Anibal Berraute’s Milonga Under the Stars
2022-01-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
Anibal Berraute presents a Milonga Under the Stars. Enjoy a night of Tango Fusion with special dance performances. The program is led by Berraute, an Argentinean piano player, composer, arranger, and producer, that fuses the tango with elements of other musical forms.
The fusion includes the “Uruguayan candombe” with its African roots and Argentinean rhythms, traditional country folklore sounds, and American jazz among others, creating a new vibrant harmonic approach to a genre. In a little over a century, this genre transcended its humble beginnings to reach the whole world, and its concert halls to be finally declared “cultural patrimony of humanity” by the United Nations.
Don’t miss the live tango performances!

Ocean Drive Architectural Tour
2022-01-16 15:30 - 17:00, 2022-01-16 12:30 - 14:00, 2022-01-16 10:30 - 12:00, 2022-01-15 16:00 - 17:30 | 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.
Tour takers will be provided with a sanitized wireless receiver and headphones which will transmit audio from the tour guide, in order to allow for social distancing of at least 6 feet between tour takers.
All tours are rain or shine. Please dress for the weather as there are no refunds for inclement conditions.

A Wonderful World
2022-01-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2022-01-15 20:00 - 22:00 | Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
A world-premiere musical about jazz legend and singular American icon Louis Armstrong, featuring songs recorded and made popular by Armstrong, and original book by Aurin Squire, the multi-talented Opalocka-raised playwright and TV writer (This is Us, The Good Fight), and co-author of Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy.
A Wonderful World, traces Armstrong’s odyssey, the musical genre he helped define, and the complex history of race in America, from the birth of jazz in Armstrong’s native New Orleans to international stardom and the Civil Rights era. Squire focuses his musical drama through the prism of the women in Armstrong’s life. Directed by Drama Desk winner and Tony nominee Christopher Renshaw. Music arranged by Annastasia Victory and Michael O. Mitchell.
This event is produced by Miami New Drama. Art Deco Weekend visitors can receive 15% discount on tickets during the festival. Use code ARTDECO at the link below to purchase your tickets between Jan 14-16!
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Deborah Desilets: Spotlight on Art in Public Places
2022-01-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
In the 1930s art and national symbolism converged within the Federal Arts Projects, or the WPA Projects, that supported the values of the American Public. The great Depression and these Arts Projects changed the relationship between art and the public and are the harbinger of the relationships of art in the public realm today. Federal Arts Projects aimed to express American civic pride; today there are challenges to those very arts works as values in the public have changed greatly.
This lecture addresses Morris Lapidus’s life-long battle for ornamentation in architecture. The intention is to look at the ornaments, their symbolism, and the lasting quality of the messages in his art pieces for public consumption in his early hotels on Miami Beach, and his lasting contribution to the art experience on Lincoln Road.
Deborah Desilets is a registered architect, curator of the Morris Lapidus Exhibition, and steward of the Morris Lapidus archives.

The Big Broadcast of 1938
2022-01-16 14:00 - 16:30 | O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
The S.S. Gigantic competes with the S.S. Colossal in a luxury liner race from New York to France. S.B. Bellows (W.C. Fields), the bumbling brother of the owner of the Gigantic, accidentally wrecks the sophisticated engine of his sibling’s ship, built by brilliant engineer Bob Hayes (Leif Erickson). Meanwhile, radio entertainer Buzz Fielding (Bob Hope), aboard the Gigantic with his girlfriend, Dorothy (Dorothy Lamour), is hoping to win so he can pay alimony to his three ex-wives.
This event is produced by O Cinema and tickets may be purchased online at the following link.
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South Beach Scandals Tour
2022-01-16 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-01-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
This 90-minute 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.

FIU Art Deco Combo under the direction of Dr. Lisanne Lyons (2022)
2022-01-16 13:30 - 15:00 | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
Enjoy live jazz by FIU students!
The FIU Art Deco Combo is directed by Dr. Lisanne Lyons and consists of vocalists and a rhythm section who perform a varied and challenging repertoire of jazz and jazz-influenced music, as well as contemporary, latin, and a cappella styles. The group emphasizes close harmonies, improvisation, cutting-edge repertoire, and new works by students and FIU faculty. They also perform music from the library of Manhattan Transfer, New York Voices, Swingle Singers, Groove for Thought, and original arrangements written by some of the finest jazz arrangers in the country. The group is open for audition for all FIU music students and all vocal jazz principles and majors.
In July 2021 the group was honored with a Student Music Award from Downbeat Magazine, widely recognized as the most prestigious publication in jazz education.

About The Director
Lisanne Lyon’s career began immediately following high school as the featured vocalist for the Air Force Bands. During her years in the service she performed and traveled worldwide with the “Norad Command Band, ”Travis AF “Band of the Golden Gate,” and the U.S. Air Force Academy “Falconaires.” She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music and Doctorate in Music from the University of Miami Frost School of Music. As a student, she received two Down Beat “Dee Bee” awards for Best Jazz Vocalist and one for Best Jazz Arrangement. She was also invited to be a featured performer with Joel Grey on the NBC televised Orange Bowl half-time show, “You’ll Get a Kick Out of Cole.” Shortly after school, Cy Coleman selected her to replace Monica Mancini in the national touring company of his Tony award winning “City of Angels.”
Dr. Lyons has performed with the Woody Herman Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau, Arturo Sandoval, Larry Elgart, University of Miami Concert Jazz Band, Roanoke Symphony, Palm Beach Pops, Las Olas Studio Orchestra, South Florida Jazz Orchestra, Sunrise Pops Orchestra, Sugar Pops Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Hallandale Pops Orchestra, Ars Flores Orchestra, Gene Krupa Orchestra with Michael Berkowitz, XL Big Band in Sweden, Harry James Orchestra, Artie Shaw Orchestra, and various bands across the country. She has also performed with many of the worlds top jazz artists such as Maria Schneider, Bobby McFerrin, Mark Murphy, Four Freshmen, Mose Allison, Jon Hendricks, Don Braden, Paul Bollenbach, Ted Rosenthal, Ira Sullivan, Duffy Jackson, Jim Pugh, Harold Jones, Dave Berkman, Eliane Elias, Claudia Acuna, Bucky Pizzerelli, Gary Burton, Dennis DiBlasio, John Fedchock, Walter White, Kevin Mahagony, and many others. Lisanne has recorded two solo CD’s, “Right as the Rain,” and “Smile,” with the John Toomey trio. “Smile” was met with critical praise including the Washington Post and Cadence magazine. She is in demand as a performer, adjudicator, arranger, and conductor.
In 2014, she joined the FIU School of Music as head of Jazz Vocal Studies and Director of the newly formed Jazz Vocal Ensemble. She made her successful debut at the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center on November 19, 2014.

Joel Levine: The Fontainebleau Hotel: Imagining Paradise
2022-01-16 13:00 - 14:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
The Fontainebleau Hotel is a Miami Beach icon appearing in more than a dozen Hollywood films, representing both the city’s splendid glory and sordid historical past. Utilizing movie clips and other archival material, Joel will explore the meaning of architecture in American cinema and then reconstruct the history of the Fontainebleau while exploring the themes of architectural beauty, status, racism, and antisemitism.

About the Guide

Joel Levine is a Tour Guide and Board Member of the Miami Design Preservation League. Prior to retiring from a career in medical and educational administration, he collected and restored radios and televisions from the Art Deco and Mid Century Modern periods (1925-1970). Joel uses unconventional sources, including movie clips and picture postcards to tell a story about a place and it’s people. He has presented in Miami Beach, Tel Aviv, Mauritius and Napier, New Zealand.

Arf Deco Dog Walk
2022-01-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
This walk is all for the dogs!
Join us with your pooch for a walk around Ocean Drive during Art Deco Weekend. Dress up with your furry friend in your best Art Deco Attire. Special prizes will be given out. Hosted by George Neary.

Jewish Miami Beach Tour
2022-01-16 11:30 - 13:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
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 departs from the Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139.

Sketchwalk #3: Tudor Hotel and Miami Beach Patrol Headquarters
2022-01-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Sketch with us at the Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District to capture the essence of the 1920s Era and the Now into your sketchbook!
Meeting point is in front of the Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center. Join us as our sketchwalk guide Ana takes us to The Tudor Hotel (1001-1099, Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139) and the Miami Beach Patrol Headquarters (1001 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139).
The Tudor building features a tall spire with red squares; the exterior and interior contain a variety of Key Stone Coral tones. It almost looks like an antique radio. The Miami Beach Patrol building is considered as “Nautical Deco”, in which buildings were designed to look like ocean liner lounge ships with porthole-style windows, etc.
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.

Bike Valet
2022-01-16 10:00 - 18:00
Park for free at the Bike Valet at Art Deco Weekend!
Sponsored by Better Streets Miami Beach and the Miami Design Preservation League.
Please note: bikes must be picked up before close of festival.

Aerial Vision at the Wolfsonian-FIU
2022-01-16 10:00 - 18:00 | Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, 33139, United States
November 19, 2021–April 24, 2022
The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue
Aerial Vision explores how early 20th-century inventions—airplanes and skyscrapers, each considered the embodiment of human achievement and a harbinger of a better tomorrow—sparked an era of remarkable creativity and new systems of seeing the world. Met with awe and excitement, both technologies introduced novel approaches for living, working, and traveling and opened up previously inaccessible vertical perspectives to modern spectators, from artists and designers to urban planners and everyday office workers. This exhibition of paintings, posters, furniture, and more draws from the Wolfsonian collection to examine these heightened positions of power and privilege, revealing connections between newly available viewpoints and their impact on the artistic imagination.
Aerial Vision is made possible by Bradesco BAC Florida Bank and the Arthur F. & Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation.
The Wolfsonian-FIU admission is free for Florida residents. Ticket and visiting information may be viewed on their website: click here.
Free Fridays, 6–9pm every week
Regular Hours
Wednesday–Sunday: 10am–6pm (Friday 9pm)

Deco Kids Fun Zone in support of Feinberg-Fisher Miami Beach
2022-01-16 10:00 - 17:00
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
2022-01-16 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 (1/15) and Sunday (1/16), 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]

Morris Lapidus: I Did it My Way
2022-01-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
A 20-year retrospective on Morris Lapidus (1902-2001) with a focus on his career’s work as it relates to:

His early work in retail design
Working with the Art Deco masters on Miami Beach
Venturing on his own with the Fontainebleau, Eden Roc, and Americana
His legacy in transforming Lincoln Road into one of the most famous pedestrian plazas
His legacy of other building designs including Temples, office buildings, community centers, and more

This exhibition is on view through March 15th, 2022 at the Art Deco Museum. Free for Miami-Dade residents and MDPL Members. $5 general admission.

Chess with Commissioner Mark Samuelian
2022-01-16 09:00 - 11:00 | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
Come join young local chess students as they challenge Miami Beach Commissioner Mark Samuelian to a game! Commissioner Samuelian will play 10 students simultaneously beginning at 9:00AM Sunday Jan 16th!
Afterwards, join them or your favorite opponent in a match! The tables will be open for all to play. Or simply learn from the best!

Troy Anderson and the Hot Five
2022-01-15 18:00 - 22:00 | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
Troy Anderson got his first taste for music while growing up in a Bahamian family filled with musicians. At the age of 10, he began playing the trumpet and went on to perform in the Florida Sunshine Band and the Gospel Sounds before being introduced to the world of the drum and bugle corps in school. A later stint with the Florida Vanguards taught him how to be an effective lead soprano soloist while performing in front of thousands of screaming fans. Subsequent tours with the famous Bayonne Bridgemen Drum & Bugle Corps helped hone his showmanship skills.
Anderson first fell in love with the music of Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong while playing with the 2nd AD (Fwd) Jazz Band in Germany where he was stationed as a paratrooper. Following one such performance for some high-ranking officials, the Command Sergeant Major of the U.S Army asked Anderson to put together a show of nothing but Armstrong’s greatest hits. Anderson was known throughout Germany for playing like Satchmo, but singing like him was a different story. Practice, however, made perfect and he soon managed to replicate Armstrong’s trademark growl with stirring accuracy.
After a horrific accident sidelined Anderson’s career as a musician — he was told by doctors he would never be able to play trumpet again — he miraculously recovered to form the Wonderful World Tribute Band with the guidance of South Florida’s Gold Coast Jazz Society Series” Who was Louis Armstrong” teaching elements of Jazz to elementary students through which he’s brought the legendary music of Louis Armstrong to life. Anderson and his ( U.S) Wonderful World Band has made a significant mark of New Orleans flare to the South Florida area and is currently residing in Germany and touring the E.U with his Wonderful World Trio which is based out of Budapest Hungary. Anderson’s Armstrong is too natural to be called uncanny. Starting out with the look, he slips easily into the rest— the dinner jacket, the trumpet and hanky, the roly-poly voice, and above all, the contagious the joie de vivre that made Armstrong so beloved.

Don’t miss the mini swing dance lessons and entertainment between band sets!

Deco Nights and Neon Lights Tour
2022-01-15 17:00 - 18:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Similar to our regular Ocean Drive Tour but focuses on neon lighting . Our Art Deco buildings come alive when the lights go on! Neon lighting has always been associated with glamour and excitement. Learn about the history of neon lighting, its rise, its fall, and its resurgence.

Movie Lover's Guide to South Beach
2022-01-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Miami Beach is a favorite locale for on-location shooting of films and TV series. While most of the stories are fictitious, the process of on-location shooting captures a record of a place as it was at a particular point in time. We witness all the elements that comprise a neighborhood; its buildings, its people, the noise, even the level of automobile traffic. We will reconstruct the history of Art Deco and the City of Miami Beach by presenting short movie clips and frame freezes from films to illustrate the ever-changing nature of Miami Beach, its buildings, and its people. “Movie magic” will be dissected with a demonstration of a hard-to-see internal joke and impossible location movements not readily visible to the casual observer.
About the Guide
Joel Levine is a Tour Guide and Board Member of the Miami Design Preservation League. Prior to retiring from a career in medical and educational administration, he collected and restored radios and televisions from the Art Deco and Mid Century Modern periods (1925-1970). Joel uses unconventional sources, including movie clips and picture postcards to tell a story about a place and its people. He has presented in Miami Beach, Tel Aviv, Mauritius, and Napier, New Zealand.

Sketchwalk #2: Pastel Trio
2022-01-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Sketch with us at the Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District to capture the essence of the 1920s Era and the Now into your sketchbook!
Meeting point is in front of the Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center (1001 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139).
Join us as our sketchwalk guide Federico takes us to the Pastel Trio: The Penguin, The Crescent, The McAlpin (1418 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139). This location features three side-by-side structures with soft pastels and simple stylish design.
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.

Deco for a Demagogue: Father Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flower
2022-01-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, 33139, United States
The Shrine of the Little Flower, a Catholic church built in the Art Deco style outside Detroit, was the center of a radio empire started by Father Charles Coughlin that reached up to 30 million Americans each week in the 1930s. Originally an advocate of President Roosevelt’s New Deal and critic of the Ku Klux Klan, Coughlin turned to anti-Semitism and support for fascism by the end of the decade. In a talk that reveals the links between design, politics, and power, Wolfsonian chief librarian Frank Luca and curator Shoshana Resnikoff will trace Coughlin’s role in American life and shed light on how religion and rhetoric shaped the Deco design of his church.
Organized with Wolfsonian-FIU and presented as part of Art Deco Weekend.
Tickets must be obtained through the Wolfsonian-FIU’s website. To register, click here.

French Horn Collective
2022-01-15 14:00 - 17:30 | Jazz Age Stage at Lummus Park & 12th Street
The French Horn Collective is an energetic and progressive band that performs an eclectic variety of Gypsy Jazz, Swing, and modern original French music throughout South Florida.
Led by Parisian Musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and songwriter Vincent Raffard, the diverse group consists of anywhere from 3 to 8 highly talented musicians from a myriad of musical backgrounds, with instrumentation including Trumpet, Guitar, Violin, Double Bass, Clarinet, and Vocals.

Don’t miss the mini swing dance lessons and entertainment between band sets!

Freedom Radio
2022-01-15 14:00 - 16:00 | O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Hitler’s doctor is gradually realizing that the Nazi regime isn’t as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to “disappear” into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile, Dr. Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
This event is produced by O Cinema and tickets may be purchased online at the following link.
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South Beach Scandals Tour
2022-01-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
This 90-minute 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.
Please note: this is a specialty tour and as such has a flat ticket rate of $35 per person.
