Festivals

Miami Chamber Music Society (MCMS) curates and produces The Mainly Mozart Festival, considered one of the most beloved chamber music series in Miami, now in its 24th season. Mainly Mozart presents outstanding local and visiting classical artists in concert. Youth and Love -the fourth concert of the festival- brings soprano Ariadne Greif, praised by the NYTimes for her “luminous, expressive voice”. Greif … +

The 6th Edition of the festival will show a variety of works and will encourage viewers to investigate performance art and Noise artistic influence and contributions to our visual and sound culture and will provide the viewer with a unique performance and sound experience beyond the realm of traditional art. A four-days long interdisciplinary complex multileveled platform which will include videos of … +

America’s Short Play Festival returns in 2017 with an all new line up of the best ten-minute plays and amazing mini-musicals in the country. Considered Florida’s Best Summer Show! it celebrates the diversity of Miami through laughter starring a company of South Florida theatre all-stars. This season features all new collection of scripts penned by the country’s best writers including the hilarious … +

Out In The Tropics 2017 is a weeklong performing arts series featuring artists who tackle issues of gender politics, sexuality, and LGBTQ identity. Now in its eighth year, this provocative program series runs in Miami Beach. It will present four distinct national and international artists including concerts at the Gleason Room at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Out in the Tropics also features … +

The MiFo LGBT Film Festival is a bi-annual film festival with a mission to inspire and educate the public encouraging a sense of community through international and culturally diverse film, video and other media that offer historical and contemporary perspectives on the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience. This year the festival opening night will screen Handsome Devil(2016). Ohter films included are: … +

The 11th Annual All Kids Included Family Arts Festival provides a full day of activities and cultural experiences for children with and without disabilities. This event will include: productions by Magic Morgan and Miami Childrens Theater’s Beauty and the Beast; music and performers inside and outside ASL storytelling; face painting, rock wall and food; free surprises and book giveaway of Misty Copeland’s … +

Broward College brings the Fringe Festival back to South Florida for the third year in a row. The three-day event is set to be held on Friday April 21st – Sunday, April 23rd. This diverse, cutting-edge, and uncensored live theater event aims to fuse the art scene with the local community by bringing the true nature of creation to the stage and … +

Spoken Soul Festival 2017 Kick-Off Event SWAN Community Program: “Speak Your Soul” Every year SSF has chosen a community organization that would benefit from arts programming as part of the Spoken Soul Festival SWAN Community Program. Past organizations include ASPIRA Muchachos & Muchahcas Conference, Boys & Girls Club, DASH Film Club, Miami Art Studio & Artoconecto, SafeSpace, and Little Haiti Cultural Center’s … +

The music festival offers young Miami Beach-based artists an opportunity to perform live for a large audience on a professional stage. Popular Latin funk band Locos Por Juana headlines the night, with lead-up sets by these selected young artists: Miami Beach High Rock Ensemble, Just Billy, Arrow Head, Monet, Avalanche, Flotilla, Glimpse, Ripcord, River Friedman. Free Admission North Beach Bandshell 7275 Collins … +

Google Talks return to Miami Film Festival 2017. The series addressing gender + racial gaps in the film industry will feature: Tilane Jones, Sarah Gadon, Rebecca Theodore-Vachon, Radhika Vaz & Nadia P Manzoor. #MiamiFFXGoogle Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:00am-12:30pm: Tilane Jones Tilane Jones- (Selma Movie) the executive director of ARRAY an independent film distribution collaborative, that aims at disrupting the current model … +

Returning to Miami following his critically-acclaimed debut in 2014, Jesús Carmona and his company of 11 dancers, musicians and vocalists perform an innovative and emotionally charged program created by Carmona. Titled Impetus (“bursting with energy”), the piece stars Carmona, who also choreographs and directs this powerful dance interpretation of the most famous scores from Spain’s beloved composers, including Albéniz, Riqueni and Escudero. … +

Seven Fun-Filled Themed Weekends, Variety of Acts & Performances From goblets to swords, the Florida Renaissance Festival embraces the spirit of its “silver” anniversary with an impressive display of radiance and brilliance! The landmark 25th season of the Florida Renaissance Festival will take place from February 11 to March 26, 2017 at Deerfield Beach’s Quiet Waters Park (401 S Powerline Rd, Deerfield … +

PAMM will screen eight short dance works created for the camera as part of Festival ScreenDance Miami. This year’s films were selected by a panel of four screen dance experts. Heidi Latsky’s film Soliloquy will be on view in the Vattikuti Learning Theater in conjunction with ScreenDance Miami programming. Films: Exquisite Corps by Mitchell Rose Mon Corps a Dos by Gaëlle Hannebicque … +

2017 Festival of the Arts BOCA on its 11th Season will feature stars from all over the world, from Brazil to Indonesia to Mexico and the United States, and famous music from the most beloved films and opera, by the world’s greatest composers. Mar 3, 2017, 7 PM Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis joining The Symphonia, Boca Raton conducted by Constantine Kitsopoulos, … +

University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and presenting sponsor UHealth, announce the spectacular lineup of the 33rd annual Festival Miami! From January 19 to February 11th, 2017 the festival will offer unique concert programs performed by Grammy Award-winners, Broadway performers, chart topping DJs, and acclaimed musicians, in the intimate UM Maurice Gusman Concert hall on the Coral Gables campus. Each year, … +

IV Miami Music Festival from around the World starts with a concert by Miami Chamber Players. They will play Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in g minor, and the Piano Trio in B Major, Op.8. In its original form, the B major Trio is considered perhaps Brahms’ most Romantic creation revealing his fullness of heart. The Chamber Players for this concert are … +

A Celebration of Italian Opera and Zarzuela is an evening concert which program spans the Italian operatic masterpieces and rich Spanish zarzuela repertoire. Manny Perez Vocal Studio and Guest International Artist Soprano Eglise Gutiérrez join to sing a few surprises for the audience. Singers: Betsy Diaz, Hector Mir,Sydnee Waggoner, Daniel Aleeksenko, Raquel Rubi, Megan Barrera, Gerardo Ortega, Jennifer Zamorano, Katiuska Rodriguez, Stephanie … +

Sounds of Video Games is a concert featuring music from the greatest video games of all time. Full orchestra (Chorus and Full Screen Projector) and a choir will perform along with exclusive video footage and music arrangements, solo performers, electronic percussion, and interactive segments to create a one-of-a-kind experience. Music from Mario, Zelda, Halo, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger and Skyrim. … +

Fusing the spirituality of worship music with the technique of classically trained musicians, the group Opus Praise lends a new hip-hop flair to traditional sacred works. The band features the acoustic piano as main instrument accompanying two lead singers, acoustic instruments and a rock band. The Miami Music Festival from around the World hosts an extensive array of both contemporary and traditional … +

20 Concert Pianists are back on stage following the success of the Monster Piano Explosion last year, the 2nd edition is back to present a piano marathon recital that features and shows off the talent of some of the best pianists living in South Florida. Piano solos, four-hands, dueling two pianos and much more. The Miami Music Festival from around the World … +

Cutting edge performance of South American Contemporary ballet companies from Colombia, Chile & Venezuela never before seen in the US, and a Miami company will come together as a part of XXI International Ballet Festival of Miami 2016. The Festival waims to showcase the talent of the upcoming stars born and raised in our city of Miami. The Festival will present Ballet … +