Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon is a documentary about Sonia Manzano, the first Latina in a regular role on American TV and beloved as Maria from Sesame Street for 44 years. The Miami Film Festival will present Manzano with its Impact Award at the screening. Directed by Ernie Bustamante.
Cookie Queens is a documentary following four Girl Scouts ages 5 to 12 through the pressures and joys of cookie selling season. Directed by Alysa Nahmias, the film examines the tension between community, ambition, and capitalism through the lens of an $800 million American tradition.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World is a documentary portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, featuring poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey. The screening is followed by a conversation with director Sasha Waters.
Fairchild's Boots & Blooms brings country night to the garden — live music from the Back Country Boys, line dancing, moonshine flights, food trucks, and a best get-up contest. Tickets from $35.95.
The Frost Wind Ensemble, conducted by Michael Hancock, presents two world premieres featuring GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Hila Plitmann and guitarist Steven Thachuk. The program includes Sean Hickey's Congregate Settings and a new work by Donald Grantham honoring the memory of former Frost professor Robert Carnochan.
Sunday Mercado is an open-air market hosted by Graziano's at the Life Time building in Miami. Start the morning with an all-levels yoga class at 9:00 am, then shop local vendors, enjoy live fire grilling, wine and beer tastings, and live music from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Young piano students from Miami-Dade perform works by Frédéric Chopin as part of the CHOPIN for ALL concert series at Granada Church.
The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami presents a performance on Sunday, April 12 at 5:00 pm at Sanctuary of the Arts. The program includes selected works from the company’s repertoire, highlighting classical ballet technique and performance.
The evening features music by Cuban and Latin American composers, including Ernesto Lecuona and Ignacio Cervantes. The program reflects the traditions of the Cuban School of Ballet through a series of choreographed pieces.
Join the curator of the Beanie Backus exhibition for an intimate guided tour of Coral Gables Collects: Beanie Backus and His Imprint in South Florida Through the Allen Morris Collection. Includes general admission to all galleries and a 10% discount at the Museum Store. Open to all ages.
A girl earns her place in a celebrated choir — and discovers what that place costs her. Set against the fading grandeur of early post-Communist Prague, Broken Voices is a quietly devastating portrait of innocence navigating abusive power, honored at Karlovy Vary with the Europa Cinemas Label and a Special Jury Mention.