Free Behind-the-Scenes Tours
Every Monday and Saturday at noon, Carnival Center offers FREE Behind-the-Scenes Tours featuring a walk through all the theaters, from lobbies to stage, including glimpses into star dressing rooms and private meeting rooms and lounges not normally open to the public. No reservations needed.

The Cleveland Orchestra
January 25, 26 & 8 pm
Knight Concert Hall
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Mozart, Symphony No. 28
Debussy, Ibéria
Dvorak, Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)

Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps
January 25 & 26 @ 8 pm
Carnival Studio Theater
It is a comic autobiographical work by FTM (female-to-male) transgendered performer Scott Turner Schofield that challenges fundamental assumptions about gender, sex and identity.

Christine Andreas
Cabaret
Love is Good
Carnival Studio Theater
From January 29 to February 3, 8 pm
Romantic and sophisticated cabaret entertainment, with songs ranging from Billy Joel to Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Visit www.carnivalcenter.org and download the 2008 Spring Calendar
For tickets, call 305.949.6722

Miami City Ballet presents Nine Sinatra Songs– with choreography by Twyla Tharp and songs sung by Frank Sinatra, including “My Way,” “Strangers in the Night”, “Somethin’ Stupid”, and more. Seven couples, Oscar de la Renta gowns, and Sinatra – it’s Tharp at her most inventive and seductive. 

Also, part of Program II, is the dramatic
La Valse, during which thirty-four dancers waltz in flowing romantic tutus in a mysterious ballroomto the gripping and disturbing music of Ravel. 

The third work in this mixed bill is “Aurora’s Wedding”, the extravaganza finale of Tchiakovsky’s and Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty. In this act of the ballet classic, Princess Aurora has been awakened from her 100-year sleep by the Prince’s kiss, and this is their wedding celebration. patch over one eye…He's an inventor, a magician…

For more information call Box Office or e-mail boxoffice@miamicityballet.org.

Until January 20
Water Stories

Water Stories takes you on a journey through the ever-changing aquatic world of South Florida. Rare artifacts and interactive exhibits reveal how generations of South Floridians have relied on a fragile environment for food, transportation and recreation.

Rob Storter: Art of the Everglades

View over 35 original drawings and carvings by fisherman and folk artist Rob Storter (1894-1987). Born in the Everglades, Storter spent his last years recording his memories of growing up, living and working in southwestern Florida, when it was still a road-less and watery wilderness.

February 2 & 3
Fifteenth Annual Miami International Map Fair

Enjoy a weekend of browsing and buying antique maps of every size, shape and color, alongside map dealers, collectors and aficionados from the four corners of the world. The Historical Museum of Southern Flori

The 34th Annual Coldwell Banker Miami Beach Festival of the Arts will be taking place on Saturday and Sunday February 9-10, 2008. This nationally recognized event brings over 50,000 visitors, both young and old, to North Beach’s seaside promenade to browse amongst the fine art on exhibit while enjoying an array of performing arts.

Established in 1974, it is Miami Beach’s oldest art festival. Over the years, the Festival has evolved from a local street show to one of the most prestigious cultural art festivals on the East Coast.  This signature community event showcases the juried artwork of over 150 artists from across the nation, exhibiting paintings, sculpture, glass, ceramics, jewelry, and photography

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An exciting visual encounter of being in the presence of personalities from the past. Papandreas finds her inspiration from the elite Masters. Her extraordinary casein on muslin canvases exude a haunting, but glowing quality and evoke a dramatic emotional response from the observer. Softly blended brushstrokes emit an inner transparent light. The large-scale paintings, bursting with emotion, are nothing less than elegant in style, composition and execution.

Fabre Sallent, well known Spanish Artist, and an art teacher both in Barcelona, Spain where he was born, and in the Dominican Republic, were he’s presently residing and teaching. Fabre’s art is simple at first view, the more you look at his paintings the more you can realize the richness of its colors and expressions.

Alberto Carrillo – passion, brilliance of colors, and strength come through his paintings. Born in Cuba, was invited to Paris to participate in an exhibit, where he stayed and worked.