Miami Dade College presents the 2019 Season of the Arts featuring theatrical and musical performances, literary events, visual art exhibitions, film screenings, panel discussion and a number of outstanding artistic presentations for the entire Miami community to enjoy.
MDC’s 36th Miami Book Fair
November 17 – 24, 2019
Wolfson Campus
300 N.E. Second Ave.
Miami, Fl. 33132
Miami Dade College’s Miami Book Fair, MDC’s flagship cultural program and the nation’s largest and finest literary gathering, will celebrate its 36th anniversary Nov. 17 – 24, 2019, at the Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami.
The nation’s leading weeklong literary festival featuring more than 500 authors. Tens of thousands of people congregate at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami for six nights of readings and discussions with notable authors from around the world, topped off by the beloved three-day Street Fair. Highlights of the Street Fair include author presentations and panel discussions; books for sale in every genre in English, Spanish, and Creole; comics and graphic novels for all ages; a Children’s Alley for the little ones featuring hands-on activities, books, characters, and storytelling; entertainment, live music, and food. Free and valet parking are available.
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37th Annual Miami Film Festival
March 6 – 15, 2020
Various Locations
Attendees can enjoy ten days of the best of world cinema featuring amazing guests, dazzling red carpet moments and fabulous parties.
The Festival kicks off with an Opening Night Film + Party with your favorite stars walking the red carpet, and an elegant evening featuring a fabulous array of culinary delights and spirits. Advance Passes & Packages are offered at a discounted rate up to 20% off the regular price. They are available in limited quantity and will go on sale in late 2019. A full list of venues, films, events, and ticket information will be available on our website in early 2020.
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GEMS Festival
Oct. 10 – 13, 2019
Tower Theater
1508 S.W. 8th St.
Miami, Fl. 33135
GEMS 2019 will feature an exclusive selection of the first competition films for Miami Film Festival’s 37th edition– films that are certain to dominate award-season conversations, as well as international box office sensations and special discoveries.
The complete program will be announced in September. All-Access Passes for GEMS are on sale. To purchase tickets, or for more information, please call 305-237-FILM (3456), or visit GEMS 2019.
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Jazz at Wolfson Presents
MDC Wolfson Campus – Auditorium (Bldg. 1, Second floor)
300 N.E. Second Ave.
Miami, Fl. 33132
The 2019-2020 season of Jazz at Wolfson Presents will celebrate 20 years of bringing renowned musicians to educate jazz students and enliven the downtown lunch scene with live performances monthly from September through April, in downtown Miami. Concerts take place in the Wolfson Campus Auditorium, Building 1, second floor.
The concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.mdc.edu/jazzatwolfson.
- Wednesday, Sept. 18, noon, MDC Jazz Faculty Quintet
- Wednesday, Oct. 16, noon, Kemuel Roig, piano
- Tuesday, Nov. 12, 5:40 p.m., Wolfson’s Jazz Ensembles
- Wednesday, Nov. 13, noon, Akiko Tsuruga, B-3 Organ
- Wednesday, Dec. 4, noon, Bill Evans, saxophone
- Wednesday, Jan 22, 2020, noon, Jason Tiemann, drums
- Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, noon, Lindsey Blair, guitar
- Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 5:40 p.m., Wolfson’s Jazz Ensembles
- Wednesday, March 18, 2020, noon, Sara Caswell, violin
- Wednesday, April 1, 2020, noon, Andy LaVerne, piano
MDC Museum of Art + Design (MOA+D)
Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College
600 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, Fl. 33132
MOAD’s 2019-20 season:
Where the Oceans Meet
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza, Gabriela Rangel, and Rina Carvajal
On view through January 12, 2020
An unprecedented exhibition of forty modern and contemporary artists whose work resonates with the pioneering thought of two Caribbean writers, Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant. This international group of artists and collectives consider notions of shifting and porous borders—and how crossing borders has shaped our world. They articulate various aspects of the two scholars’ thoughts on race, diaspora, colonialization, creolization, language, and territory, particularly with regards to Miami’s position in a world that never stops turning.
Artist include: Navild and Sosa, Etel Adnan, Carlos Alfonzo, Kader Attia, Belkis Ayón, Yto Barrada, Daniel Boyd, Tania Bruguera, Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste, Agustín Cárdenas, Maya Deren, Manthia Diawara, Melvin Edwards, Juan Francisco Elso, Öyvind Fahlström, Simone Fattal, Theaster Gates, Andrea Geyer, Sylvie Glissant, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Koo Jeong A, Wifredo Lam, Glenn Ligon, Lani Maestro, Roberto Matta, Julie Mehretu, Ana Mendieta, The Otolith Group, Amelia Pelaez, André Pierre, Walid Raad, Raqs Media Collective, Anri Sala, Antonio Seguí, Elena Tejada-Herrera, Pierre Verger, Jack Whitten, and Andros Zins-Browne.
Andros Zins-Browne: The Chaos Opera
Sunday, September 22, 2019, at 4 p.m.
The Chaos Opera draws upon Glissant’s defense of chaos as a mechanism for coping with and embracing difference. The performance brings together voices from diverse musical traditions—R&B, bolero, death metal, rap, and opera—to explore how different voices might cohabitate in the same space without capitulating, assimilating, or forcing cohesion. Rather than the idealized harmonies of “fusion” music, it asks how different voices can maintain their opacity in relation to each other, and how such a cacophony might allow new forms, voices, and hybrid languages to emerge. The Chaos Opera will be performed by Dyna Edyne, Michale Grafals, Celeste Landeros, Niuvis Martin, and Nad Pitt.
Andros Zins-Browne (born New York, New York 1981) is an American choreographer who lives and works in New York and Brussels. He makes performances at the intersection of installation, performance, and dance that twist the virtual and the embodied. His work has been shown at a.o.- Centre Pompidou, Paris; ICA, London; Kaaitheater, Brussels, Het Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. His solo performance Already Unmade was commissioned by the Boghossian Foundation and has been performed at BOZAR Museum, Brussels; The Whitney Museum, New York City; the Rockbund Museum, Shanghai, and the Fondation Galeries Lafayette for Festival d’Automne, Paris. In collaboration with artist Karthik Pandian, he received a 2018 grant from the Graham Foundation for the performance and exhibition series Atlas Unlimited. Recently, Andros collaborated with choreographer Will Rawls to present “remixes” of work by video artist Tony Cokes for the 10th Berlin Biennial and of avant-garde choreographer Simone Forti’s See-Saw at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In 2013, Andros founded The Great Indoors, an association for artistic research and production.
A City of the People/La Ciudad de la Gente
Jan. 12 – Sept. 29, 2019
Part of MOAD’s groundbreaking Museum Without Boundaries initiative, an exciting cross-disciplinary series of programs, A City of the People/La Ciudad de la Gente will galvanize audiences with thoughtful and challenging performances, exhibitions, concerts, film and video screenings, readings, talks, and workshops at various venues across the city that reflect ideas of what it means to exist in, and as, an urban community. At this moment of radical polarization, cities remain at the forefront of diversity, social progressivism, and environmental responsibility. A haven for diverse immigrant communities yet among the locations most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, Miami itself stands at the leading edge of these issues. A City of the People/La Ciudad de la Gente will engage notions of urban populations, civic life, public space, citizenship, political agency, and human relations with the natural world, seeking new ways to instigate actions and conversations that may help to reimagine our cities and our lives.
A City of the People/La Ciudad de la Gente follows up Living Together, MOAD’s acclaimed year-long 2018 series that dynamically bridged the gap in programming during recent Museum renovations. Living Together brought 17 of today’s most renowned artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers to Miami for 20 separate events at 14 different venues that included MOAD, Miami Light Project, New World School for the Arts, Bill Cosford Cinema, MDC’s Wolfson Auditorium, EXILE Books, MDC Live Arts Lab, Tower Theater, and North Beach Bandshell. Events also took place on city streets and a boat in Biscayne Bay.
Navild and Sosa: Black Power Naps
October 24, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Black Power Naps is a sculptural installation, vibrational device, and curatorial initiative that reclaims laziness and idleness as power. Departing from historical records that chronicle how the deliberate fragmentation of restorative sleep was used to subjugate and extract labor from enslaved people, Navild and Sosa confront the ongoing, morphed forms of labor extraction and constant fatigue used to break people’s will. The interactive and playful surfaces of Black Power Naps both investigate and provide deliberate energetic repair thereby redistributing rest, relaxation, and down-times as a form of reparation.
Navild is an award winning multi-medium artist and activist based in Berlin. Their embodied experience as a transgender dancer, non-binary queer, afro latinx american citizen surviving poverty has inspired their community centric work and collaborations with Alicia Keys, Anohni, Sosa, Deborah Hay, Lyle Ashton-Harris and Ralph Lemon. Navild’s work and thought leadership has been featured in many publications including Performance Journal, VICE, Out Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Apogee Journal, BOMB Magazine. Their work has been performed at institutions such as Matadero Madrid, Tate Modern, Tanz Im August & Kunst-Werke Institut, Weinerfestwochen, The David Roberts Foundation, The Kimmel Center, Human Resources, MOMA PS1, Studio Museum, New Museum, and McGill University.
Sosa is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and activist on track to receive a doctorate degree in Gender and Social Science at Lille III University, Paris. Their Afrodiasporic and Indigenous descendence has informed their many years of research, performances and teachings. Sosa’s work focuses in developing pleasurable methodologies using vibrational and sonic therapy, movement practices to liberate the chore and transformational social justice centered publications. Sosa has been featured in Dazed Magazine, i-D, Noisey, Paper Magazine, Style Like U, Berlin art link, Schön Magazine, Afro-punk, The Fader, and Gal-Dem. Their texts have published in The 3D Additivist Cookbook, Arcadia Missa, and Mousonturm. Their performances have been produced by Tate Modern, Matadero Madrid, and Wiener Festwochen. Sosa has collaborated with artists such as Navild, Tabita Rezaire, Ana Pi, Poussy Draama, Bearcat, Spoek Mathambo, and Kirikoo DEs. Sosa’s current projects include Black Power Naps, Pleasure Is Power, Consent Improvisation and screen writing a new television series.
Music and Migrancy: Miami Experiments with Performance
A Lecture by Alexandra T. Vazquez, New York University
Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, at 7 p.m.
Music offers another way into Miami’s difficult and fascinating history. It is a subterranean record that stands firm in its documentation of people, their forced and chosen migrations, and the ordinary and spectacular events of their lives. Given the rich soil of song and swing in the Miami-Dade area, a question emerges: how does the listener take in all of the city’s diverse sonic worlds at once? This pliable lecture will offer some models—and asks the audience in turn for their own—about how we may hear Miami’s musical influences, together; it wonders what is made possible when we take in the strums brought by pioneering Bahamian migrants, teenagers’ experimental work with bass in Liberty City, and the percussive impacts of Cuba and the Caribbean as a collective lilt. This proposed collaboration hopes to stir up the calcified grids that separate and annihilate communities, and to tune our ears to the lively, crossfading echoes of determination that sound past and future at once.
Alexandra T. Vazquez is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke University Press, 2013), which won the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero Book Prize. Vazquez’s work has been featured in the journals American Quarterly, small axe, Social Text, women and performance, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and in the edited volumes Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, Reggaeton, and Pop When the World Falls Apart. She is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts in Miami. Vazquez is currently writing a book called The Florida Room.
Paul Ramirez Jonas, Alternative Facts
Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, from noon- 4 p.m.
Miami Ironside
7610 NE 4TH CT Miami
Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Harvest Project @ Pinecrest Gardens
11000 Red Road Pinecrest, Florida
Alternative Facts is a public performance that explores how truth operates as a social contract. For several hours, the artist will invite passers-by to participate in a simple exchange in which they sit at the table and make an untruthful statement. Through a brief but elaborate process, the artist will notarize each statement as a testament to its truthfulness. The participant is then asked to pay for the service with a gold coin, which is made by the artist electroplating their spare change in gold solution. The exchange results in two drawings: one for the participant to keep and another, which is displayed near the notary station.
Paul Ramírez Jonas is a contemporary artist and arts educator whose work challenges the relationship between artist, viewer, and artwork. Through participatory performances, large-scale public installations, monumental sculptures, videos, and drawings, he invites interactions, collaborations, and exchanges that create a social contract between the artwork and the public. Rather than asserting a position or issuing precise instructions, he operates within a set of guidelines, combining humor and sincerity to communicate collective ideals, histories, and dreams. His selected solo exhibitions include Museo Jumex, Mexico City, The New Museum, NYC, Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo; The Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Connecticut; The Blanton Museum, Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery and Cornerhouse in 2004, and a 25-year survey at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2017. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at P.S.1; the Brooklyn Museum; The Whitechapel Irish Museum of Modern Art); and Kunsthaus Zurich, as well as the 1st Johannesburg Biennale; 1st Seoul Biennial; 6th Shanghai Biennial; 28th Sao Paulo Biennial; 53rd Venice Biennial and 7th and 10th Bienal do Mercosul. He has been an Associate Professor at Hunter College since 2007; and is represented by Galeria Nara Roesler in Sao Paulo.
Mapa Teatro, Archivo Vivo
Saturday, November 2, 2019, at 7 p.m.
MDC Live Arts Lab Building 1
300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33132
Between 2002 and 2005, members of the renowned Colombian interdisciplinary group Mapa Teatro recorded Bogotá’s demolition of the impoverished El Cartucho neighborhood, which was replaced by a monumental park. Collaborating with the displaced former residents, they developed a “laboratory of the social imagination” consisting of theatrical performances, installations, and site-specific presentations. Archivo Vivo is a lecture-performance in which Mapa Teatro directors Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden reflect on those projects in front of projected images, documents, and video testimonials. Equal parts political and poetic, the presentation forms an experimental investigation of the myths, histories, and contemporary sentiments that live within an archive.
Founded in Paris in 1984 by theater and visual artists, siblings Heidi, Elizabeth, and Rolf Abderhalden, and based in Bogotá since 1986, Mapa Teatro is one of the foremost interdisciplinary artistic companies in Colombia. Mapa Teatro operates within the genre of live arts, a space conducive to the transgression of borders—geographical, linguistic, artistic—and to the staging of local and global concerns by means of multiple devices and formats. Working as a transdisciplinary laboratory, this group of artists engages myth, history, and the present in the investigation of archives and documents, which serve as a departure point for building their own fictions. Their work extends experimentally across performance, installation, opera, theater. and ethnographic film, and has been seem at international theater festivals that include the Festival d’ Avignon, the Festival d’Automne à Paris, and the Festival International New Drama (FIND) in Berlin, as well as at art institutions that include the São Paulo Biennial and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
TO WRITE MIAMI
Writers who choose a city as their muse give voice to both a place and a people. Part scribe, part dreamer, they issue facts along with fantasies, leaving behind a history of the intangible realities of urban life—of a people’s heartbreak and of their joy, of their loss and of their growth. MOAD’s series To Write Miami brings nine beloved Miami writers to Soya & Pomodoro restaurant over eight nights to explore how stories emerge from the raw sights and sounds of the city they love. The series demonstrates how writers pay homage to Miami and how, in turn, Miami feeds their creativity. The innovative readings will include performative elements, reflections on the city that nurtures and inspires, and conversations on the writing process that often begins before words are even placed on the page.
To Write Miami: P. Scott Cunningham
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Soya e Pomodoro
120 NE First St.
Miami, Fl. 33132
Scott Cunningham lives in Miami and is the director of O, Miami Poetry Festival and the publisher of Jai-Alai Books. He is the author of Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), selected by Billy Collins for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in Harvard Review, POETRY, The Awl, A Public Space, RHINO, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, Monocle, and The Guardian. Events and projects of O, Miami have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR’s Morning Edition, ESPN, and Time, and the organization was named by Fast Company as one of 51 “brilliant urban ideas that are changing America.”
To Write Miami: John Dufresne
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Soya e Pomodoro
120 NE First St.
Miami, Fl. 33132
He is the author of six novels: Louisiana Power & Light, Love Warps the Mind a Little (both New York Times’ Notable Books of the Year), Deep in the Shade of Paradise, Requiem, Mass., No Regrets, Coyote, and I Don’t Like Where This Is Going. He also wrote two short story collections: The Way That Water Enters Stone and Johnny Too Bad, as well as three chapbooks. He has two books on writing and creativity: The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction and Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months. John was a 2012–13 Guggenheim Fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.
REAL UTOPIAS
MOAD’s Real Utopias is a series of films that examine past and current experiments in our collective search for freedom, equality, and democracy. The series’ documentaries and film essays investigate alternative ways in which urban living has been, and can be, designed, from a call to non-violence to architects’ futuristic visions to utopian urban experiments of the past to a rare look at a post-capitalist, modern-day utopian Europe.
Real Utopias: Nueva Venecia
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, at 7 p.m.
MDC’s Tower Theatre
1508 S.W. 8th Street, Miami
The documentary feature Nueva Venecia portrays the inhabitants of a small village in the Santa Marta marsh in Colombia, who live on the water and make a living by fishing. Their lives changed drastically on November 22, 2000, when a paramilitary group slaughtered 37 people and forced the other villagers to move out. In spite of the horror and the possibility of further acts of violence, the community eventually returned, choosing to face the hazards of new assaults rather than quit their way of life. Things did change, however, as fishing-boat memorials and ceremonies to honor the dead have become familiar, as have constant pleas to the authorities for justice. Something else keeps people together: soccer, played again on the field built on stilts, long hidden under water. Sport provides the only hope for a way out for many of the local youngsters, who dream of both social and economic improvement, and of being discovered by some scout or club agent to become Colombian soccer stars.
Real Utopias: In the Park and New Town Utopia
Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, at 6 p.m.
Bill Cosford Cinema – University of Miami
5030 Brunson Drive, Memorial Building 227
Coral Gables, Fl. 33146
In the Park, is a trip to the past. The year is 1962. The subject, a Sunday day in Bay Front Park, Miami, when the world was still innocent. The hidden camera, the free cinema, allows us to observe from a distance, to be voyeurs without being discovered. We see young and old in a sweet-and-sour situation, which gives the viewer a strange nostalgic feeling.
A journey of memory, place, and performance, New Town Utopia is a documentary feature about utopian dreams and concrete realities—the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex. Facing austerity, adversity and personal battles the artists, musicians, and poets of Basildon are individuals driven by their creative spirit to improve their community through art, poetry, music, and some rather angry puppets. New Town Utopia features Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent (Iris, Topsy-Turvy, Moulin Rouge) as the voice of Lewis Silkin MP.
Real Utopias: Everyday Rebellion
Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, at 6 p.m.
Bill Cosford Cinema – University of Miami
5030 Brunson Drive, Memorial Building 227,
Coral Gables
Everyday Rebellion is a cross-media documentary about creative forms of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience acted out every day by passionate people from Spain, Iran, Syria, Ukraine, USA, UK, and Serbia. Their methods are inventive, funny, and sometimes even aggressive. And the activists who use them believe that creative nonviolent protest will win over violent protest—and they are right. Nonviolence has scientifically been proven to be more effective and successful than violent protest. And the users of nonviolence are feared because they are rapidly changing the world and challenging dictatorships, as well as global corporations. Everyday Rebellion wants to give voice to all those who decide not to use violence to try changing a violent system. Because, as Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Real Utopias: Future My Love
Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, at 6 p.m.
Bill Cosford Cinema – University of Miami
5030 Brunson Drive, Memorial Building 227,
Coral Gables
Future My Love is a unique love story challenging our collective and personal utopias in search of freedom. At the brink of losing the idealistic love of her life, filmmaker Maja Borg takes us on a poetic road trip through the financial collapse, exploring a radically different economic and social model proposed by 95-year-old futurist Jacque Fresco. How much freedom are we prepared to give to the ones we love? And how much responsibility are we ready to take for our society? Carefully weaving a texture of archival footage, black-and-white Super 8 film, and color HD, Borg poignantly depicts the universal struggle between our heads and hearts in times of big change.
MDC SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
A Conversation with Glexis Novoa
Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at 7 p.m.
Ballroom Freedom Tower
600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Join artist Glexis Novoa for a lively conversation about the concepts underlying his artistic and spiritual practices.
Buddhist Meditation
Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, at 2 p.m.
Ballroom Freedom Tower
600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
A guided meditation with Buddhist monks in conjunction with the Glexis Novoa: The Cankama Sutta exhibition in the Cuban Legacy Gallery.
Glexis Novoa: The Cankama Sutta
On view through Sept. 29, 2019
Cuban Legacy Gallery Freedom Tower
600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Glexis Novoa’s graphite drawing on the gallery’s walls pictures a mysterious landscape that forms a travelogue or narrative, incorporating symbols of the artist’s personal experiences as an immigrant, his life in Miami, and his travels around the world, as well as his interests in social and political history. The drawing engages in dialogue with a set of sculptures produced in Havana during 2015, which represent other aspects of his voyage and moments of history that have recently transformed Cuban society. The artist credits cities in general, and Havana in particular, with providing inspiration.
For Novoa, the condition of the immigrant relates to the Cankama Sutta, a Buddhist rule or discourse about walking meditation, an action analogous to the artist’s nomadic existence. The study and practice of Buddhist teachings, originally learned as a child from his mother in Cuba, forms a thread running through Novoa’s life. The influence of the practice of meditation deepened during interactions with emigrant communities from Thailand and Sri Lanka. Locally, he has forged strong connections with the venerable monks of Miami’s Wat Buddharangsi, where he was ordained as a novice monk or samanera.
Born in Holguín, Cuba, Novoa received a B.A. from The National School of Art in Havana. He has worked in painting, performance, and installation, and has become internationally recognized for his site-specific graphite wall drawings. Since the late 1980s, his work has been widely exhibited in the United States and around the world. Novoa lives and works in Miami and Havana.
Juana Valdes: Terrestrial Bodies
October 24, 2019 – April 26, 2020
Cuban Legacy Gallery
Freedom Tower | 600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
The installation “maps” a connection between the history of trade, globalization and the displacement of various cultures and people. Valdes’ artistic practice recollects her personal experiences of migration as an Afro Cuban-American while connecting to the global history of trade and the settlement of the Americas.
Juana Valdes was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and came to the United States in 1971. She received her BFA in Sculpture from the Parsons School of Design, her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Grants and Fellowships include Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, The Ellies Creator Award, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Netherland-American Foundation Cultural Grant, the National Association of Latinos Arts and Culture Visual Artists Grant, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at international venues including Site Santa Fe Siteline2016, Perez Art Museum, El Museo del Bario, P.S. 1 MOMA Contemporary Art Center, MOCA (North Miami), Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler (Berlin), the Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey), Galerie Binnen (Amsterdam) and FreeSpace (Sydney). She is currently a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Artist Walkthrough of Juana Valdes: Terrestrial Bodies
Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019
Cuban Legacy Gallery
Freedom Tower | 600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Join artist Juana Valdes for a walkthrough of the exhibition Juana Valdes: Terrestrial Bodies and opportunity to discuss her practice.
Literature and Art in the Caribbean: A Conversation with Juana Valdes
January 2020
Cuban Legacy Gallery
Freedom Tower | 600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Join contemporary writers and artist Juana Valdes in a conversation about the ideas underlying the exhibition Juana Valdes: Terrestrial Bodies as it relates to the intersection of literature and art in the Caribbean.
Exile Today
Launch date: January 2020
Cuban Legacy Gallery
Freedom Tower | 600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Exile Today is an interdisciplinary lecture series that invites people from the realms of art, science, business, and entertainment to discuss the exile experience from a contemporary perspective. It places prominent figures from Miami’s Cuban American community in conversation with people from other diasporas who have shared their experience of expulsion from one’s native land.
Culture and Change in the Early Americas
Ongoing
The Kislak Center
Freedom Tower | 600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Culture and Change in the Early Americas is comprised of objects and artifacts that presents perspectives on the complex, historic processes of European Expansion to the New World and the cultural encounters that followed.
The Kislak Center: Deep Dive
Launch date: January 2020
The Kislak Center
Freedom Tower | 600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Deep Dive is a series of scholarly lectures, panel discussions, and interactive presentations focused on a single topic relevant to the history of the early Americas
MOAD admission: $12 adults; $8 seniors and military; $5 students (ages 13–17) and college students (with valid ID); free for MOAD members, MDC students, faculty, and staff, and children 12 and under.
MOAD Hours: 1 – 6 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays; 1 – 8 p.m. Saturdays. **Some events will take place off campus**
For updates and a full schedule of events, please visit http://www.mdcmoad.org, call 305-237-7700 or e-mail museum@mdc.edu.
MDC GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
(at various MDC campuses)
Unless otherwise noted, all exhibitions listed below are free and open to the public
Hialeah Campus
1780 W. 49 St.
Hialeah Cultural Center
Miami, Fl. 33012
305-237-8700
Urban Walls: artists transforming the urban landscape
Artists: Ivan Roque, Aquarela Sabol, Daniel Fiorda, ATOMIK
Sept. 9 – Oct. 31, 2019
Various artists will present murals on the stairwell and gallery walls. For more information, contact the Hialeah Cultural Center at (305) 237-8812 or info-hcc@mdc.edu
Garden Party Artist: Susan McLaughlin
Nov. 22 – Dec. 19, 2019
The Merry Widow embodies McLaughlin’s solo show painting mantra: harmony between nature and humanity. The symbolism of the birds creating The Merry Widow from a combination of natural flowers and man-made objects–ribbons and a found bustier of unknown provenance-illuminates the symbiotic relationship we have-or should have-with the natural world. For more information, contact the Hialeah Cultural Center at (305) 237-8812 or info-hcc@mdc.edu
Strong Is a State of Mind Artist: Alejandro Mendoza
Jan. 22 – April 2, 2020
Medonza’s work evolves into environments that are constant on his aesthetic proposal. Some of the artist’s most important and strong elements are Man and his associations with life and society and the Modern Condition leading to the simplification of common sense to become understood. For more information, contact the Hialeah Cultural Center at (305) 237-8812 or info-hcc@mdc.edu
Homestead Campus
500 College Terrace, Building D
Homestead, Fl. 33030
Sketch-gures
Artist Jordan Massengale
Through Oct. 20, 2019
Jordan Massengale’s artwork has long straddled an area between chaos and the regimented precision of western art. I wrote in 2005 that he was creating some of the best figurative art in town. Although no longer a Miami resident, he remains an artist of extraordinary talent who has left an indelible mark on this city’s art scene. The drawings and paintings in this exhibit include both studies of skulls, a genre of art that goes back at least to the renaissance, and fully realized oil on canvas masterworks.
The visceral response a viewer receives when viewing these artworks speaks to the intensity of the artist’s mastery of his materials. In the series of mask paintings, Massengale has channeled, modified, and brought into existence modern versions of masks traditionally worn by aborigines, islanders of the south pacific, and other primary cultures. Unlike Picasso, who likewise incorporated African masks into his early forays with Cubism, Massengale’s images retain the energy and lifelike movement embedded within these foreign artifacts. Picasso gave us a hollow shell of these masks and used them primarily as a visual device to work out the tenants of Cubism, on the other hand Massengale brings us closer to the spirit of those who actually wore and worshipped within them.
River Stones
Artist Tutua Boshell
Oct. 25, 2019 – Jan. 17, 2020
Opening Reception: Dec. 4, at 1 p.m.
Tutua Boshell’s expansive paintings remind the viewer of the great color field masters of the 20th century. She revitalizes some of their aesthetic ideas for a contemporary audience. Darby Bannard, who Boshell studied with at the University of Miami, said that great art is like a stone in the river. Meaning, that these river stones stay beautiful regardless if someone notices or appreciates them. Paintings that are non-objective, often go unappreciated because most viewers struggle to find meaning in an aesthetic experience that is essentially meaningless. The aesthetic value is imbedded in the materials that the artist chooses, not the literal illustrations representational artists often present for analysis. The modern art goer expects to have their political, social, or historical biases affirmed in the artist’s work. Abstract art does allow the viewer off so easily and conveniently. The viewer of non-objective art needs to look and look again to find intrinsic value if there is any to be found at all. Tutua Boshell’s paintings offer up their value in spades freely to anyone who takes the time to look. That art enthusiast will grow to appreciate how the artist intuited the rightness of design, an exquisite sensitively for color, and the beautiful textural choices that comprise the paintings in this exhibition.
Submerged Spirits
Artist Maria Franco
Jan. 24, 2020 – Mar. 13, 2020
Opening Reception: Jan. 29, 2020, at 1 p.m.
Maria Franco is a young artist who shows incredible talent. These paintings appear to grow like lichen off a central tree, as they spread their beauty in an organic and natural way. At the same time, however, they show the gifted hand of an artist making tough choices in the studio and coming up with innovative and visual solutions. Immanuel Kant recognized that art had to appear natural but at the same time had to be consciously and cleverly created. These artworks bridge this divide perfectly. The organic matter in these pictures does not clash with the inert ‘art supplies’, but rather, these two worlds are woven together in a startling fashion by Franco. By doing so, the artist evokes the element of surprise in the viewer which allows these paintings to deliver their aesthetic payload, as if by magic.
Emerging Artists
MDC Student Exhibition
Mar. 23, 2020 – April 23, 2020
Opening reception: April 8, 2020, at 1 p.m.
In this highly anticipated annual exhibition, Miami Dade College, Homestead Campus showcases the best works of MDC visual arts students in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography and design.
Eduardo J. Padrón Campus
627 S.W. 27th Ave., Room 3113 (Campus Art Gallery)
Miami, Fl. 33135
A Poet Who Draws: Raimundo Travieso on View
Sept. 3 – 27, 2019
Opening Day: Sept. 3 at 10 a.m.
Self-taught Cuban artist, Raimundo Travieso considers himself a poet who draws, having drawn most days of his life as a form of meditation and prayer. His exhibit will incorporate the use of a tokonoma, a Japanese-style reception room, which will change according to the weather. For more information, please contact Raimundo Travieso at travie@bellsouth.net
Urbana Magazine Annual Exhibit: Emotional Seasons XII
Oct. 2 – Oct. 23, 2019
Opening Day: Oct. 2 at 12pm
Selected images and writing on display from this year’s student literary arts magazine, Urbana issue XII. For more information, please contact Professor Emily Sendin at esendin@mdc.edu
Journey of Peace: Lions International Peace Poster Contest
Nov. 4 – Nov. 16, 2019
Opening Day: Nov. 4 at 6PM
Encouraging children, ages 11 to 13 to creatively express what peace means to them, the exhibit will showcase this year’s submissions from local schools. For more information, please contact Norma Amaro at amarotc@aol.com or Mayra Montes at mayramontesrealtor@yahoo.com
Honoring Veterans: Artifacts and Arts
Nov. 18 – 27, 2019
Opening Day: Nov. 18th at 12:00PM
A display of artifacts and arts from the Miami Military Museum, community, and students chronicling the sacrifices and accomplishments of the Armed Forces and Veterans.
Pieces to Pattern: Using Mosaic to Visualize Joy
Jan. 14 – 30, 2020
Opening Day: Jan. 14 at 11:30 a.m.
From turtles to fish, poems to patterns, artist Royce Reed creates vibrant pieces of mosaic art. Opening day includes a hands-on workshop. For more information, please contact Royce Reed at roycereedmosaics@gmail.com
Faces/Places, Real/Imagined: The illustrations of A’shunti Zanders
Feb. 3 – 26, 2020
Opening Day: Feb. 4 at 11:30AM
MDC student A’shunti Zanders shares his work chronicling worlds and people both real and imagined. For more information, please contact A’shunti Zanders at ashunti.zanders001@mymdc.net
Poetry Mirror
April 1 – 28, 2020
Opening Day: April 7 at 11:30AM
Life-size portraits of Little Havana residents and MDC students fill the gallery. Each mural includes a QR code that invites participants to listen to the performance of a poem written by the person in the mural. Room 3113 (Campus Art Gallery) & UrbanaSpace
For more information, please contact Professor Sebastian Terneus at jterneus@mdc.edu
MDC North Campus
William Pawley Center, Building 5 (Room 5107)
11380 N.W. 27 Ave
Miami, Fl. 33167
North Arts Alumni Exhibition
Sept. 4 – 27, 2019
Opening Day: Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 12 p.m.
Alumni exhibition that features the best works of the last decade and pays homage to the Art Department’s success providing inspiration to future artists and art students. For more information, please contact Jesenia Patiño at jpatino1@mdc.edu or call (305) 237-1724.
The Other Reality, work by Hernan Miranda
Oct. 2 – 31, 2019
Opening Day: Wednesday, Oct.9 at 9 a.m.
As part of Hispanic Heritage month and in partnership with the Consulate of Paraguay in Miami, the North Campus is hosting the opening reception of the Paraguayan art exhibit The Other Reality by renowned Paraguayan artist Hernan Miranda. Based on the codes of classical painting, Miranda’s work seeks to stimulate visual perception by working the illusionist aspect of the image. He is interested in playing with visual “Effects” and “Emotions”, using everyday elements in the composition. Hernan considers that in some way the work of each artist is a bit of his/her self-portrait, since the imaginary feeds on everything that surrounds the artist.
Children of the Modern Family, new artwork by Dr. Wilma Bulkin Siegel, MD
Oct. 10 – Nov. 6, 2019
This new series of portraits reveals a topic worthy of study, analysis and discussion. This topic is a reality in the XXI century society of the United States of America and around the world. For more information, please contact Jesenia Patiño at jpatino1@mdc.edu or call (305) 237-1724. North Library Learning Resources, Bldg. 2.
Black History Month, Campus-Wide Student Art Exhibition
Feb. 1 – 28, 2020
Closing Reception and Artist Talk Hosted by Dr. Robert Remek held on February 28th.
North Library Learning Resources, Bldg. 2
Emerging Artists
Mar. 23rd – April 24, 2020
Opening Day: Friday, April 17, at 12:30 p.m.
This highly anticipated annual exhibition shows off the best works of North Campus visual arts students in all media: sculpture, painting, drawing and design. Event will include a student awards presentation and light reception. For more information, please contact Jesenia Patiño at jpatino1@mdc.edu or call (305) 237-1724.
MDC West Campus
3800 N.W. 115 Ave.
Miami, Fl. 33178
Relevance
Artist: Fred Thomas
July 18 – Sept. 27, 2019
Thomas’ subject matters, style and techniques vary from abstraction, cubism, surrealism, minimalism, and lately pop art. He uses straight edge and painterly approaches while using collage, stamps, cut metal, knotted rope, heavy-impasto-texture. His artwork exudes a halo of familiarity, mystery and symbolism, which suggests primeval yearnings for elusive dreams associated with his childhood, other significant life experiences and his visions for the future.
Born in Haiti, Thomas started to draw at an early age, reproducing sketches created by his father. As a teenager, he was already a freelance commercial artist designing seasonal greeting cards and promotional posters. His interest in art became even stronger while living in Canada, the United States, and Germany. Thomas enrolled in the art education program at MDC and since then, he has participated in and curated countless art exhibitions and cultural events throughout the Miami area.
He is the co-author of the 2008 book, Here, There and Beyond: The Works of 16 Haitian Artists of Florida. Thomas is the author of the catalog, Haiti Focus 2014 and a contributing writer with Marcel Duret to Tokyo Journal, an international magazine with a series of articles on Haitian artists living in South Florida. He illustrated the children’s book, The Little Helpers, written by his wife, Carline Duret; and the book, Bless Me Father for I am Not a Born Sinner, by Rev. Aaron Moore. Thomas was also the illustrator of the 2009 Silver Addy award-winning promotional billboards for the former cellular telephone company, Voila.
MDC Wolfson Campus
Centre Gallery | Building 1 | 3rd Floor
300 N.E. 2nd Ave.
Miami, Fl. 33132
Emerging Artists Exhibition
April 1 – April 24, 2020
Annual art show featuring students’ best work from the academic year. Free and open to the public. For more information, please call 305-237-3721
FILM
LYNN AND LOUIS WOLFSON II FLORIDA MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVES @ MDC
MDC Wolfson Campus
300 N.E. Second Ave.
Miami, Fl. 33132
305-237-7731
Home Movie Day 2019: “The 70s in Super8”
Saturday, October 19, 2019, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Miami Beach Cinematheque
1130 Washington Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139
FREE
Home Movie Day, the global celebration of amateur films and filmmaking, puts on the polyester in Miami as the Wolfson Archives hosts “The 70s In Super8,” an intimate look at life during America’s grooviest decade, captured by home moviemakers. What did everyday life in the 1970s actually look like? What was the interplay between pop culture images and real life? Home movies, which afford a glimpse of everyday life in the past, are uniquely suited to answer these questions. They’re also heartwarming, weird, and lots of fun.
In addition to screening footage from its home movie collections, which now number more than 4,000 reels, the MDC Wolfson Archives will host a Personal Preservation Workshop and accept donations of eligible home movies from the public.
Gateway to Anywhere: A Celebration of National Aviation Month
Thursday, November 14, 2019, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Curtiss Mansion and Gardens, 500 Deer Run, Miami Springs, FL 33166
FREE
An aviator founded Miami Springs, and the major international airport in the city’s backyard has been making news for decades. This free screening of unique, historic film and video from the Wolfson Archives will give you a one-of-a-kind look at aviation in Miami dating back to the 1930s. Included are early home movies of Pan Am, travel films, Eastern Airlines commercials, and news stories focused on aviation and airlines in South Florida.
REWIND Screenings
REWIND: WTFlorida?
September 3 – 26, 2019
Tuesdays and Thursdays, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
REWIND finds the Florida freakiness lurking in the vaults of the Wolfson Archives: treehouse living, no-tell motels and Miami’s favorite artist & warlock, VanDeCar.
REWIND: Latinx News Trailblazers
October 1 – 29, 2019
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
REWIND features the on-screen work of Latinx TV news reporters in South Florida from the 1960s to the 1990s, screening unique film and video from the Wolfson Archives’ collections.
REWIND SPECIAL: Halloween
October 31, 2019
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
Shake and shiver at this special Halloween REWIND as ghosts and ghouls creep from the shadows of the Wolfson Archives’ vaults. Featured: haunted hotels, creepy costumes and freaky fun.
REWIND: So Miami! The Drug War
November 5 – 28, 2019
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
REWIND’S screenings featuring Miami icons focuses on the drug wars of the 1980s, when the cocaine cowboys reshaped Miami in popular culture and real life.
REWIND: Building MDC Wolfson
December 3 – 19, 2019
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
REWIND traces the building of Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus from the demolition of a rundown Miami neighborhood to the construction and expansion of the College’s downtown campus.
REWIND: Early Adopters
January 7 – 30, 2020
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
REWIND explores the early days of computing in South Florida captured by unique, historic film and video from the Wolfson Archives’ collections.
REWIND: African-Americans on Camera
February 4 – 27, 2020
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
REWIND showcases the on-screen work of African-American TV news reporters in South Florida from the 1970s to the 1990s, screening unique film and video from the Wolfson Archives’ collections.
REWIND: News Women On Camera
March 3 – 31, 2020
Tuesdays and Thursdays, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
REWIND exhibits the on-screen work of female TV news reporters in South Florida from the 1970s to the 1990s, screening unique film and video from the Wolfson Archives’ collections.
REWIND: Green Miami
April 2 – 30, 2020
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
REWIND charges up the solar collector for a look at green technology in South Florida from its beginning in the 1970s. Special feature: electric and other alternative cars!
REWIND: 70s Tech
May 5 – 28, 2020
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Room 8401
FREE
Home video! Barcodes! Hand-held calculators! REWIND looks back on the brave new technological world of the 1970s, seen through the lens of unique, historic film and video from the Wolfson Archives’ collections.
DANCE
Kendall Campus
11011 S.W. 104 St.
Miami, Fl. 33176
305-237-2638 | Michelle Grant-Murray
Dance Cross Talk
Wednesday, Sept 24
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Room G303
FREE
Dance Improv session that builds the Community through the vernacular of the moving body.
The Art of Dance
Friday & Saturday, Nov. 22 & 23, 2019
7:30 p.m.
Martin & Pat Fine Theater Building M
MDC Kendall Campus will host its annual Art of Dance Concert, a moving exploration of images and narratives. Admission: $5 suggested donation to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
The Gathering, A Cultural Celebration of Community
Friday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m.
Room R402
A collaborative artistic conversation surrounding creativity, innovation and production.
Artistry in Rhythm (A.I.R.) Dance Conference
Friday & Saturday, March 20 & 21, 2020
Martin and Pat Fine Theater, Room M113
Three-day dance conference and residency that includes works by faculty, guest artist and student works.
TICKETS at www.mdc.edu/onstage
Focus on Dance
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
McCarthy Auditorium 6120
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
MUSIC
Kendall Campus
11011 S.W. 104 St.
Miami, Fl. 33176
305-237-2282 | Main Office
Please visit the MDC On Stage website for updates and schedule of upcoming events: http://www.mdc.edu/onstage
Faculty Concert | Classical and Jazz Fusion
Thursday, Sept. 26, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, McCarthy Theater (Room 6120)
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
Join the music faculty at MDC Kendall Campus, as Jazz & Classical come together. Among works that will be featured are three Cuban dances by Ernesto Lecuona, Ballade in G Minor by Frederic Chopin, and much more!
Halloween Spooktacular Concert and Film Noir Screening| Brian Neal & Leo Walz
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m.
Presented by the MDC Wind Symphony and Orchestra
MDC Kendall Campus | Fred Shaw Plaza
305-237-2091 | Brian Neal
$5 suggested donation to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Department
The MDC Wind Symphony along with the MDC Symphony Orchestra will perform an original spine-chilling score at a screening of a silent film. “All of the pieces will be accompanied by a visual movie that is associated with the piece, just a bit scary to celebrate Halloween,” said Brian Neal, the director of instrumental studies. This will be a fun stimulating event that you won’t want to miss!
A Choral Collage | Chamber Singers
Monday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m.
McCarthy Auditorium 6120
305-237-2426 | Misty Bermudez
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Department
Some Enchanted Evening: The Golden Age of Broadway
Sunday, Oct. 27, 4 p.m.
Civic Chorale of Greater Miami at MDC
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
14260 Old Cutler Road
Palmetto Bay, FL 33158
Tickets: $15 Adults/$10 Students & Seniors
305-237-2396 | Misty Bermudez
TICKETS AT www.civicchorale.info
Jazz Under the Stars
Friday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Jazz Concert
MDC Kendall Campus | Fred Shaw Plaza
305-237-2282 | James Broderick
Tickets: $10 Adults/$5 Students & Seniors / Free MDC Students
Join MDC’s Kendall stellar Jazz Faculty and Students as thy perform an evening of unique vocal and arrangements of jazz.
IKEA Live Music Performance
Saturday, Nov. 16
5 – 7 p.m.
801 NW 117 Ave, Miami, FL 33172
305-237-2262 | Mathew Bonelli
FREE
Join MDC’s Kendall Campus premier contemporary Rhythm and Blues ensemble and the MDC Studio Jazz Band for a live performance at IKEA. Enjoy unique vocal harmonies and arrangements of jazz and popular music.
Annual Tis’ the Season Christmas Concert | Kevin Wayne Bumpers
Monday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, K413
305-237-2392 | Kevin-Wayne Bumpers
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
MDC Kendall Campus professor Kevin Wayne Bumpers will host his Annual Tis’ The Season Christmas Concert. Along with Bumpers, the MDC Kendall Campus Chambers Singers and solo artists will perform classical Christmas songs.
2019 MDC Kendall Honor Music Festival Concert
Saturday, Dec. 7, from 2 – 4 p.m.
Concert Band, Orchestra, Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble
MDC Kendall Gibson Center
Building G – Room G117
FREE
The MDC Kendall Honor Music Festival is a recruiting event targeting MDCPS secondary level (9-12) instrumental music students. Last year, there were over 250 student participants representing a total of twenty schools including public, private and charter. Students audition for seating placement then attend rehearsals and master classes conducted by MDC Kendall adjunct and full-time music faculty. The three-day Festival culminates with a concert on the final day, which is open to the community and is free of charge. The 2019 Honor Music Festival Concert will include two concert bands, an orchestra and a jazz ensemble.
Messiah Sing-In | In collaboration with the FIU Concert Choir & Orchestra
Saturday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m.
Wertheim Performing Arts Center
Florida International University
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
10910 SW 17th Street
Miami, Florida 33199
Tickets: $15 General admission, $10 faculty & staff of FIU & MDC, $5 students, eight & under free
MDC Vocal Ensemble Showcase |Directed by Linda Alvarado & John McCarthy
Monday, Dec. 9, from 7:30 – 9 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus – Room 6120
11011 SW 104th Street, Kendall, FL 33176
305-237-2282 | Linda Alvarado
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Department
Join the Men’s Choir, Women’s Choir, and the Vocal Fusion ensemble for a versatile program fusing classical, jazz, and contemporary repertoire.
Lunch Time Jazz Concert | Directed by Jim Broderick
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 12 – 1 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus – Room K413
305-237-2282 | Jim Broderick
FREE
The sounds of the Lunch Time Jazz Band will delight lovers of jazz with vocal and instrumental performances of classic and contemporary compositions in big band and small ensemble settings. The musicians are students directed by James Broderick, MDC Kendall Campus Chairman of the Performing Arts and Industries Department and Matthew Bonelli, Jazz and Popular Music Educator at MDC Kendall Campus.
Wind Symphony and Orchestra | Directed by Leo Walz
Thursday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus | McCarthy Auditorium 6120
305-237-2393 | Leo Walz
$5 suggested donations to support the Performing Arts & Industries Department
I’ll Be Home for the Holidays | Civic Chorale of Greater Miami at MDC
Sunday, Dec. 15, 4 p.m.
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
14260 Old Cutler Rd,
Palmetto Bay, FL 33158
Tickets: $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students, Eight and under free
305-237-2426| Misty Bermudez
Faculty Concert | Classical and Jazz Fusion
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, McCarthy Theater – Room 6120
305-237-2282 | Main Office
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
Join the music faculty at MDC Kendall Campus, as Classical and Jazz come together for an evening of stellar live performances.
On Stage Outdoor Performing Arts Festival
Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, 1 – 6 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, Soccer Field
305-237-2282 | Office
$5 ADMISSION | OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
Join the MDC Kendall Campus ONStage Performing Arts Series as it presents its 2nd annual outdoor community Performing Arts Festival. The festival will feature an outdoor stage showcasing a variety of performances throughout the day ranging from jazz to R&B vocals, Orchestra and Wind Symphony ensembles, to Afro-Cuban dance and classical and theatrical realism. Performed by the students, alumni and faculty of the music, theater and dance department. Featuring a distinguished faculty, state-of-the-art facilities, and ample performance opportunities, the department guides and develops the artistic, intellectual, and professional growth of its students. The festival is all about making the arts accessible and bringing the students of the college as well as the members of the community together to celebrate the local talent, culture and creativity. Please visit the MDC On Stage website for updates and schedule of upcoming events: http://www.mdc.edu/onstage.
IKEA Live Music Performance
Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, from 5 – 7 p.m.
801 NW 117 Ave, Miami, FL 33172
305-237-2262 | Mathew Bonelli
FREE
Join MDC’s Kendall Campus premier contemporary Rhythm and Blues ensemble and the MDC Studio Jazz Band for a live performance at IKEA. Enjoy unique vocal harmonies and arrangements of jazz and popular music.
Some Enchanted Evening: The Golden Age of Broadway (second performance)
Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, 4 p.m.
Corpus Christi Catholic Church,
3220 NW 7th Ave,
Allapattah, FL 33127
305-237-2426 | Misty Bermudez
$5 tickets available at the door; Eight and under free
A Procession Winding Around Me | MDC Chamber Singers
by Jeffrey Van (Four Civic War Poems by Walt Whitman)
Accompanied by special guest guitarist Alvaro Bermudez
Monday, March 2, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus |McCarthy Auditorium 6120
305-237-2426 | Misty Bermudez
H.M.S. Pinafore | Directed by Leo Walz and Misty Bermudez
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
Friday & Saturday, March 13-14, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, 6120
305-237-2393 | Leo Walz
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
MDC Orchestra with New World School of the Arts | Side by Side Concert
Thursday, April 2, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, McCarthy Auditorium 6120
305-237-2393 | Leo Walz
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
IKEA Live Music Performance
Saturday, April 4, 2020, from 5 – 7 p.m.
305-237-2262 | Mathew Bonelli
FREE
Join MDC’s Kendall Campus premier contemporary Rhythm and Blues ensemble and the MDC Studio Jazz Band for a live performance at IKEA. Enjoy unique vocal harmonies and arrangements of jazz and popular music.
Night Time Jazz Band, Directed by Jim Broderick
Tuesday, April 7, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus – Room K413
305-237-2282 | Jim Broderick
FREE
The big band voices of the Night Time Jazz Band will delight lovers of jazz with vocal and instrumental performances of classic and contemporary compositions in big band and small ensemble settings. The musicians are community members and students directed by James Broderick, MDC Kendall Campus Chairman of the Music, Theater and Dance Department The performance includes a 25-plus piece ensemble, a rhythm section and a vocalist. The Night Time Jazz Band was established in 2008 to educate students, involve the community and promote jazz.
Wind Symphony and Orchestra | Directed by Leo Walz
Thursday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus – Room 6120
305-237-2393 | Leo Walz
$5 suggested donations to support the MDC Kendall Performing Arts & Industries Department
Fauré’s Requiem (first performance)
Saturday, April 25, 2020, 4 p.m.
Featuring organist & soprano & baritone soloists Wertheim Performing Arts Center
Florida International University
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
10910 SW 17th ST,
Miami, Florida 33199
305-237-2426 | Misty Bermudez
Tickets: $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students, Eight and under free
Fauré’s Requiem (second performance)
Sunday, April 26, 2020, at 4 p.m.
Miami, FL 33143St. Andrews Episcopal Church
14260 Old Cutler Road
Palmetto Bay, Fl 33158
305-237-2426 | Misty Bermudez
Tickets: $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students, Eight and under free
THEATER
Kendall Campus
11011 S.W. 104 St.
Miami, Fl. 33176
All in the Timing | Six One-Act Plays by American Playwright David Ives
Performed by the MDC Theatre Department, Directed by Micah Smyth with music by Leo Walz
October 10, 11 & 12, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
October 13, Matinee, 2 – 4 p.m.
October 17, 18 & 19 7:30 – 9 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, Martin & Pat Fine Theater Building M
305-237-2807 | Micah Smyth
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
All in the Timing is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993 It was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994, with a collection of six plays. The short plays are comedy-dramas focusing mainly on language and wordplay, existentialist perspectives on life and meaning, as well as the complications involved in romantic relationships. Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award. This critically acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun.
Opera Theatre Ensemble | An Evening of Opera Scenes
Monday, Nov. 18, 2019 – 7:30 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, M113 | McCarthy Auditorium 6120
305-237-2426 | Misty Bermudez
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
Rocky Horror Show| Performed by the MDC Music, Dance and Theatre Department
February 27, 28 & 29, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
March 1, Matinee, 2 – 4 p.m.
March 5, 6, & 7, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, Building M
Martin & Pat Fine Theater
305-237-2807 | Micah Smyth
One auspicious night a wholesome young couple in love innocently set out to visit an old professor. Unfortunately for them, this night of misadventures will cause them to question everything they’ve known about themselves, each other, love, and lust. The Rocky Horror Show is a hilarious, wild ride that no audience will soon forget.
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Program
Opera Theater Ensemble | Broadway Revue
Monday, April 20, 2020- 7:30 p.m.
MDC Kendall Campus, McCarthy Auditorium 6120
305-237-2426 | Misty Bermudez
$5 suggested donations to support MDC Kendall Performing Arts and Industries Department
Please visit the MDC On Stage website for updates and schedule of upcoming events: http://www.mdc.edu/onstage