Events: April 1, 2023
Women's Choreographic Voices - The Rising
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 at 7:30 PM - English

This April, Peter London Global Dance Company, together with Sanctuary of the Arts, present a one-of-a-kind, electrifying dance concert of new and repertory works featuring women choreographers and musicians.
THE RISING will celebrate its 7th annual season with two world premieres from Miami choreographers Kashia Kancey from Overtown and Brooke Skye Logan from Pinecrest and new company production Que Se Enquentra Los Arabales by Melissa Verdecia. Each artist will deliver their unique & powerful choreographic voice in their new work accompanied by commissioned scores from Miami composers.
Repertory: Steppe Tango - Calle Florida Buenos Aires - Argentina.
NOTICE: our ADA Bathrooms are undergoing renovation at this time.
Location
Sanctuary of the Arts
410 Andalusia Ave,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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Dolphin Mall Celebrates Easter with Family-Friendly Activities
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 at 11:00 AM - English

With spring just around the corner, Dolphin Mall - Miami-Dade County's largest outlet and retail value shopping center with more than 240 stores - invites locals to experience the official arrival of the Easter Bunny on Friday, March 24, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Kids can enjoy complimentary face painting and canvas painting every Saturday starting March 25- April 8 from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
To continue the Easter celebration, Dolphin Mall is partnering with Cherry Hill Programs to host Photos with the Easter Bunny from March 24 - April 9. Various package options will be available, and participants will receive a FREE gift with their purchase while supplies last. Please note that reservations are limited and walk-up visits are welcome.
Location
Dolphin Mall
11401 NW 12th Street,,
Miami,
FL
33172
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Ponce, Schoenfield and Hernandez at The Betsy Hotel
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM - English

- Manuel Ponce Trio romantico for violin, cello and piano (1926)
- Paul Schoenfield Cafe Music (1985)
- Jose Luis Hernandez Azulín (2022)
Our first international cultural exchange, Music in Motion: Mexico City, performing piano trios by Manuel Enriquez, Paul Schoenfield and Jose Luis Hernandez, ends in south Florida. Joining us is Carlos Adriel Salmeron, a renowned figure and active pianist in Mexico.
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Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (1882-1948) was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore. Many of his compositions are strongly influenced by the harmonies and form of traditional songs.
Paul Schoenfield (1947- ) “The idea to compose Café Music first came to me in 1985 after sitting in one night for the pianist at Murray’s Restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Murray’s employs a house trio which plays entertaining dinner music in a wide variety of styles. My intention was to write a kind of high-class dinner music — music which could be played at a restaurant, but might also (just barely) find its way into a concert hall. The work draws on many of the types of music played by the trio at Murray’s. For example, early 20th century American, Viennese, light classical, gypsy, and Broadway styles are all represented. A paraphrase of a beautiful Chassidic melody is incorporated in the second movement. Café Music was commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) and received its premiere during a SPCO chamber concert in January 1987.” (Art of the States).
Jose Luis Hernandez earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida-New World School of the Arts, studying composition with Susan Epstein Garcia, and is currently working on his Master’s degree at Berklee College of Music, Boston. As a composer and pianist, Mr. Hernandez has received numerous recognitions for his works such as: 1st prize at the Robert Avalon International Composition Competition for Composers-Emerging Artist division (Houston, 2020); two times 1st prize at the Jane Pyle Composition Competition at Miami Dade College (Miami, 2015 and 2016); and 3rd prize-Level 5 at the Silvia Eisenstein National Piano Competition at EEMMAL (Caracas, 2011).
Location
The Gallery @ The Betsy Hotel
1433 Collins Avenue,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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Birds of Paradise by Pioneer Collective
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 at 8:00 PM - English

Birds of Paradise honors and celebrates the enduring nature of queer and marginalized people to shape themselves into something that is desirable, vulnerable, fierce and reborn. This will be the third iteration of this series by Miami-based choreographer Pioneer Winter, who continues exploration of beauty and virtuosity outside the mainstream. Birds of Paradise is iridescent and effortful. It is a provocative, immersive piece perched between fight and flight. Featuring film, installation and live dance performance.
Location
Sandrell Rivers Theater
6101 NW 7th Ave Suite 79,
Miami,
FL
33127
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I Wanna F*#%ing Tear You Apart
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 at 8:00 PM - English

Samantha and Leo are a team best friends, roommates, allies against the world until a new friend enters and upends their co-dependent world of mutual self-loathing and Grey's Anatomy marathons. A play about the nature of friendships in all of its f@#ked up forms, with a special shout-out to the kind of love that sometimes looks like a lot of rage.
Performances run Thursday to Sunday.
Location
Island City Stage
2304 N. Dixie Hwy,
Wilton Manors,
FL
33305
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Bright Star
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 at 8:00 PM - English

Music, Book and Story by Steve Martin
Music, Lyrics and Story by Edie Brickell
Inspired by a true story and featuring the Tony®-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ’40s. With beautiful melodies and powerfully moving characters, the story unfolds as a rich tapestry of deep emotion. An uplifting theatrical journey that holds you tightly in its grasp, Bright Star is as refreshingly genuine as it is daringly hopeful.
Location
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
280 Miracle Mile,
Coral Gables,
FL
33134
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Defacing Michael Jackson
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 at 8:00 PM - English

A World Premiere Play and coming-of-age tale filled with comedy and epic music written by Miami-native and Award-winning Playwright Aurin Squire and Directed by Shaun Patrick Tubbs.
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Thriller, the Pepsi fire, drug wars, and a white family moving into a Black neighborhood:
It’s 1984 and we are in Miami Dade County’s Opa-Locka and life is about to get a whole lot more confusing for a group of kids who want to be the ‘King of Pop.’ Defacing Michael Jackson is about growing up, hero worship, and how we see ourselves.
Why Defacing Michael Jackson?
Defacing Michael Jackson will be our fourth world premiere with Aurin Squire. He is not only a Miami native who is an extremely sought after screenwriter and playwright, he is a flagship for Miami New Drama and an essential part of our DNA. This play is all about Miami in Aurin’s native Opa Locka and blends a coming of age story and sexual discovery with a backdrop of social and racial unrest. It is deeply moving, spectacular with masterful storytelling. We are extremely proud to be doing the world premiere of this play and continue our commitment to Aurin as an artist.
Location
Colony Theater
1040 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach,
FL
33139
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My Fair Lady
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 various times - English

From Lincoln Center Theater, which brought you The King & I and South Pacific, comes “a sumptuous new production of the most perfect musical of all time” (Entertainment Weekly), Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY. Director Bartlett Sher’s glowing production is “thrilling, glorious and better than it ever was” (The New York Times). “Every so often, a revival comes along that reminds you how indispensable great theater can be” (NY1).
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Boasting such classic songs as “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “The Rain in Spain,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” and “On the Street Where You Live,” MY FAIR LADY tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform her into his idea of a “proper lady.” But who is really being transformed?
Broadway on Biscayne – “I Could Have Danced All Night” offers audiences the opportunity to learn how to waltz, just as Eliza Doolittle did. The class will be led by Tone Jacobsen, a former national ballroom dance champion of Norway.
Admission is free with a ticket to the performance of My Fair Lady on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
The dance workshop will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the Thomson Plaza for the Arts. Limited spaces are available.
While supplies last, participants will receive a complimentary glass of Pommery champagne and a lavender lemon cookie.
Location
Adrienne Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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Marisol: By José Rivera
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM - English

Winner of the 1993 Obie Award. An apocalyptic urban fantasy which urges society to "wake up" and somehow find a way to recover the long-lost and much-needed compassion for our fellow man, as this is the only way to save our world.
General Admission $12, Students & Seniors $5.
Location
Louise O. Gerrits Theater
25 NE 2 Street, 8th Floor,
Miami,
FL
33132
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Good Miami Project
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 at 10:00 AM - English

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County (@arshtcenter) is pleased to present the Good Miami Project (@goodmiami) exhibit, a visual arts project showcasing 60 pieces of art produced by artist Greg Clark.
The passion project, inspired by Clark's volunteer experience with Overtown Music Project and Miami Waterkeeper, started in 2020, and highlights all the good that happens in Miami with 40 different nonprofit organizations. The pieces are on display in the lobbies of the Arsht Center's Knight Concert Hall and Ziff Ballet Opera House, marking the largest exhibit of Clark's work.
Location
Adrienne Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami,
FL
33132
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Everything, Earth and Sky: An Exhibition of Haitian Art
Saturday, Apr 1, 2023 various times - English

The Frost Art Museum is home to one of the largest collections of Haitian paintings from the 1980’s and 1990’s in the United States. This exhibition and accompanying catalog are a part of the museum’s ongoing efforts to make its collection accessible through research and digitization. A group of dynamic scholars in the area of Haitian art, helped develop the exhibition’s focus around the artists’ varied use of space.
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The exhibition also includes contemporary Haitian American artists, Vanessa Charlot, Mark Delmont, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Mark Fleuridor, Madjeen Isaac, Abigail Lucien, and Asser Saint-Val as well as paintings from the collection by Gerard Fortuné, Alexandre Gregoire, Maxan Jean-Louis, Eddy Myrthil, and Fritzner Obner, among others.
Everything, Earth and Sky highlights a theme prevalent in Haitian art, the depiction of space. From schools, communal plazas, and government buildings to Haiti’s fauna and the ever-present ocean, these works depict different interpretations of physical space and the use of public places. Some works clearly relate contemporary political challenges in Haiti and others portray the rich and varied iconography of Vodou.
This exhibition has been made possible with generous support from the Green Family Foundation, Island TV, PNC Bank, and Comprehensive Medical Aesthetics.
Location
Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
10975 SW 17th Street,
Miami,
FL
33199
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