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Imagine a spectacular, intricate blend of Eastern and Western musical traditions. In October, the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra presents this experience at concert halls across North America. “It is beyond anything I can put into words. It’s the most amazing, uplifting, spiritual journey.” – Margaux Brooks, executive film producer In its fourth concert season, the Symphony Orchestra will be performing at Carnegie … +

You Can Not Been Replaced is an exhibition by L.A. based artist and Locust Projects founder Elizabeth Withstandley. Is a two channel video installation that documents all 82 current and former members of the Dallas choral symphonic rock band, The Polyphonic Spree. The project began at the end of 2012 by shooting individual still portraits of all twenty-two of the current band … +

Cornell has continually redefined his sound and vision. He has forged his own unique identity over three decades as a Grammy award-winning, Golden Globe nominated singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and lyricist. Achieving multiplatinum success with three legendary bands – Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, and Audioslave – selling over 30 million records worldwide. Only the most confident would claim to predict exactly … +

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club has been touring the globe in different forms and combinations since 1997. They will take to the road one final time with a series of concerts and related cultural events that will celebrate the Orquesta’s storied journey as ambassadors for Cuban Music. Coming almost two decades after the release of the original Grammy-winning, self-titled LP, the new … +

Seraphic Fire opens their 14th Season (2015-2016) with New York-based period instrumental ensemble the Sebastians in a combination of contemporary and canon: a newly-commissioned work by young American composer Jake Runestad, along with Franz Schubert’s Mass in G Major. Oct 14, 2015, 7:30pm St. Sophia Cathedral (Miami) Oct 16, 2015, 7:30pm St. Philip’s Episcopal (Coral Gables) Oct 17, 2015, 8:00pm All Saints … +

Miami City Ballet on its 2015-2016 Season presents Swan Lake, the most famous of all ballets, its name practically synonymous with the art form. Miami City Ballet is excited to be bringing back to our audiences the glorious version of Acts Two and Four – the “white acts” – that George Balanchine created in 1951 for Maria Tallchief and New York City … +

The Miami Symphony Orchestra is proud to announce a spectacular 27th season (2015-2016) Opening featuring works by Mozart, Sibelius and Brahms. Celebrate Eduardo Marturet’s 10th season leading the Miami Symphony with one of Schubert’s most beloved orchestral works, his “Unfinished” Symphony, also MISO’s Composer-in-Residence Tulio Cremisini premieres his latest composition “Echoes”. The four upcoming concerts feature concertos for the piano, electric guitar … +

Celebrating City Theatre’s 20th Anniversary Season Shorts Gone Wild 3 brings eight stylistically diverse short plays to life. Presenting 6 actors, 8 playwrights and 4 directors. The plays in Shorts Gone Wild 3 explore sexual orientation and experimentation, where life choices lead, the ache of betrayal and more, through a combination of humor and truth. Aug 6 – Sep 6, 2015 Empire … +

Commissioned for one of PAMM’s project galleries, The Leisure Pit is a site-based installation encompassing a group of mixed-media sculptures, which the artist cast inside a swimming pool using an experimental process. The ensemble relates to Lobo’s interest in the intersections among cultural, technological, and corporeal systems of consumption. Lobo’s point of departure is a set of concrete forms derived from massive … +

This interdisciplinary work by Marjetica Potrč is an endeavor that centers on the kind of elevated, open-air structures commonly used as communal gathering spaces among Amazonian forest communities. Marjetica Potrč encompasses community-based, participatory projects, as well as gallery installations referencing architectural conditions. These installations represent local organic responses to universal material and social needs, including shelter, energy, water, and communication. Over the … +

On the anniversary of 9/11, a collective of local veterans take the stage in an original spoken word theater piece that is both powerful and humorous. The show, which features group and solo work, speaks to the vets’ process of transforming Post Traumatic Stress into Post Traumatic Growth. This fully-staged theatrical production is a commissioned work that grew out of an MDC … +

Issa will present a new body of works drawn from a larger series entitled Heritage Studies. Issa’s multimedia works explore the relationship between history, memory, language, and objects. Issa’s modest but beautifully crafted objects, short videos, snapshot-like photographs, and accompanying texts use language and juxtaposition to create ambiguous, but resonant tableaus. These sculptures represent a shift in scale for the artist and … +

The Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra presents the elegant and soothing music of imperial courts. Most of the concert features original works composed for Chinese instruments, leading the melody on top of a full Western orchestra. The concert features solo performances by a few of the world’s top classical Chinese singers. Traditional Chinese drama and early European opera shared the same singing technique, … +

UNTITLED (3 for 8), is an exhibition of sculptures and wall constructions by one of Miami’s most influential artists, Robert Thiele. The exhibition is organized by the Museum and curated by guest curator Tyler Emerson-Dorsch. There’s a quiet intensity that has marked Thiele’s artwork since he first arrived in Miami in 1966, who became an art instructor at Miami Dade College, where … +

Through this exhibition, MDC Museum of Art +Design pays tribute to one of Miami’s homegrown pioneers through a retrospective of pivotal works spanning his prolific career: Robert Huff. In 2014, the Miami art community mourned the great loss of Robert Huff, an exceptional artist and teacher to many. Spanning nearly fifty years, the two- and three-dimensional works in Robert Huff: 47 Years … +

This exhibition brings together the work of nine Aboriginal Australian artists: Paddy Bedford, Janangoo Butcher Cherel, Tommy Mitchell, Ngarra, Boxer Milner Tjampitjin, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Tjumpo Tjapanangvka, Billy Joongoorra Thomas, and Prince of Wales (Midpul). Each of these men is a leader within their community, their works explore complex and innovative modes of abstraction. Relating to cultural systems, religious beliefs, and social structures, … +

As a part of Locust Roundtables (site-specific work venue), the artist Jacqueline Falcone presents Bed and Breakfast. This piece embraces context and situation-specificity by placing artworks and exhibitions in the intimate setting of Falcone’s private bedroom. This roundtable invites us to consider the presentation of art outside of the traditional contexts of museums or galleries and the impact that has upon the … +

Cannonball Artist-in-Residence Christopher Cozier will speak about the potential free/play spaces that Caribbean artists are constantly imagining. As the established idea of the Caribbean—as a viable fiction; as a site of exchanges—is an old, owned product traded between various beneficiaries that predominantly seek to control and exclude, Caribbean artists generate defiant spaces that fall between categorizations and established properties. Resisting the on-going … +

In this Symposium Speaks event, filmmaker and multimedia artist Juan Carlos Zaldivar joins MFDP Program Manager Ronald Baez via Skype from L.A. to lead an in-depth discussion seeking to explore the concepts, structures, and exhibition design of a wide range of contemporary works, Baez and Zaldivar will lead an open discussion aimed towards understanding how the Internet may continue to be a … +

Cannonball Artist-in-Residence and current CIFO Grant and Commissions Award-winner Alice Miceli will present an artist’s talk on recent works that explore the phenomenon of impenetrable places that, even in our globalized world, remain somehow off the map. Introducing various works, including her current research into minefields, the talk will ultimately focus on a recent project centered on the creation of visualization patterns … +

Dimensions Variable presents Voleur (thief), a two day performance by Jamilah Sabur and Andy Robert for a performance each day. This performance is a tribute to Marie Vieux Chauvet who was a Haitian novelist, poet and playwright. Born and educated in Port-au-Prince, her most famous works are the novels Fille d’Haïti (1954), La Danse sur le Volcan (1957), Fonds des Nègres (1961), … +