Friday May 11, 2007
Mom's Weekend
- The Miami International Piano Festival.
- Aquagirl.07, a weekendlong festival that benefits gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women, with stuff going on all weekend.
- Friday, Alfredo Jose Estrada discusses his new book, Havana: Autobiography of a City at Books & Books.
- Dance Now! Ensemble’s Mothers Daughters Sisters Lovers.
- Sweat Sound System, Sweat Records celebrates its second birthday with a big party at Churchill’s. Music, art, and cupcakes. That’s right, cupcakes. All the hipsters these days love cupcakes.
- Saturday: A bunch of notable folks will do short presentations (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) at Green Flamingos.
- NALC Food Drive. Put canned food in a grocery bag by your mailbox Saturday and the mailman will pick it up and deliver it to a local food bank. (I got a grocery bag in my mailbox Thursday promoting it!)
- Gallery walk Saturday: Interesting things at the Bas Fisher (Update: reviewed), David Castillo (opening), Leonard Tachmes, Moore/Locust, Bernice Steinbaum (opening), Diaspora Vibe, Fredrick Snitzer (opening), Dorsch (reviewed), Emmanuel Perrotin, and Diana Lowenstein (opening).
- After that, Federico Nessi, who has an opening at Lowenstein, will DJ at Circa 28.
- Also on Saturday, if you need more panel discussions about the Miami art scene, at 5 pm there’s “2 Wallets/Sq. Ft.,” on how local leaders should deal with the lack of affordable workspace for artists. KVA Building.
- Down Home Southernaires at Churchills.
- Francis Ford Coppola will be around for Miami Beach Cinematheque’s Coppola retrospective.
- Naturally, Sunday brunches will abound. My mom is presently residing outside the country, but so check out a list at SunPost.
- Or, I have an idea: take mom to Coup D’etat XI at PS14.
