In-Depth Coverage By Miami's Top Arts Journalists
The Betsy Hotel on South Beach is more than just a lovely oceanfront hotel on famed Ocean Drive, it’s also home to the PACE (Philanthropy, Arts, Culture and Education) Program, the only one of its kind. On any given day, visitors to The Betsy-South Beach may encounter an event that celebrates world culture, ranging from salons for an intimate audience
Attention artists of all disciplines: There’s an opportunity to receive as much as $1,000 toward your project thanks to the Artist Access Grants
Appropriately planned every April to coincide with National Poetry Month, the organizers of O, Miami are once again making it their goal to expose everyone in Miami-Dade to poetry of some
As the annual Dranoff Piano Slam readies to hit the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 13, the pianists Marteen van Veen and Bobby Mitchell will be joined by 16 middle and high
With just five years in existence, the expansion of O Cinema and their explosion onto the arthouse scene in Miami is impressive. Its creation was inspired by two friends who realized the lack of movie options in Miami and decided to do something about it. Co-founders Kareem Tabsch and Vivian Marthell, now co-directors of O Cinema, were traveling to Toronto and New York to see film that were not being shown in Miami. They found themselves missing time with friends and enjoying other aspects of Miami because of it so, rather than keep complaining, they took action. “We decided to be part of the solution and brazenly declared we were going to open a movie theater. We were committed to doing so even if that meant stapling a bed sheet to the wall as our movie screen and putting out folding chairs,” said Tabsch. Like with most other start up
Oftentimes it is too time consuming for arts organizations to venture into partnering with corporations. Their time is spent planning their seasons and on marketing and fundraising, but creating a business partnership can easily accomplish the last two. Proving this are Gold Coast Theatre Company and City Theatre, two long-standing groups that showcased their successful partnerships at the Arts & Business Council’s kick-off MAMP workshop. That month’s Miami Arts Marketing Project workshop theme was “Maximizing MAMP: Partnering with Business.” Jude
The Miami Dances blog features insight into traditional and nontraditional dance programs, performers and choreographers that make Miami’s dance scene special. In this post we feature, Kalyn James, an accomplished model, dancer and choreographer with more than 30 years of dance training. Kalyn has taught dance classes at In Motion Dance, Dance Exchange, Sixth Street Dance Studio and is currently teaching ballet-based fitness classes at Iron Flower Fitness Miami. She is the Emmy award-nominated host
Miami Dances features insight into traditional and nontraditional dance programs, performers and choreographers that make Miami’s dance scene special. In this post we feature, Pioneer Winter, choreographer and director of Pioneer Winter // Collective. He founded the Collective in 2011, a company that showcases interdisciplinary collaboration, transmedia, physical theatre and contemporary artist. He is also
Wanting to honor his dance mentor, Daniel Lewis, a legend in Miami’s dance community and former Dean of the New World School of the Arts dance department, is offering master classes in the Limon Technique — forged by the modern dance pioneer José Limon — to the general public. Lewis has been teaching outside of