Downtown Miami

Miami’s biggest annual event celebrating and kicking off the Arts Season. A day of fun and discovery: family activities, mini performances, a community arts village of more than 100 arts and cultural organizations, chef demonstrations, food, live bands, DJs and more. Plus: the majority of the Arsht Center’s season will go on sale for individual show tickets for the first time. More events will be announced … +

Over the course of more than 30 years, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi; lives in New York) has examined prevailing assumptions about race and identity through an interdisciplinary practice that combines film, installation, sculpture, and performance. His much-celebrated 2016 video Love is the Message, the Message is Death (recently acquired by Pérez Art Museum Miami through the PAMM Collectors Council) captures … +

This exhibition presents a selection of approximately 25 paintings by Miami-based artist Lynne Gelfman. The selection includes several works from PAMM’s permanent collection and examples from as early as the 1970s, while focusing primarily on paintings produced over the last two decades. Interested in exploring various forms of mark-making and patterning techniques, Gelfman produces in series, using acrylic and flash paint on both canvas and … +

The Arsht Center is thrilled to announce the 11th season of JAZZ ROOTS which brings jazz legends from around the globe to our own Knight Concert Hall – acclaimed as one of the most acoustically superb concert halls of our age! LEONARD BERNSTEIN 100 AND BEYOND November 9, 2018 at 8 p.m. Ann Hampton Callaway, Jon Secada, Kirk Whalum and the Henry … +

Lior has traveled the world with his highly successful show where he performs extraordinary displays of telepathy and telekinesis with audience participation. Lior had multiple guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Show and has done television appearances with James Corden, Kim Kardashian, Larry King, Zac Efron and many others. He is an incredible showman; his live performance is mind-blowing, … +

Back by popular demand, this one-woman tour-de-force performance brings more than 20 Latina women to glorious life on stage by weaving together tales of love, marriage, immigration, and identity through eclectic stories and whimsical song! A collaboration between Zoetic Stage Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer and highly celebrated, three-time Carbonell Award-winning Cuban-American actress Elena María García, ¡FUÁCATA! or a Latina’s Guide to Surviving … +

SIRO-A: Techno Circus fuses mime, ground-breaking visual effects, and a techno soundtrack to create a whole new entertainment!.The group were semi-finalists and Golden Buzzer Winners on Season 10 of America’s Got Talent. SIRO-A has broken the world’s language barrier with their “non-verbal” performance art and physical theatre to communicate and dazzle audiences across generations. It is the ultimate expression of the collaboration … +

WAR is a world-renowned American funk band best known for the hit songs “Spill the Wine,” “Why Can’t We Be Friends?,” “Low Rider,” and many more. WAR’s lively mix of funk, rock, Latin, reggae, jazz and R&B and message of brotherhood and harmony made them one of the greatest bands of all time. Known as the original street band, WAR was brought … +

Do visible borders define one’s homeland? Exile breaks up families, and years of separation produce the mirage of a reunion. Because without love we would have no homeland. Nowhere in the world would we fit, except there, where it is.

Miami, USA
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by Abel González Melo Directed by Mario Ernesto Sánchez Carnival Studio Theater The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts 1300 … +

The first design exhibition scheduled in the MDC Museum of Art and Design after its April 2018 reopening, By the People: Designing a Better America will explore the challenges faced by urban, suburban and rural communities in the U.S. and its bordering countries. Based on more than two years of field research this exhibition presents collaborative designs for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable communities.  Featuring … +

Alone and confined, a woman prepares to defend herself in a trial that turns out to be a travesty. Assailed by memory and delirium, she tells us her story. The setting is Uruguay in the late 19th century, in the midst of political and family wars. Montevideo, URUGUAY LA INCAPAZ Author: Carlos María Domínguez Directed by Cecilia Baranda Carnival Studio Theater The … +

Freely adapted version of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba. Dance-theatre rendered in flamenco and contemporary dance. A widow decrees eight years of mourning for her five daughters. In an atmosphere of authoritarianism, repression and desire, the drama is unfold. Written and directed by/ Escrita y dirigida por Rosa Luisa Márquez Choreography by / Coreografía de Jeanne D’Arc Casas Carnival … +

Singer, songwriter, composer, producer and Grammy Award-winning Lalo Rodríguez will join Plena Libre for some of his greatest hits including the fan favorite “Ven, devórame otra vez.” Captivating and moving audiences over the course of a 25-year, 16-album career, this fine-tuned Puerto Rican-based ensemble of virtuoso musicians has only gotten better with age, as evidenced by their four Grammy nominations. Plena Libre … +

In celebration of “Juneteenth,” PAMM collaborates with National Museum of  African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to host a screening of Papa Machete (2014, dir. Jonathan David Kane) and H-2 Worker (1990, dir. Stephanie Black). A conversation between documentary filmmaker Stephanie Black; writer, musician, and filmmaker Jason Fitzroy Jeffers; and guest curator for NMAAHC Michelle Materre will follow the screenings, touching upon … +

Salsa singer, songwriter, composer, producer and Grammy Award-winning Lalo Rodríguez will join Plena Libre for some of his greatest hits including the fan favorite “Ven, devórame otra vez.”

Captivating and moving audiences over the course of a 25-year, 16-album career, this fine-tuned Puerto Rican-based ensemble of virtuoso musicians has only gotten better with age, as evidenced by their four Grammy nominations. Plena Libre … +

For those who love the game of soccer or want to learn more about it. Professor Laurent Dubois, specialist on Haiti and the Caribbean within the transatlantic frame and authority on all things fútbol, will join us to close out the fourth year of the Scholl Lecture Series. Dubois will reflect on the work of artists from PAMM’s special exhibition, The World’s … +

CCEMiami presents the first solo show by Cuban artist Rocio Garcia, Beyond eroticism -curated by Elvia Rosa Castro- this exhibition is part of the program Out in the Tropics by FUNDarte. Conceived as a representative compilation of Garcia’s work, this show includes paintings from different career stages of the artist, coming since mid-1990s to the present. The human body, eroticism, homoeroticism, and … +

The pioneering southern hip-hop group is one of the most celebrated rap acts to come out of Atlanta. Their debut album, Soul Food (1995) is a classic which received national recognition for the hit songs “Cell Therapy,” “Soul Food” and “Dirty South” which reached the #1, #7 and #8 positions respectively on the Hot Rap Singles chart on Billboard. Goodie Mob’s music … +

Local Views at PAMM gives visitors a first-hand interaction with local artists by creating conversations centered around art and the creative process. This casual 30-minute conversation is offered on the fourth Thursday of each month. Jamilah Sabur works across various disciplines including performance, video, and installation. Sabur was born in Saint Andrew, Jamaica and received her MFA in Visual Arts from University … +

Did you know that Miami hosted the first East Coast rock festival? From May 18-19, 1968, the Miami Pop Festival took place at Gulfstream Park and featured legendary performers like Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry, and others. HistoryMiami Museum features this historic festival through an exhibition of rare photographs by Ken Davidoff, archival footage, and artifacts that illuminate the story of … +

Miami Dade College opens the highly anticipated Kislak Center at MDC’s National Historic Landmark Freedom Tower. The exhibition Kislak Center: Culture and Change in the Early Americas was made possible by a donation by the Jay I. Kislak Foundation and assembled over the course of many decades, the Kislak collection, considered one of the most important of its kind in the United … +