Words & Wine Open Mic Sunday Funday Edition at Books & Books Arsht Center
Sunday, 01/29/2017 – 06:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Books & Books at The Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami, Florida 33132
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Cost: FREE

Calling all Miami Talent and curious minds to our Words & Wine Sunday Funday edition at Books & Books Arsht Center location

Now EVERY 1st Sunday of the Month at Coral Gables Location
And
EVERY Last Sunday at Arsht Center Location!

Featuring the very Talented
WOMANMANY
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Join us for a relaxed evening where you can wind down to some spoken word, acoustic acts, comedy, drums, and much more.

Hosted By : Nikki & Melvin

Very simple set up. Only one mic that plugs in to house system. If you need anything else for your set up please bring the equipment ♥

Open Mic sign up starts at 6:00pm SHARP
This is NOT A LATE NIGHT Event

ALL AGES Welcome! Super family-friendly Event =)

This is a NO COVER Event

Delicious Food & Refreshing Drinks Available
Come Early for their extended Happy Hour Specials

Happy Hour until 10p

1/2 OFF ALL Drinks & Snacks

Come by and check out the books, order a beer or a glass of wine, and hang out with us this Sunday.

Any questions please contact Nikki Rodriguez @ 786 728 4748 or email art_is_life111@hotmail.com

PAMM Third Thursdays: Poplife Social ft. Jay Thomas
Thursday, 12/15/2016 – 06:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami, Florida 33132
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Cost: $16

Enjoy a DJ set by Arthur Baker and a live performance by indie folk artist Jay Thomas. Partake in exhibition inspired art-making and happy hour specials. In the galleries, catch our newest exhibition Julio Le Parc: Form into Action.

Contact:
Admission: $16 for adults, PAMM members free. Space is limited – pre-purchase highly recommended. Admission does not include food/drink. Members bring membership card for quick entry.

info@pamm.org

El Balcon De La Habana Alumbra El Cielo De Miami
Monday November 28, 2016 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Lighting of the sculpture will be at 7:30 pm.
Museum Park
1075 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132
RSVP to Maria Lanao at 786.514.0301 or maru@intersectionspr.com

Please join us in welcoming Havana’s Balcony to the Magic City and be among the first to witness the lighting of this monumental piece

The Spanish artist Juan Garaizabal is ready for his installation of Havana’s Balcony (Balcón de la Habana) at the Museum Park in the city of Miami. The steel structure will be presented under the framework of Miami’s Art Week. The piece is the first part of an initiative that will be completed with the installation of a sister sculpture in the Malecón of Havana in 2017.

Havana’s Balcony (Balcón de La Habana) is a 69 feet high sculpture – approximately the height of a six-story building. It has an imposing structure of stainless steel, partially coated with LED lights, that will be visible from the bay and land throughout the city, changing what is now the skyline of Miami. It will be located in Museum Park, the neurological center of culture and art in Miami, along with the Pérez Art Museum and The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. The Havana’s Balcony (Balcón de la Habana) in Miami will have a replica installation of a sculpture in the Cuban capital, which recreates the Miami’s Art Deco lines in 2017. The two sister sculptures will be placed facing each other. Through this work, the artist tries to not only recreate the symbol of a culture, but also the essence that lingers in the minds of many Cubans based in Miami. The structure will be an icon of the city.

“I intend to work where history is being made. Miami and Havana, are both having transcendental changes,” explained the artist Juan Garaizabal. “The idea is to materialize the physical connection that already exists and is rooted in Miami. A structure so symbolic such as the balconies of Havana is the perfect representation of nostalgia that this Caribbean city evokes in the majority of the Miami population. ”

Miami’s most prominent personalities such as Jorge Perez, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, through the CIFO foundation, The Bayfront Park Management Trust Miami, and Mana Contemporary, as well as the artist’s foundation, Urban Memories, are involved in the support of the project.

About Juan Garaizabal
Juan Garaizabal is an internationally recognized conceptual artist and sculptor. His “Urban Memories (Memorias Urbanas),” are massive structures that alongside with their particular strategic location and lighting, strategically evoking architectural historical elements, signifying the memory of the cities. Despite being an artist of conceptual origins, as a sculptor his work is done by hand, using his own techniques such as: forging, carpentry, electricity, plasticity and masonry.

EDGE Collections’ 2016 Art Basel Exhibition at Island Gardens Deep Harbour
Monday, 11/28/2016 – 12/04/2016 09:00 am –
Island Gardens Deep Harbour
888 MacArthur Causeway,
Miami, Florida 33132

Cost: Free

Miami’s exquisite superyacht marina, Island Gardens Deep Harbour, will transform into the canvas for Miami-based design house EDGE Collections’ 2016 Art Basel exhibition. Acclaimed for its visually stunning wallpapers and textiles that fuse multiple layers of original imagery, EDGE brought together an exclusive group of international artists and designers to create a visual journey of tropical, nautical and visceral themes through mixed media, sculpture and scent right in the marina lounge.

The new works by artists Christina Lei Rodriguez, Atelier OÏ x L’ Atelier Casablanca, Eric Beare, Flëkz and Mert Özgen will debut at Island Gardens Deep Harbour from Nov. 28 – Dec. 4, with a curated celebration of art and design with the marina’s renowned panoramic views of Downtown Miami and Biscayne Bay as the back drop.

Italian Masters Do It Better
Thursday, 12/01/2016 – 06:00 pm – 09:00 pm
Valli Art Gallery
124 NW 25th Street,
Miami, Florida 33127
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Cost: FREE

We selected ITALIAN MASTERS DO IT BETTER as the title of the exhibition on the great contemporary Italian artists that founded and influenced important internationally celebrated art movements in the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s, until the year 2000 and onwards, because we wish to point out the excellent unique creativity of these masters, officially introducing their artworks in the United States during this millennium. The American public is familiar to the excellence of Italian creativity in contemporary design, fashion, food, automotive industry, music, literature, as well as in Italian Classic Art masters like Leonardo, Michelangelo or Rafael, but only the in deep contemporary art connoisseurs know that Alberto Biasi was widely celebrated at the Venice Biennial and at New York MoMA around the middle of the last century as one of the founders of the international kinetic movement. ITALIAN MASTERS DO IT BETTER will present these masters to the general public at art galleries, art fairs, museums, private and public institutions, as well as through media campaigns and publications. This unique exhibition will open at VALLI ART Gallery simultaneously with our Booth at the prestigious CONTEXT Art Fair, both in Wynwood, FL.

The Post-War era marks a period in Italian Arts and Design, when “the Italian reinvented the way of doing things.” The exhibition at Valli Art Gallery presents master artists that, from the end of the 40’s and the first half of the 60’s, worked on the “upgrade” of the concept of the canvas, not any more conceived as a space to underline a representation in favor of a more physical approach, direct and conceptual, which will transform the overall canvas and its support in an artistic object self-expressive that will open a subjective dialogue with the public. Consequently, artworks would reconnect to the world and to true life. From the first Manifesto of Spatialism in 1946, Lucio Fontana and Bruno Munari envisioned a new art that should be characterized by a physical study of matter, color and sound in movement, the rhythm resulting from a new work with the pictorial palimpsest, aimed to overcome the two-dimensional limitation of the canvas by creating a space, physical and conceptual at the same time. Bruno Munari, a most important Italian Leonardesque figure of the 20th century, dominated the 50’s-60’s Milanese scene in the years of the economic boom, in which was born the figure of the artist visual-operator that becomes business consultant while contributing to the Italian post-war industrial revival. Very young, Munari participated with the Futurism, from which separates with a sense of lightness and humor, inventing the Aerial Machine, 1930, the first ‘mobile’ in art history, and the Useless Machines, 1933. In 1948, he founded MAC, the Concrete Art

Movement, with Gillo Dorfles, Gianni Monnet and Atanasio Soldati. The movement was a worldwide catalyst of Italian abstract instances proposing a synthesis of the arts, able to combine traditional painting with new communication tools, to show to industrialists and artists-artists the possible convergence between art and technique. In 1947, Munari created Concave-convex, one of the first installations in art history. Lucio Fontana presented Black environment, 1949, at Galleria Naviglio in Milan.

Between December 1959 and July 1960, Enrico Castellani, Extended and bent inwards surfaces, and Piero Manzoni, Achrome, founded Galleria Azimut in Milan, followed by the journal Azimuth in collaboration with Agostino Bonalumi, Cushioned-canvases. Azimut and Azimuth had an echo and domino effect almost unimaginable, with a disruptive experimentation and a desecration of the tools of making art, offering to the spectator the new role of completing the work by an artist that conceptually, symbolically and physically, violated the canvas. In those same years, Paolo Scheggi reached similar artistic outcomes exhibiting his Intersurfaces in Florence. In 1965, Fontana involved Turi Simeti in the exhibit Zero Avantgarde at his Milanese studio, proving that the Sicilian artist wasn’t indifferent to the demands of the Spatialism. The exhibit makes a synthesis of two historical Italian movements with Alberto Biasi telling about Optical Art and with Castellani, Bonalumi and Scheggi about Spatialism. The show, following Azimut’s assumptions, investigates these artists, including their natural heirs, Giuseppe Amadio and Cesare Berlingeri, who dared to violate the canvas to rewrite history, building on it something unexpected and revolutionary based on the real use of space, the research on time and the analysis of the structures’ rhythm. A section of the show will present Mimmo Rotella and Giosetta Fioroni that in the same years explored at Rome POP expression and realistic Nouveaux. Including Michelangelo Pistoletto, the exhibition showcases masters and their followers that made Italian painting a center of autonomous visual perceptions, where viewers also became the protagonists of the canvas interpretation.

Arsht Center 10th Birthday Celebration
October 8 | 11:00AM
Adrienne Arsht Center
142 E Flagler St
Miami, 33131
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The Free Stuff:
Beginning at 11 a.m., enjoy 10 hours of free performances, fun activities, and family-friendly programming! Performances on the Center’s numerous stages will feature local talent such as: Miami Music Project Leaders Orchestra, Miami Children’s Chorus, Cirque Dreams, Fushu Daiko, Ketchy Shuby, Afrobeta, Guitar Over Guns, Rara Lakay, Delou Africa, Bluejay, Spanglish Wrangler, Karen Peterson Dance, Hello Elevator, Ground Zero Crew, Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, Lion Parade, DJ Sama, Mr. Pauer, and more!

The Concert:
The 10th Birthday Concert featuring CeeLo Green will begin at 7:30 p.m., with local bands Spam All-Stars and Tiempo Libre opening. $10 tickets are on sale now!

The After Party:
Immediately following the concert, everyone is invited to cap off the celebration with a free outdoor after-party on the Center’s Thomson Plaza for the Arts.

Words & Wine Sunday Funday Feat. The Fortune Tellers & R
Sunday, 09/25/2016 – 05:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Books & Books Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami, Florida 33132
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Cost: Free

Calling all Miami Talent and curious minds to our 1st edition of Words & Wine Sunday Funday style at Books & Books Arsht Center location

Now EVERY 1st Sunday of the Month at Coral Gables Location
And
EVERY Last Sunday at Arsht Center Location! (Starts September 25th)

Featuring the very Talented
The Fortune Tellers & Robson Pires

Join us for a relaxed evening where you can wind down to some spoken word, acoustic acts, comedy, drums, and much more.

Hosted By : Nikki & Melvin

Very simple set up. Only one mic that plugs in to house system. If you need anything else for your set up please bring the equipment ♥

Open Mic sign up starts at 6:00pm SHARP
This is NOT A LATE NIGHT Event

ALL AGES Welcome! Super family-friendly Event =)

This is a NO COVER Event

Delicious Food & Refreshing Drinks Available
Come Early for their extended Happy Hour Specials

Happy Hour until 10p

1/2 OFF ALL Drinks & Snacks

Come by and check out the books, order a beer or a glass of wine, and hang out with us this Sunday.

Any questions please contact Nikki Rodriguez @ 786 728 4748 or email art_is_life111@hotmail.com

Words & Wine Sunday Fun Day Feat. The Fortune Tellers at Books & Books Arsht Center Location
Sunday, 09/25/2016 – 05:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Books & Books Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Blvd.,
Miami, Florida 33132
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Cost: Free

Calling all Miami Talent and curious minds to our 1st edition of Words & Wine Sunday Funday style at Books & Books Arsht Center location

Now EVERY 1st Sunday of the Month at Coral Gables Location
And
EVERY Last Sunday at Arsht Center Location! (Starts September 25th)

Featuring the very Talented Nicole & Diego with
The Fortune Tellers

Join us for a relaxed evening where you can wind down to some spoken word, acoustic acts, comedy, drums, and much more.

Hosted By : Nikki & Melvin

Very simple set up. Only one mic that plugs in to house system. If you need anything else for your set up please bring the equipment ♥

Open Mic sign up starts at 6:00pm SHARP
This is NOT A LATE NIGHT Event

ALL AGES Welcome! Super family-friendly Event =)

This is a NO COVER Event

Delicious Food & Refreshing Drinks Available
Come Early for their extended Happy Hour Specials

Happy Hour until 10p

1/2 OFF ALL Drinks & Snacks

Come by and check out the books, order a beer or a glass of wine, and hang out with us this Sunday.

Any questions please contact Nikki Rodriguez @ 786 728 4748 or email art_is_life111@hotmail.com

Exhibit Treal From Haiti with Love Contemporary Haitian Art Exhibit
Saturday, 05/21/2016 – 06:00 pm – 09:00 pm
mindwarehouse
111 NE 1st Street, 7th Floor,
Miami, Florida 33132
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Cost: Free

May is Haitian Heritage month! And being that our two co-founders and curators are Haitian, we’re paying homage to who we are with “From Haiti with Love”.

Haiti has had a long history of creating breath taking artwork. Art created from the greatest of joys and deepest of pain that has connected with every soul on even the smallest level. In fact, Haitian art is highly sought after by collectors all across the globe.

With a collection of contemporary visual artists with the blood of Ayiti flowing through their veins and spilling onto their works, you will be left at awe and seeking to own it all! Join us for a celebration of Haiti with art, live performances and music into an undeniable scene exploding with gifted of artists of Haitian descent!

ARTISTS:
Brenda Presil
Lawerence Jean-Louis
Belinda Wright
Ismael Duret
Mackenson Jean
Elyjah Xavier Fleurant
Judah James Powell
Tracy Guiteau
OMG Ray

Performances by:
Ayiti Bluez
Cleo J’Adore
O Solon
Yanatha Desourve

If you’d like to become a sponsor or have inquires on how you can be apart in keep things flowing smooth… email exhibittreal@gmail.com

Young Artist Initiative at Lou La Vie
Saturday, 05/07/2016 – 08:00 pm – 03:00 am
Lou La Vie
(Entrance on NE 15th Street) 1444 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami, FL, Florida 33132
RSVP / Register
Cost: $15

The Young Artist Initiative presents an exceptional partnership with Lou La Vie and the Miami Micro Theater. Join us on Saturday, May 7th for a new experience featuring live theater and an incredible lineup of musicians, live performances, installments, exhibitions, and more!

The cultural virus that has infected the city of Miami in the past decade has led to the rise of art-driven concepts and has drawn the attention of designers, architects, and overall creators from all corners of our globe, whose presence has helped in the development and enrichment of Miami’s cultural personality.

The Young Artist Initiative aims to celebrate and encourage this creative spirit by instilling “Renaissance” as the conceptual base of its next installation. All participating artists have been presented with the challenge of addressing the cultural rebirth occurring in the city of Miami and consider its effects and ramifications on the identity of our city. Their performances and installations will exist as reflections of their individual interpretations on the matter, expressed through each of their iconic aesthetics and methodologies.

We invite you to enjoy and ponder the reflection of Miami’s Collective of Young Artists on Saturday, May 7th at Lou La Vie featuring Miami’s Micro Theater!

RSVP/Tickets include,
– Admission to the Young Artist Initiative
– Complimentary admission to all 7 Miami Micro Theater performances

A garage is available for all guests on 1425 NE 2nd Ave 33132 Miami, FL and open until 4:00a.m.

Guests must be 21+. Tickets are non-refundable. $20 cover charge will apply at the door.

Parks At Our Door: Planning Miami-Dade’s 21st Century Park System
Tuesday, 04/12/2016 – 04/28/2016 10:00 am – 05:00 pm
Miami Center for Architecture & Design
100 NE 1st Ave,
Miami, Florida 33132
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Cost: Free

Representing the voices of thousands of participants in hundreds of meetings over three years of development, the Miami-Dade County Parks and Open Space Masterplan addresses the interconnectedness of life, and the potential for parks to provide an infrastructure that builds individual, community, and ecological resiliency and well-being. The drawings illustrate a shared vision for an integrated system of great parks and public spaces, natural and cultural areas, all linked across the region through greenways, waterways, complete streets and sidewalks. Three fundamentals guide the plan:
• Placemaking – creating dynamic, resilient communities for all people
• Health and Fitness – enhancing individual, family, and community health and well-being
• Conservation and Stewardship – protecting open space, connecting children to nature, developing park stewards, and advancing conservation
Most importantly, the plan establishes a process of inquiry designed to support ongoing exploration to address the challenges and opportunities of the future, while preserving the significant ecological and cultural legacy of one America’s largest and most diverse park systems.

For additional information and/or questions email: info@miamicad.org or call: (786) 361-1207
Details and tickets available at, http://bit.ly/1qlnuB2

Library Challenge Workshop
Monday, 03/07/2016 – 06:00 pm – 08:30 pm
Miami-Dade Public Library
101 W Flagler St,
miami, Florida 33130
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Cost: FREE

How might libraries serve 21st century information needs?

Join us for a Knight News Challenge on Libraries workshop. We’ll get to meet and greet, hear from local experts including Rebecca Fishman Lipsey of 100 Great Ideas, and Gia Arbogast
Director of Miami-Dade Public Library System, and discover what makes a successful project.

The New Tropic will lead a group brainstorming and design workshop after to help flesh out some ideas.

Food and drink will be provided. RSVP Required

On Feb. 24, Knight Foundation’s second News Challenge on Libraries will open for applications. We will be offering applicants a chance to share winnings of $3 million for projects that answer the question: How might libraries serve 21st century information needs?

For centuries, libraries have been the keepers of public knowledge, spaces for human connection and educators for the next generations of learners. For this challenge, we hope to unearth new ways to advance libraries and their collaborators to meet the needs of their communities and carry these ideals into the future. T

The challenge will be open for applications from Feb. 24 to March 21. Anyone working in the U.S. on U.S. – based projects can apply, including public and private libraries, businesses, nonprofits and individuals. Projects have the chance to receive funding anywhere between $100,000 – $500,000 for a grant period of one to two years.

To learn more, please join us for virtual office hours scheduled for Feb. 25 and March 16 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. ET each day. You can access these meetings online using ID 451 981 706 or participate via phone by calling (888) 240-2560. You can also join our VP of Media Innovation, John Bracken, for a reddit IAmA on Feb. 29 at 7 p.m. ET.

For updates, please follow #newschallenge on Twitter or sign up here for Knight News Challenge updates. Should you have any questions, please view our challenge brief and FAQ page.

HistoryMiami Sinatra Grand Opening Party
Thursday, March 3, 2016, 7:00PM – 11:00PM
HistoryMiami Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, Fl 33130
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You don’t have to fly to the moon to toast Sinatra! Come join HistoryMiami Museum for the grand opening of Sinatra: An America Icon, the official exhibit of the 2015 Frank Sinatra Centennial. In partnership with Ocean Drive, on March 3rd, guests will enjoy a first look at the show-stopping exhibit featuring never before seen photos, dance to the unforgettable music of “Ol’ Blues Eyes,” enjoy tasty treats from Tutto Pizza & Pasta and sip on his favorite libation, Jack Daniels!