Tag: 4/7/26

STRIDE – Tuesday Community Run at Palace 4/7/26

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STRIDE – Tuesday Community Run at Palace
Tuesday, 04/07/2026-, 06:30 pm-08:00 pm
Palace Bar & Restaurant
1052 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, Florida, 33139
Website
Cost: Free

Palace Pump: Stride with Jess Rose McDowell. Join us for Stride, a community-driven 4-mile guided run through scenic South Beach, led by The Weekly Warm-Up Club. We start and end at Palace Bar & Restaurant bringing together fitness, connection, and community in one of Miami’s most iconic settings.

This is a complimentary community event. A suggested donation ticket is available, and guests are encouraged to tip directly at @jessrosemcd on Venmo.

Return to Palace for a social cooldown connect with fellow runners over wellness drinks, cocktails, and optional protein-forward dinner options designed to refuel and recover.

Celebrate National Poetry Month – In Miami Beach 4/7/26

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Celebrate National Poetry Month – In Miami Beach
Tuesday, 04/07/2026-, 07:00 pm-08:00 pm
The Betsy Hotel
1440 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, Florida, 33139
Website
Cost: 0

Join The Betsy Hotel for an evening of poetry and conversation in celebration of National Poetry Month. This special gathering will feature Diamond Forde, winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Prize and Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Betsy Poetry Curator at Large.

Diamond Forde is a Black poet and the author of The Book of Alice (Scribner, 2026), winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award, and Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2021), winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. The recipient of additional awards and fellowships from the Furious Flower Poetry Center, the College Language Association, Great River Review, Callaloo, and Tin House, she has served as a visiting poet for the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. Forde’s Book of Alice has been described by Scribner as ‘A powerful collection exploring the legacy of survival as seen through the life of a Black woman born in the Jim Crow South’. The Book of Alice won the Academy of American Poets’ prestigious James Laughlin prize for a second book of poetry, for which the poet also received a week-long residency in The Betsy Writers Room at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach. Forde is an assistant professor at North Carolina State University and earned a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University.

Caridad Moro-Gronlier was born in Los Angeles to Cuban immigrant parents who relocated to Miami, Florida. She is the author of four books of poetry, including Through the Lens and As to Your Comment, forthcoming from Texas Review Press in 2026 and 2027, respectively; Tortillera (Texas Review Press, 2021), winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize; and Visionware (Finishing Line Press, 2009). She is also the editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers Respond to Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing (Beacon Press, 2020). Moro-Gronlier serves as the senior editor for SWWIM Every Day, an online daily poetry journal for women-identifying poets, is the outgoing Poet Laureate of Miami Dade County (2024-26) and serves as The Betsy Hotel’s Writers Room Poetry-Curator-at-Large. Widely recognized for her work in LGBTQ+ representation and community education, she was a 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and holds a graduate degree in English literature from Florida International University.

National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets (AAP) in April 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. The Betsy Writers Room at The Betsy Hotel has partnered with The AAP for more than a decade, providing a residency and reading to the winner of the annual James Laughlin Prize.

Ladies Who Lunch Tuesday 4/7/26

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Ladies Who Lunch Tuesday
Tuesday, 04/07/2026-, 01:00 pm-04:00 pm
Palace Bar
1052 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, Florida, 33139
Website
Cost: Free

Tuesdays are for the boys who brunch beautifully at Palace South Beach. Join us for Ladies Who Lunch every Tuesday from 1PM to 4PM, hosted by the Queen of the Palace.

Slide into the afternoon with fierce performances, playful energy, delicious bites, and cocktails that keep the vibe flowing right on Ocean Drive. Whether you are celebrating, flirting, or just escaping the workday, this is your excuse to turn lunch into a full glam affair.

As a true LGBTQ beacon in Miami Beach, Palace is where the community shows up loud, proud, and ready to party.

Come for the lunch. Stay for the slay.

Ladies Who Lunch Tuesday 4/7/26

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Ladies Who Lunch Tuesday
Tuesday, 04/07/2026-, 01:00 pm-04:00 pm
Palace Bar
1052 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, Florida, 33139
Website
Cost: Free

Tuesdays are for the boys who brunch beautifully at Palace South Beach. Join us for Ladies Who Lunch every Tuesday from 1PM to 4PM, hosted by the Queen of the Palace.

Slide into the afternoon with fierce performances, playful energy, delicious bites, and cocktails that keep the vibe flowing right on Ocean Drive. Whether you are celebrating, flirting, or just escaping the workday, this is your excuse to turn lunch into a full glam affair.

As a true LGBTQ beacon in Miami Beach, Palace is where the community shows up loud, proud, and ready to party.

Come for the lunch. Stay for the slay.

Ladies Who Lunch Tuesday 4/7/26

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Ladies Who Lunch Tuesday
Tuesday, 04/07/2026-, 01:00 pm-04:00 pm
Palace Bar
1052 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, Florida, 33139
Website
Cost: Free

Tuesdays are for the boys who brunch beautifully at Palace South Beach. Join us for Ladies Who Lunch every Tuesday from 1PM to 4PM, hosted by the Queen of the Palace.

Slide into the afternoon with fierce performances, playful energy, delicious bites, and cocktails that keep the vibe flowing right on Ocean Drive. Whether you are celebrating, flirting, or just escaping the workday, this is your excuse to turn lunch into a full glam affair.

As a true LGBTQ beacon in Miami Beach, Palace is where the community shows up loud, proud, and ready to party.

Come for the lunch. Stay for the slay.

Celebrate National Poetry Month – In Miami Beach 4/7/26

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Celebrate National Poetry Month – In Miami Beach
Tuesday, 04/07/2026-, 07:00 pm-08:00 pm
The Betsy Hotel
1440 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, Florida, 33139
Website
Cost: Free

Join The Betsy Hotel for an evening of poetry and conversation in celebration of National Poetry Month. This special gathering will feature Diamond Forde, winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Prize and Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Betsy Poetry Curator at Large.

Diamond Forde is a Black poet and the author of The Book of Alice (Scribner, 2026), winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award, and Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2021), winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. The recipient of additional awards and fellowships from the Furious Flower Poetry Center, the College Language Association, Great River Review, Callaloo, and Tin House, she has served as a visiting poet for the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. Forde’s Book of Alice has been described by Scribner as ‘A powerful collection exploring the legacy of survival as seen through the life of a Black woman born in the Jim Crow South’. The Book of Alice won the Academy of American Poets’ prestigious James Laughlin prize for a second book of poetry, for which the poet also received a week-long residency in The Betsy Writers Room at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach. Forde is an assistant professor at North Carolina State University and earned a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University.

Caridad Moro-Gronlier was born in Los Angeles to Cuban immigrant parents who relocated to Miami, Florida. She is the author of four books of poetry, including Through the Lens and As to Your Comment, forthcoming from Texas Review Press in 2026 and 2027, respectively; Tortillera (Texas Review Press, 2021), winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize; and Visionware (Finishing Line Press, 2009). She is also the editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers Respond to Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing (Beacon Press, 2020). Moro-Gronlier serves as the senior editor for SWWIM Every Day, an online daily poetry journal for women-identifying poets, is the outgoing Poet Laureate of Miami Dade County (2024-26) and serves as The Betsy Hotel’s Writers Room Poetry-Curator-at-Large. Widely recognized for her work in LGBTQ+ representation and community education, she was a 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and holds a graduate degree in English literature from Florida International University.

National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets (AAP) in April 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. The Betsy Writers Room at The Betsy Hotel has partnered with The AAP for more than a decade, providing a residency and reading to the winner of the annual James Laughlin Prize.

Aftershocks 4/7/26

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Aftershocks
Tuesday, 04/07/2026-04/12/2026, 05:30 pm-07:00 pm
Savor Cinema
503 SE 6th Street,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33301
Website
Cost: $12

Chile / 2025 / Spanish w/English subtitles / 88 min / Drama, Mystery, Suspense

Director, Writer: Diego González; Writer: María Paz Gonzalez; Producers: Sergio Karmy.
Key Cast: Julio Jung, Francisca Lewin .

After a powerful earthquake, Catalina returns to her old family home to help her father, Domingo, sell the property following the sudden death of her uncle Héctor. Between them unfolds a space of mourning and reconciliation, marked by unresolved guilt and inherited silences. In their forced coexistence, cracks begin to reveal the shadow of Héctor —an absent figure who never truly left. Replicas is a drama of mystery and memory, where both seismic and human aftershocks threaten to bring down what little still stands.

Autisto 4/7/26

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Autisto
Tuesday, 04/07/2026-04/12/2026, 07:30 pm-09:00 pm
Savor Cinema
503 SE 6th Street,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33301
Website
Cost: $12

Morocco / 2024 / Arabic w/English subtitles / 114 min / Drama, Mystery, Suspense Director, Writer: Jerome Cohen-Olivar; Producers: Zhor Rose Fassi-Fihri. Key Cast: Lounba Abidar.

Malika is the mother of Adam, a boy with severe autism. She lives in constant fear of one day leaving him behind. Her life swings between terror, loneliness, uncertainty, and outbursts—yet also love, complicity, hope, and fleeting freedom. After a tragic event, Malika considers placing Adam in a specialized facility. In her despair, an unexpected encounter changes everything.

Mahmoud, a cemetery keeper with torn clothes and a wild gaze, speaks with the dead at night and dances to music by day. He and Adam bond instantly, communicating not with words but with their souls. They grow inseparable, sharing wild adventures. But their closeness soon becomes unsettling, and Malika, uneasy with this new friendship, finally asks Mahmoud to stay away from her son.

History Fort Lauderdale and Galleria Fort Lauderdale’s “Women Trailblazers: Champions of Change – Broward County” Exhibition 3/27/26 – 4/19/26

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History Fort Lauderdale and Galleria Fort Lauderdale’s “Women Trailblazers: Champions of Change – Broward County” Exhibition
Sunday, 03/27/2026-, 10:00 am-08:00 pm
Galleria Fort Lauderdale
2414 E Sunrise Blvd,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33304
Website
Cost: Free

History Fort Lauderdale and Galleria Fort Lauderdale will celebrate six impactful women of today who lead our community alongside their groundbreaking historical female predecessors who helped to pave the way to success in its “Women Trailblazers: Champions of Change – Broward County” 2026 free photography exhibition. The exhibit runs through April 19 at Galleria Fort Lauderdale (2414 E. Sunrise Boulevard) during Women’s History Month.

This year’s honorees are Mary Adams, principal consultant and owner of The Employee Relations Group; Monica Cepero, county administrator at Broward County Government; Genia Duncan Ellis, president and CEO at Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale, Inc.; Kristina Hebert, president and CEO of Wards Marine Electric; Suzanne Higgins, director of development at Henderson Behavioral Health and Dara Levan, author, speaker, and board member of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation/Memorial Foundation.

Past pioneering women counterparts to be highlighted in the photo exhibition include
Louella Snyder (1875–1969), a Fort Lauderdale resident since 1910 who later founded and served as president of the Wells-Snyder Paint Company with M.W. Wells serving as secretary-treasurer; Virginia Clements (1914–1995), a member of the Junior League, and the first board chair of Henderson Behavioral Health who was instrumental in the organization’s establishment along with other roles in civic and cultural organizations; Ellyn Ferguson Walters (1927-2012), a 41-year tenured teacher for Broward Schools, major fundraiser and executive chair of the African American Research and Library Center, founder of the Sistrunk Festival and 1999 Urban League plus Kathleen C. Wright Award-winner; Eva Oliver (1883-1964), first president of the Woman’s Club, chairman of the Port Everglades naming committee, historian, author, philanthropist and suffragist; Anne Kolb (1932-1981), first elected woman chair of the Broward County Commission, environmentalist, conservationist (1978 Florida Wildlife Conservationist of the Year) and namesake of the Anne Kolb Nature Center; and Charline Skogsberg (1906-1999), a Broward County pioneer and daughter of Captain Charles Skogsberg, a keeper of the House of Refuge (U.S. Government life-saving service stations for shipwrecked sailors in Florida), a kindergarten teacher, Trinity Lutheran Church organist and Broward Marine at Bahia Mar employee.

History Fort Lauderdale and Galleria Fort Lauderdale’s “Women Trailblazers: Champions of Change – Broward County” 2026 is sponsored by UKG, Rick Case Automotive Group, BBX Capital, Henderson Behavioral Health, SunSentinel, City & Shore PRIME magazine, Gulf Stream Distillery, P.F. Chang’s, Dillard’s and GPR | Goodman Public Relations.

For more information, call (954) 463-4431 or visit historyfortlauderdale.org. Additional information about Galleria Fort Lauderdale is available at www.galleriamall-fl.com.

History Fort Lauderdale Presents “En Vogue: A Florida Fashion Retrospective” Exhibition 3/5/26 – 4/19/26

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History Fort Lauderdale Presents “En Vogue: A Florida Fashion Retrospective” Exhibition
Thursday, 03/05/2026-, 10:00 am-04:00 pm
New River Inn
231 SW Second Avenue,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33301
Website
Cost: $15 adults, $12 seniors, $7 for students (through age 22 with a valid student ID). Free for members, military personnel, and children 6 and under.

Step into a stylish journey through time as History Fort Lauderdale presents “En Vogue: A Florida Fashion Retrospective,” a new free exhibition featuring historic photographs, garments and accessories popularized throughout the 20th century. The showcase invites visitors to explore how clothing reflected and influenced cultural change and everyday life. The exhibition will be on view from March 5 through April 19.

Through archival images and period fashion, “En Vogue: A Florida Fashion Retrospective” explores how clothing reflected changing societal norms, cultural influences, and evolving identities across a century. The exhibition features photographs from iconic, historic South Florida retail locations such as Hartley’s – Miami and Fort Lauderdale (located in the old Sunrise Shopping Center, now Galleria Fort Lauderdale), and Margo Fashions and Dagmar Fashions on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.

From elegant Edwardian silhouettes to the refined glamour of mid-century style and even over-the top ‘90s style, the exhibition highlights fashion as both personal expression and historical record.

Support for History Fort Lauderdale’s “En Vogue: A Florida Fashion Retrospective” exhibit has been provided by the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Jan and Ed Crocker Unrestricted Fund, Leo M. and Alice J. Rutten Fund, and The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund. Additional funding is provided, in part, by Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward County Cultural Council and Visit Lauderdale.

History Fort Lauderdale offers a variety of engaging multicultural experiences throughout the year. It seeks to bring awareness to the community through both traveling exhibits and multiple permanent displays including “Women Trailblazers,” “Fort Lauderdale – the Early Years,” “Roots of Resilience: The Journey of Black Broward,” “From Dugouts to Dream Yachts: The Story of Boatbuilding Along the New River,” “Seminole Arts & Culture,” “New River Archaeology,” “Viva Fort Lauderdale: Celebrating Hispanic Art & Culture,” “The Growth and History of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office,” and “Take PRIDE, a Retrospective on LGBTQ Life in South Florida.”

History Fort Lauderdale is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with docent-guided tours offered daily at 1, 2, and 3 p.m. Group walking tours are available upon special request. Admission is $15 for adults; $12 for seniors; and $7 for students (through age 22 with a valid student ID). Admission is free for members, military personnel, and children aged six and under. Tickets are available online at HistoryFortLauderdaleTickets.

For more information about History Fort Lauderdale, call (954) 463-4431 or visit historyfortlauderdale.org.