Miami Events
Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Katharine DeShaw
February 23rd 2012, 12:05 pmat Girls' Club (Ft. Lauderdale)
Girls' Club and the Broward Cultural Division invites artists, gallery owners and creative entrepreneurs to hear Katharine DeShaw, executive director of United States Artists, discuss artist opportunities including USA Projects and USA Fellows. United States Artists (USA) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to investing in America's finest artists and to illuminating the value of artists to society. USA Projects is the first microphilanthropy site dedicated exclusively to artists living and working in the United States. With a funding success rate of 75 percent, USA Projects has raised more than $1.84 million in funded projects.
Vintage Salon @ Lester's
February 23rd 2012, 6:00 pmat Lester's
Join us for a one night vintage salon of Lester's!!! Vintage pieces from Missoni, Versace, Fendi, Eitienne Aigner, Thierry Mugler, Spazio and more... Shop pieces from the 1920's thru the early 90's in a range from fun thrift finds to rare designer pieces. The collection has been sourced from stylists and vintage collectors from around the country and will only be available for this one night, so don't miss out. Can you think of anything better to do on a Thursday night?!
MOOMBAHTON OVER MIAMI V
February 23rd 2012, 10:00 pmat The Vagabond
((SHAKE))) PRESENTS MOOMBAHTON OVER MIAMI V // Moombahsoul // Moombahcore // Moombahton RESIDENT DJs A-TRAIN//ROBB RIGGS IN THE PATIO THE SMOKE-OUT BBQ WITH MARY & MO $1 COLT 45 TALLBOYS 10-11PM + $5 CUBA LIBRE (RUM+COKE) ALL NIGHT. DOORS OPEN 10PM. DO YOUR JOB. RSVP TO SHAKE305@GMAIL.COM FOR COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSION BEFORE 11PM (MUST BE 21+).
PhilanthroFest Launch Party and Fundraiser!
February 24th 2012, 5:00 pmat The Stage
Miami Crawls and Life Is Art present the PhilanthroFest Launch Party and Fundraiser! Music! Art! Networking! Happy Hours! 2 for 1 drinks till 10pm! $10 donation goes to fund PhilanthroFest. Charities: Giving The Green Light, Youth L.E.A.D, AmeriCorps Alums Miami, Casa Valentina, Project NEST (Stand Up for Kids), Catalyst Miami Artists: Audrey Scott, Jacklyn Laflamme, Don Hall, Wendy Marani Hall, James Brutus, Ricardo Colugnatti Join us for a fabulous evening of fun and comraderie! Bringing together business, philanthropy and art. Just $10 for 5 hours of 2 for 1 drinks. All the money goes to PhilanthroFest to support non-profit organizations in south Florida. Plus, stay late for a live performance by Locos por Juana! Special Thanks to Fabulous Miami for their Support! And Thanks to The Stage for hosting!
Full spectrum Dominance Opening @ Carol Jazzar
February 24th 2012, 7:00 pmat Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art
A two person exhibition featuring drawings by Conor McGrady and sculptures by Roberto Visani, both Brooklyn based artists, 'Full spectrum Dominance' considers the manifestation of dominance in global politics. Through the use of reductive strategies and familiar icons, both artists reveal distinct elements of the economic, cultural and political brutalities that surround us. This will be the first exhibit at the gallery for both artists who will be in attendance for the opening reception on Friday, February 24th, 2012.
FRIDAYS Welcomes CRITICAL MASS Featuring DEAF POETS (Live)
February 24th 2012, 10:00 pmat The Vagabond
FRIDAYS AT THE VAGABOND IN CAHOOTS WITH SWEAT RECORDS WELCOME CRITICAL MASS RIDERS WITH DEAF POETS (LIVE). NO COVER BEFORE 11PM. $1 PBR TALLBOYS // $5 VODKA+CRAN 10PM-12PM. $3 PBR TALLBOYS AFTER MIDNIGHT. $5 PBJ (PBR + JAGER / JACK SHOT) ALL NIGHT OFF THE RADAR BAR ROOM WITH RAY MILIAN + SPECIAL GUEST. MAIN ROOM ELECTRO-DANCE MAGIC BY NEVER YAWN + RUN SEVIM RUN. IN THE GARDEN DJ NITEBLOOM + THE SMOKE-OUT BBQ WITH MARY AND MO. DOORS OPEN 10PM. GARDEN OPENS 11PM. TABLE RESERVATIONS: RESERVATIONS@THEVAGABONDMIAMI.COM MORE INFORMATION: INFO@THEVAGABONDMIAMI.COM
Chick Flicks: The Woodmans
February 25th 2012, 7:00 pmat Girls' Club (Ft. Lauderdale)
Join us for an evening screening and informal dialogue as we spotlight the cinematic treatments of contemporary female artists with the documentary The Woodmans (2010) and Samantha Salzinger's short film Ascension (2011). Emmy-Award winning director Scott Willis' documentary The Woodmans follows artists Betty and George Woodman balancing the demands of artmaking with grief over their young photographer daughter's suicide. Full of ambiguities and rich explorations of self-portraiture and the body, the small, intimate body of photographic work left behind by Francesca Woodman is revered in the art world. Samantha Salzinger's works explore fabricated environments where reality is as malleable as a simulation as lifelike as reality. Screening begins at 7pm, followed by the FAT Village ArtWalk, from 7- 11pm. View Woodman family's work at Gallery Diet in Wynwood in the four-person exhibition, The Woodmans, Feb 17. - March 31.
DANCE GROOVES WITH MARCO CASTRO (MIA) + DEEPA GROOVES WITH BRIAN BURNSIDE
February 25th 2012, 10:00 pmat The Vagabond
HOSTED BY BACK DOOR BAMBY FEATURING LIVE AND IN THE FLESH…BAMBY’S NOTORIOUS SEX KITTENS & NAUGHTY MISFITS. COMPLIMENTARY ABSOLUTE VODKA COCKTAILS 10-11PM. RESIDENT DJS RAY MILIAN//RYAN EVANS//CARMEL OPHIR. IN THE GARDEN DJ WASABI & THE SMOKE-OUT BBQ WITH MARY AND MO. DOORS OPEN AT 10PM. COME AS YOU ARE. TABLE RESERVATIONS: RESERVATIONS@THEVAGABONDMIAMI.COM MORE INFORMATION: INFO@THEVAGABONDMIAMI.COM
Pecha Kucha Miami @ Alliance Francaise
February 28th 2012, 6:00 pmat Alliance Francaise
On Tuesday, February 28th from 6-8PM at the French Alliance just west of downtown on Calle Ocho, Pecha Kucha Miami will feature six local speakers whose computer animation, motion graphics, and programming skills are nationally and internationally recognized. Presenters: Diana Arrambide, Alex Furer, Kenny Dayhoff, Sebastian Alvarez, Daniel Munoz, Arantxa Vaillant
(((Shake))) Welcomes ¡MAYDAY!
March 1st 2012, 10:00 pmat The Vagabond
RESIDENT DJs A-TRAIN//ROBB RIGGS. IN THE PATIO THE SMOKE-OUT BBQ WITH MARY & MO $1 COLT 45 TALLBOYS 10-11PM + $5 CUBA LIBRE (RUM+COKE) ALL NIGHT. DOORS OPEN 10PM. DO YOUR JOB. RSVP TO SHAKE305@GMAIL.COM FOR COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSION BEFORE 11PM (MUST BE 21+).
Rough Draft @ Tempo Live
March 1st 2012, 8:00 pmat Tempo Live (Hollywood)
Live Art | Live Music | Creative People | Amazing Time Every first Thursday at Tempo Live! Rough Draft Inc. combines Live music with impromptu art to create a mind blowing experience that draws in every angle of the creative soul! The March Edition of Rough Draft will feature LIVE performances by Grammy Award winning producer/writer Rico Love's Division 1 Artist Cherlise as well as Defyne Entertainment's Anthem Banger. We will also screen the trailer of the Dandelion Films, Russell Simmons produced documentary Lemon about three-time felon, Tony Award winning poet Lemon Anderson and immediately following the screening we will host a virtual Q & A with the producers of the film and Lemon himself.
'Indigènes' screening @ Alliance Francaise
March 2nd 2012, 6:45 pmat Alliance Francaise
Indigènes (128 min), directed Rachid Bouchareb, R, 2007 with Samy Nacéri, Roschdy Zem, Bernard Blancan, Sami Bouajila,Jamel Debbouze. Algeria, 1943, through Italy and France, to Alsace in early 1945, with a coda years later. Arabs volunteer to fight Nazis to liberate France, their motherland. We follow Saïd, dirt poor, an orderly for a grizzled sergeant, Martinez, a pied noir with some willingness to speak up for his Arab troops; Messaoud, a crack shot, who in Province falls in love with a French woman who loves him back; and Abdelkader, a corporal, a budding intellectual with a keen sense of injustice. The men fight with courage against a backdrop of small and large indignities: French soldiers get better food, time for leave, and promotions. Is the promise of liberty, equality, and fraternity hollow? Twelve nominations, 6 won. Nominated for the best Foreign Film in the Oscar 2007 and the cast rightly shared the best actor award at Cannes.
FIRST FRIDAYS IN COLLUSION WITH WVUM
March 2nd 2012, 10:00 pmat The Vagabond
FIRST FRIDAYS AT THE VAGABOND IN CAHOOTS WITH SWEAT RECORDS + WVUM 90.5 THE VOICE. NO COVER BEFORE 11PM $1 PBR TALLBOYS // $5 VODKA+CRAN 10PM-12PM. $3 PBR TALLBOYS AFTER 12. $5 PBJ (PBR + JAGER / JACK SHOT) ALL NIGHT OFF THE RADAR BAR ROOM RAY MILIAN + SPECIAL WVUM GUEST DJ SET. MAIN ROOM ELECTRO-DANCE MAGIC BY NEVER YAWN + RUN SEVIM RUN. IN THE GARDEN NITEBLOOM + THE SMOKE-OUT BBQ WITH MARY AND MO. DOORS OPEN 10PM. GARDEN OPENS 11PM. *NO COVER WITH CANE CARD UNTIL MIDNIGHT. REDUCED COVER WITH CANE CARD AFTER MIDNIGHT. TABLE RESERVATIONS: RESERVATIONS@THEVAGABONDMIAMI.COM MORE INFORMATION: INFO@THEVAGABONDMIAMI.COM
Tweed Ride III
March 3rd 2012, 10:00 amat Miami
Get your costumes ready, lads and lassies, so you can kick off Florida Bicycle Month in style with Miami's 3rd Annual Tweed Ride. This year's 10-12 mile ride will be at a leisurely pace to Cauley Square Historic Village, once a stop on Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. The social ride includes narrated historical tour, raffle, prizes for the best costumes, best bike and best mustaches - real or fake. Enjoy lunch at the Village Chalet (tickets go on sale soon) or bring a blanket and a picnic lunch. So, hit your closet and get your tropical tweed costume picked out, primp your wheels, ready your gear and meet at the Park & Ride Lot, located at SW 112 Avenue & US 1 Busway, next to Target.
BACK DOOR BAMBY PRESENTS THE SHAMELESS BURLESQUE
March 3rd 2012, 10:00 pmat The Vagabond
HOSTED BY BACK DOOR BAMBY FEATURING LIVE AND IN THE FLESH…BAMBY’S NOTORIOUS SEX KITTENS & NAUGHTY MISFITS. COMPLIMENTARY ABSOLUTE VODKA COCKTAILS 10-11PM. RESIDENT DJs RAY MILIAN//RYAN EVANS//CARMEL OPHIR. IN THE GARDEN DJ WASABI + THE SMOKE-OUT BBQ WITH MARY AND MO. DOORS OPEN AT 10PM. COME AS YOU ARE. TABLE RESERVATIONS: RESERVATIONS@THEVAGABONDMIAMI.COM MORE INFORMATION: INFO@THEVAGABONDMIAMI.COM
Back to the Metal!
March 7th 2012, 8:00 pmat Churchill's Pub
Henry Paniccia presents: Back to the Metal!!! This event will be held at Churchill's Pub in Miami on March 7th, 2012. You WILL NOT want to miss this show. Call off work; get a baby sitter; drop the pets off at the pound; and HEADBANG UNTIL YOU CANNOT MOVE YOUR NECK!!! Line-Up is as follows: Warhed (from Naples, FL) Worthy To Recognize (from Naples, FL) GasMasK (from Naples, FL) When Titans Fall (from Miami, FL) Abiotic (from Miami, FL) Theravada (from Orlando, FL) $7 Pre-Sale $8 at the door Doors open at 8PM and show will start at 9PM. If you would like to buy a ticket before the event, you can contact me, Henry Paniccia, at Henry815@live.com. This show is STRICTLY 18 AND UP! ID's will be checked for every person that comes to the door. Of course, only 21 and up will be allowed to drink. Churchill's Pub website - www.churchillspub.com Let's rejoice in the name of ROCK N FUCKING ROLL!
Dali Miami @ the Moore Building
March 7th 2012, 1:00 pmat Moore Building
Dali Miami will celebrate the extraordinary contributions to the art world by renowned artist Salvador Dali. This first-of-its-kind exhibit will take place March 7th -11th in Miami’s own architectural gem, The Moore Building. The museum-level collection will feature over 200 pieces including originals and sculptures spanning the broad gamut of Dalí‘s prolific career. The collection, culled together by renowned curator Reed V. Horth, represents the most prominent and historically significant works, which remain under private ownership, outside of the museums in Spain. Purchase tickets online at www.dalimiami.com Tickets $20 online, $25 at the door VIP Tickets also available.
GET LOW XXIV featuring ILL GATES (Made in Glitch/Canada)
March 15th 2012, 10:00 pmat The Vagabond
GET LOW XXIV PRE-WMC featuring Ill Gates (Made in Glitch/Canada). RESIDENT DJs A-TRAIN//ROBB RIGGS IN THE PATIO THE SMOKE-OUT BBQ WITH MARY & MO. $1 COLT 45 TALLBOYS 10-11PM + $5 CUBA LIBRE (RUM+COKE) ALL NIGHT DOORS OPEN 10PM. DO YOUR JOB. RSVP TO SHAKE305@GMAIL.COM FOR COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSION BEFORE 11PM (MUST BE 21+).
'Au revoir les enfants' screening @ Tower Theater
March 16th 2012, 6:45 pmat Tower Theater
Au revoir les enfants (104 min), directed Louis Malle, PG, 1987 with Raphael Fetjo, Gaspard Manesse, Francine Racette. A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a safe haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret. Nominated for 2 Oscars – another 25 wins and 9 nominations.
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl preview @ MAM
March 17th 2012, 6:00 pmat Miami Art Museum
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl is the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record's transformative power, from the 1960s to the present. The preview will feature a panel discussion followed by a special performance by guest DJ LeSpam. MAM members free, non-members $10. Free event parking at 50 NW 2nd Ave. RSVP@miamiartmuseum.org
The Grind
March 31st 2012, 7:00 pmat Miami
A burger showdown will ensue on March 31st, where only the best of the best burgers in South Florida will compete under one roof for the coveted Golden Grinder and title. South Florida has never seen a burger battle quite like The Grind. Taste 30 of the best burgers in town while washing it down with complimentary open bar including Blue Moon craft beer, wine and spirits. Guests and local celebrity judges, including Chef Norman Van Aken, will vote for their favorite burgers provided by restaurants in the 954 and 305 area codes. An online competition will take place where cooking enthusiasts can submit their own recipe for the “Best Backyard Burger”. Saturday, March 31, 2012 VIP: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM General Admission: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Miami Entertainment Complex (MEC) 50 NW 14 Street, Miami, FL 33136 Purchase tickets @ www.thegrindmiami.com Advanced - $75.00 / Door - $85.00 / VIP - $125.00
Me Too; All the Same
October 14th 2011, 7:00 pmat Miami
Join us at the Bakehouse Art Complex for an amazing October show. Live Music with Don Sha & the Lalibela Band, Wine and over 70 artist studios will be on view! There is No Cost - Entry is FREE “ME TOO: All the same”. The artists will be creating self-portraits that reveal a side of themselves that they seldom show to society. The concept behind this self-portrait is that in our day to day lives, as we interact with the rest of society, there is a side of ourselves that we suppress because we have been conditioned to think that this side of ourselves is somehow unacceptable or not mainstream. As humans, we have more in common than not, and this exhibition will help guests explore the connection of their hidden selves with the artists’ through these revealing self-portraits. To enhance the guests’ experience, an interactive installation consisting of a video booth will allow the guest to enter and pose or perform exposing side of themselves they seldom show.
