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2 weeks ago | 
miamitimesonline.com | Jonel Juste |Artburst Miami
Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has seen a resurgence since the 1970s, returning to Broadway and pop culture. Against this backdrop, the Marshall L.
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wlrn.org | Douglas Markowitz |Artburst Miami
There’s plenty going on in the mind of Philip Smith, and it shows in his art. The Miami-born painter’s canvases are full of esoteric symbols and mystical imagery gleaned from years of studying ancient cultures, world religions, and the work of historical magicians. Spirals, DNA strands, minerals, magic circles, foliage, human hands – all coexist in a ghostly mélange of images and ideograms.
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1 month ago | 
wlrn.org | Josie Gulliksen |Artburst Miami
This year got off to a busy start for the Cleveland Orchestra, kicking off its residency performances in Miami in January in addition to educational programming. Cleveland Orchestra in Miami hosted students from HBCU’s (Historically Black Colleges) to work one-on-one with musicians and also invited students from the Miami Music Project, which culminated in a pre-concert experience where the student musicians performed for an audience at the Arsht’s Knight Concert Hall.
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1 month ago | 
wlrn.org | Miguel Sirgado |Artburst Miami
Not all orchestras sound the same—and few sound quite like Nu Deco Ensemble. Since its debut in 2015, the Miami-based group has transformed the city’s music scene with a vibrant, genre-blurring concept that’s both versatile and visionary: a fusion of classical tradition with popular styles such as pop, jazz, funk, and electronica.
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1 month ago | 
miamitimesonline.com | Jonel Juste |Artburst Miami
Miami’s Little Haiti is known for the vibrancy of its pastel murals and the rhythmic sounds of music filling the air. On Sunday, May 4, during Haitian Heritage Month, a quieter expression of Haitian identity will take center stage: the written word. This year, the 11th edition of the Little Haiti Book Festival at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex will offer more than books. Tightly woven into event programming are themes of community displacement and immigration instability.
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1 month ago | 
miamitimesonline.com | Jonel Juste |Artburst Miami
Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.”The music-poetry mashup is at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 23. Since its inception in 2007, Piano Slam has been a platform for young poets in Miami-Dade County to merge their creative writing with classical and contemporary music.
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1 month ago | 
wlrn.org | Michelle Solomon |Artburst Miami
When George Neary arrived in Miami in 1991 from New York, he began volunteering at the Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL), started in 1976 by Barbara Baer Capitman in an effort to preserve and save the Art Deco architecture in Miami Beach. “She was the voice for the architecture, for the buildings, for this whole neighborhood,” said Neary. “(In 1991) Nancy Liebman was the executive director,” he recalled, “and then she decided to run for the city commission, and she won.
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2 months ago | 
wlrn.org | Michelle Solomon |Artburst Miami
Artist José Bedia’s work, symbolic and rooted in ancient traditions, blends anthropology, storytelling, and Afro-Caribbean influences. In fact, his personal art collection is that of tribal and ethnographic art. His practice, he says, his grounded in investigation and search doing “field work” journeys to other countries that inspire and inform the work. It is these qualities that gained him a $75,000 award as part of Oolite Arts’ The Ellies Awards.
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2 months ago | 
miamitimesonline.com | Douglas Markowitz |Artburst Miami
Philip Lique, an artist and designer based in South Florida, remembers the first time he attended the Miami Zine Fair. Originally from Connecticut, he says the independent publishing convention was “the first real community event that I got involved in” when he moved to Florida about a decade ago.
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2 months ago | 
socialmiami.com | Carolina del Busto |Connie Ogle |Artburst Miami |Artburst Miami Artburst
A Poem Will Find You During O, Miami’s 14th Annual Poetry Festival By Carolina del Busto for Artburst Miami “Poetry is a revolutionary force for good,” says poet Rio Cortez. The New York-based writer will be in Miami as part of the annual O, Miami Poetry Festival that takes place all month long in April.
