City of Miami Beach

Wandering Strangers Exhibitions by Maria Lino
2025-10-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Miami Beach Visual Arts Gallery, 1602A Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Opening Thursday, October 16th, Wandering Strangers presents multidisciplinary works that weave together animation, video, textiles, text, and set design. Drawing from personal narratives, literature, and travel, the exhibition explores the rhythms and repetitions of daily life often experienced by women, children, migrants, and persons with disabilities. Through non-linear storytelling and patterns of movement, the work reflects on displacement, migration, and the search for belonging—reminding us that human migration is a continuum, and that each of us walks in the footsteps of others.

OnStage! Featuring Miamibloco's Bateria Saideira with Rum & Coke
2025-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Euclid Oval, 660 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the City of Miami Beach OnStage! with another iteration of a samba percussion orchestra performance by Miamibloco and grooves by Rum & Coke at the Euclid Oval on Lincoln Road.
Kick off the night with a retro Afro-Caribbean dance set hosted by residents DJ Kumi, Harold Fandino, and Jesus Rodriguez from 6-7:30 PM followed by two back-to-back samba performances by Miamibloco at 7:30 and 8:15 PM.
Miamibloco is an intergenerational Afro-Brazilian percussion and dance not-for-profit organization dedicated to using music as a tool for building cultural connection, belonging, and civic pride in Miami.
Rum And Coke is a monthly gathering exploring the expansive sonic palette of the Caribbean and Latin America-via-Africa, with a focus specifically on the golden age of this music (the 1960’s – 1980’s).
Presented by City of Miami Beach, OnStage! features live performances and temporary art installations featured in Miami Beach parks and public spaces throughout the city.
Onstage! culturally diverse programming includes music, movies, dance and more.

Phase Gallery at Moonlighter FabLab Presents: Dawn of Digital
2025-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Moonlighter FabLab, 1661 Pennsylvania Ave, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Celebrating the design and innovation of the technologies that sparked the digital revolution – Featuring selections from the private collection of Mario Cruz with restoration support from Miguel Corteguera. Step into the spark that ignited our digital age. Dawn of Digital: The Art & Soul of Early Computing invites visitors to explore the iconic devices that revolutionized the relationship between humans and machines. Dawn of Digital not only celebrates these technological artifacts as milestones but elevates them as cultural objects—evidence of an era that dared to imagine computing as universal.
Exhibition on view, Hands-on activities for all ages, Light Bites & Refreshments served.

Third Thursdays Featuring The Bass Dialogues with assume vivid astro focus
2025-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 | The Bass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, 33139, United States
After a highly celebrated exhibition debut in 2024, artist Eli Sudbrack, of the multidisciplinary collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf), returns to The Bass to reflect on the success and continuation of assume vivid astro focus: XI, a kaleidoscopic installation that blurs the boundaries between art, performance, and film.
Moderated by Claudia Mattos, Associate Curator of New Media at The Bass, this vibrant conversation will share the origins and evolution of XI, discuss avaf’s practice of inclusion, collaboration, and experimentation, as well as the role of exhibitions as a platform to create immersive environments to foster community and expression.

Museum and a Movie: Meet Me in St. Louis
2025-10-16 19:00 - 21:00 | The Wolfsonian–FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Travel back to turn-of-the-century America in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), MGM’s musical love letter to family, tradition, and the excitement of a world on the brink of change. Set against the backdrop of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the film follows the lives of the Smith family through a year of seasonal joys and bittersweet transitions. Come early for a 6:15pm guided tour of World’s Fairs: Visions of Tomorrow and then stay for Judy Garland debuting such classic standards as “The Trolley Song,” “The Boy Next Door,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” in one of her most beloved roles.
Presented with the Miami Film Festival, with support from the mayor and city commission of the City of Miami Beach.

North Beach Social: Diego Melgar
2025-10-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Miami Beach Bandshell, 7275 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, 33141, United States
Idiosyncratic guitarist and composer Diego Melgar celebrates over a decade of Miami-rooted music with Swamp Lily, a multimedia concert blending jazz, R&B, gospel, electronic, and ambient sounds. Joined by longtime collaborators—including Dani Amaro, Marty Quinn, Sohn Jamal, and the Refuge Church Miami Praise Team—Melgar’s performance features choreography by Pioneer Winter, Nicole Pedraza, and Junior Domingos, alongside immersive visuals by Nika Dotsenko and Diago Leon. This free North Beach Social event transforms the Bandshell into a vibrant, genre-spanning musical experience for the community.
