.com
Party Crashers Central
www.partycrasherscentral.com
Rina Jakubowicz , owner of Rina Yoga, will be hosting Yoga with Live Drums featuring Jordan King.
Thursday, March 31, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Rina Yoga
JW Marriott Marquis
255 Biscayne Boulevard Way
Miami, FL 33131
Transform your regular practice into a transcendental experience with the help of Miami native, Jordan King’s rhythms and beats at Rina’s Vinyasa class. Your energy will vibrate, radiate and get grounded!
Bring an instrument if you have one for the drum circle at the end!
Tickets are $20 prepay and $25 at the door.
For more information: http://www.rinayoga.com/events/march-11/
Wine Down Wednesday
First Wednesday of the Month
April 6 from 5 – 8pm
HistoryMiami invites you to enjoy live jazz, poetry, and art as we celebrate National Poetry Month! Come see local artist the Oscar Fuentes Combo with special programming by University of Wynwood founder, Scott Cunningham.
FREE General Admission
Members and County Employees Complimentary Glass of Wine
$15 open bar and light snacks provided by 2B Asian Bistro
$5 per glass
Free parking available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue.
RSVP by April 4
Call 305-375-1614 or email rsvp@historymiami.org
Communities In Schools of Miami “It Takes Two Gala, An Evening of Duets!”
Saturday, April 16th, 2011, 7:00 PM
InterContinental Hotel, downtown Miami
Communities In Schools of Miami (CIS) will be celebrating its annual Gala on Saturday, April 16th, 2011 at downtown Miami’s alluring InterContinental Hotel. Gala, It Takes Two, An Evening of Duets, will feature exquisite food and wine pairings, and one of Miami’s premiere local and nationally acclaimed bands, ¡Suénalo!, who will be debuting their mentor and student paired musical and entertainment performances. All funds raised will help provide educational and emotional support to more than 5,000 students in 21 schools and community-based sites.
¡Suénalo’s! hands-on participation with CIS of Miami is a direct reflection of what the student-mentorship program strives to accomplish at CIS – self confidence and passion for personal growth
Tickets are available for purchase online at www.cismiami.org. You can also RSVP Elizabeth Mejia by phone or email at 305.252.5444 or emejia@cismiami.org
Guerilla Union Presents Ms. Lauryn Hill Moving Target: Extended Intimate Playdate Series
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Grand Central
Miami, FL
Doors @ 9pm
For more information, please visit @MsHillMvngTrgt
“Hill sounded fantastic. She’s probably the best female singer-rapper of all time (sorry, Nicki!), switching between Nina Simone-style soul incantations and limber Caribbean-inflected rhymes with ease.”
-Rolling Stone
“As she bobbed and weaved through the thickets of sound, it became clear that Hill had a firm grasp on bringing both the noise and the funk.”
-Variety
“Several of the songs from ‘Miseducation’ were substantially reworked, but Ms. Hill’s energetic delivery enabled the crowd to find familiar segments to embrace… it seemed clear that she has renewed her enthusiasm for the music on which she built her reputation.”
-The Wall Street Journal
Changing Hands Angela Valella Artist’s talk and workshop
Friday, April 1, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Hispanic Branch Library
1398 SW. 1 St.
Angela Valella, Changing Hands, 2011, photograph taken during installation.
February 24 – May 1, 2011
Miami artist Angela Valella’s installation, Changing Hands, is part of a series of exhibitions celebrating the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s 40th anniversary. The installation is composed of 24″x 36″ color and black and white prints on bond paper and a projection of interchangeable static images; it is more of a gesture than a documentary or a description of a place. The prints are derived from Google Earth satellite images, online archives, aerial photographs taken through a telescope and from the tops of cranes, and photographs taken around the city by the artist. These images have been enlarged and juxtaposed with photographs of the buildings, land, sky, and horizon surrounding the Hispanic Branch Library as well as elsewhere in the city.
Friday March 25th, 9pm – 6am
Grand Central Miami
18+ for ladies | 21+ for guys
Objektivity, Aquabooty Mia and Giant Step present: NueWave Renegades Miami 2011
Say New Jersey to certain people and the first thing they will think of is house music – the kind of music that laid down it’s roots in late 70s / 80s Club Zanzibar home to DJs such as Tony Humphries, Tee Scott and Larry Levan. The kind of music that was slowly elaborated on and built by producers such as Blaze and many many others. into a powerful pantheon that is respected worldwide.
Today Dennis Ferrer’s New Jersey house music imprint Objektivity carries the torch for house music – continuing that vibe in a way that reflects the original spirit without being retrograde. Ferrer has been riding high on a consistent stream of praise from fans and others alike. From a Grammy nomination for his remix of Dido to his crossover hit of 2010 “Hey Hey†to his alternative vocal track of 2011, “The Red Room”, Ferrer has a magic touch.
Never happy to sit on his laurels, this year Ferrer brings a new concept to Miami for Ultra Week with his hugely popular annual Objektivity event spread across two rooms in downtown Miami’s Grand Central venue. NeuWave Renegades is his new project moniker and features Ferrer alongside a rotation of friends who represent something of the spirit of US house music.
In Room 1 and as part of this special edition of the NeuWave Renegades tour, he will play back to back for the first time ever with his mentor and friend, Kerri Chandler. This marks the return to Miami of Chandler after years missing from the WMC circuit and in unison with Ferrer will surely be a night to be remembered. The Martinez Brothers who made their Miami debut in 2007 as Ferrer’s young proteges are all grown up now and back on this years bill with a stellar single “Issshhh!!!” dropping on Objektivity in the weeks leading up to the festivities. Dyed Soundorom of the now defunct Parisienne Freak N’ Chic crew and Circo Loco resident joins the lineup with his brand of modern house.
Room 2 welcomes Karizma who is back on the bill after a one year hiatus. Things just weren’t the same without him and expect nothing short of the usual CDJ extravaganza with his unique take on underground and soulful house. 19 year old Kyle Hall joins this lineup as a prelude to his scheduled date at Coachella in April. Hall’s eclectic blend of Detroit house, techno and bass energizes underground dance floors globally. DJ Qu and Anthony Parasole of the Deconstruct / Strength Music family mark their Miami performance debut with their edgy representation of New York deep house and techno. Objektivity soldier, Filsonik opens the night.
VOX3COM Presents FACECOM Where Business Happens Face to Face at Intercontinental Hotel Indigo Bar on Thursday, March 17, 2011. Â We enjoyed drink specials from 5:00pm til 7:pm, $3 Beer, $4 Wine and $5 Cocktails, $4 Valet and of course there is a City of Miami Parking lot in front of the hotel…so no excuses for not dropping by for a drink.
Sponsors for this event: Â Vox3.com, Tony Major Events, Soul of Miami, Life is Art, Â Downtown Athletic Club, Paradise is Mine, 2Go Events, Ketel One Vodka and MREIA.
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Happy Hour at Tony Chan’s Water Club located inside the Doubletree Grand Hotel lobby on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Â This is a new nightly happy hour, every week night from 6pm – 8pm two for one drinks and discounted bites in the lounge.
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March 26, 2011 at 11pm
JW Marriot Marquis & Hotel Beaux Arts
255 Biscayne Boulevard Way
Downtown Miami
To purchase tickets please visit: www.miamisci.org/atmiasci
Facebook facebook.com/miamisciencemuseum
All proceeds directly benefit the Miami Science Museum and its programs.
Priced at $50 a ticket (versus $500 for the Gala), AND a $10 discount for the afterparty for any member of any young professional group in Miami until March 11, it’s a hot ticket and chance for people to get in. Complete details below. Let me know if you can cover before the March 11 discount expires!
MiaSci’s Young Patrons, the Museum’s thriving young professionals group, have decided to turn their yearly culmination event into a swanky, Miami nightlife-inspired after party to follow the museum’s signature Gala. MiaSci’s Big Bang After Party will begin where the traditional Galaxy Gala leaves off. Big Bang attendees and Gala goers that choose to attend the after party will be transported into deep space, homage to the museum’s historic Planetarium, where specialty lighting, music and performance artists will welcome attendees with a symbolic Big Bang (literally).
The night will feature special performances by Latin fusion funk band Xperimento and two well-known local DJ’s spinning dance music reminiscent of the Miami Beach club scene. The event will also have premium open bars to keep attendees hydrated and a gourmet dessert bar to enjoy late night treats.
SeminArt: New Art in New Public Places
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 / 6:00 – 7:30pm
LegalArt
1035 N Miami Avenue
Suite 200, Second floor
Miami, FL 33136
$10 Suggested Donation online or at the door
Miami-Dade Art in Public Places program implements site-specific art installations in civic areas at various sites throughout Miami, including Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, fire and police stations, Port of Miami, libraries, parks, Miami International Airport, public housing developments, Metrorail and Metromover stations, and community health centers. These collaborative, innovative projects involve the thinking of artists, architects, engineers, historians, and landscape architects.
Brandi Reddick, Artists and Communications Manager for Art in Public Places, coordinates the program’s management of artists and communications, from advisory committee and artist orientation meetings to public art project publicity and publications. Please join LegalArt as Brandi discusses recent public art commissions, the Call to Artists Process, and an overview of upcoming opportunities for local artists, including two public art commissions at Zoo Miami and a special project for local photographers.
Parking: Our building is located on the corner of N Miami Ave and NE 11th Street. Parking is available in the lot located just south of our building on N Miami Ave, the entrance to the lot will be on your left. An attendant will give you a parking pass to display on your dashboard. Please be on time to ensure you get a parking pass. Metered parking is also available on N Miami Ave and on 11th and 10th Streets. Directions to LegalArt
For more information please email info@legalartmiami.org
Chefs With A Purpose:Haiti
Wednesday, March 30th, 6:30pm-9:30pm
InterContinental Hotel Miami
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, Florida 33131
Dr. Barth A. Green, Co-Founder/President, Project Medishare Lieutenant Nate Lasseur, Founder/President, International Firefighters Assistance Mr. Robert Hill, General Manager, InterContinental Miami Executive Chef Alexander Feher, InterContinental Miami Top Chefs from South Florida and the U.S.
Tickets: General Public: $80 advanced purchase at www.chefswithapurpose.org. $100 at the door the day of the event. Press: Please email aurelia.vasquez@ihg.com for more information on how to become accredited for the event
For more ticket and event information visit www.chefswithapurpose.org
The Chefs With A Purpose: Haiti event was conceived after the devastating Haiti earthquake in 2010. At the time, the InterContinental Miami reached out to its staff to determine how many were from and/or had family in Haiti. Nearly 90 employees, approximately one-fifth of the hotel’s staff, were affected. The hotel assisted its employees and families in a variety of ways such as assistance in locating lost loved ones and monetary and product donations. The fundraising event was created shortly thereafter to be able to have a greater reach in assisting the people of Haiti.
The InterContinental Miami organizes this event by donating its staff time and event space and services with 100 percent of the event proceeds going the Project Medishare and IFA. Chefs With A Purpose: Haiti was born of compassion and the urgency to partner with local community organizations in the relief efforts. ” We are honored to partner for the second year with International Firefighters Assistance and to begin a new partnership with Project Medishare,” said Robert Hill, General Manager of the InterContinental Miami. “One year later, this event takes on a greater importance because Haiti is not forgotten. More than ever we need to continue to promote awareness and provide much needed help that is still required.”
Guests of Chefs With A Purpose: Haiti will be greeted with music of renowned Haitian performers Mushy Widmaier and Phyllisia Ross. The event will feature over 20 tasting stations each offering a signature menu item by the participating top chefs. The evening’s silent auction will feature items ranging from hotel stays, unique dining experiences, art and other luxury items. A new addition this year is a Haitian art exhibit by Michele Frisch, Haiti’s leading art curator and collector. From March 16 through April 6, the lobby of the InterContinentalMiami will feature Haitian art from the Galerie Marassa collection and coincide with arteaméricas, the premier fair of art from Latin America. Advanced purchase tickets are $80 and will available starting Friday, February 18 through the event’s website at www.chefswithapurpose.org. The website will also feature updates on the chefs and the evening festivities as it becomes available.
Miami-bred actor, director and producer Andy Garcia returned to the Miami International Film Festival with his latest project, the World Premiere of Magic City Memoirs. This already sold out independent feature-length film directed, produced, written by and starring an ensemble cast and crew of Miami locals. Garcia serves as the film’s executive producer.
Magic City Memoirs is the story of three Miami high school friends-Milkey, Eric, and angle-who revel in their world of private school privilege and lax parental oversight while living large in the hip hop lifestyle of parties, fast cars, fast boats and easy sex. Miami director Aaron Salgado and producer J.D. Freixas capture the texture and energy of this pulse-pounding tropical paradise as only true insiders could. The cast included many locals and natives, including Garcia-Lorido, Nathalie Martinez (Detroit 1-8-7), Jordi Vilasuso (All My Children), and newcomers J.R. Villarreal and Mikey, Michael Cardelle as Eric and Andres Dominguez as Angel.
Photographs by Betty Alvarez copyright 2011
Miami Comedy Fest 4th Annual Memorial Weekend Show
May 29th, 8pm
James L. Knight Center
400 SE 2nd Avenue – Downtown Miami
www.MiamiComedyFest.com
$5 OFF PROMO CODE: FEST
Miami Comedy Fest Fourth Annual Memorial Weekend Comedy Festival Is Back Again
Another Star-Studded Line-Up Is Back For The 4th Year In A Row To Make Memorial Day Weekend A Hilarious Holiday To Go Down In History!!
Miami, FL – Following the success of the previous three years, the 4th Annual Memorial Day Miami Comedy Fest is back again at the historic James L. Knight Center to make the city of Miami laugh out loud. An entire new A-List star-studded line up includes veteran comedians Rickey Smiley, Donnel Rawlings from the Dave Chapelle Show, Rodney Perry from the Monique Show, as well as BET’s Comic View Lady Roz G and George Wilburn from the Michael Baisden Show. Lets not forget Shawty Shawty from Nick Cannon’s Wild’n Out!
Produced by New World Entertainment and spearheaded by Miami impresario, Chad Thomas, Miami Comedy Fest is once again set to entertain and uplift the urban community of South Florida with world renown talent. “Laughter soothes the soul,” states Thomas. “For so many people who are struggling to make end’s meet, sometimes all we have is laughter.”
Miami Comedy Fest has boasted an impressive line-up of comedic talent the past 3 years. Featuring entertainment heavyweights such as Anthony Anderson, Tony Rock, Bill Belamy, and Bruce Bruce and Adele Givens, this year is no exception. What’s likely to be another sell out – Miami Comedy Fest has deemed itself as the premier urban comedy festival of the year!
Related Events:
Leading up to the Grand Finale Memorial Show, is Miami Comedy Festival Week. Starting on Tuesday May 24th we are bringing you #ComedyJamz at the Miami Improv, Wednesday May 25th is #LaughPlayParty at Club Play, and on Thursday May 26th is #LOL Thursdays at Hardrock Improv.
Tickets are available at the JLK box office, Ticketmaster.com, or you can charge by phone at 800.754.3000. Tickets are $ 62.00 on the Floor, $52.00 for 1st Tier and $38.00 for 2nd Tier. For more information, email miamicomedyfest@gmail.com or call 786.230.7467 or visit www.miamicomedyfest.com.
March 27, 4pm-12midnight
BAR
28 NE 14th St.
Downtown Miami
21+ | FREE
Website.
adidas Originals Presents our 3rd Do-Over in Miami in the last 12 months. This time around, we will close out Ultra Weekend and bring a whole new batch of special mystery guests and a whole lotta sangria. Hosted by Haycock, Jamie Strong and Aloe Blacc. Bbq, Sangria & Other Treats. Whatcha’ Wanna Do? Do-Over!
DWNTWN Miami Concert Series featuring Mayday in Bayfront Park on Friday, March 11, 2011.  What a good crowd that came out to listen to Cris Cab who was the first to take the stage, he mixes classic rock with reggae and funk. Next up was ArtOfficial,  blending hip hop, jazz and funk. The final act for the night was Mayday, alt hip-hop band whose music has been featured on the show Entourage.
The Miami DDA is presenting a live music concert series to celebrate the vibrant community that is Downtown Miami. Catch the next concert, Friday, April 10 at Bayfront Park’s Tina Hills Pavilion. The concert series runs from January through April and will take place at several different locations around DWNTWN .
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Vox3com presents Facecom Networker sponsored by Soul Of Miami 3/17/11
Thursday, March 17, 5:00pm-10:00pm
Indigo Bar at the Intercontinental Miami
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, FL 33131
Happy Hour Specials 5:00-7:00
$3.00 Beer, $4.00 Wine, $5.00 Cocktails
Facecom, Where business happens… face to face.
Sponsored by:
Vox3com, Tony Major Events, Soul Of Miami, Downtown Athletic Club, MREIA, 2GoEvents, Paradise is Mine, Ketel One Vodka
March 11th @ 5:30pm
DWNTWN Miami Concert Series
Bayfront Park!
3 Awesome Bands are going to take the stage at this FREE concert:
Newcomer Cris Cab kicks off the concert with a sound all his own that mixes classic rock with reggae and funk. Next up is ArtOfficial, blending hip hop, jazz and funk-a reflection of its home base of Miami. Finally, MAYDAY, the dynamic alt hip-hop band that has collaborated with Cee-Lo and whose music has been featured in the hit show Entourage, will close out the show.
Don’t Forget to Bring Your Friends:
Become a DWNTWN Miami Concert Series head groupie by bringing 4 friends with you to the show this Friday. When your group is all together check in with Ms. Yami at the DDA Booth and as head groupie you’ll get to pick out a premium SWAG item from our DWNTWN Collection for yourself. Choices include a super-fly DWNTWN umbrella, a DWNTWN backpack (handy for carrying snacks and wine to the concert), or our super-soft-fleece DWNTWN blanket (perfect for picnics at Bayfront Park) – and Ms. Yami will enter your group of groupies into a special drawing for brunch for you and your 4 friends!
As always this show is a sunset happy hour and food and drinks are available.
Ms. Cheezious and Jefe’s Original Fish Tacos & Burgers will there.
For information on this show and the rest of the season go to www.dwntwnmiamiconcertseries.com or become a fan of the DWNTWN Miami Concert Series on Facebook.
The MIAMI Institute for Age Management & Intervention (www.MIAMI-Institute.com) hosted a special evening in honor of acclaimed plastic surgeon, Dr. Phillip Craft. The MIAMI Institute welcomed Dr. Craft to the dynamic surgical team, on Wednesday, February 23rd, with an elegant cocktail soiree. To celebrate the newest addition, guests were greeted with the beautiful melodies of a harp and cello player from the Miami Symphony Orchestra as The MIAMI Institute opened its doors to the luxurious 9,000 square-foot facility for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres provided by Gourmand At Home.
Guests mingled while enjoying the libations and delicious hors d’oeuvres as they received an insider’s look at the spectacular facility and met with Miami’s “Dream Team†of anti-aging specialists. “Dr. Craft brings a new element to our leading-edge medical team,†says Julio F. Gallo, MD FACS, Medical Director of The MIAMI Institute. “His unique surgical skills and outstanding reputation in the industry makes Dr. Craft a most welcome addition to our team of physicians,†says Dr. Gallo.
New Cutting-Edge Procedures Now Available at The MIAMI Institute:
Stem-Cell Rejuvenation
The MIAMI Institute adds a Stem Cell practice to their roster of anti-aging technology – a process whereby the hidden genetic potential of adult stem cells is awakened – to enhance face lift and buttock lift procedures. By transplanting carefully harvested autologous fat, any potential for an allergic reaction is eliminated. These specific “Stem Cell Growth Factors†induce the skin and fatty layers to produce more of their own cells. The Factors stimulate or initiate “a signal†to both the local stem cells within the skin and fat as well as the transplanted adult stem cells from the lower abdomen to multiply and restore themselves.
NeoGraft TM Hair Restoration
The MIAMI Institute introduces the state-of-the-art solution for hair loss and the first minimally invasive FDA approved automated hair transplant system. NeoGraft TM is a revolutionary, patented hair transplant device that automates hair transplant procedures. Down time is minimal as each follicular unit graft is individually extracted from the donor area and is then transplanted to thin or bald areas.
ABOUT THE MIAMI INSTITUTE
Located in the prestigious Four Seasons® Hotel and Tower and led by internationally regarded facial plastic surgeon Dr. Julio F. Gallo, The MIAMI Institute is a surgical center and medical spa providing progressive medicine, advanced technology, and encompassing treatments that reverse the effects of aging. The Institute’s skilled staff of surgeons, dentists, internists, medical technicians, nutritionists and health education specialists is dedicated to providing patients with tailored services – including cosmetic surgery, age management therapies, aesthetics treatments, cosmetic dentistry services and wellness counseling – that help them look and feel their best as they grow older.
The luxurious 9,000 square-foot facility features two modern surgical suites furnished with the latest medical technology designed to meet the highest standards. If patients wish, The MIAMI Institute will make arrangements for their stay at the hotel’s luxury accommodations, providing them with ease and comfort in their recovery. To learn more about The MIAMI Institute for Age Management and Intervention, please visit www.MIAMI-Institute.com or 305-624-0009.
Photographs provided by Julio Kamara
Grand opening of Largo Bar and Grill at Bayside Marketplace on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Â What a good crowd and the food was really good, loved the coconut shrimp.
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FUNDarte’s Miami On Stage 2011 Presents Latin Jazz Jam Section Yorgis Goiricelaya & Hilario Bell & other musicians will present an “unplugged†concert.
Friday, March 18, 2011 – 8PM
On.Stage Black.Box Theater
2901 W Flagler Street
Miami FL 33125
$20GA, $15 Students(-18) & Seniors (+65)
Tickets & Additional Information
Largo Bar & Grill Grand Opening Party  
Wednesday, March 9th
5:30pm – 8:00pm
Largo Bar & Grill
401 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL
Bayside Market Place (located next to The Gap store)
RSVP: info@largobarandgrill.com or 305-814-5820
Please join Largo Bar & Grill for an unbelievable time on the waterfront! Great Prizes, complimentary drinks and appetizers, and whole lot of dancing afterwards!
Raffle of Autographed Jersey’s benefiting Autism Speaks
(The Big 3: Â Dwade, King Lebron and CBosh)
In its 16th year, United Way Miami Wine and Food Festival expands to four days
2011 festival to feature fine wine and food, spirits, beer and much more
Thursday, April 14 through Sunday, April 17, 2011
Various Locations.
The 16th annual United Way Miami Wine and Food Festival, Miami’s first and foremost charity wine and food festival, will take place Thursday, April 14 through Sunday, April 17, 2011. Presented by American Express, all proceeds from the festival will benefit United Way of Miami-Dade’s work in the areas of education, income and health.
For more information and tickets, visit www.miamiwinefestival.org or www.facebook.com/miamiwineandfoodfestival or follow us on Twitter @MiamiWineFest. . For tickets call 1-877-820-3378.
This annual event brings together food and wine lovers for a now expanded four-day festival featuring notable chefs, sommeliers, prestigious wineries and winemakers, celebrity mixologists , breweries and impressive auction lots. This year, one of the nation’s most prolific apostles of Progressive American cuisine, Chef Dewey LoSasso, executive chef of The Forge Restaurant | Wine Bar will headline the Interactive Dinner on Friday, April 15.
Festivities begin on Thursday, April 14, with the Taste & Toast – Fine Wine Tasting presented by Miccosukee Resort & Gaming, featuring dozens of international wineries and 30 of South Florida’s top restaurants and caterers, including: Acqua at Four Seasons Hotel, AltaMare, Meat Market, Ortanique on the Mile, Season’s 52, Timo Restaurant and Two Chefs among many others. The VIP tasting begins at 6 pm, general admission begins at 7 pm; tickets are $150 per VIP admission; $75 per general admission. Following the tasting, guests can enjoy the Glenfiddich “Music to Drink Whiskey By†afterparty featuring whiskey ambassador and scotch specialist Heather Greene and DJ Adam Williams. Taste & Toast takes place at Village of Merrick Park, 358 San Lorenzo Avenue, Coral Gables.
Friday, April 15, the Food, Friends & Fun – Interactive Dinner, presented by Bacardi USA, belongs to celebrity Chef Dewey LoSasso of The Forge Restaurant | Wine Bar. This interactive experience is the ultimate good time for foodies, where tables will team up to cook their own three-course meal under Chef LoSasso’s tutelage. The evening begins at 6:30 pm with a Bacardi cocktail reception, and Bacardi master mixologist, Gary Hayward, will teach guests a few tricks of the trade during dinner, which begins at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $300 per person and $2,400 per table of eight. Food, Friends & Fun takes place at the InterContinental Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza, Miami.
On Saturday, April 16, the Cellarâ—bration – Good Food and Award-winning Wines, presented by Cypress Hill Financial, features award-winning wines from the first annual Best in Glass Wine Challenge and a multi-course dinner, exclusive auction lots, and live entertainment and dancing by quintessential American jazz vocalist, Kevin Mahogany. A champagne cocktail reception and silent auction begin at 6:30 pm; dinner begins at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $300 per person and $3,000 per table of 10. Cellarâ—bration also takes place at the InterContinental Miami, 100 Chopin Plaza, Miami.
The festival culminates on Sunday, April 17, with Brews & Bites – Craft Beer Tasting, presented by CBIZ, featuring bites from area restaurants, live entertainment, craft beers and mirco-brews from around the world including: Narraganssett Brewing, Blue Point Brewing, Shipyard/Se a Dog Brewing, Abita Brewing Company, The Boston Beer Company, Brooklyn Brewery, Sierra Nevada, Stone Brewing and many more. The VIP tasting begins at 1 pm, general admission begins at 2 pm; tickets are $75 per VIP admission and $55 per general admission. Admission to the event includes a commemorative tasting cup. Brews & Bites takes place at Mary Brickell Village, 901 South Miami Avenue, Miami.
American Express is the presenting sponsor of the 16th annual United Way Miami Wine and Food Festival. Other sponsors include: American Airlines at the Vintner level; Baca rdi USA, CBIZ, Cypress Hill Financial, Miccosukee Resort & Gaming and Selected Brands at the Sommeliers level; Baptist Health South Florida at the Connoisseur level; Baltic Linen Company, Inc.; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida; Carnival Cruise Lines; Celebrity Cruises; 97.3 The Coast and Easy 93.1, Cox Media Group Miami; Downtown Coral Gables & Miracle Mile; Ernst & Young; Florida Power & Light; Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau; Inktel Direct; In the Gables Magazine; MCM Corporation; Miami New Times; Nestle Waters, North America; Ryder Charitable Foundation; Steiner Transocean Ltd.; William Grant & Sons; Yelp; World Fuel Services; and Zuni Transportation at the Cooper level. The Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald and Comcast are the official media sponsors of the festival.
United Way of Miami Dade has been presented with a $1 million donation from the John and Elaine Kanas Family Foundation. This gift represents the single largest individual unrestricted gift to the 2010 campaign, which will directly impact United Way’s work to advance the common good by creating opportunities for a better life for all Miami-Dade residents. The gift will be recognized at a reception with United Way board members and key supporters.
Kanas is chairman, president and CEO of BankUnited, the largest bank headquartered in Florida. In May 2009, he led a group of investors in purchasing the bank, and since then, has spent much of his time in South Florida, running the bank and getting to know the community.
“My family and I have spent a lot of time in South Florida since I became involved with BankUnited,†said Kanas. “As in many communities, there are not enough resources to meet the tremendous needs of underserved populations. We are honored to share this gift with an organization that is making such a difference in people’s lives.
“Childhood education is an important element of preparing tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and employees. We know this gift will create better futures for children in South Florida.â€
Harve Mogul, president and CEO of United Way of Miami-Dade, added, “We are so very grateful to John and Elaine for this most generous unrestricted gift, which will have tremendous impact on thousands of lives in our community who depend on the work of United Way. This is an incredible example of the family’s philanthropic spirit.â€
About United Way of Miami-Dade
United Way is working to advance the common good by creating opportunities for a better life for all. We are focused on improving education, income and health – the building blocks for a good life. Our goal is to create long-lasting changes that prevent problems from happening in the first place. We invest in quality programs, advocate for better policies, engage people in the community and generate resources. We invite you to join us in this work and LIVE UNITED. For more information, visit www.unitedwaymiami.org or www.facebook.com/UnitedWayMiami.
Photographs of the event
Downtowning Arts and Lifestyle on the BLVD featuring Edgar Nano Sanchez at Mia at Bisczayne on Friday, March 4, 2011.
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28th Annual Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) produced and presented by Miami Dade College (MDC) launched a new chapter with a new executive director. the official lineup of the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) will be repleting with Red Carpet Gusman Galas, Premieres, Competition Categories and Awards, REEL Education Seminars and other special presentations that make up the Festival’s showcase of more than 100 films from 40 countries during the 10-day event, which runs to March 13, 2011.
The Festival launched on March 4 with the first Opening Night animated feature in its 28-year history: Chico & Rita by Oscar- and Goya Award-winning Spanish director Fernando Trueba and Barcelona designer Javier Mariscal. Already a sensation in theaters across Europe, Chico & Rita is the love story of Chico, a penniless piano player, and Rita, a sultry singer, who meet by chance one night in 1948 at Havana’s world-famous Tropicana Club. From there, the star-crossed lovers begin a tumultuous affair that spans decades and takes them to the glamorous stages of New York City, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. Their complex tale of heartache and longing, much like a traditional bolero, unfolds to a musical soundtrack of spirited re-recordings of favorites by jazz legends Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Israel ―Cachao‖ López, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Chano Pozo and Tito Puente, among others. The red carpet arrivals was lined up with the producers and stars of the movie. At the end of arrivals a luxurious top of the line Lexus automobile was parked at the top of the Red Carpet as Lexus is one of the major sponsors of the film festival.
Trueba previously directed Belle époque, starring Penelope Cruz and Jorge Sanz, which won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His Latin Jazz documentary, Calle 54, won MIFF’s Audience Award in 2001. He also previously opened the 14th edition of MIFF, in 2004, with Belle époque. The critically acclaimed film marks Trueba’s return to the Festival, after a 10-year absence.
Following the film, an opening night gala party, held at Miami Dade College’s historic and beautiful Freedom Tower featured a tribute to Cuban music. Guests enjoyed light bites by La Estancia Argentina, Hard Rock Cafe, and other notable area restaurants. Cocktails were sponsored by Rums of Puerto Rico and Coffee drinks by Illy.
For more information on the Miami International Film Festival please visit www.miamifilmfestival.com
Photographs by Betty Alvarez copyright 2011
VOX3COM Presents FACECOM Where Business Happens Face to Face at Intercontinental Hotel Indigo Bar on Thursday, March 3, 2011. Â We enjoyed drink specials from 5:00pm til 7:pm, $3 Beer, $4 Wine and $5 Cocktails, $4 Valet and of course there is a City of Miami Parking lot in front of the hotel…so no excuses for not dropping by for a drink.
Sponsors for this event: Â Vox3.com, Tony Major Events, Downtown Athletic Club, Paradise is Mine, 2Go Events and MREIA.
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Downtowning | Arts & Lifestyle on the BLVD
featuring Art Showcase by Edgar Nano Sanchez
RSVP for Cocktail Reception
happyhour@miabiscayne.com
Wine Down Wednesday at HistoryMiami on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Â Wine Down Wednesday takes place first Wednesday of the month. Â This is a great place to network with young professionals while drinking wine and listening to live music. Â This month they had Cat Shell performing and as usual she was amazing. Â This is the perfect place to spend Wednesday evening, to unwind, have a glass of wine and listen to some amazing music.
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Wine Down Wednesday
March 2 from 5 – 8pm
HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street, downtown Miami
Mix, mingle and unwind at HistoryMiami while drinking wine, listening to live music by Cat Shell and browsing our new gallery Reflections: Paintings of Florida 1865 – 1965.
Free General Admission
Members and County Employees Complimentary Glass of Wine
$15 open wine bar and light snacks $5 per glass
FREE Parking available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue
RSVP by May 2
Call (305) 375-1614 or email: rsvp@historymiami.org
5th Annual WMC 2K11 – Classic Session feat A Cause – VIVA Sofia
March, 10th, 2011, 6:30pm
Indigo Bar @ Intercontinental Miami
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, FL 33131
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Tony Major along Power Of Love Productions presents a Fundraiser event in association with the National Foundation for Transplant in honor Of the Liver transplant patient Sofia Lumi (4yrs old) Cause VIVA Sofia.
Featuring a stellar and Legendary Lineup:
> Wayne Williams (Founder Of The Chosen Few) NYC/Chicago
> Victor Simonelli (legendary DJ-Producer-Remixer) NYC/Italy
> John Morales (legendary DJ-Producer-Remixer/M+M Studios)NYC
> Ron D*8*Lim (House Music Pioneer DJ-Producer-Remixer Power Of Love Productions) NYC/Miami
> Paolo Albertoni (House Music Pioneer DJ-Producer) Italy/Miami
> David Solero (House Music Pioneer – Good Peoples Entertainment)NYC/Miami
Serving you the finest in the Disco, Funk, Classics, Rare Grooves, Garage and the 80’s. Recreating an atmosphere of the famed Studio 54 or the legendary grooves of Paradise Garage…
Additionally we feature a special Live Performance of the Brand new
Duo “Kryptoh – Laze” (Sanna Vaarna & Ron D*8*Lim) featuring Buffalo Brown on Guitar (3rd Horizon)
Dress Code: Casual Chic
Cover: $ 10 Donation in honor of Sofia Lumi
WMC 2011 Badge holders free all night.
I look forward to see you all there groovin’ along the eclectic sets!!!
Always Love, always no matter what!!
Yours, Ron D Lim aka Ron D*8*Lim – Power Of Love Productions LLC
This Official WMC 2011 Event support a Fundraiser along the National Foundation for Transplants (NFT) in Honor of Sofia Lumi, a 4 years old girl, patient of a Liver transplant.
Grateful for your support!
Tattoo Jew Challenges Jewish Identity In New Sanhedrin-Style Debate
Wednesday, March 16 at 7:00 p.m.
Next@19th
137 NE 19th Street
Miami, FL 33132
$10 for adults and $6 for students, seniors and artists
Show your ink and enjoy a festive drink as Next@19th’s New Sanhedrin program offers a heated debate on the controversial topic of body modification within the Jewish culture and practice.
Next@19th invites producer Andy Abrams to present excerpts from his anticipated documentary “Tattoo Jew,†highlighting Jewish-themed tattoos as permanent expressions of cultural connection and identity within the Jewish culture. Abrams’ viewpoint reads between the lines of what it means to be Jewish in the midst of a pop culture society.
A New Sanhedrin-style discussion will follow the enlightening preview, complete with an array of views to offer a fresh perspective on topics like religious prohibition and family disapproval of personal expression within the Jewish community. Modeled after the original ancient Sanhedrin which legislated Jewish law, ideas are introduced by central facilitators and put to audiences for debate. Tickets can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com.
About Next@19th: Moving Jewish Culture Forward
Next@19th was founded in July 2010 to engage South Florida’s diverse community in fresh culture, learning and spiritual experience through a Jewish lens. Producing original programming, the organization will host a range of events and activities. This 2010 – 2011 season promises celebrations of music, literary arts, visual art, education and spirituality as well as dynamic projects in partnership with Miami Book Fair International, the Jewish Film Festival and University of Wynwood. Next@19th is located at 137 NE 19 Street, Miami FL 33132, on the campus of Temple Israel’s historic site in downtown Miami. For more information please call 305.542.7732 or visit the website at www.nextat19th.org.
SeminArt: Contracts for Artists
Monday, March 7, 2011 / 6:00 – 7:30pm
LegalArt
1035 N Miami Avenue
Suite 200, Second floor
Miami, FL 33136
Register for this SeminArt
$10 Suggested Donation online or at the door
Unsure if you need a contract? Unsure what should be in a Contract? This SeminArt is an introduction to basic contracts for artists. Attorneys Carolann Swanson and Johnlee Curtis will outline common types of contracts professional artists use to protect and sustain their careers including gallery, commission, licensing, sale and work for hire. They will discuss the differences and requirements for written and oral contracts and how email correspondence between parties may or may not suffice as a contract. They will also provide information on how to handle contract disputes and what to do when you want to terminate a contract. You will leave the SeminArt with greater knowledge of the steps that should be undertaken to avoid contractual problems as well as a better understanding of what contracts look like and how they can be more easily understood.
Carolann and Johnlee will be available for specific questions at the end of the program. Stick around to meet other artists and community leaders–LegalArt SeminArts are great networking opportunities!
Parking: Our building is located on the corner of N Miami Ave and NE 11th Street. Metered parking is available on N Miami Ave and on 11th and 10th Streets. Directions to LegalArt
MIFF Presents Marti, el ojo del canario (MartÃ, the Eye of the Canary)
Tuesday, Mar. 8, at 7 p.m.
Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
174 E. Flagler St.
Miami International Film Festival Premiere Captures Jose Mart۪̉s Youth
Following a slew of awards and critical acclaim, Marti, el ojo del canario (MartÃ, the Eye of the Canary) will make its East Coast premiere at the 28th Annual Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 8, at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts. Cuban director Fernando Perez is scheduled to attend.
MartÃ, the Eye of the Canary offers a look into the inner world of Cuban national hero and poet Jose Martà during his formative years. It is impressively set in Havana at the turn of the 20th Century and traces MartÃ’s life from age nine to 17, a period in Cuban history when he witnessed injustices perpetuated by the Spanish colonial rulers, which helped shaped his character.
MartÃ, the Eye of the Canary was named best Cuban film by the Cuban Association of Film Critics. It also won Colon de Plata Awards in Spain for Best Director and Best Photography, three Coral Awards and eight collateral awards at the Havana Film Festival. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
This is Perez’s third film showcased at the Festival – others were La vida es silbar (1998) and Suite Habana (2003).
The 28th edition of the Miami International Film Festival runs March 4-13, 2011. Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, Feb. 11. For tickets to Opening Night and all other Festival screenings and special events, visit www.miamifilmfestival.com or call 305-405-MIFF (6433).
New Environments: Four Women Artists
March 6 -May 7, 2011, Mon – Thur, Sat -Sun: 10am-4pm
Women’s Park
Roxcy O’Neal Bolton Women’s History Gallery
10251 W Flagler St
Miami, FL
www.salonmiami.org
Salon Miami presents New Environments: Four Women Artists, featuring works by:
Annfaye Pool
Lucinda Linderman
Kim Yantis
Amanda Serrano
An exhibition in honor of Women’s History Month and the shared creative faculty of women. New Environments: Four Women Artists examines women’s diverse relationship to their environments – natural, construct, and social – from feminine and artistic perspectives.
Please join us at the opening reception Sunday, March 6, 1-4pm at the Roxcy O’Neal Bolton Women’s History Gallery, Women’s Park, 10251 W Flagler St, Miami, FL. Exhibition dates: March 6-May 7, 2011.
Party Like It’s New Years at MIA Ultra-Lounge This Saturday
FEB 27th 2011, 11:00pm
Mia At Biscayne
20 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL
Website.
We are back!!
Ask Me About The Open Bar Procedure
This Saturday February 26th
Fabian hosts
“Party Like It’s New Years”
Our famous Monthly event returns this weekend
Table reservations and info please call 786.942.2097 or e-mail Miami@Quecoco.com
Downtowning Arts & Lifestyle on the BLVD
Happy Hour 5-8pm
Featuring Art Exhibit by Veronica Saenz
RSVP for Cocktail Reception:
happyhour@miabiscayne.com
Wednesday, March 30 at 7:00 p.m.
Next@19th
137 NE 19th Street
Miami, FL
Tickets: $20 and $15 for students, seniors and artists
Enjoy a variety of original songs and retro melodies from around the globe with Misha & Friends. Russian and Israeli conductor, composer and cantor Misha Glozman shares his musical expressions with audiences, presenting melodious methods ranging from Hebrew, English, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish versions of jazz, blues, Latin and classical hymns. Glozman has worked with some of the best Israeli Cantors, including but not limited to Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, Ben Zion-Miller and Israel Rand. Currently at Temple Israel, Glozman is a local icon, providing musical activities and instruction for all to enjoy. Tickets are available at www.BrownPaperTickets.com .
About Next@19th: Moving Jewish Culture Forward
Next@19th was founded in July 2010 to engage South Florida’s diverse community in fresh culture, learning and spiritual experience through a Jewish lens. Producing original programming, the organization will host a range of events and activities. This 2010 – 2011 season promises celebrations of music, literary arts, visual art, education and spirituality as well as dynamic projects in partnership with Miami Book Fair International, the Jewish Film Festival and University of Wynwood. Next@19th is located at 137 NE 19 Street, Miami FL 33132, on the campus of Temple Israel’s historic site in downtown Miami. For more information please call 305.542.7732 or visit the website at www.nextat19th.org .
March 23 at 7:00 p.m.
Next@19th
137 NE 19th Street
Miami, FL
Tickets: $10 and $6 for students, seniors and artists
Downtown Miami Jewish cultural center Next@19th partners with seasoned musicians Reuben Hoch and Misha Glozman to present intriguing performances aimed at fusing musical culture with community-building.
Guava Rugelach Lounge: JewJamm
On Wednesday, February 23, award-winning drummer and composer Reuben Hoch joins Next@19th for a “JewJamm” with Chassidic melodies and contemporary jazz arrangements. Since falling in love with the drums at age 12, Hoch has been featured on many albums including two as leader of his own pack, “The RH Factor,” with Miles Davis alumnus Dave Liebman. Also at the helm of the Chassidic Jazz Project – an organ trio consisting of Hammond B3, guitar and drums – the group plays Jewish music in a Jam Band format drawing influences from Medeski, Martin & Wood, Robert Walters, Galactic and more.
Through Next@19th’s Lounge series, the successful Guava Rugelach Festival which annually celebrates tropical Jewish sound is brought into a monthly cafe environment, complete with coffee and refreshments. Artists featured at the Lounge will present their own musical programs and dialogue in the intimate outdoor setting, showcasing the influence of Jewish Diaspora on music and the arts. Tickets are available at www.BrownPaperTickets.com.
Wednesday, February 23, 7pm
Next@19th
137 NE 19th Street
Miami, FL
Tickets: $10 and $6 for students, seniors and artists
Downtown Miami Jewish cultural center Next@19th partners with seasoned musicians Reuben Hoch and Misha Glozman to present intriguing performances aimed at fusing musical culture with community-building.
Guava Rugelach Lounge: JewJamm
On Wednesday, February 23, award-winning drummer and composer Reuben Hoch joins Next@19th for a “JewJamm” with Chassidic melodies and contemporary jazz arrangements. Since falling in love with the drums at age 12, Hoch has been featured on many albums including two as leader of his own pack, “The RH Factor,” with Miles Davis alumnus Dave Liebman. Also at the helm of the Chassidic Jazz Project – an organ trio consisting of Hammond B3, guitar and drums – the group plays Jewish music in a Jam Band format drawing influences from Medeski, Martin & Wood, Robert Walters, Galactic and more.
Through Next@19th’s Lounge series, the successful Guava Rugelach Festival which annually celebrates tropical Jewish sound is brought into a monthly cafe environment, complete with coffee and refreshments. Artists featured at the Lounge will present their own musical programs and dialogue in the intimate outdoor setting, showcasing the influence of Jewish Diaspora on music and the arts. Tickets are available at www.BrownPaperTickets.com.
Anchor Gallery: Mark Dion
Opening reception and dialogue between the artist and author Michael Grunwald
Thursday, March 10, 6-9pm
Dialogue begins 6:30pm (Seating is limited. First come, first seated.)
MAM members free ï Non-members $10
RSVP@miamiartmuseum.org
Anchor Gallery: Mark Dion, presenting the artist’s complete South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, a large-scale installation focusing on the Everglades and human attempts to control the South Florida ecosystem, opens with a dialogue between the artist and Michael Grunwald, author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon and Schuster, 2006). South Florida environmental and conservation organizations will be present during the opening reception with information about local programs.
Miami Art Museum Presents Anchor Gallery: Mark Dion
March 11 – August 28, 2011
Dion’s South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit Arrives on the Scene to “Save†Threatened Plant and Animal Species
Miami – February 17, 2010 – Miami Art Museum presents Mark Dion’s complete South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, a large-scale installation that focuses on the Everglades and human attempts to control the South Florida ecosystem. The installation will be on view from March 11 through August 28, 2011 in the Anchor Gallery, an area of the Permanent Collection featuring regularly changing presentations of large scale works. The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit was originally commissioned by MAM in 2006 and subsequently acquired by the Museum.
Interweaving the diverse disciplines of art, science, ecology, history, and archeology, Dion’s project consists of three parts, corresponding to the three major periods of Everglades history: exploration (late 1700s – mid 1800s); exploitation (mid-1800s – early 20th century); and preservation and restoration (mid-20th century – the present).
“Dion’s installation tells the story of the various mentalities and motivations, both positive and negative, which have determined our history with Florida’s wilderness,†said Peter Boswell, Miami Art Museum assistant director for programs/senior curator. “The artist has said that his work is not really about nature, but about the consideration of ideas of nature. His project resonates with the environmental changes the South Florida region has undergone and the efforts that are being made to stem and counteract those changes.â€
The largest component of the installation features a facsimile of a vehicle and equipment belonging to an imaginary agency that rushes into vulnerable ecosystems to save threatened plants and animals: the South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit. This portion of the installation serves as a tongue-in-cheek how-to guide for would-be conservationists, and ironically represents the dreams of policymakers’ decisive actions, while also saluting past and current grassroots activism efforts.
The second portion of the installation is a series of reproductions of vintage photographs taken in the early decades of the 20th century by John Kunkel Small, a curator of the New York Botanical Garden who identified numerous plant species in the Everglades and authored a scathing book entitled From Eden to Sahara: Florida’s Tragedy, which documented the changes wrought by dredging and draining the area.
The third portion is comprised of a vitrine containing artifacts, including a book of pressed specimens, the Herbarium Perrine (Marine Algae), purportedly belonging to 19th century botanist and early Florida settler Henry Perrine. Perrine was partly responsible for the overzealous introduction of foreign plant species to the area, which now poses one of the gravest threats to the ecosystem. Like the installation’s vehicle, the vitrine and its components are a fiction invented by the artist.
Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. His work deals with the probing of knowledge systems that underlie scientific research and museum displays, acquisitions, and classifications. He received an honorary Ph.D from the University of Hartford and is a recipient of the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award. Dion studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York, and the University of Hartford, Connecticut. Dion has showed in solo exhibitions at a number of venues, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2005), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004), and the University of Tokyo Museum, Tokyo (2002).
In conjunction with Miami Art Museum’s Anchor Gallery: Mark Dion and the upcoming exhibition, The Wilderness, Miami Art Museum will partner with local environmental and conservation organizations to provide information on local initiatives, and special programs. For information on participating institutions, visit miamiartmuseum.org or email tbelcher@miamiartmuseum.org.
Exhibition organization and support
Anchor Gallery: Mark Dion is organized by Miami Art Museum and supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund.
Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Recently, Miami Art Museum has presented exhibitions of works by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Susan Rothenberg and Yinka Shonibare, and its Permanent Collection includes works by Doug Aitken, José Bedia, Mark Dion, Marcel Duchamp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Alfredo Jaar, Sol LeWitt, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Tomas Saraceno, Lorna Simpson and Rachel Whiteread. Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 people every year, with the largest art education program outside Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.
Grand Opening of Miss Yip Chinese Cafe’s new Downtown location on Friday, February 18, 2011. I loved the Chinese Dragons and Drummers, Great Event!!!!!!!!!
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Uptown Saturdays
2/19/2011, 10pm to until
Amuse Restaurant & Lounge
1100 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, Fl 33131
Uptown Saturdays for South Florida Elite Socialites. Come out and party. Dine and Drink and enjoy the Miami nightlife.
Party kicks off at 1030pm. RSVP for bottle service. Great to host parties, birthdays, divorce, Bachelorette and Bachelor parties.
RSVP to 305-323-3757
Go Big!
Wednesday March 9th, 10:00PM – Thursday March 10th, 3:00 PM
Mekka
950 NE 2nd Ave.
Miami, FL 33132
www.GoBigWMC.com
presented by DBA Events LLC
Ages: 21+
Unlimited Re-Entry
Mark Farina, King Britt, Chuck Love Live and Dozens More
Like us on Facebook http://fb.GoBigMiami.com
Follow us on Twitter
@GoBigWMC
or call us at: 786.306.2406
Social Esquire Revamped
February 23, 2010, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Mia Biscayne
20 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida 33132
www.socialesquire.com
Social Esquire cordially invites you to a showcase of our upcoming series for 2011. We are a boutique event company dedicated to community service and special events.
This year we seek to further our work in enhancing the lives of others, solidifying partnerships in line with our vision, and continuing to engage a diverse group of professionals in a variety of activities.
Out of the Cloud Networker
Thursday, February 17, 5pm-10pm
Intercontinental Hotel
100 Chopin Plaza
Miami, FL
Come And Get Connected This Thursday At Our Business Network Mixer In The Intercontinental Hotel Miami
Get ready to network my friend join me this thursday at the Intercontinental hotel for a fun evening of business networking come and experience the new way of networking which is social media meets events!
Wednesdays With Women Business Networker
Call For Stories: Tell Your ¿Que Pasa, Usa? Story Live!
Thursday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m.
Main Library
101 West Flager
Miami FL 33130
Send a summary of your story, your name and phone number to art@mdpls.org by February 18th.
Do you have a good ¿Que Pasa, USA? story you’re willing to share in front of a live audience during our ¿Que Pasa, USA? screening/event which will be held on Thursday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Main Library. If so, please tell us why and send your name and phone number to art@mdpls.org. Deadline is February 18th.
The Miami-Dade Public Library System is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a special ¿Que Pasa, USA? screening/event on Thursday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the Main Library. The event is in collaboration with WPBT (who originally aired the show) and generation ñ. If you’ve never seen it, ¿Que Pasa? is kind of like a Cuban-American Good Times – and it first aired around the same time, between 1975-80.
We’re looking for a couple of people with really, really good ¿Que Pasa, USA? stories. Stories should be no longer than 10 minutes long – shorter is even better. They can be funny or serious or silly or sad as long as it’s an engaging, well-told story about a specific memory or incident or sequence of events.
Maybe you remember loving the show growing up even though you didn’t speak Spanish. Or you laughed your head off (or cried) at the “Super Chaperone” episode because it reminds you of something that happened to you.
The Vagabond
30 NE 14th Street
Downtown Miami, FL
www.thevagabondmiami.com
Tuesday 3/8/2011 – The Official WMC Opening Party featuring DEF MIX w/ Frankie Knuckles, David Morales & Hector Romero
Wednesday 3/9/2011 – In the Groove Global Presents TODD TERRY’s InHouse Records Party
Along with DJ Sneak, Junior Sanchez, Mattias Heilbronn, Norty Cotto, Rock-It Rockett, Benji Candelario, DJ Lucho, Oscar P, DJ Eric F, Pete G and Danny Genius
Thursday 3/10/2011 – Shake + Get Low WMC Edition featuring HATCHA
Along with JUAN BASSHEAD, Agape ft. Nadia Harris ‘Live’, MC JUMANJI + The Nome, Somejerk vs. Methodus, Ashworth, A-Train, Rob Riggs and Sounduo ‘Live’
Friday 3/11/2011 – Fridays at The Vagabond w/ LARRY TEE, CLASS ACTRESS ‘Live’ and Million Young ‘Live’
Saturday 3/12/2011 – Dance Ritual featuring LOUIE VEGA
Along with Mr. V, Johnny Dangerous, Carlos Mena, Fabio Genito, Davidson Ospina, Anane ‘Live’, Josh Milan ‘Live’
Purchase Advance Tickets at Wantickets.com/Vagabond
reservations@thevagabondmiami.com
for Bottle Service and Private Party Arrangements
Live Love Park at Grand Central on on Friday, February 11, 2011.
PARK Project’s mission is to Perform Acts of Random Kindness and LIVE THE CAUSE in hopes of creating a powerful ripple effect of LOVE found in the genuine SERVICE of others. This short and humble message aims to inspire and empower by unlocking the potential of people of all ages, capabilities and resources to BE THE CHANGE we all wish to see in the world. This grassroots effort began with one PARK Project; a birthday party, 9/10/10, that united over 200 people and raised $1,500 to benefit the Miami VA Fisher House and the American Cancer Society. This one act of random kindness resulted in a powerful ripple effect that has united thousands of people and dozens of Community PARKners in just a few months!
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DWNTWN Miami Concert Series featuring Nicole Henry and the South Florida Jazz Orchestra in Bayfront Park on Friday, February 11, 2011. Â This free concert series is every second Friday of the month starting at 5:30pm. Â Nicole Henry and the South Florida Jazz Orchestra were amazing, looking forward to hearing how is going to be next month and hope to see you all there.
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DWNTWN Miami Concert Series
Second Fridays @ 5:30pm
Bayfront Park
The show is FREE and starts at 5:30pm!
It’s all about romance and the Big Band sound when the South Florida Jazz Orchestra brings their swinging ways to the DWNTWN Miami Concert Series at Bayfront Park’s Tina Hills Pavilion, tomorrow night! The orchestra is an amazingly tight ensemble with bouncy swing and big jazz sounds – a musical treat for the ear and a dance treat for the “swinger” in you.
Miami’s own Nicole Henry joins the orchestra for a little romance from the Great American Song book. Her sound described as ‘sensual and romantic,’ is a perfect accompaniment for a glass of wine under the stars.
Come experience great music, great company, great scenery and the opportunity to win some great prizes…at this concert we will be raffling off:
Brunch for 2 at Mia
$100 to Truluck’s
And a grand prize… Romance at the Intercontinental Miami including:
Valentine Dinner for 2 at Indigo (up to $200)
my Spa Massage for 2
my Spa Mani – Pedi
my Spa 1-Month Membership for 2
Go to www.dwntwnmiamiconcertseries.com or call 305-579-6675 for more information.
LegalArt Residency Open Studios and Reading
Thursday, February 17, 2011 / 6:00 – 9:00pm,
Corner of N Miami Ave and NE 11th Street
More Info.
6:00pm / Reading by Sandra Beasley, Visiting Writer in Residence
Free and open to the public
Local Artists in Residence: Jiae Hwang, Manny Prieres, Pachi Giustinian, TM Sisters (Natasha and Monica Lopez De Victoria), Viking Funeral (Carlos Ascurra and Juan Gonzalez)
Visiting Artists in Residence: Alfio Demestre, Laura Hita (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Visiting Writer in Residence: Sandra Beasley (Washington, D.C.)
More about our Current Residents
Poetry and Prose Reading by Sandra Beasley, Visiting Writer in Residence / 6:00pm
Sandra Beasley is a writer living in Washington, DC, where her essays have been featured in the Washington Post Magazine. She is the author of three books, including I Was the Jukebox (winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poetry Prize) and the memoir Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, forthcoming from Crown in July. Please RSVP for the reading at info@legalartmiami.org.
Request for Ties
Laura Hita, Visiting Artist in Residence, is working on a large wall installation of recycled neckties. In order for this project to be fully realized, your participation is very important. Please bring a tie, for donation in support of Laura’s project, to the Residency Open Studios and Reading. Upon completion of the project, everyone who donates a tie will receive a high resolution digital photo of the piece. Donate a tie and be part of the art!
Enjoy CIFO’s Extended Hours: 6:00 – 9:00pm with a screening of The Woodmans at 7:30pm
Currently on view through March 6, 2011 at CIFO: Inside Out, Photography After Form: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, curated by Simon Baker and Tanya Barson, curators from the Tate Modern in London. Film screening at 7:30pm: The Woodmans, the life and work of the late photographer Francesca Woodman. Directed by C. Scott Willis, a Lorber Films Release. Read more
Parking: LegalArt is located on the corner of N Miami Ave and NE 11th Street. CIFO is generously providing parking in their lot located across the street from the building at 1018 N Miami Ave, (the entrance to the lot will be on your right). Metered parking is also available on N Miami Ave and on 11th and 10th Streets.
Saturday, March 26
JW Marriott Marquis & Hotel Beaux Arts
Purchase Tickets Online.
Pricing: $500 per person or VIP seating at Saturn Ring tables for $2,000 per couple
$50 per person for Big Bang after party
Miami Science Museum’s Ninth annual Galaxy Gala will be their most extravagant event yet in anticipation of their new building. Guests will be invited to an extraordinary four-course evening of multi-sensory previews, including a journey inside the 600,000-gallon aquarium (a virtual underwater tour). Interactive cocktail parties will direct guests to solar and lunar themed rooms with silent auctions. The night will come alive with animals, performance artists and dancing the night away under a planetarium dome. Immediately following the Galaxy Gala, the Big Bang after party will feature live music from dance fusion bands and two DJ’s to keep the night alive, while enjoying a full dessert bar.
You’re cordially invited to celebrate the Official Grand Opening of Miss Yip Chinese Cafe’s new Downtown location!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Miss Yip Chinese Cafe
900 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL
305.358.0088
www.missyipchinesecafe.com
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 4pm
with Mayor Tomas Regalado and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff
Enjoy complimentary cocktails & Chinese snacks from 4-7pm.
Music by DJ Ethics all night.
RSVP is required. Please RSVP to missyip@cm-publicrelations.com.
11th Judicial Circuit Historical Society 5th Annual Reception
Thursday, February 24 6:30 pm
HistoryMiami
101 West Flagler Street
Miami
Society members and guests are welcome to the annual membership meeting and reception where the Chairman’s Award will be presented.
RSVP: Call: 305-375-5356 or email: 11JCHS@historymiami.org
Reflections: Paintings of Florida 1865 – 1965
Friday, February 18 / VIP: 6 pm Members: 7PM
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
downtown Miami
Celebrate the opening of Reflections: Paintings of Florida 1865 – 1965 with collectors Cici and Hayatt Brown. Enjoy fine wine, hors d’oeveres and live music. RSVP by February 16.
Members: FREE Non-Members: $10
Info/RSVP: Call: 305-375-5356 or email: membership@historymiami.org
Ducati NorthAmerica: Diavel Miami
Saturday February 12th 2011, 8pm – 12pm
Grand Central
697 North Miami Avenue Miami, FL 33136
ducatidiavelmiami.eventbrite.com
Ducati NorthAmerica Present: Sell your soul to the Diavel in Miami….
Invitation Only – Rsvp Online – Space Is Limited!
Special Vip Yatch Afterparty From 12pm – 2:30 Am For More Info Email pablo@ducatimiami.com
Friday Feb. 11, 2011 at 8pm
UM’s Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center
Solo rectial by Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero showcasing her Solatino album (songs composed by Latin American composers and some of her personal improvisations). Gabriela is celebrated equally for her interpretations of classical repertoire, from Bach to Chopin, to her extraordinary improvisations. In a new release from EMI Classics she devotes herself exclusively to works by Latin American composers.
Visit Gabriela Montero’s website for additional information: www.gabrielamontero.com and her 60 Minutes profile
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2223711n
Spanish Director Fernando Trueba Returns to Miami with Opening Night Animated Love Story Chico & Rita at 2011 Miami International Film Festival
Friday, Mar. 4 at 7 p.m.
Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
Afterparty at Freedom Tower
9:30 p.m. until12:30 a.m.
After a ten-year absence, Oscar and Goya Award-winning Spanish director Fernando Trueba returns to the Miami International Film Festival on Friday, Mar. 4, to deliver the first Opening Night animated feature in Festival history: Chico & Rita. The film premieres at 7 p.m. at the historic Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami. It will be the only screening during the Festival, which is produced and presented by Miami Dade College (MDC). Trueba is scheduled to attend the premiere.
Already a sensation in theaters across Europe, Chico & Rita is the love story of Chico, a penniless piano player, and Rita, a sultry singer, who meet by chance one night in 1948 at Havana’s world-famous Tropicana Club. From there, the star-crossed lovers begin a tumultuous affair that spans decades and takes them to the glamorous stages of New York City, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. Their complex tale of heartache and longing, much like a traditional bolero, unfolds to a musical soundtrack of spirited re-recordings of favorites by jazz legends Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Israel “Cachao” López, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Chano Pozo and Tito Puente, among others.
Three years in the making, Chico & Rita is the result of the collaborative talents of Trueba; famed Barcelona illustrator and designer Javier Mariscal (the set designer of Trueba’s Calle 54, who is famous for creating the logo of “Cobi,” the Cubist-style Catalan sheepdog that became the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics); and Mariscal’s brother, animation artist Tono Errando, who supervised design teams in studios on three different continents.
“There is a special magic to having Chico & Rita as the Opening Night film of our 28th edition,” said MIFF Executive Director Jaie Laplante. “This sensual collaboration of three masters from the world of film, art and music is a rare find. With so much of the film set in the tropical paradise of Cuba in 1948, it has a special resonance for Miamians.”
2011 is a homecoming of sorts for Trueba, the famed Spanish director of international hits Belle époque (the cinematic sensation that introduced U.S. audiences to Penelope Cruz, screened at MIFF in 1994 and won the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film) and last year’s The Dancer and the Thief, Spain’s submission to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar. The last time Trueba’s celebrated work premiered at MIFF was 2001, when his love-song-to-Latin-jazz documentary Calle 54-starring legendary performers Gato Barbieri, Cachao, Michel Camilo, Eliane Elias, Tito Puente, Paquito D’Rivera and Bebo and Chucho Valdés-took home the Festival’s Audience Award.
For Chico & Rita’s music, Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Bebo Valdés orchestrated the score and elicited sensational covers of legendary jazz songs from contemporary singers and musicians Idania Valdés, Carlos Sarduy, Horacio Hernández, Rolando Luna, Germán Velazco and Jorge Reyes. In related news, Miami’s own Natalio “Nat” Chediak-Festival founder and director for 18 editions, Calle 54 associate producer and 2002 Latin Grammy-winning producer of the Bebo Valdés Trio’s El arte del sabor album-co-wrote the lyrics for the film’s beautiful theme song, Lily.
After the premiere, the Latin Jazz beat continues at MDC’s National Historic Landmark Freedom Tower for the Festival’s Opening Night Celebration, a re-creation of the film’s glamorous, animated world that will feature the sounds and rhythms of local band Havana Soul.
Participating festival sponsors include Chophouse Miami, Ecco Pizzateca + Lounge, Estancia Wines, Hard Rock Café, Illy Caffé, La Estancia Argentina & Clos Café (Clos de Bois wines), La Loggia Ristorante & Lounge, Mr. Yum Asian Cuisine, Rums of Puerto Rico, Soi Asian Bistro and Stella Artois. Doors open at 9:30 p.m., and the party lasts until 12:30 a.m.
“We are very excited about the Opening Night festivities, where we have an opportunity to showcase the Festival, the college, and, more importantly, Miami to the world as we embark on ten days of the best cinema and related educational activities,” said MDC President Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón.
The 28th edition of the Miami International Film Festival runs March 4-13, 2011. Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, Feb. 11. For tickets to Opening Night and all other Festival screenings and special events, visit www.miamifilmfestival.com or call 305-405-MIFF (6433).
About Miami International Film Festival The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), celebrating its 28th edition March 4-13, 2011, is the premier Ibero-American film festival in the U.S. The annual event, which is produced and presented by Miami Dade College, attracts more than 70,000 film enthusiasts and 400 filmmakers, stars and industry professionals. During the past five years, the festival has screened films from 60 countries and hosted 300 East Coast, U.S. and world premieres. Through Encuentros, the festival’s mentorship and film development program for filmmakers and projects from Spain, Portugal and Latin America, MIFF has become a primary gateway for the discovery of Ibero-American talent in the entertainment world. In addition, the festival’s REEL Education Seminar Series consistently attracts top executives from Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Classics, IFC Films, Fox Searchlight, DreamWorks Animation, HBO Films/HBO Latino and William Morris Endeavor, among many others. For more information, visit www.miamifilmfestival.com or call 305-237-MIFF (3456).
About Miami Dade College Miami Dade College has a long and rich history of involvement in the cultural arts, providing South Florida with a vast array of artistic and literary offerings including The Miami Book Fair International, the Cultura del Lobo performing arts series, The Cuban Cinema Series, nine visual arts galleries including The Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College and the School of Entertainment and Design Technology in addition to the Miami International Film Festival. MDC is the largest institution of higher education in the country and is nationally recognized for many of its academic and cultural programs. With an enrollment of more than 170,000 students, MDC is the nation’s top producer of associate in arts and associate in science degrees. The college’s eight campuses and outreach centers offer more than 300 distinct degree programs, including baccalaureate degrees in education, nursing, public safety management and other in-demand fields.
Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon of the 10th Annual Flagler Fest on Saturday, February 5, 2011. Â Antique, Vintage and Hot-Rod Cars on display by the Antique Auto Club of America South Florida Region.
Photographs taken by Anthony Jordon to see more of his work go to his flickr page, click here.
Miami International Map Fair at HistoryMiami on Saturday, February 5, 2011.
Miami, one of only three cities in the world – along with London and Paris, is the only one in the western hemisphere to host a map fair. Held over two days, the fair provides the serious collector or casual buyer a weekend of browsing and buying antique maps and rare books. Visitors are also encouraged to bring in a map of their own collections for expert opinions and attend the lectures.
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18th Annual 9 Mile Music Festival
March 12, 2011, 1:00pm – 12:00am
Bayfront Park
301 N. Biscayne Blvd., Downtown Miami, FL 33132
www.9milemusicfestival.com
18th Annual 9 Mile Music Festival formerly known as Caribbean Festival.
Performing Live:
Stephen Marley
Damian Marley
Julian Marley
Ky-Mani Marley
Thievery Corporation
Slightly Stoopid
Major Lazer
Inner Circle
Kevens
DJ Hatcha
Mala of Digital Mystik
Juan Basshead & MC Jumanji
Admission + 4 canned goods to benefit Curley’s House
Tickets are on sale now! at www.bobmarleymovement.com, or at the following Ticket Outlets:
Uncle Sams Music: (305) 532 – 0973
Condom USA: (305) 610 – 7867
Barbican Square: (954) 885 – 5422
Caribbean Delite: (305) 254 – 6606
Jamaican Kitchen: (305) 596 – 2585
Juney’s Restaurant: (305) 654 – 2955
Reggae n Things: (954) 255 – 3280
Festival hotline: (305) 740 – 7344
Miami Art Museum Presents The Wilderness
Saturday, March 26, 6-9pm
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
The Wilderness opens with an exhibition preview and conversation with exhibition artists David Brooks, Christy Gast and Allan McCollum.
MAM members free, non-members $20.
For details contact events@miamiartmuseum.org.
March 27 – June 26, 2011
Miami Art Museum presents The Wilderness, a thematic group exhibition exploring the real or imagined boundaries between tamed and untamed nature. On view March 27 through June 26, 2011, the exhibition grapples with competing definitions of “wildness,†pitting traditional conceptions of a chaotic, primordial realm that awaits human subjugation against the idea of a self-regulating order that courses through the natural world.
“The works included in The Wilderness raise fundamental questions about humanity’s relationship with nature,” said MAM Associate Curator René Morales, curator of the exhibition. “In different ways, each work dramatically underscores the intertwinement of nature and the human sphere, while evoking some of the psychological, political, ethical and ecological ramifications of our historical tendency to conceive of them as separate entities.â€
The Wilderness features a focused selection of film and sculptural installations, each with its own dedicated space, by artists Darren Almond, David Brooks, Tacita Dean, Christy Gast and Allan McCollum – in addition to works by Matthew Buckingham, Aramis Gutierrez and Fernando Ortega.
At the center of the exhibition is a large-scale installation by Allan McCollum titled The Event: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) (1998). To create this ambitious work, the artist joined forces with a team of geologists and electrical engineers from the University of Florida’s International Center for Lightning Research and Testing near the small town of Starke, Florida. McCollum and his collaborators spent several weeks triggering lightning strikes with the use of small rockets, which were attached to copper wires that directed the lightning bolts down to containers filled with sand from the area. The process resulted in the creation of numerous “fulgurites†– small glass objects that bear the same form of the bolts that created them. The artist then worked with a local souvenir manufacturer to create thousands of replicas of a single, selected fulgurite, which are arranged in a jaw-dropping display together with thousands of specially produced booklets dealing with fulgurites, lightning and the project itself.
In collaboration with the Florida Keys Wild Bird Center, CasaLin Pine Rocklands and the de la Cruz Collection’s artist-in-residence program, David Brooks created a new, site-specific commission for the exhibition. Titled Still Life with Stampede and Wild Seabirds, the project poignantly juxtaposes the wildlife of our imaginations (represented here by the type of concrete animal sculptures that adorn many South Florida lawns) with the real wildlife that struggles daily to survive amid and at the edges of the local urban environment.
In Darren Almond’s eerie video installation Arctic Pull (2003), a lone figure is seen laboriously dragging a sledge across the permafrost while battling the intense wind, cold and gloom of a pitch-dark Siberian night. The work poetically recalls the harrowing journeys of Arctic explorers in the 19th and early 20th centuries while suggesting, in a broader sense, the historical trope of humanity’s epic struggle to conquer the world’s unknown territories.
Another major work in the exhibition is Christy Gast’s Batty Cave (2010). In this three-channel video installation, the artist uses rocks, scraps of wood and bits of broken glass to relay a folkloric narrative of two men who built an ark in a dusty, remote mountain cave deep in the Utah desert, in preparation for a second biblical flood that they believed would wash away the human world.
The Wilderness also features Tacita Dean’s ethereal 16mm film Banewl (1999), in which the quiet calm of a rural pasture is gradually disturbed by the onset of a solar eclipse. Several moments before the eclipse occurs, the behavior of the animals in the scene becomes erratic, providing subtle testimony to the mysterious levels of perception that animate the natural order – the secret presence of wildness that courses through even the tamest of landscapes, just beyond the thresholds of human comprehension.
Miami Art Museum will offer special tours and discounts for members of local environmental and conservation organizations. For participation information visit miamiartmuseum.org or email tbelcher@miamiartmuseum.org.
Exhibition Organization and Support
The Wilderness is organized by Miami Art Museum and curated by MAM Associate Curator René Morales. It is supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund. Educational content of this program is made possible with support from EspÃrito Santo Bank.
Miami Art Museum
Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Recently, Miami Art Museum has presented exhibitions of works by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Susan Rothenberg and Yinka Shonibare, and its Permanent Collection includes works by Doug Aitken, José Bedia, Mark Dion, Marcel Duchamp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Alfredo Jaar, Sol LeWitt, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Tomas Saraceno, Lorna Simpson and Rachel Whiteread, Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 people every year, with the largest art education program outside the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, Miami Art Museum is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts; with the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners. Miami Art Museum is an accessible facility. For sign language interpretation or assistive listening devices please call Miami Art Museum’s education department 305.375.4073 at least five days in advance. Materials in accessible format may be requested.
Wine Down Wednesday at HistoryMiami on Wednesday, February 2, 2011. Â Wine Down Wednesday takes place first Wednesday of the month. Â This is a great place to network with young professionals while drinking wine and listening to live music. Â This month they had Cat Shell performing and as usual she was amazing. Â What a perfect evening to be in the courtyard right in front of HistoryMiami listening to Cat, drinking wine and talking to awesome people. Â This is why I live in Miami!!!!!!!
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Miss Yip Celebrates Chinese New Year!
Miss Yip Chinese Cafe
900 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL
Miss Yip Chinese Cafe & Buck15
1661 Meridian Avenue
Miami Beach, FL
Ring in the new year and the Year of the Rabbit on Thursday, February 3, 2011
at either of Miss Yip’s two locations in Miami Beach or Downtown.
At Miss Yip’s newly opened outpost at 900 Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami, guests are invited to come early and stay late as they host a three day celebration, from Thursday to Saturday, with lion dances each evening, DJ’s, great food and 2 for 1 drink specials.
Miss Yip’s original Lincoln Road locale is celebrating the Year of the Rabbit & introducing Shanghai Nights, an amazing evening full of performers, Asian costumes, lion dances & more. Indulge in the spectacular atmosphere and dance to the music of DJ’s Daisy D and Jenni Foxx under the red light colors of Asia beginning at 10:30pm.
Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served.
HistoryMiami Exhibitions
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Estampas Del Caribe Nicaragüense
Portraits Of The Nicaraguan Caribbean
On View February 24, 2010 Through April 3, 2011
Journey to the Nicaraguan coast through the lens of award-winning documentary photographers MarÃa José Alvarez and Claudia Gordillo. Often described as the forgotten region of the country, Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast is home to a diversity of cultures that include Creoles, Sumos, Miskitos and GarÃfunas.
This exhibition encompasses over thirty-five photographs offering an anthropological view of the region, its people and their cultural practices.
Aviation In Miami: The First 100 Years
On View At The Museum From
June 24, 2011 Through January 15, 2012
On July 21, 1911, all of Miami gathered to witness an extraordinary event. Hired by Mayor Everest Sewell, aviator Howard Gill climbed into the cockpit of a wood and cloth-winged biplane furnished by the Wright Brothers and flew it up, up and away into the blue skies above the Miami Golf Links – performing the very first flight in the area. The rest, as they say, is history.
Aviation in Miami: The First 100 Years goes behind-the-scenes to explore the extensive engagement Greater Miami and its residents have had with the industry since this historic first flight. The exhibition addresses the evolving concerns of the aviation industry throughout the twentieth century and how they were tackled by the developers, the promoters, the pilots and the hundreds of thousands of Miamians who were employed or participated in the development of the field.
On view are artifacts from famed aviators such as Glenn Curtiss, Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker and Amelia Earhart and airlines such as Pan American World Airways and Eastern Airlines.
Souvenir Maps And Plates Of Florida
On View April 22, 2011 Through September 24, 2011
For more than a century, tourists have visited Florida attractions and admired our sub-tropical landscapes. Many returned home with a souvenir plate or pictorial map as a keepsake. Souvenir maps and plates often feature a picturesque scene and often boast tiny and often whimsical drawings of people, animals and landmarks. Popular during the twentieth century, some have become highly collectible antiques, while others are simply fun kitsch—mementos of a vacation in the sun. Be prepared to be charmed. This exhibition features a selection of maps and plates from the museum’s extensive collection – many on display for the first time.
Tropical Dreams: A People’s History Of South Florida
On Permanent Display
Explore 12,000 years of South Florida history as you wander through the permanent exhibition. Visit a re-creation of the Miami Circle and view a sea turtle shell and other artifacts from this 2,000 year-old settlement at the mouth of the Miami River. Climb aboard a 1920s trolley and take a video tour of historic Downtown Miami, Miami Beach and Coral Gables. View photographs of various communities and neighborhoods and learn the diverse ways that they arrived to the Magic City. Also on permanent display are original prints from John James Audubon’s The Birds of America.
Special Event
Reflections: Paintings Of Florida 1865-1965
Wednesday, February 18
Vip: 6 P.M.
Members: 7 P.M.
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Members: Free
Non-Members: $10
RSVP by Feb. 16 to 305-375-5356 or membership@historymiami.org.
www.historymiami.org
Experience one of the largest and most significant assemblages of Florida-based art from the collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown. This exhibit consists of 69 paintings with views of Florida’s beaches, rivers, swamps and farmlands as seen through the eyes of some of America’s most important painters including Thomas Hart Benton, Frederick Carl Frieseke and Martin Johnson Heade.
Reflections: Paintings Of Florida 1865-1965
From The Collection Of Cici And Hyatt Brown
On View At The Museum From February 18 Through May 15, 2011
Reflections: Paintings of Florida 1865-1965 highlights 69 paintings depicting the natural beauty of Florida before the post-World War II building booms. Drawn from the collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown, the largest private collection of Florida-based art in existence today, the exhibition includes representations of famous landmarks and structures from St. Augustine to Key West; historical portraits of Floridians; and landscapes capturing the lush green tropical environment of the state.
Reflections features masterworks by well-known American artists representing a “Florida School of painters,†including William Aiken Walker, Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Remington, Herman Herzog, Frederick Carl Frieseke, N.C. Wyeth and Jane Peterson.
Reflections: Paintings of Florida 1865-1965 is organized by the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Monday, February 28 through Tuesday, March 1
Intercontinental Hotel, Miami
To participate, please register by Feb. 5, 2011 CLICK HERE.
More Information.
As leaders with the pulse of your community, your foundation is uniquely positioned to make a difference in this field. Join us at the 2011 Media Learning Seminar for a lively discussion and the sharing of ideas for action.
On Feb. 28 and March 1, 2011, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will host the fourth annual Media Learning Seminar for U.S. community and place-based foundations. Over two days, local leaders, tech experts and your peers in philanthropy will explore how foundations can – and are – helping residents be informed about the issues that shape their communities.
In addition, presenters at the top of their field will speak, including Huffington Post Editor Arianna Huffington, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and the FCC’s Steve Waldman, who has been charged with making recommendations to ensure a vibrant media landscape.
Much has changed in this area of philanthropy since the seminar first launched in 2008.
As traditional media has struggled, funders have increasingly viewed the need for information as critical as that of clean air, good jobs and thriving schools. In fact, over the last few years, more than 75 locally focused foundations have invested in partnerships that support local news and information projects – for a total of $165 million, a recent Knight Foundation survey found. Some of those foundations are our partners in the Knight Community Information Challenge, a matching grant program.
The result is a wealth of knowledge about funding news and information projects, which we will leverage during the seminar. At both plenary and in depth breakout sessions, participants will discuss what works, what doesn’t, and how we can all improve the local flow of information to better our communities.
With support from Knight Foundation, there is no registration fee for the seminar, which will take place at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Downtown Miami. Foundations can bring one senior staff member and one board member and registration is on a “first-come, first-served†basis until the seminar is full. Knight’s funding also makes possible a reduced hotel room rate of $229 per night for seminar attendees available through the on-line registration.
Live.Love.PARK!
2.11.11
Doors Open at 7:00pm
Official Welcome is at 9 p.m.
Live Concert is at 11 p.m.
Grand Central
697 North Miami Avenue
Miami FL 33136.
open to the public
Live. Love. PARK! is the foundation’s second event. On Friday, February 11th, 2011 Grand Central, 697 N Miami Ave Miami FL 33136, will open its doors to support PARK Project once again! As a VIP (Very Important PARKner) the red carpet is rolled out for YOU! Enjoy an event that celebrates LIFE. LOVE and those who PARK for a world with more birthdays! Doors open at 7pm for souvenir pictures, casual social networking, delectable hors d’oeuvres and sweet treats! You’ll want to PARK early to meet & greet all Community PARKners, participate in an important survey and to be a part of the raffles and give-a-ways before the Official Welcome at 9pm. With two full cash bars, professional stage, sound, lighting, video production, interactive touch screens, special dance performances and an unforgettable concert finale … this is one birthday party you don’t want to miss!
There are incentives to PARK before the event! Purchase a Pre-Sale Wristband for $20, and bring a PARKner…for FREE! Event day sales will be available, $20 per person, cash only. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society as the “Official Sponsor of Birthdays†and in celebration of all Relay For Life volunteers that LIVE THE CAUSE and PARK for a world with more birthday parties! For more information and/or to purchase your event ticket(s) visit www.parkproject.org.
PARK Project’s mission is to Perform Acts of Random Kindness and LIVE THE CAUSE in hopes of creating a powerful ripple effect of LOVE found in the genuine SERVICE of others. This short and humble message aims to inspire and empower by unlocking the potential of people of all ages, capabilities and resources to BE THE CHANGE we all wish to see in the world. This grassroots effort began with one PARK Project; a birthday party, 9/10/10, that united over 200 people and raised $1,500 to benefit the Miami VA Fisher House and the American Cancer Society. This one act of random kindness resulted in a powerful ripple effect that has united thousands of people and dozens of Community PARKners in just a few months!
StarMar Events, a comprehensive consulting, production and management firm, is the fuel behind this effort along with a COMMUNITY of people who decided to become PARKners to move this mission forward. They are committed to producing events that celebrate the collective efforts of people, non-profit organizations and companies that unite to PARK and LIVE THE CAUSE; PARK or their own! It is through a personal commitment to PARK for a cause that moves YOU, that PARK Project will be established as a non-profit organization whose mission facilitates service, leadership development and civic engagement that strengthens, expands and/or creates more service projects.
Park Project’s vision is, “To live in a world where people actively respond to their innate desire to serve one another.†You can own the mission, Live the cause, PARK!, on facebook/theparkproject and twitter/wepark. For more information on all of the Community PARKners offering in-KIND support of this effort, visit http://www.parkproject.org/showcase.php.
Wyndham Hotels VP of Sustainability and Innovation Headlines GMBHA Business of Green Luncheon
Friday, February 4, 2011
11:30 a.m. Networking & Green Business Expo
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon
JW Marriott Marquis Miami
255 Biscayne Blvd Way
Miami, FL
One Complimentary Admission per GMBHA Membership
Guests – $50
Table of 10 Sponsorship – $650
Greater Miami & the Beaches Hotel Association & event sponsor, Shore Club
“The Business of Green luncheon with Faith Taylor, VP Sustainability & Innovation, Wyndham Worldwide
On Friday, February 4, 2011, the Greater Miami & the Beaches Hotel Association (GMBHA) brings hospitality innovator, Faith Taylor, VP Sustainability and Innovation, Wyndham Worldwide, to Miami’s JW Marriott Marquis Miami for the ‘Business of Green’ luncheon.
Ms. Taylor directs Wyndham Worldwide’s sustainable hospitality program, which includes 55 brands, over 30,000 employees and 80, 000 locations in 100 countries. In 2009, Newsweek recognized Wyndham as one of the top 100 greenest companies in America.
Ms. Taylor will share insights for implementing profitable sustainable hotel practices throughout the world. The Business of Green discussion will focus on reducing operating costs and increasing profitability by integrating sustainable behaviors and innovative business technologies.
GMBHA’s Green Hospitality Council organized the event to showcase Wyndham Worldwide’s success in building its worldwide sustainable brand. Sponsored by Shore Club and hosted by J.W. Marriott Marquis, the event also features vendors specializing in sustainable products and technologies.
Ms. Taylor, who is also chair of the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Environmental and Engineering Committee and active with both the World Travel and Tourism Council and the International Tourism Partnership, will also be addressing a campus-wide audience for Florida International University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the morning.
For additional information, contact: Vanja Majkic at Vanja@gmbha.com or call (305) 531-3553.
The Greater Miami and the Beaches Hotel Association is a membership-based organization comprising of hoteliers and allied members across Miami Dade County. The goal is to unify the travel, tourism and hospitality industry with the business and governmental leaders and our tourism partners locally, nationally and internationally to enhance the visitor experience through education, advocacy and networking. The GMBHA serves as a clearing house and central address for information to connect our hoteliers with the allied members to better serve our industry’s customers.
7th Annual Fight for Air Climb Miami
To benefit the American Lung Association of Florida
A vertical 55-story climb to the top of the Wachovia Financial Center
Saturday, April 16th 2011 at 8:30 AM. Post party to follow.
Wachovia Financial Center, downtown Miami
200 S. Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33131
Registration fee is $15.00 ($25.00 after February 15th), and there is a pledge minimum of $100 per climber to participate. Register online at: www.fightforairclimbmiami.org.
To raise funds for the important work of the American Lung Association through a unique physical challenge. Proceeds from the climb go directly to local research, education, and advocacy efforts that help to save lives by preventing lung disease and promoting healthy lungs.
The American Lung Association has been putting on stair climb events across the nation for decades as a fun twist on the athletic fundraiser. Due to the great success of this unique event over the past six years, along with the great enthusiasm of the community and participants, the 2011Fight For Air Climb Miami is set to be bigger and better than ever! The climb is professionally timed and ranked and awards are presented in a variety of categories, giving participants an opportunity to compete against the clock and conquer their quest to climb 55 stories!
Many of the expected 500 climbers will be participating as part of a corporate team and many will be there to climb in honor or in memory of a loved one with lung disease. Many local firefighters and fire rescue departments will climb in full-gear to support the cause.
Friday, January 28 · 5:00pm – 8:30pm
Mia @ Biscayne
20 Biscayne Blvd. (E. Flagler & Biscayne)
Miami, FL
Come join us for a spectacular happy hour at Mia this Friday as we showcase the artwork of distinguished Miami-artist Eleazar Delgado
End your week in style… friends, drinks, art and music combine for Downtown’s finest happy hour.
RSVP at info@jl-pr.com for your first cocktail on us!
10th Annual Flagler Fest
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Downtown Miami – Flagler Street
from East 3rd Avenue to the Miami-Dade County Courthouse
The much anticipated 10th Annual Flagler Fest returns, a don’t miss, fun-filled, family-friendly day of activities in beautiful Downtown Miami!
Enjoy Live Jazz Music at Flagler Street & Miami Avenue presented by Avenue D.
Happy Hour Lucky 7 at db Bistro Moderne at db Bistro Moderne
Downtown Miami
Mon – Fri, 5pm – 7pm
$7 select appetizers & $7 specialty cocktails and select wines
255 Biscayne Blvd Way
-Located in the lobby of the JW Marriott Marquis-
Miami, FL 33131
www.danielnyc.com/dbbistroMiami.html
Enjoy $7 Specialty Cocktails and select wines by the glass.
Also, choose from several delectable small plate appetizers for only $7.
db Bistro Moderne Lounge from 5pm to 7pm Monday – Friday.
Wine Down Wednesday
First Wednesday of the Month
February 2, 5 pm – 8 pm
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Find that perfect valentine! Mix and mingle with young professionals while drinking wine and listening to live music. Join us every first Wednesday of the month!
FREE General Admission
Members and County Employees Complimentary Glass of Wine
$15 open bar and light snacks provided by 2B Asian Bistro
$5 per glass
Free parking available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue.
RSVP by February 1
Call 305-375-1614 or email rsvp@historymiami.org
Yoga Up in Downtown with Rina Yoga
1/27/2011, 6:30pm
Rina Yoga Studio @ the JW Marriott Marquis
255 Biscayne Blvd Way
Miami, FL 33131
*Inside the JW Marriott Marquis, 20th Floor
www.rinayoga.com/events
Join Rina Yoga for the largest FREE indoor yoga class in Miami!
Practice Yoga in an NBA-sized basketball court @ the JW Marriott Marquis.
PROGRAM:
6:30pm – Free Yoga Class with Rina Jakubowicz
7:30pm- Function show by lululemon athletica with great technical products for yoga class
8:00pm – Social hour with refreshments & snacks and an opportunity to win fabulous prizes
Experience virtual bowling, a 3D media room, and billiards on the entertainment floor of the hotel
*Music by DJ Umberto
More info & RSVP: info@rinayoga.com
305-856-YOGA (9642)
www.rinayoga.com
Thursday, January 20 · 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Indigo Bar – Hotel Intercontinental Miami
100 Chopin Plaza, Miami FL 33131
Miami, FL
www.icmiamihotel.com
Hosted by: Sofia Kaufmann
This and every Thursday of January, we will be hosting a Salsa Happy Hour starting at 5:00 p.m. until. 8pm
Happy Hour Specials are $3 Beer $4 Wine and $5 Cocktails.
Say that you came through this add to receive one FREE Drink!
Music By DJ Jorge Charun
Entertainment: Parafernalia; www.parafernalia.tv
Facebook Marketing Strategies for Artists, 2.0
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 / 6:00 – 7:30pm
LegalArt
1035 N Miami Avenue
Suite 200, Second floor
Miami, FL 33136
Register for this SeminArt now, space is limited!
$10 Suggested Donation online or at the door
Jiae Hwang, LegalArt Artist in Residence, and Juan Ruiz, Network Specialist, are offering a special three-part SeminArt series for the LegalArt community focused on computer skills specific to the needs of professional artists. Together Jiae and Juan bring years of technology teaching experience. Artists will benefit from their patient and professional instruction. In the first SeminArt, intermediate Facebook users will learn how to make the most of the social networking site to grow your audience, promote your projects, gallery openings and more. Participants will leave with a new set of tools and creative ideas to optimize the time and marketing energy that you spend on Facebook. You will also receive a resource guide and tips sheet for further learning.
Artists may bring their own laptops to follow along with the presenters as they give step-by-step instruction (this is optional and not required for participation). Jiae and Juan will be available for specific questions after the workshop.
Please note: this SeminArt is for intermediate Facebook users. A how-to sheet for setting up a Facebook profile will be provided, but basic instruction is not the focus of the presentation.
The Kiwanis Club of Little Havana along with Miss Yip Chinese Café Present the Miss Carnaval Miami Casting Call Fiesta
Saturday, January 22, 12pm-4pm
Miss Yip Chinese Café
900 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
The lauded annual competition invites young Bilingual women to reach for their goals and audition for an opportunity to be the Ambassador of Carnaval Miami Festival.
On January 22, 2011, the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana will be hosting a casting call at Miss Yip Chinese Café’s new Downtown locale for young ladies between the ages of 16 – 25 for the Miss Carnaval Miami pageant, the kick-off event to the annual Carnaval Miami series of events in March. From 12-4pm, enjoy music by DJ Ethics while savoring on some Dim Sum and other Chinese snacks. The new outpost boasts a full liquor bar and offers an array of signature cocktails including Lychee Martinis and Mojitos, Madame Ming, Big Bamboo, China Breeze, Shanghai Martinis & more.
The competition is geared towards educated, professional aspiring bilingual young women who will represent the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana during their largest fund-raiser of the year. Education is the main objective building up to the final competition. Miss Carnaval Miami has a twenty-nine year history of presenting vibrant, intelligent and articulate young women in the USA, and past winners have moved on to rewarding careers in many different industries. Miss Carnaval Miami now reigns over all the activities of Carnaval Miami ending with Calle Ocho.
Sponsored by: Diet Coke and Organic Root Stimulator
Carnaval Miami draws over 1.5 million people in its ten-day duration and is the largest party in the Hispanic Market – a festival that brings community spirit and promotes tourism to the Greater Miami area. During ten events every February and beginning of March, the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana host a grand party with events full of color, Latin music and jazz, international foods for the enjoyments of residents and tourists alike. Concerts, sports, culinary competitions, galas, an upscale Latin Jazz festival and the culmination of it all – Calle Ocho, Carnaval Miami’s marquee event. For more information, please visit www.carnavalmiami.com.
Founded in 1975, The Kiwanis Club of Little Havana’s vision is to form future leaders and productive citizens through education; leading the way to a brighter tomorrow by assisting the financially underserved Hispanic children and youth of Miami Dade County with their educational and recreational needs. For more information, please visit www.kiwanislittlehavanafoundation.org.
Renowned for serving up Hong Kong style cuisine, Miss Yip debuts its second outpost, a 4,000 square foot space at 900 Biscayne Bay in Downtown Miami. Catering to VIPs, locals and visitors alike, the Chinese eatery introduces a new chef, revamped menu and updated look along with an expansive outdoor terrace, full liquor bar and inexpensive valet parking. Miss Yip also offers the emerging neighborhood delivery spanning the majority of Biscayne Boulevard, from the Rickenbacker Causeway to Midtown Miami.
Miss Yip Chinese Café
Happy Hour from 5-8pm
900 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
www.missyipchinesecafe.com
The renowned Chinese resto will offer 2 for 1 drinks from 5-8pm and a special bar menu along with music by DJ Ethics through the night. Signature cocktails include Lychee Martinis and Mojitos, Madame Ming, Big Bamboo, China Breeze, Shangai Martinis, Ginger Martinis and more.
Miss Yip Bar Menu:
Spring Rolls. Traditional Chinese way to prepare your palate, 3 pieces of vegetable spring rolls.
Crispy Wonton, Home – made crispy starters with three different flavors: beef, shrimp or vegetable
Steamed Dim Sum
Vegetable Dumpling
Veggie and Tofu Dumpling
Chicken Dumpling
Mushroom Dumpling
Pork Dumpling
Shrimp Dumpling
BBQ Pork Bao
Shanghai Soupy Dumpling
Mama Yip Platter
Papa Yip Platter
Pan Fried Dim Sum:
Chicken Dumpling
Pork Dumpling
Beef Dumpling
Crispy Shrimps on skewer, Two pieces of Crispy Jumbo Shrimps served with sweet and spicy sauce
Miss Yip BBQ Ribs, Marinated Spare Ribs Barbequed and glazed with Miss Yip BBQ Sauce
Chinese Chicken Wings, Crispy Chicken Wings coated with mild Chinese BBQ Sauce
Salt and Pepper Calamari, Perfectly seasoned Crunchy Calamari stir – fry with onion, red and green peppers
Crispy Veggie Chips, Battered and deep-fried vegetables to crispy perfection served with creamy spicy sauce
Norwegian Epic Tweetup on Saturday, January 15, 2011.  We had a great time on the tour and what a great way to introduce cruising to someone who has never been on one.  You get a taste of what it is like and then you want to go on a cruise.  I have been on a few cruises and I was impressed with this ship, it was beautiful and had so much to do. They even have two bowling alley’s and 20 restaurants.  They also have a Svedka Ice Bar that is kept at 17 degrees and is so awesome. I am looking forward to cruising  on the Norwegian Epic.
It was so great to meet everyone that was on the tour with us, what a great group of people :-) !
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Urbanite Fridays and DWNTWN Miami Concert in Bayfront Park on Friday, January 14, 2011. Â DWNTWN Miami lined up a night of Latin Beats with Grammy nominated Xperimento and 2x Grammy nominated Locos Por Juana! Â Wow what a great night, sitting out under the stars with great music and a wonderful crowd.
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What Miami Beerger Crawl on Friday, January 14, 2011.  We had three stop for the night, our first stop was Burger & Beer Joint in Brickell. I did not get a chance to try the food or drinks here but got to mingle for a little bit.  Then we where off to The Filling Station in Downtown, here I tried the pulled pork sliders and the hamburger sliders.  I have to say the pulled pork sliders were so good and I tried the Woodchuck Raspberry Cider and it was yummy and the Staff was amazing.  For our last and finally stop for the night we went to Democratic Republic of Beer (next to the Adrienne Arsht Center) here I tried the Woodchuck Pear cider it was good but I think I like the Raspberry better.
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Friday, January 14th, 5:30pm
Bayfront Park, Downtown Miami
301 North Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132
The DWNTWN Miami Concert Series has lined up a night of Latin Beats with Grammy nominated Xperimento and 2x Grammy nominated Locos Por Juana!
Get down to Bayfront Park tomorrow, Friday, January 14th! The show starts at 5:30pm and don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes…these two bands will have you movin’ and groovin’ all night long!
Don’t forget to bring your friends either:
You could be a winner in the easiest contest you’ll ever enter…
Become a DWNTWN Miami Concert Series head groupie by bringing 4 friends with you to the show this Friday. When you group is all together check in with Ms.Yami at the DDA Booth and as head groupie you’ll get to pick out a premium SWAG item from our DWNTWN Collection for yourself. Choices include a super-fly DWNTWN umbrella, a DWNTWN backpack (handy for carrying snacks and wine to the concert), or our super-soft-fleece DWNTWN blanket (perfect for picnics at Bayfront Park) – and Ms. Yami will enter your group of groupies into a special drawing for brunch for you and your 4 friends! Questions? Click Here!
Don’t go into Traffic! Go into…Art!
Come Celebrate Art, Music and Culture at the first Urbanite Friday in Bayfront Park, Friday, January 14th from 5:30-10pm.
South Florida is in the middle of an Art and Cultural explosion and Downtown Miami is the epicenter. Enter Urbanite Fridays, a new celebration of Art, Music, and Culture in Downtown Miami.
Miami Finance Forum CEO Power Breakfast Venture Capital: What’s in Store for 2011?
Jan 27th 7:30 to 9:30am
Bankers Club Miami
1 Biscayne Tower, 14th floor
7:30 – 8:00 Breakfast & Networking
8:00 – 9:30 Panel discussion followed by Q&A
The Miami Finance Forum is excited to announce our upcoming CEO Power Breakfast Panel Discussion-Venture Capital: What’s in Store for 2011? to be held on Jan 27th from 7:30 to 9:30am at the Bankers Club, Miami. The Bankers Club is located at 1 Biscayne Tower on the 14th floor.
Our Speakers:
Greg Baty-VP, Hamilton Lane, Florida Growth Fund
Melissa Krinzman-Managing Director, Venture Architects
Neil McFarlane-Partner, Inlet Partners
Jonathan Kislak-Partner, Antares Capital
Out Moderator: Carlos Deupi-Hogan Lovells US LLP
$20.00 to MFF Members, $55.00 to non-members, $40.00 if prepaid on- line
You MUST RSVP to attend this event, since space is limited! Please contact Elena Djakonova at: elena@miamifinanceforum.com
Parking is available inside the building!
Not a member yet? It is a perfect time to join! Contact us for membership information at elena@miamifinanceforum.com
Jan 14, 5-8pm
20 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, Fl 33132
Downtowning- Arts & Lifestyle On The Blvd!
Mia, DowntownMiami.com, & Chivas18 presents…
Art Showcase by Talia Rodriguez
RSVP for Cocktail Reception:
happyhour@miabiscayne.com
SeminArt: Facebook Marketing Strategies for Artists, 2.0
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 / 6:00 – 7:30pm
LegalArt
1035 N Miami Avenue
Suite 200, Second floor
Miami, FL 33136
Register for this SeminArt now, space is limited!
$10 Suggested Donation online or at the door
Jiae Hwang, LegalArt Artist in Residence, and Juan Ruiz, Network Specialist, are offering a special three-part SeminArt series for the LegalArt community focused on computer skills specific to the needs of professional artists. Together Jiae and Juan bring years of technology teaching experience. Artists will benefit from their patient and professional instruction. In the first SeminArt, intermediate Facebook users will learn how to make the most of the social networking site to grow your audience, promote your projects, gallery openings and more. Participants will leave with a new set of tools and creative ideas to optimize the time and marketing energy that you spend on Facebook. You will also receive a resource guide and tips sheet for further learning.
Artists may bring their own laptops to follow along with the presenters as they give step-by-step instruction (this is optional and not required for participation). Jiae and Juan will be available for specific questions after the workshop. Stick around to meet other artists and community members–LegalArt SeminArts are great networking opportunities!
Please note: this SeminArt is for intermediate Facebook users. A how-to sheet for setting up a Facebook profile will be provided, but basic instruction is not the focus of the presentation.
Parking: Our building is located on the corner of N Miami Ave and NE 11th Street. Parking is available in the lot located just south of our building on N Miami Ave, the entrance to the lot will be on your left. An attendant will give you a parking pass to display on your dashboard. Please be on time to ensure you get a parking pass. Metered parking is also available on N Miami Ave and on 11th and 10th Streets.
Register for this SeminArt now, space is limited!
$10 Suggested Donation online or at the door
For more information please email info@legalartmiami.org
Paul Shewchuk Quartet featuring vocalist Dee Dee Wilde
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 from 7 to 10 PM.
Sky Lounge is located in Miami Tower
100 SE Second Street, 11th floor, Sky Lobby
Miami, FL
The Downtown Jazz Series is free. Parking is available in the building for a $10 event rate, and the free Metro Mover stops nearby at the Knight Center. Food and beverage are available in the Sky Lounge. For more information call 305-539-7084.
Restaurant Sky Lounge and the Miami Jazz Society present the Downtown Jazz Series, now in its fourth year, with the Paul Shewchuk Quartet featuring vocalist Dee Dee Wilde Wednesday, January 12, 2011 from 7 to 10 PM. The music is provided by KCC Productions. Sky Lounge is located in Miami Tower, 100 SE Second Street, Miami, in the Sky Lobby on the 11th floor.
Miami native Dee Dee Wilde grew up in an eight-sibling family wherein music was a constantly defining factor. Wilde released her first single, “I Found You”, in 1988. The U.K. success of this and “Lap of Luxury” led to her debut album, No Way Out. Her style blends elements of powerful belters like Chaka Khan and deeper tones à la Evelyn “Champagne” King, and solidified her position as a commanding soul-ballad singer. She has also made a name as a top live performer in Miami’s local club scene. She has recorded three albums in all, and has worked with idols including Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan.
Known for his high-energy, swinging bass lines and lyrical solos, bassist Paul Shewchuk is a very sought-after bassist on South Florida’s music scene. Born in Pennsylvania, Paul grew up in Canada, where he played several instruments before focusing on the bass. He graduated from McGill University in Montreal, and earned his Master’s degree (magna cum laude) at the University of Miami. Currently based in Miami, Paul performs in concerts and venues worldwide. Some notable artists that Paul has performed with include: Arturo Sandoval, George Benson, Randy Brecker, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Eddie Higgins, and Ira Sullivan.
Besides Dee Dee and Paul, the lineup includes Mike Orta on piano and Orlando Hernandez on drums.
Miami Art Museum and Miami-Dade County Public Schools Present 2011 Scholastic Art Awards and Exhibition
Awards Ceremony
Sunday, January 23, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
miamiartmuseum.org
The opening reception of the annual 2011 Scholastic Art Awards and Exhibition, features student artworks in all media, including painting, photography, video and sculpture. Hundreds of students in grades 7 – 12 will attend the January 24, 2010 kick-off ceremony and exhibition preview, giving children an opportunity to experience the museum as artists. This event is free and open to the public.
Miami Art Museum will host the 2011 Scholastic Art Awards and Exhibition for the 15th consecutive year, in collaboration with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The annual exhibition, on view at the Miami Art Museum from January 23 through February 13, 2011, features approximately 250 Miami-Dade County middle and high school student artworks. Part of MAM & Schools presented by Target, the exhibition will kick off with an awards ceremony on Sunday, January 23 at 3pm when school district officials announce awards in each category as well as artworks and portfolios that will be submitted for national competition.
Of more than 2,200 student artworks submitted by teachers, approximately 250 are selected by a jury for the Scholastic Art Awards regional exhibition at Miami Art Museum. Every year, local award winners compete on the national level in New York City. Students from Miami-Dade County schools consistently rank among the top winners at the national level, and have set records for the number of awards won by the students of a single school district. In 2010, students from Miami-Dade County won 10 national awards.
“Education is at the heart of Miami Art Museum’s mission, and we are proud to have hosted the prestigious Scholastic Art Awards since 1996,†said MAM Director Thom Collins. “Miami Art Museum and Miami-Dade County Public Schools work together very closely to ensure that the students in Miami-Dade County have the opportunity to experience art and the Museum.
Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 annually, with the largest youth art education program outside the Miami-Dade County public school system. The Museum serves thousands of children through its free program: free buses to visit MAM, free guided museum tours for students and their teachers, free classroom visits, free support materials for teachers at Teacher Workshops, and more. Miami Art Museum’s new facility in Museum Park, scheduled to open to the public in 2013, will include an educational complex with space to further expand MAM & Schools and other art education programs.
The Scholastic Art Awards are the largest and longest-running assessment and recognition programs for the visual arts in the United States. Founded in 1923 by Scholastic Inc., the nation’s leading publisher of children’s books and educational materials, the awards have been administered since 1992 by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a not-for-profit corporation. The awards are open to students in grades 7-12 in the United States, Canada, U.S. Territories and U.S.-sponsored schools abroad. Entry materials reach 12 million students in 99% of America’s schools (public, private, and parochial) and attract more than 250,000 entries each year. Miami-Dade County Public Schools is the regional sponsor of The Awards.
At the conclusion of this Miami-Dade County regional exhibition, one of 92 across the country, top award-winning artworks are forwarded to the national program in New York City. A distinguished panel of prominent artists and arts professionals selects the national awards. National awardees are honored at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall. Award-winning artwork is installed in galleries in New York; and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. adjacent to the White House.
The 2011 Scholastic Art Awards and Exhibition is part of MAM & Schools presented by Target. Additional support for this program is provided by The Heckscher Foundation for Children, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Citizens Interested in Arts, Inc. and MAM Annual Education Fund Donors.
Miami Art Museum
Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Recently, Miami Art Museum has presented exhibitions of works by Janet Cardiff and George Buress Miller, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Susan Rothenberg (November 2010) and Yinka Shonibare, and its Permanent Collection includes works by Doug Aitken, José Bedia, Mark Dion, Marcel Duchamp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Alfredo Jaar, Sol LeWitt, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Tomas Saraceno, Lorna Simpson and Rachel Whiteread. The new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex, which will be a resource for the entire community. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.
Miami Art Museum is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts; with the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners. Miami Art Museum is an accessible facility. For sign language interpretation or assistive listening devices please call Miami Art Museum’s education department 305.375.4073 at least five days in advance. Materials in accessible format may be requested.
MIA Ultra-Lounge This Saturday MIA Girl (OPEN BAR)
Saturday January 8th, 10:00 PM
Mia At Biscayne
20 Flagler Street
Miami Florida 33131
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MIA Girl Open Call This Saturday!
This Saturday January 8th
Open Format in the main room by DJ WILLY
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International Sounds by DJ Willy along with the sexy house music at the terrace commanded by Albert Day
for table reservations and guest list please e-mail Fabian@Quecoco.com
OR call/text 786.942.2097
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CONTACT ME ASAP 786.942.2097
Group Of 5 Girls = A Bottle Of Champagne
Its Your Bday = A Bottle Of Champagne
You Rsvp Asap = Will Get Open Bar Wristbands
Mia Girl = Gets $10,000
11 Mia Girls = Get $1,000
Admission Is Complimentary Assuming That You Rsvp
Catch The Hottest Team In Town Biz To Biz Networking On The Bay
Miami Heat vs Indiana Pacers And Join Biz To Biz Networking
Tuesday, February 8th
A Private Biz To Biz Networking Event Prior To The Game on the Plaza outside of
Gate 5 – Starting at 5:30pm – Tuesday, February 8th
AmericanAirlines Arena – 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Game Starts at 7:30pm
Tickets Available: Miami Heat vs Indiana Pacers
350 Tickets will be available for this special Networking on the Bay
All of The Biz To Biz Group will be seated together in Sec. 308 & 309
$65 Per Ticket. BuyTickets Now.
Biz To Biz Networking
www.biztobiznetworking.com
954.838.9644
Each ticket holder will also receive a Post Game Free Throw
Fan Experience Pass to shoot a free throw on the court after the game
This will be a great opportunity to network and make new business connections as well as Private Networking on The Plaza – American Airlines Arena
*All ticket sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges.
Tickets are subject to availability. Lost or stolen tickets will not be replaced. Tickets will issued at the Biz To Biz Networking.
2011 BACCF Annual Feijoada
Date: January 29, 2011
Time: 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM
Where: Botequim Carioca – 900 Biscayne Blvd. – Miami, FL 33132
Children (10 yrs and younger): $20
Reserve your table for $50.00 – Space is limited
Walk-ins: Add $10 – Subject to availability
Non-members will automatically be placed on a waiting list, subject to confirmation.
Meet the new board of directors and enjoy a fun filled afternoon in a family atmosphere
BACCF Annual Feijoada – Sponsorship Opportunities
$3,000 Sponsorship Level
– 12 complimentary invitations to the event
– Preferred seating table
– Banner ad on website featuring event
– Distribution of promotional material
– Name and logo on invitation
– Mention in selected press releases
– May provide a prize to be raffled at event
– Display table at event
– May display a company banner at event
$ 1,500 Sponsorship Level
– 6 complimentary invitations
– Preferred seating table
– Link on web site featuring event
– Distribution of promotional material
– Name on invitation
– Mention in selected press releases
– May provide a prize to be raffled
$ 500 Sponsorship Level
– 2 complimentary invitations
– Distribution of promotional material
– May provide a prize to be raffled
– Name on web site
Friday, January 7, 2011
11:30 AM – 2:30 PM
N.E. 14th Street (between North Bay Shore Drive and Herald Plaza) in Downtown Miami.
Parking: Free Parking available at the Miami Herald lots
More Info about Street Food Fridays.
Starting Friday January 7th, Street Food Fridays brought to you by presenting sponsor LaLey Enterprises in partnership with The Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald and Burger Beast will happen. Street Food Fridays will take place the 1st Friday of every month.
The Burger Beast truck will be featuring all his favorite restaurants and chefs to cook on it. South Florida is big and not everyone is going to drive around and try food all over the place. Iti s going to bring places like Charm City Burger Company, Georgie’s Alibi, Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill and Quickie’s of Hollywood to Miami and ocations from Miami like 8 oz. Burger Bar, Burger & Beer Joint, The Filling Station, and John Martin’s Irish Pub farther north.
The unveiling of the truck is at Street Food Fridays at the Miami Herald. Unfortunately, they will not be cooking on the truck but Fireman Derek will be selling some of his world famous pies. Good stuff if you’ve never had it. The cooking debut will be next Thursday, January 13th and will feature Ortelio Cardenas, better known as El Mago De Las Fritas.
Sunday, January 23 · 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Miami Art Museum
Come see the artists of tomorrow at the 2011 Scholastic Art Awards and Exhibition, presented by Miami Art Museum and Miami-Dade County Public Schools. On view January 23 through February 13, 2011, the annual exhibition, featuring more than 250 artworks in all media, will kick off with an awards ceremony on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 3pm when school district officials will announce awards in each category and artworks that will be submitted for national competition.
Opening reception: 1-4pm
Awards ceremony: 3pm
Free and open to the public
Information: 305-375-4073
The 2011 Scholastic Art Awards and Exhibition, a highlight of the MAM & Schools program, is presented by Target. Additional support for this program is provided by The Heckscher Foundation for Children, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Citizens Interested in Arts, Inc. and MAM Annual Education Fund Donors.
Join us for a private tasting of The Macallan
Alfred I Dupont Building
169 East Flagler Street
Miami, FL
We look forward to giving you an introduction to these award-winning whiskies.
Click here for more information and to RSVP.
Please join us to discover what gives The World’s Most precious Whisky its natural colors, aromas and flavors and gain an appreciation for a time-honored process that makes The Macallan a cut above the rest.
Go from Scotch-novice to Scotch-lover. Make time to Celebrate The Macallan.
Eighteenth Annual Map Fair
Saturday, February 5 and Sunday, February 6, 10 am to 5 pm
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
Daily Admission
HistoryMiami Members: $5 Non-Members: $10
Tickets may be purchased at the door.
Peruse and purchase antique maps from some of the finest map dealers in the world. Learn about maps through a series of lectures by experts in the field and enjoy special events held throughout the weekend.
Proceeds from Map Fair go toward maintaining and improving the exhibitions, educational programming and community outreach.
To register please call 305-375-5792 or email Mapfair@historymiami.org or visit http://hmsf.org/programs-mapFair.htm
The Miami International Map Fair returns to HistoryMiami, Saturday, February 5 and Sunday, February 6, 2011 for its eighteenth year and among its many wonderful maps it will carry the earliest printed maps of Florida and Cuba.
Miami, one of only three cities in the world – along with London and Paris, is the only one in the western hemisphere to host a map fair. Held over two days, the fair provides the serious collector or casual buyer a weekend of browsing and buying antique maps and rare books. Visitors are also encouraged to bring in a map of their own collections for expert opinions and attend the lectures.
Among this year’s lecturers is the New York Times bestselling author of Longitude, Dava Sobel. Other lectures will include “Envisioning History with GIS” by Anne K. Knowles, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Geography at Middlebury College and James Ackerman, Ph.D., Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library who will discuss, “In the Rearview Mirror: An Appreciation of Twentieth-Century Roadmaps.”
Weekend participant registration of $75 includes lectures, lunch, and Saturday evening cocktail reception. Daily admission to the fair is $10 for adults and $5 for children 6 – 12.
Title sponsor of the Miami International Map Fair is BrandsMart U.S.A. Other sponsors include, Martayan Lan, The Family Vending Company, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps & The Old Print Shop, Cohen & Taliaferro LLC/Richard B. Arkway Ltd. & WorldView Antique Maps, and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.
Wine Down Wednesday
HistoryMiami
Wednesday, January 5th at 5pm.
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
Enjoy free general admission and happy hour pricing:
Glass of Wine: $5
Open Wine Bar: $15
Kick off the New Year with new friends, new places, and a new happy hour hotspot!
Head over to HistoryMiami for wine, live music and fun professionals on Wednesday, January 5th at 5pm.
Free parking available at 50 NW 2 Ave
RSVP by January 3rd to rsvp@historymiami.org or 305-375-1614
Friday, December 31, 8:00pm-Midnight:
Bayfront Park’s New Year’s Eve
Free Admission
More Info.
It’s time to ring in the new year and Bayfront Park is the place to be for the largest FREE party in south Florida! Join us for a Disco Dance Party with DJ Tarik spinning tunes all night and count down to midnight with Miami’s own “Big Orange.” At the south end of the park, this New Year’s Eve icon will slowly ascend the side of the InterContinental Hotel, reaching the top at midnight in conjunction with a grand display of fireworks shot over beautiful Biscayne Bay.
No bottles, cans, coolers, or fireworks allowed.
Bayfront Park’s New Year’s Eve is presented by Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the City of Miami, with support from the City of Miami, the Mayor and the Miami City Commission. Additional support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners; The Greater Miami Host Committee, and Bayside Marketplace. Our fine sponsors include The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and Waste Services of Florida, Inc.
Thursday, January 20, 2011 · 12:00pm – 7:30pm
Miami-Dade Public Library System, Main Library
101 West Flagler, Miami, FL
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’70s Dance Party on the Plaza Noon-2pm
Awesome dance party! Join the Super Soul Steppers and enjoy music, giveaways, prizes and dance contest. Come dressed with your best look from the past four decades to be eligible for prizes. Bring your lunch.
Reception and Art Exhibit Opening 6:30pm with special guests Greater Miami Youth Symphony & conversation with Dr. Paul George
RSVP to Pat Faison (305-375-5501 or faisonp@mdpls.org)
Gerri Houlihan Retrospective performing at Florida Dance Association’s WinterFest
Thursday, Dec. 30, 8:00 p.m.
New World School of the Arts
25 NE 2nd Street, Miami
$10(students/seniors)
$15 (general)
Tickets can be purchased at: www.floridadanceassociation.org or call 305-310-8080
Florida Dance Association’s WinterFest
Nationally and internationally acclaimed modern dance companies will take the stage for Florida Dance Association’s third annual WinterFest, Dec. 27-Jan. 28, in various venues throughout Miami and Miami Beach.
A retrospective concert of admired choreographer Gerri Houlihan, who directed Houlihan & Dancers in Miami throughout the 90s. Guest artists from New York City, Paul Matteson and former Houlihan dancer Jennifer Nugent, will also be featured. Both dancers currently perform with one of the hottest modern dance companies in the United States, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
More on Florida Dance Festival and WinterFest: Established in 1974, Florida Dance Association is Florida’s statewide arts/dance service organization that has built a national reputation for excellence in both educational programming and quality of performances presented throughout the state. WinterFest is a high-performance event exposing audiences to outstanding contemporary dances from Florida and throughout the country.
Economically Disadvantaged Haitian-American Children to Receive Holiday Cheer at the Fourth Annual Breakfast With Santa
December 19, 11:00AM – 2:00PM
J.W. Marriott Hotel
1109 Brickell Ave. Miami, FL
Dedicated Haitian-American Business Leaders, J.W. Marriott, and Loyal Supporters Sponsor the Event for More than 300 Children
“Breakfast With Santa,†an annual Holiday event, much-anticipated by underprivileged Haitian-American children, is scheduled for Sunday, December 19 from 11:00AM – 2:00PM, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel, 1109 Brickell Ave. Miami, FL. Children (ages 5 to 12) from Little Haiti and other areas with a concentration of Haitian immigrants, will be treated to a delectable brunch, receive new toys, and take home cherished photos with Santa and his elves.
Haitian American professionals, business owners, and sponsors volunteer hundreds of hours of their time and provide financial resources to assist some of Miami-Dade County’s most disadvantaged children, whose plight has been worsened by the nation’s economic downturn.
According to the U.S. Census (2000), the poverty rate in Little Haiti is over 44%, more than three times the average rate of the Miami Fort Lauderdale Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) (14%). The average income in Little Haiti is $15,277. With Florida having one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, these families are experiencing especially acute hardship. Because of this, the 2010 BWS event will be is particularly special and necessary.
“Breakfast with Santa†is a labor of love. “Everyone involved truly believes that this year is even more poignant and essential due to the number of Haitian families who have lost their homes, jobs, and security, as well as for the many who have also lost loved ones in the January earthquake,†said Judith Joseph, one of the chairpersons and founders of the event. “We want to make sure that these children and families know that we are thinking of them and that we care.†Learn more at www.BreakfastWithSantaSF.org.
Kimberly Bacardi’s Good Karma Group has been instrumental in collecting thousands of toys at various events and through personal outreach to individuals and companies throughout South Florida as part of the Breakfast With Santa efforts. In addition to collecting toys for Miami’s underprivileged Haitian children, GKG, which has actors Vincent De Paul and George Lopez as prominent members and has deep roots in the charitable community, will also visit Haiti very soon to distribute new toys to that nation’s children, a blessing many of them would not otherwise receive. Learn more at Facebook.
While previous sponsors may be feeling the pinch of a weak economy, their commitment to the children in the targeted communities remains strong for the 2010 event. In addition to the JW Marriott, the following individuals and companies have sponsored the event for the past four years:
The Haitian Chamber of Commerce of Florida
The Haitian American Leadership organization
Foodman & Associates, PA
Le Chic Events Design & Production
Dr. Ranley & Carine Desir
Dr. Reginald Pereira,
Dr. Joseph & Loydee Lemaire
Dr. Bernard Miot
Dr. Herold Merisier
Dr. Rudolph & Mirjam Moise
Dr. Dominique & Pierre Saliba
Dr. Angelo & Marie-May Gousse
Dr. Marie Denise Gervais
Dr. Myriam Pereira
Dr. Winie Robin
Dr. Cassandra Blot Simon
Dr. Joelle Thevenin
Dr. Elizabeth Phillippe
Dr. Rosemay Seide
Dr. Gardy Marcelin
Dr. Gislaine Malette Marcelin
Mr. Patrick & Judith Joseph
Mr. Munir & Carline Mourra
Mr. Jean Philippe & Josette Cantave
Mr. Anthony Box, Esq.
Ms. Sabrina Salomon, Esq.
Ms. Michelle Baker, Esq.
Ms. Kathleen Apaid
Ms. Judith Audain
Ms. Michael Vorbe
Mr. Charles & Anssie Blot
Ms. Tamara Beliard Rodriguez
Mr. Richard Rodriguez
Mr. Fred & Hermine Beliard
Ms. Patricia Pilorge Alemdar
Ms. Claudia Apaid
Ms. Christina Allien
Ms. Manoucheka Thermitus
Mr. Schiller Jerome
Ms. Bolina Salomon
Ms. Guilaine & Patricia M. Chevalier
Ms. Love Pun
Ms. Elizabeth Gardere
Ms. Paola Pierre
Ms. Mildred Gilot
Ms. Wilhelmina Michel-Dumas
Ms. Josianne Demostene
Ms. Nathalie Vertus
Breakfast with Santa has also gained new corporate and individual sponsorships. New corporate sponsors who supported the event this year include:
SUNSHINE STATE Health Plan, Continucare, Corp. Inc., Walgreen’s, ITT Corporation and Citibank, Green Family Foundation, Nopin Long Distance, Centuric, LLC, Cupcakes by Hilda, Promodivers, Haiti Shipping Lines Inc. Haiti Shipping Cargo Services LLC, I & B Associates, Inc. and M-Three Production New individual sponsors are: Kimberly Bacardi for Good Karma Group, Dr. Alie Darbouze Brutus, Dr. Smith Joseph, Dr. Michel Dodard and Dr. Nancy A. Calixte, Regine Jose, Marie Claude Fleurima, Thedy and Carline Brezault, Dr. Mogin & Mrs. Nancy Antoine, Egerton Bullock, Wendy Goodyear Costigan, Don A. and Suzan J. D’adesky, Kristopher and Pascal Baker Lemke, Sasha Leon, Carmen Riviera.
Holiday Toy Drive – Friday, Dec 17 (5-9pm)
Benefiting the Voices for Children Foundation
RSVP for Cocktail Reception: happyhour@miabiscayne.com
also featuring HEAT vs KNICKS watch party at 7pm!
Red Bull Versiones
Thursday, December 16th, 9pm
Free Admission with RSVP at rsvp@epoplife.com
early arrival is strongly suggested as space is limited
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Red Bull presents Versiones
Come hear some of Miami’s best live bands put a modern twist on their favorite classic latin songs
featuring live performances by:
Karina Iglesias
Flow Official
Elastic Bond
Xperimento
Bachaco
Arboles Libres
along with special guest DJs The Brass King • Mr. Pauer
hosted by MC Bernardo Garcia of ¡MAYDAY!
Don King Productions presents World Championship Boxing
December 17, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
AmericanAirlines Arena
601 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132
On Friday, December 17 at 6:00 p.m., undefeated Cuban Olympic heavyweight gold medalist Odlanier “La Sombra†Solis will face one of the toughest bouts of his professional career when he takes on Ray “The Rainman†Austin, a 6-foot-6 boxer from Cleveland. The winner earns the right to face World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.
The heavyweight championship eliminator will take place at:
AmericanAirlines Arena
601 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132
For more information please call (786) 777-1000 or visit www.aaarena.com.
Ruben Millares and Smiling Gums Fan Club CD Release Show
Friday December 17th at 8:30 and at 10:30
Soya & Pomodoro
120 NE 1st Street, Downtown Miami
We are having a CD release party for the Fan Club Friday December 17th at Soya & Pomodoro Downtown. We will do an early show at 8:30 and a later show at 10:30. The food is great and we have a special wine bottle deal also. The location feels like abandoned Havana, an old bank lobby from the 1930s with marble floors, hand worked iron and vault ceilings.
The new album is up on itunes! Go get it! We will have the album available for sale at the show or you can buy it through www.rubenmillares.com or www.smilinggums.com
There are some heavy duty players on the record and I must say the whole thing is pretty amazing!
See you on Friday… Soya & Pomodoro 120 NE 1st Street, Downtown Miami
Happy Hour Wine Down Wednesday at HistoryMiami
Brickell / Downtown
first Wednesday every month, 5pm to 8pm
$15 open wine & food bar, $5 per glass
101 W. Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
www.historymiami.org
Don’t sit in rush hour traffic when you can be drinking wine, networking with other professionals, and listening to live music!
Join us every first Wednesday!
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