In-Depth Coverage By Miami's Top Arts Journalists
Once again, nearly 100 arts executives gathered at the Arsht Center for the Miami Arts Marketing Conference. The event is the kick-off to the Miami Arts Marketing Project Series hosted by the Arts & Business Council of Miami. At the conference, arts executives and entrepreneurs spent the day learning from local and national experts representing a spectrum of industries on
Program is presented in collaboration with Artburst Miami The final two programs of FAN Fare: Made in Miami, a comprehensive lecture series presented
Recently the Emerging Arts Leaders of Miami hosted Seraphic Fire’s leadership as the guest speakers at their monthly breakfast talks. The morning event was held at the Lightbox at Goldman Warehouse
Coming back to Miami for YoungArts Week was easy for actor Santino Fontana. He was the 2000 YoungArts winner in Theater and had returned already twice before during the significant week. This year, he was already in Miami to perform
Actor, New World School of the Arts alumni and teacher Eddie Brown is a proud graduate of both DePaul University in Chicago and Yale University School of Drama. His road to acting began as early as middle school, where he ended up in a theater class by pure chance. Eddie’s path eventually led to the professional stage, where he has appeared in numerous top-notch productions – most recently the acclaimed “Topdog/Underdog” from Zoetic Stage at the Arsht Center — but he still has the dream of performing Shakespeare one day. We caught up with him recently. Artburst: Tell us about your journey to the stage, when did you first know this was your passion and path? Eddie Brown: My journey was sort of a fluke. I was in middle school and I was in visual art at Rainbow Park and although I didn’t get into the magnet at Norland [Middle
The hilarious and oftentimes poignant storylines of the 1970s surprise hit sitcom “¿Qué Pasa, USA?” have had such an enduring effect on the Miami community that they’ve brought it back. Except this time, it’s 40 years later and will be set on the Arsht Center stage as a play instead of on television. Set to debut there on May 17, several of the show’s cast are reprising their roles for “¿Qué Pasa, USA?” and were on hand at the press
The Chapman Conference Center at Miami-Dade College’s Wolfson Campus was abuzz on the first night of the Book Fair as fans eagerly awaited the arrival of award-winning author, poet, singer/songwriter Patti Smith. She was the final speaker of the Evenings With kick-off evening, and as Mitchell Kaplan, the Miami Book Fair’s founder and owner of Books & Books introduced the iconic artist, the room had filled to capacity. As she made her way up to
The Knight Arts Challenge has made a huge impact in the arts community in Miami in the past decade. Since its formation in 2007, the Knight Foundation’s initiative to support local projects that enhance the cultural experience, has doled out $122 million dollars in grants to 335 projects. If you’ve seen poetry in unexpected places
Life in Miami can be a unique experience and for 107 days, the New World Symphony gathered stories via video and audio from 1,000 Miamians as part of their Project 305 initiative. Those stories come to life in the film Miami in Movements, set to music by New World Symphony and screening at the New