Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez is a multi-talented artist and a significant voice for women and Miami’s cultural continuity. Her work as an experimental filmmaker pushes the boundaries of cinema to create politically minded work that attempts to change perceptions within segments of the population and the community at large. Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez. This Friday, […]
Article · May 22, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Lenelle Moïse returns to Books & Books Coral Gables this Friday, May 16th at 5 p.m. to read from her new book, Haiti Glass. Moïse, who has been to Miami several times over the last few years working with teens in Tigertail’s SpeakOut project, is known for her performance poetry that deals fiery issues of […]
Article · May 15, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
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. […]
Article · May 12, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
“Resonancias,” presented by FUNDarte‘s Miami On Stage: Knight New Works Series, opens May 8th and 9th, at the Miami Dade County Auditorium On.Stage Black Box Theater. Jose Luis Rodriguez. The performance is an interdisciplinary and multicultural collaboration conceived by Flamenco guitarist and composer Jose Luis Rodriguez. The work includes images and staging by Alexey Taran […]
Article · May 8, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
My organization, Reading Queer (a Knight Arts grantee), launches the Reading Queer Writing Academy this weekend with “In Defense of Forgetting,” a two-day, two-hour intensive workshop open to anyone inquisitive about creative writing. The workshop will incorporate color photography taken by participants who will then use those prints as a prompt for writing poems. The […]
Article · May 5, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
In 2013, FEAST Miami, co-founded by Chef Loren Pulitzer and producer/curator Susan Caraballo, won a Knight Arts Challenge grant to support artistic and cultural initiatives through direct grants to artists and arts organizations. The grants are awarded during vegan pop-up dinners at art venues, and the diners who attend the dinners will vote for one […]
Article · April 30, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Poetry is a kind of geography. It is a map that places us and reminds us of the past–of memories stuck in our subconscious. #ThisIsWhere _____________ is a WLRN + O, Miami poetry contest that encourages all South Floridians to write a poem about a place that is meaningful to them. #ThisIsWhere Locals wrote poems […]
Article · April 28, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Deciding where to invest one’s cultural dollars can be a challenge. That’s why Tigertail Productions has announced a Knight Arts Challenge Special: half off all FLA-FRA dance tickets purchased by Friday, April 25th at 3 p.m. (See code below.) Cedric Andrieux. Photo by Marco Caselli Nirmal If you haven’t experienced a FLA-FRA event yet, here’s […]
Article · April 22, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Lace up those sneakers, select a designated driver and come to South Beach for the first-ever (and hopefully annual) LitCrawl Miami. LitCrawl, somewhat invented in San Francisco, is a literary pub crawl series brought to Miami from the folks at the O, Miami Poetry Festival. Lit Crawl. What you need to know: you don’t have […]
Article · April 21, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Classical ballet is a language that I didn’t get. I struggled to find relevance in an excruciatingly hetero-normative and patriarchal art form where a woman is forced (trained) to effortlessly transport herself across a stage on her tippy-toes and perform painful superwoman leaps and landings with a giant smile on her face and (usually) a […]
Article · April 14, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Between the “boom boom now” and the “boom boom pow” of the Ultra Music Festival, Puccini’s ultra-tragic opera, Tosca, opened at the Arsht Center. Unlike the Florida Grand Opera’s (FGO) awkward and overly-acted production of Nabucco last month, Tosca soared. It walked a well-choreographed and controlled line between too much and too little—and got the […]
Article · April 11, 2014 by Neil de la Flor