The Collins Park Neighborhood Association and Global Arts Project present the 10th anniversary of the Artscape Concert Series with The Motowners on Sunday, April 27.
This Week and Weekend's Musts
MUSIC
10th Anniversary of Artscape Concert Series
The Motowners
The Collins Park Neighborhood Association and Global Arts Project presents the tenth anniversary of its Artscape Concert Series featuring The Motowners.
5 to 7 p.m., Sunday, April 27
Admission is free
Collins Park, 2011 Collins Ave., Miami Beach
Get details at the miamiartzine.com calendar of events.
New World Symphony
Mobile Wallcast Concert: NWS Joins Jazz at Moca
Friday, April 25, 8 p.m., seating begins at 7:30 p.m.
Join New World Symphony for a vibrant evening of live jazz and visual art at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami.
New World Symphony’s Mobile WALLCAST® Concert Series returns to MOCA’s outdoor plaza with a special jazz performance featuring works from Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and many more, performed by NWS Fellows.
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Florida Grand Opera's "Carmen"
Ginger Costa-Jackson stars in Maria Todaro's reimaging of Bizet's "Carmen."
In Fort Lauderdale, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 24 and Saturday, April 26
Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale.
In Broward: $25 to $215
For information, call 800-741-1010 or go to fgo.org
Ocean Drive Promenade Series
5 p.m., Sunday, April 27
Melton Mustafa Jr. Quartet
Melton Mustafa Jr. is a three-time Grammy-nominated music educator and quarterfinalist. Born in Atlanta and raised in Miami, he began his musical journey in high school at Miami Carol City HS. Mustafa earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Florida A&M University, where he served as section leader of the saxophone section and head of the Dance Routine committee for the renowned Marching “100.” He performed at the Apollo Theatre and toured worldwide with the band.
The concert is free. Pack a picnic, bring a blanket or lawn chair to stake out your seat on the lawn.
Lummus Park between 14th Street and 14th Place. Rain location is inside The Besty Hotel.
Area Stage's Love for Luly: A Fundraising Cabaret
7 p.m., Friday, April 25
Area Stage is hosting a special fundraising cabaret performance for Luly Banda, the sister of Executive Director, Maria Banda-Rodaz. Luly has been diagnosed with an aggressive tumor, requiring a highly invasive brain surgery.
The event will feature performances by our Mainstage professionals, Conservatory students, and Inclusion Theatre Project actors.
In person, $35, live stream, $15. Tickets here.
5901 Sunset Drive, South Miami
DANCE
Miami City Ballet's "Carmen"
7:30 p.m., Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26. 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27. Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami; Also, 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 3, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale.
Miami City Ballet's Impromptu Pop-Up Series
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Miami City Ballet’s Impromptu Pop-Up performances bring the joy of ballet into the Miami Beach community, making the art accessible for all. These free performances feature new works choreographed and performed by MCB’s world-class company dancers, offering audiences a fresh way to experience ballet in a unique setting.
This year’s Impromptu Pop-Up series showcases original choreography by Alaina Andersen, Natalia Arja, Antonia Deprey, Ashley Knox, Sean Miller, Stanislav Olshanskyi, and Ariel Rose.
Free to attend, but RSVP required
Arts Ballet Theatre
Blending the enchanting worlds of ballet and opera, Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida’s final program for its 2024-25 season is an operatic journey through dance.
7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 26
Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, 3385 NE 188th St., Aventura
Broward Center for the Performing, 201 SW 5th Ave., Fort Lauderdale
For information, see the story at miamiartzine.com
THEATER
"Birthright" at Miami New Drama
April 3 through April 27
What begins as a reunion among old friends — once bound together by a Birthright trip to Israel— becomes, over the span of nearly two decades, an exploration of identity, memory, and what it means to belong. As these friends grow up and the world around them shifts in ways they could never have imagined, they find themselves confronting seismic questions: How do we carry the weight of history? How do we define who we are, and who we want to be? And what happens when the narratives we inherit no longer fit the lives we’re living?
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach.
ART
The Latin Art Core Gallery
Featuring the art of Latin American Artists including:
Roberto Matta - Chile
Tomas Sanchez - Cuba
Carlos Cruz Diez and Jesus Soto - Venezuela,
Julio Le Parc - Argentina
Fernando Botero - Colombia
Humberto Castro - Cuba
Wifredo Lam - Cuba
2646 SW 8th St., Miami
Information at latinartcore.com
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
José Parlá: Homecoming
Through July 6
"José Parlá: Homecoming," the artist's first solo museum exhibition in his hometown. Featuring a new series of never-before-seen works and a site-specific mural, the exhibition is an elaborate, two-part exhibition that will allow visitors to observe Parlá’s dance-like technique in real time as he paints a site-specific mural for the first iteration of the exhibition. The second iteration will see the museum gallery transformed and converted into Parlá’s studio—a room full of paint-covered tables, a lively Cuban-inspired record collection, and decades of Parla’s archival memorabilia.
PAMM is located at 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami.
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum-FIU
Agustín Fernández
The Alluring Power of Ambiguity
Through Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026
Cuban-born Agustín Fernández (1928–2006) was a modern master, incorporating a non-dualistic visual language of figuration and abstraction. Juxtaposing anatomical images with subdued coloration, Fernández is an artist difficult to position within the color-saturated Cuban canon. His ambiguous forms are evocative of flesh and eros, represented through a monochromatic palette. Resonating with the broader modernist movement, Fernández’s work explores themes of exile, separation, and abandonment.
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University MMC, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami.
Information: 305-348-2890 or frost.fiu.edu
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Fairyland 2: Deeper, Darker
Alex Jovanovich, Alex Stark, Amber Cowan, An Ngoc Pham, Angela Fraleigh, Anya Kielar, Bridget Mullen, Darina Karpov, Elissa Bromberg, Graham Collins, Jennie Jieun Lee, Jessica Stoller, Johannes VanDerBeek, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Kate MacDowell, Leigh Barbier, Lindsay Montgomery, Lizzie Wright, Mala Iqbal, Marcelo Canevari, Marta Thoma Hall, Nicole Burko, Ornella Pocetti, Rebecca Morgan, Robin Schavoir, Sara VanDerBeek, Sarah Peters, Ut Petit, Valerie Hegarty, Vera Iliatova
Curated by Valerie Hegarty
Mindy Solomon Gallery, 848 NW 22nd St., Miami
Info at mindysolomon.com
Jewish Museum of Florida
"Kosher Kush"
The Story of Jews and Cannabis is a fascinating exhibition exploring the historical and cultural ties between Jewish communities and cannabis. From ancient practices to modern-day activism and entrepreneurship, discover the untold stories of this unique connection.
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach
For information, call 305-672-5044.
Imagining Otherwise
Exhibitions should not necessarily be fixed; they have the potential for change. To explore this idea, Primary is engaging in a reflective process of exhibition-making. The exhibition will initially comprise three pre-existing works by artists Ashley Holmes, Jasleen Kaur, and Jala Wahid, before it is transformed.
Primary, 7410 NW Miami Court, Miami
Info at thisisprimary.com
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