This is the final week for Here & Now: 2014, a Knight Emerging Artist Series presented by the Miami Light Project. The festival features newly commissioned work by South Florida performance artists Letty Bassart, Abel Cornejo, Ana Mendez, David Rohn, Danilo de la Torre and Juan Carlos Zaldivar.

Ana Mendez, Keisha Whitfeild and Shira Abergel.

Here & Now provides artists resources to produce new work. One of those artists, Ana Mendez, creates a ritualistic dance mediation she conceived during a summer residency in the Everglades. The work, “Portal,” examines what the future of humanity might be if our animal and spirit nature were “highly integrated.”

“Portal,” along with works produced by the rest of the Here & Now: 2014 artists, runs from May 15-17 at 8 p.m. at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse at 404 NW 26th St., Miami. Tickets are $10-50 and are available here.

On a separate note, this Wednesday, May 14th at 8 p.m., Subtropics will present “The Birth of Polyphony,” a listening club session curated by Armando Rodríguez Ruidíaz. The listening club takes on the breadth of radical change that has transpired in music since the 8th century. Group Organum, directed by Marcel Perés, will perform. Their work features an ancient oriental style of plainchant, which is a form of liturgical medieval church plainsong influenced by Byzantine and Arabic music.

The Listening Club is located at the ArtCenter/South Florida at 924 Linclon Rd., Miami Beach. RSVP here.