50th Annual Art Deco Weekend 2027

Flooding in Florida: The Bellwether of Climate Change
2024-01-14 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
The goals of historic preservation are often at odds with efforts to protect properties from climate change. While preservation encourages maintaining a property’s historic appearance, climate change adaptation often requires change, sometimes radical change, to maintain the safety of a building and its occupants.
As the impacts of flooding and intense storms are increasing in prevalence, property owners and communities are trying to balance their desire to increase resiliency in their communities, while maintaining their historic character and sense of place. Property owners seek options to improve resilience in response to parcel vulnerability. At a community level, municipalities are developing policies, programs, and requirements to address vulnerability on a larger scale, often without considering the impacts on historic resources.
To specifically address the impacts of severe storms on the state’s historic resources, Florida’s Division of Historical Resources, the SHPO, sought to prepare three guidance documents to address the impacts of severe storms. Going beyond a regulatory review, the guidance relied heavily on information gained through site visits in in-person interviews with eighteen small to mid-sized communities across the state. The site visits provided a first-hand opportunity to document prior storm damage, recovery efforts, and vulnerability as well as the implementation of community-wide and property specific resiliency measures. The information gained during the site visits was compiled to serve as a reference for similar communities. The resulting guidance documents provide a holistic approach for three separate audiences: property owners, municipalities, and state agencies. They described flood and wind mitigation vulnerability and resiliency measures for historic buildings and archaeological sites, and include an analysis of severe storms on tourism, a key state industry.
The presentation will review the challenges of addressing flood and wind vulnerability across a wide geographic area. It will include a breakdown of the roles, responsibilities, and regulatory requirements of the owner, federal, state, and local governments when addressing the mitigation of historic properties.

About the Speakers
Dominique M. Hawkins, the founding principal of Preservation Design Partnership [PDP], was one of two individuals to complete dual Master’s Degrees in Architecture and Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing her degrees in 1992, she apprenticed with two of the most respected preservation firms in the Mid-Atlantic Region and served as a Preservation Specialist with the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office. In 1995, Dominique established Preservation Design Partnership [PDP] as a planning and design practice focusing exclusively on offering high-quality professional services for clients with nationally – significant historic sites and buildings.
Dominique’s nationally recognized and pioneering work in the understanding of the regulatory review process has been the foundation for preparing Design Guidelines for historic communities and districts throughout the country. Some examples are the 19 Historic Districts of New Orleans, including the Vieux Carre [a.k.a. the French Quarter], a National Historic Landmark; Newton, Massachusetts, containing over thirty National Historic Districts; Oak Park, Illinois, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to name a few. Through this work, Dominique has developed unique collaborative and public education skills in working with client groups, stakeholders, community leaders, and the public in shaping projects, achieving consensus, and reaching conclusions in an effective manner.
She has authored the Flood Mitigation Guide: Maryland’s Historic Properties; Flood Mitigation Guide for Historic Properties and Elevation Design Guidelines for Historic Properties for the NJ Historic Preservation Office and the Historic Preservation Master Plan and Flood Mitigation Guidance for the City of St. Augustine, Florida. She recently completed the Storm Guidance resource for Florida’s Division of Historical Resources which developed flood and storm mitigation guidance for property owners, local governments, and state entities. She is currently working with the community in Charleston to identify equitable resilience strategies. Her work has been recognized with several preservation and design awards.
Jennifer M. Wolfe, AICP is a Preservation Planning Specialist with Preservation Design Partnership, a heritage planning and architectural firm based in Philadelphia. Her previous work as the Historic Preservation Officer in St. Augustine included confronting the impacts of hurricanes and nuisance flooding with vulnerability studies and adaptation analysis. With PDP, she worked on a statewide storm guidance document for all audiences and continues to engage other communities in similar challenges. Jennifer is Past President of the Board for the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation and a graduate of the University of Florida’s architectural preservation program.

Jesse Jones Jr. Jazz Ensemble
2024-01-14 15:30 - 17:30 | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
Jazz is alive in South Florida and Jesse Jones Jr. is here to prove it! The Miami native is a saxophonist extraordinaire and continues to be on the forefront of a burgeoning jazz renaissance in South Florida. Jones and his brother, Melton Mustafa, who is one of the great trumpet players of our time, have been a running force in music for many years.
As a child, Jones would listen to a neighbor practice his saxophone while playing along with Cannonball Adderly albums. “I loved that sound and knew right then I was going to be a musician for the rest of my life.” Jones went on to attend Mississippi Valley State University where he excelled in music. After college, he joined the military and became a member of the US Navy Show Band. Jones traveled throughout North and South America, and had the opportunity to develop his showmanship skills. Besides playing the sax, clarinet and flute on tour, Jones sang, tap-danced and performed comedy skits. After serving his four year military term, Jones moved to Boston before returning home to Miami, where he signed with Fantasy Records in 1996.
Sunday, January 14th, 2024
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park and 12th Street

Ocean Drive Architectural Tour
2024-01-14 15:30 - 17:00, 2024-01-14 12:30 - 14:00, 2024-01-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
This 1 1/2 to 2-hour walking tour provides an introduction to the Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and Miami Modern (MiMo) styles found within the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District. Explore hotels, restaurants, and other commercial structures with a visit to a number of interiors.
All tours are rain or shine. Please dress for the weather as there are no refunds for inclement conditions.

Resurfacing the Moorish Magic of Opa-locka
2024-01-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, 33139, United States
The City of Opa-locka is Miami-Dade County’s eighth oldest municipality, founded in 1926 by American aviator and inventor Glenn Curtiss. A city built in the theme of Arabian Nights and with an architectural motif known today as Moorish Revival, a new movement has taken hold to identify, resurrect, and preserve landmarks from the past through comprehensive surveys, education, and community engagement.
About the Speakers
Linda Stevenson, PhD AIA, preservation architect, adjunct assistant professor for the University of Florida’s Historic Preservation Program, and Alex Van Mecl, public relations professional-turned citizen preservationist, founder of Discover Opa-locka and the Opa-locka Preservation Association (OPA), and also currently serving as Vice Chair of Opa-locka’s Historic Environmental Preservation Board.
Stevenson holds a PhD, with a concentration in historic preservation, from the University of Florida, where she has taught for the last eleven years. She has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of South Florida. She is a Florida-licensed architect with over 37 years of practice experience and a portfolio of award-winning projects. Some of her favorite projects focus on the many delightful and quirky resources that are found throughout Florida’s communities and state parks. She is an active Trustee for the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, serving since 2015.
Alex Van Mecl is a certified public relations professional and passionate citizen preservationist born and raised in Fort Myers, Florida. He serves the City of Opa-locka, Florida as the Vice Chair of the Historic Environmental Preservation Board, and is the founder of Discover Opa-locka, a digital educational campaign focused on the preservation and promotion of the history and related activities of the community. Formerly, he resided in Los Angeles where he worked in the entertainment industry in varying capacities, including being a network publicist at HBO and HBO Max, working on network shows such as Game of Thrones

What in the World?! How Walt Created Disney World
2024-01-14 14:30 - 15:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
When Walt Disney realized cheap tourist traps were enveloping Disneyland, he began a nationwide search for enough land to hold every dream he could imagine. What happened next would require a heightened degree of CIA-level secrecy for Disney’s undercover team, which launched a misinformation campaign that included dummy corporations and secret transactions. However, when a keen-eyed reporter cracked the code, Disney was forced to show his hand. Audiences will be amazed to learn of subterfuge, monumental innovations and engineering feats required to create a whole new world.

About the Speaker
Gary McKechnie is a member of the Florida Humanities Speakers Bureau, with presentations including this talk as well as ‘Sunshine State Soundtrack’ (a round-up of famous Florida-born musicians). McKechnie is a former stand-up comedian improv actor, and author of the nation’s best-selling motorcycle guidebook, Great American Motorcycle Tours, and a two-time National Geographic author (USA 101 and Ten Best of Everything: National Parks).
McKechnie has written for Walt Disney World, Fodor’s travel guides, Rand McNally, AOL, People, National Geographic Traveler, the Washington Post, Harley-Davidson, Orlando magazine, Florida magazine, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Orlando Sentinel, Miami Herald, and United Airlines’ Hemispheres.
Additionally, he is a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, a member of the Society of America Travel Writers, and covered back road destinations throughout the state as Visit Florida’s ‘Off the Beaten Path’ Insider. In 2014 he was selected by the Motorcycle Industry Council to appear as on-camera talent and chronicle the Cannon Ball Centennial Ride, a 3,450-mile cross-country motorcycle expedition.
Together with his wife, Nancy Howell, he owned and operated Mount Dora’s Coconut Cottage Inn from 2000-2018 and also teamed up to write ‘A Brief History of Mount Dora’ for the History Press. At sea, he lectures on American travel, culture, and music aboard the Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, and the ships of Seabourn and Silversea. As a community activist, he initiated the drive to renovate the Mount Dora Community Building and created a 501(c)3 non-profit Mount Dora Community Building Foundation to aid in its operation. He also formed the non-profit Mabel Norris Reese Tribute Fund, Inc. which was successful in crowd-sourcing the funds to create a monument to the courageous editor of the Mount Dora Topic who faced repeated death threats for her defense of civil rights during the 1950s.
In 2018 he ran as the Democratic candidate for Florida State Senate, District 12. Most recently, he initiated the successful drive to honor Desi Arnaz with a Florida Historic Marker which is scheduled to be unveiled in late 2023.

Sketchwalk #5 with Ana Andras
2024-01-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Meeting point is in front of the Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center (1001 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139) or the Urban Sketchers designated tent.
People of all ages and all drawing levels and skills are welcome. A Sketchwalk is an interactive walking tour run by Urban Sketcher leaders, where its participants stop to pull out their sketchbooks and capture the scene in a drawing. These on location from observation sketches tell the story of place, time, and community.
As this event is OUTDOORS be prepared with drinking water, portable chair/stool, and appropriate clothes for the weather. This event is FREE.

South Beach Crimes & Scandals Tour
2024-01-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
This 2-hour walking tour focuses on illegal activities and shady characters in Miami Beach history. Topics include political corruption, illegal gambling, alcohol during prohibition, and organized crime figures. Tour departs from the Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139. All tours are rain or shine. Please dress for the weather as there are no refunds for inclement conditions.

From City to Country: An Inside Look at Designing Houses Today
2024-01-14 14:00 | Miam Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, 33139, United States
Join firm founder Peter Pennoyer and Tim Kelly, associate principal and head of the Miami office, for an exclusive look at some of their most stylish city residences and striking country and coastal properties. As they share photos and discuss the process of designing distinctive architecture, Peter and Tim will offer insight into how the firm takes a client’s vision and transforms it into houses and buildings that are informed by tradition and history with a contemporary perspective and designed, above all, to endure. A book signing will follow the talk.

Peter Pennoyer, Founder Partner, Peter Pennoyer Architects
Tim Kelly, Associate Principal, Peter Pennoyer Architects
Show Floor Lounge in Front of A/B Hall

FIU Art Deco Combo under the direction of Lisanne Lyons
2024-01-14 13:30 - 14:45 | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
The multi-DownBeat award-winning Florida International University Panthonics is the premier vocal jazz ensemble within the Division of Jazz Studies in the Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts. Directed by Dr. Lisanne Lyons, they perform a varied and challenging repertoire of jazz-influenced music, contemporary, Latin, and a capella styles.
The group emphasizes close harmonies, improvisation, cutting-edge repertoire, and new works by renowned contemporary arrangers and well arrangements by FIU faculty. The ensemble and its students have been featured with the Sunrise Pops Big Band, the World Performing Arts Center for the Live at Lynn series, Jazz at Jacksons, and WDNA. They were also the first jazz vocal ensemble to be invited to perform a concert for the FMEA Conference in 2019.
The award-winning FIU Panthonics was also the first student ensemble to perform at the Jazz Educators Network held this past January in Orlando. They also performed for the 2022 Pompano Jazz Festival opening for David Sanborn.

Miami's Desi Arnaz: Achieving the American Dream
2024-01-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
In 1933, Batista’s Cuban Revolution forced Desi Arnaz and his dad to flee to Miami, where the penniless 16-year-old arrived without the ability to speak, read, or understand English. He cleaned canary cages, laid tile, and struggled to save money by sleeping in a warehouse.
At St. Patrick Catholic School, Desi learned English, practiced guitar, and picked up the conga drum and after graduation played gigs at the Roney Plaza Hotel. In 1937 he was booked to open the 200-seat Park Avenue nightclub where it was quickly apparent Desi’s pick-up musicians couldn’t play the Latin rhythms Arnaz had promised. Afraid of being fired on his first night, Arnaz recalled a hypnotic rhythm played at Cuban parties and quickly taught the musicians to play a cadence of ‘One-two-three-KICK!’ Beating his conga drum in time, Desi shouted to the audience to follow him out of the Park Avenue and around Collins Park. The mania that followed what he called his ‘Dance of Desperation’ launched Arnaz into stardom and started ‘The Conga Craze’ in America.
What followed were roles on Broadway, motion pictures, the formation of his own orchestra, the production and ownership of ‘I Love Lucy’, the creation of modern television, and his purchase of RKO Studios. And it all started right here in Miami Beach.

About the Speaker
Gary McKechnie is a member of the Florida Humanities Speakers Bureau, with presentations including this talk as well as ‘Sunshine State Soundtrack’ (a round-up of famous Florida-born musicians). McKechnie is a former stand-up comedian improv actor, and author of the nation’s best-selling motorcycle guidebook, Great American Motorcycle Tours, and a two-time National Geographic author (USA 101 and Ten Best of Everything: National Parks).
McKechnie has written for Walt Disney World, Fodor’s travel guides, Rand McNally, AOL, People, National Geographic Traveler, the Washington Post, Harley-Davidson, Orlando magazine, Florida magazine, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Orlando Sentinel, Miami Herald, and United Airlines’ Hemispheres.
Additionally, he is a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, a member of the Society of America Travel Writers, and covered back road destinations throughout the state as Visit Florida’s ‘Off the Beaten Path’ Insider. In 2014 he was selected by the Motorcycle Industry Council to appear as on-camera talent and chronicle the Cannon Ball Centennial Ride, a 3,450-mile cross-country motorcycle expedition.
Together with his wife, Nancy Howell, he owned and operated Mount Dora’s Coconut Cottage Inn from 2000-2018 and also teamed up to write ‘A Brief History of Mount Dora’ for the History Press. At sea, he lectures on American travel, culture, and music aboard the Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, and the ships of Seabourn and Silversea. As a community activist, he initiated the drive to renovate the Mount Dora Community Building and created a 501(c)3 non-profit Mount Dora Community Building Foundation to aid in its operation. He also formed the non-profit Mabel Norris Reese Tribute Fund, Inc. which was successful in crowd-sourcing the funds to create a monument to the courageous editor of the Mount Dora Topic who faced repeated death threats for her defense of civil rights during the 1950s.
In 2018 he ran as the Democratic candidate for Florida State Senate, District 12. Most recently, he initiated the successful drive to honor Desi Arnaz with a Florida Historic Marker which is scheduled to be unveiled in Spring 2024.

Calisthenics Meetup
2024-01-14 13:00 | Muscle Beach Area, 873 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Embrace the strength of bodyweight training at Muscle Beach (9th & Ocean) during Art Deco Weekend with Angel from UFCL leading our Calisthenics Meet Up. Join this empowering session amidst the iconic Art Deco setting, where you’ll unlock your full potential through dynamic bodyweight exercises, fostering strength, flexibility, and a sense of community.

Advance Registration Not Required
Free event

Tales from the Trade: An OMBAS Tell All
2024-01-14 13:00 | Miam Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, 33139, United States
The one that got away, bidding wars, pieces of questionable provenance, unusual requests…our dealers have stories to tell! Traditionally kept within the confines of those “in the know,” for the first time, a diverse group of OMBAS dealers will spill the tea publicly! Without naming names, this tell-all panel discussion will provide an inside glimpse into what it’s like to be an antique, vintage and estate dealer.

Laurie Geller, Geller & Co.
Kurt Rothner, Excalibur
Frank Kravits, Northeastern Jewelers and Estate
Show Floor Lounge in Front of A/B Hall

Arf Deco Dog Walk
2024-01-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Majestic Hotel, 660 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Meet in front of the Majestic Hotel (at 7th and Ocean Drive)!
Sunday, January 14 at 12 pm, bring your pooch and join us for a walk around Ocean Drive during Art Deco Weekend.
We know you want to put on a little 1920s Ritz for a proper promenade but don’t leave out your best friend. Doggies like to dress Deco too. Social media anyone?
Our Community Grand Marshal, the host with the most, will be none other than local treasure and celebrity, George Neary.
The Honorary Grand Marshal will be Archie, the Great Dane. Archie doesn’t talk much but he can do a few tricks and likes to pose for photos.
Follow him on Instagram @gr8dane.archie.

Lesson: 20's Charleston with 4 x World Champion Yuval and Juls
2024-01-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
Learn the basic dance steps of 20’s Charleston with 4 x World Champion Yuval Hod & Juls Slavikas!
No partner required!
ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS

YUVAL HOD

JULS SLAVIKAS

ABOUT THE DANCE

20’s Charleston is a dance named after the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called “The Charleston” by composer/pianist James P. Johnson, which originated in the Broadway show Runnin’ Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade. The peak year for the Charleston as a dance by the public was mid-1926 to 1927.[1] It’s known as “the father of swing,” as it evolved to Lindy Hop.
[ 1 Defenition pulled from Wikipedia]
Put a hop in your step during Art Deco Weekend!

* In addition to this class, don’t miss the mini-lessons and entertainment between jazz band breaks!

Get ready before the weekend— watch ADW’s 2021 online dance classes for free!

The lesson will be held at the Jazz Age Stage on Lummus Park & 12th Street from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Bootcamp Workout at Muscle Beach
2024-01-14 12:00 | Muscle Beach Area, 873 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Join Tanner Kain, from Anatomy, for an exhilarating Bootcamp Class at Muscle Beach (9th & Ocean Drive) during Art Deco Weekend! Experience a high-intensity workout that combines strength, cardio, and agility exercises, all set against the vibrant backdrop of Art Deco architecture, ensuring a challenging and invigorating session to elevate your fitness goals.
Advance Registration Not Required
Free event

Sketchwalk #4 with TJ Marston
2024-01-14 11:30 - 13:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States

The Original Miami Beach Antique Show
2024-01-11 11:00 - 19:00 | Miam Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, 33139, United States
The Original Miami Beach Antique Show presents more than 600+ recognized dealers from over 30 countries for five days. Attendees can explore the show floor and discover everything from jewelry, watches, and handbags to artwork, furniture, home décor and so much more.
Art Deco Weekend Visitors may obtain free tickets: click here!

Jewish Miami Beach Tour
2024-01-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
This walking tour explores the rise and fall of the Jewish population of Miami Beach over the past 100 years, including a look at the impact of selected key Jewish individuals and institutions, plus an overview of architectural styles in the southernmost part of the city. Tour starts at the Welcome Center tent and ends at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, at Third Street and Washington Avenue.
Please note: this is a specialty tour and as such has a flat ticket rate of $35 per person.

Spanish Art Deco Walking Tour
2024-01-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
A free Art Deco Walking Tour sponsored by the Miami Design Preservation League. Tour Guide Carolina Isabela, also known as Caro the Tour Guide, will lead the tour around the district. The tour will last between 90 minutes and 2 hours. This tour will be conducted in Spanish.
Free tour – but registration is required!

Florida’s First Travelogue: A Spanish Shipwreck Survivor’s Memoir of Enslavement with the Calusa Tribe for 17 Years
2024-01-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Hernando D’Escalante Fontaneda was 13 years old when he survived a shipwreck in Florida in 1549. He and his brother were sailing from their home in Cartagena to be educated in Salamanca, Spain. In his memoir, Fontaneda wrote that the Calusas enslaved him rather than martyring him, like other shipwreck survivors, because he obeyed their commands to sing and dance. Seventeen years later, St. Augustine was founded and Fontaneda united with Governor Menendez to become his interpreter with Florida’s tribes for five years, as he claimed to have learned most tribes’ languages during his captivity. Many names of places in modern Florida were first written in his memoir, like “Mayaimi”, “Ocale”, “Apalache”, “Tanpe”, and more. His memoir describes the plants, animals, foods, customs, geography, and other details of pre-Spanish Florida, interwoven with personal stories and observations, mainly to help Spain settle and colonize the new territory. Fontaneda’s observations about pre-Spanish Florida will be discussed in the lecture, as well as the “New World” he lived in.

About the Speaker
Stuart Reed is an attorney and mediator living in Miami Beach, Florida. Reed opened his first solo office in 1997 in Miami Beach’s Historic City Hall. Soon after, he became a member and chair of the Sierra Club’s Miami Group and the City of Miami Beach’s Marine Authority. Reed is currently a member of the City of Miami Beach’s Historic Preservation Board and was recently a member of the Miami Design Preservation League’s Board of Directors.
Before he attended law school at Florida State University from 1989-1992, he worked for Miami Dade County’s Department of Environmental Resources Management as a pollution control inspector. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1988 with major studies in Environmental Sciences. In 2003, he kayaked around the full circumference of Biscayne Bay with two friends, which took 8 days. At that time, he kayaked often and frequently wondered what life was like for the Tequesta tribe before the Spanish arrived, with so much seafood and fresh water around Biscayne Bay.
In 2006, he attended a lecture at the Wolfsonian Museum about the Tequesta tribe by Bob Carr, the state’s chief archaeologist who was supervising the Miami Circle’s excavation. He said that almost everything we know about Florida before Spanish settlement came from Fontaneda’s memoirs. Since then, learning about Fontaneda and the world he lived has been a passion for Reed. Says Reed: “His story is like a long-lost Spanish treasure that deserves to be shared with a wider audience.”

Bootcamp Workout at Muscle Beach
2024-01-14 11:00 | Muscle Beach Area, 873 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Get ready to challenge your limits at Muscle Beach (9th & Ocean Drive) during Art Deco Weekend with PJ and Deron leading our dynamic Bootcamp Class! This high-energy workout combines strength, cardio, and endurance exercises amidst the historic Art Deco scenery, ensuring an invigorating session that pushes your boundaries and leaves you feeling empowered.
Advance Registration Not Required
Free event

Demo on Watercolor with TJ Marston
2024-01-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Join us for a watercolor demo session.
Meeting point is in front of the Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center (1001 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139) or the Urban Sketchers designated tent.
People of all ages and all drawing levels and skills are welcome. A Sketchwalk is an interactive walking tour run by Urban Sketcher leaders, where its participants stop to pull out their sketchbooks and capture the scene in a drawing. These on location from observation sketches tell the story of place, time, and community.
As this event is OUTDOORS be prepared with drinking water, portable chair/stool, and appropriate clothes for the weather. This event is FREE.

The Miami Creation Myth: How We Tell South Florida's Stories
2024-01-14 10:00 - 23:00 | Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, 33139, United States
Every great civilization, from the Ancient Greeks to the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Norse had their gods, villains, and heroes. These millennia-old stories of love, violence, honor, and betrayal passed people’s beliefs about themselves to subsequent generations. They were altered through incalculable tellings to better fit changing norms and political ends, but the core messages remained.
Andrew Otazo fervently believes that Miami, being a globally unique amalgamation of so many cultures, deserves its own legendary cycle. In his talk, he will read two chapters from The Miami Creation Myth, a book he authored that immerses its readers in a universe with its own, often absurd, deities, rules, and norms—much like the city on which it is based. These modern myths use humor to delve into the wonderful richness, as well as endemic privilege and cultural misunderstandings, prevalent in one of America’s most diverse cities.
Specifically, the chapters will cover this Miami-based universe’s creation and how its different communities were founded and interacted with each other. Before each chapter, Otazo will provide context on the history of Miami that served as the inspiration for the dramatizations found in the book.

About the Speaker
A native Miamian, Andrew Otazo is a Cuban-American author who wrote a book titled The Miami Creation Myth. Andrew currently runs his own communications firm named ARO Communications which specializes in public relations strategy, environmental, social, governance, executive positioning, and earned media. He previously worked at several international public relations agencies.
Andrew served as the executive director of the Cuba Study Group, where he advocated to policymakers on Capitol Hill. He published 17 academic publications that sold over 10,000 copies to the world’s top universities, graduate courses, and corporations while a research associate at the Harvard Business School. Andrew also worked as a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School and he helped implement U.S. foreign policy at the State Department. As Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s personal assistant, he facilitated the decision-making process of one of the world’s highest-level policymakers. Andrew is a native Spanish speaker and proficient in Portuguese.
Andrew removed 23,000 pounds of trash from South Florida’s mangrove forests and ocean. He carried a 35-pound bag of mangrove trash (currently in History Miami’s permanent collection) the length of the 2019 Miami Marathon and led a team that hauled a 130-pound trash cart throughout the 2020 Miami Marathon. These efforts raised over $30,500 to protect Miami’s coastal habitats.
Andrew was named to Brickell Magazine’s Top 20 Under 40 List, The New Tropic’s Locals to Know, Local 10’s Most Treasured Citizen, Miami’s Next Leader, FAES Latino Leader in Politics, and received two Proclamation from the Village of Key Biscayne.
Andrew has lectured at the Harvard Law School, Columbia Business School, University of Miami, Cornell, Clemson, Miami Dade College, and local South Florida middle and high schools.

Artisan Market
2024-01-12 12:00 - 20:00 | Ocean Drive between 5th and 10th Street, 601 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Browse a variety of items for sale at the Art Deco Weekend artisan market. Featuring vendors from the local community as well as out-of-state, find something unique to take home from the festival!

Deco Kids Fun Zone in support of Feinberg-Fisher Miami Beach
2024-01-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Ocean Drive & 8th Street, 801 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Join us for the annual Deco Kids Fun Zone at Art Deco Weekend. Bring the kids to participate in bounce house, obstacle course, and other activities. Suggested Donation $5 to support the historic Fienberg-Fisher K-8 in the Art Deco District.
Location: Ocean Drive between 8th and 9th street in Lummus Park.

Classic Car Show by the Antique Automobile Club of America South Florida Region
2024-01-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Ocean Drive between 5th and 10th Street, 601 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Art Deco Weekend welcomes back the Classic Car Show presented by the Antique Automobile Club of America South Florida Region – made up of enthusiasts of antique automobiles of all makes and models of cars, trucks, and motorcycles from the early 1900s up to 1991. On Saturday (1/13) and Sunday (1/14), antique automobiles from all over Florida will be on display along Ocean Drive starting at 5th street going north to 10th street. [No tickets required]

Chess on Ocean Drive
2024-01-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
Join us along with Commissioner Laura Dominguez on Ocean Drive to play Chess in memory of Commissioner Mark Samuelian.
Location is 12th and Ocean Drive next to the Jazz Age Stage.
All ages and experience levels welcome!
