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FETA Arts and Tech Fest

on the Lincoln Road Orchid and Plant Market

The acute importance of celebrating beauty in people and plants in our city has prompted the Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (FETA)  to partner with the Lincoln Road Business Improvement District in initiating a new platform for local artists, technologists and vendors to co-create. On April 12, we invite you to experience a unique encounter between orchids, arts, tech and the people on the magnificently iconic Lincoln Rd.’s Euclid Oval. 

Saturday, April 12, 2025: 9AM-4PM (with artists and vendors)

Sunday, April 13, 2025: 10AM-1PM (with artists)

Euclid Oval, 660 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Fall in love with our city one more time. Laugh and participate. Purchase an orchid, orchid jewelry, orchid supplies, as well as cool house plants and succulents. Take a plant dance workshop. Experience orchid-inspired audio and video installations. Take a walk and learn about the orchids on Lincoln Rd. Learn about the Florida native orchid species and culture, including landscaping. Visit the FETA tent and join the team. Just follow Betzy & Betsy!

Participating cross-disciplinary artphibian creators: BEAUTI FUL O’ aka Betzy & Betsy (Betzaida Ferrer and Betsy Rodriguez), Juraj Kojs, Liony Garcia, Nika Chrolik and Quiana Major.

Vendors: OFE International, Backyard Blooms, Martin Nursery, Orchidique, Blooming Paradise, Koke Moss, Vicky’s Orchids, Glamorous Acres Farm and Manigua Plants.

Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts, Inc. (FETA) was established to cultivate composition, performance, production and research of emerging electronic music, art and multimedia forms. FETA seeks to expand our understanding of the world around us through exploration and promotion of novel expressions that fuse arts, nature, technologies and people. 

The Lincoln Road Business Improvement District (LR BID) was created in 2015 to stabilize and improve the Lincoln Road retail business district, which is located in a nationally recognized historic district, through promotion, management and marketing.

Be inspired, be refreshed, reimagine yourself in the new orchid consciousness.

Families are welcome! All generations are welcome!

With support from FETA, The Lincoln Road Business Improvement District (LR BID) and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Eventbrite for Saturday here.

Daily Schedule

Saturday, April 12, 2025

9AM: Stage center:Quiana Mayor and Nika Chrolik introduce their installations.

10-11AM: Stage center: Jason Downing: Landscaping with orchids. Presentation.

11-11:20AM Under the trees on Euclid (right behind the tents): Liony Garcia flower and plant movement workshop 

1-1:05PM: Stage: Liony Garcia, dance performance

1:05-2PM: Orchid Walk with Jason Downing

2-2:30PM: Stage Center: Juraj Kojs. Orchid Music and Culture

3-3:20PM:  Under the trees on Euclid: Liony Garcia flower and plant movement workshop 

3:30-4PM: Stage: Orchid music, dance and art dance party

Through the day:

Betsy Rodriguez and Betzaida Ferrer: theater and music activations

Quiana Mayor: Stage right: Plant, sound and tech installation

Nika Chrolik: Stage left: Plant video projection installation

Juraj Kojs: Oval: Orchid Music installation (10 speakers)

Sunday, April 13, 2025

10AM on: Quiana Mayor and Nika Chrolik introduce their installations placed in the stage area.

10:10-10-25AM: Orchid Walk with Betsy and Betzy

10:30-10:50AM 3-3:20PM:  Under the trees on Euclid: Liony Garcia flower and plant movement workshop 

11-11:05AM: Stage: Liony Garcia, dance performance

11:30-11:45AM:  3-3:20PM:  Under the trees on Euclid: Liony Garcia flower and plant movement workshop 

12:00-12:30: Stage Center: Jura Kojs. Orchid Music and Culture

12:30-1: Orchid music, dance and art dance party

Through the day:

Betsy Rodriguez and Betzaida Ferrer: orchid walk around Lincoln Rd., theater and music activations

Quiana Mayor: Stage right: Plant, sound and tech installation

Nika Chrolik: Stage left: Plant video projection installation. Times tbd.

Juraj Kojs: Oval: Orchid Music installation (10 speakers)

FETA and Edge Zones

present

Soundweaving

Kerrtih Livengood (Illionois) and Richard Garet (Miami)

Experimental Electronic Music Encounters

Saturday, August 31, 2024

8PM

Edge Zones Center for Contemporary Art. 3317 NW 7th Ave. Miami, FL 33127.

Free admission/Donation. Reserve a spot here.

In this hour of experimental electronic sound, we are featuring two artists in solo sets and joint improvisation, exploring the contemporary music practices.

Soundweaving techno-wizard Kerrith Livengood will present several shimmering chains of sounds to delight and tantalize you. Her musical language evokes the classic sounds of analog synths, the vastness of the echoing cosmos, and the glitter of ‘90s anime magical girls. “punish me with love” from her 2024 album In The Name of the MOON summons the spirit of Sailor Venus, represented by AM distortion and erratic noise injected into a shifting field of white noise. Following that, she will make a whole lot of blips and bloops and some fluting with live processing, and you will be astounded at her musical inventiveness and humorous versatility.

Richard Garet’s approach to working with sound focuses on interacting with materials’ sonic properties as both source and instrument. Such materials are amplified EMF emissions, modified audiocassettes, dysfunctional tape players, circuit boards, sonification of light, and computer processing, among other explorations and with no particular hierarchy. Over the years, his work has evolved from laptop playing to a more active hands-on approach by embracing tactile malleability and establishing durational concrete methods and less digital playback.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kerrith Livengood’s music features complex grooves, lyricism, noise, and humor. She has composed works for the JACK Quartet, Third Angle Ensemble, Duo Cortona, Altered Sound Duo, Albatross Duo, soprano Amy Petrongelli, and the h2 Quartet. She is also a flutist, drummer, technologist, and improviser, who has performed many collaborative and experimental works with many different groups. Kerrith is interested in creating music with live processing and interactive scores. She received her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, and previously taught at the University of Illinois. Kerrith is also Assistant Director of the New Music On The Point Festival (NMOP). http://kerrithlivengood.com

Richard Garet is a contemporary multimedia artist born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1972. He holds an MFA from Bard College, NY. Garet has lived and worked in the United States since 1996.  Richard Garet’s work has been awarded nationally and internationally by institutions such as South Florida Cultural Consortium, FL; Prix Ars Electronica, Linz; Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay; CIFO Grants & Commissions Program, FL; The Clocktower, NYC; Foundation of Contemporary Arts, NYC; Issue Project Room, NYC; New York State Council of the Arts, NYC; and Taliesin West, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Recent projects include Perpetual Motion, Curated by Barbara London, PAMMTV, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; South Florida Cultural Consortium, Hollywood Art Center, Hollywood, FL; Media Under Dystopia Wisper Edition: A Public XR Metaverse, MUD Foundation, FL; PORTALS, Solo Exhibition, Alex Slato Gallery, Miami, FL; Transhemisférico, Gurvich Museum of Art, Montevideo, Uruguay; Beyond the Sounds of Silence, Lowe Art Museum of The University of Miami, Miami, FL; Revealing, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FL; Plural Domains, Selected Works From CIFO Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Interstitial Spaces, CTM 2020, KQB Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany; Apocalypse at Nicola Pedana Gallery, Caserta, Italy; Four Horsemen, MAKER Fair, Rome, Italy; Primitivo, Casa Hoffman, Bogota, Colombia; The Festival of the Image, Manizales, Colombia; CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition 2017, Florida, USA; RED-Splice, Fridman Gallery, NYC; SOUND ONE, Cindy Rucker, NYC; Periscope, Zipper Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Screen Memory, Galerie Burster, Berlin; Midnight Moment, site specific work created for the electronic billboards of Times Square, NY; Alusiones, Carmen Araujo Arte, Hacienda de la Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela; Meta-residue: Input Material, Space, Studio 10, NY; Theorem: You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself, Maná Contemporary, NJ; Adrenalina, Red Bull Station, Sau Paulo, Brazil; International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia; Bioderivas, Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Tenerife, Spain; Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Soundings: a Contemporary Score, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Extraneous to the Message, Julian Navarro Projects, NY; The Spacious Now and the Scale of the Instantaneous, Studio 10, NY; 5×5 Real Unreal, Museum of Art Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela; EAC: Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Fine Arts Museum of Montreal; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and El Museo del Barrio, NYC. His sound works have been published through sound art labels such as 23five, And-Oar, Non Visual Objects, Winds Measure Recordings, Unframed Recordings, Con-V, Leerraum, White_Line Editions, OBS, Line Imprint, and Contour Editions. http://www.richardgaret.com

With the support of FETA, Edge Zones and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

FETA Foundation pairs with the Miami Beach Orchid Society in the creation of the first annual Orchids & Arts Festival

Saturday, May 4 and Sunday May 5, 2024

10AM-4PM

Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140.

The Orchids & Arts Festival, scheduled for May 4th-5th, 2024, promises a weekend dedicated to celebrating orchids. Co-hosted by the Miami Beach Orchid Society, Foundation for Emerging Technologies, and Miami Beach Botanical Garden, the festival will feature orchid and art exhibits, musical performances, dance showcases, educational sessions, and a vibrant vendors market. Emphasizing our Florida native orchid species, the festival aims to raise awareness about the importance of preserving our delicate ecosystems. The festival takes place at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. See the program schedule below.

Ticket price is $5. Get your ticket here.

Read about Orchidelirium here.

The Orchid Adventure by Juraj Kojš will be a series of short music, dance and storytelling performance activations about the Florida native Butterfly Orchid Encyclia tampensis featuring Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer.

At the garden entrance. Orchid Music: A sound installation presenting sonifications of 15 Florida native orchid species DNA by Juraj Kojš. Throughout the weekend.

At the Fountain. FEME: The University of Miami’s Frost Electronic Music Ensemble will perform orchid-inspired electronic music on laptops. Spring 2024 FEME members include Audrey  Puschinsky, Kelsey Gallagher, Jiajie Liu, Rodrigo Castro, Indigo Knecht, Rubens Jose Salles Peixinho, Edward Shilts, Chawin Temsittichok, David Vess and Hayden Stacki. Director: Juraj Kojš

At the Gazebo. Rachel Joy Weiss, an artist in residence for the festival will a meditative and thought-provoking Augmented Reality installation Endangered in which she juxtaposes the resilience of the endangered Israeli orchid species with ongoing life-threatening captivity of 14 women in the Gaza Strip. Throughout the weekend.

At the Banyan Room. Harold Golen Gallery features orchid paintings by El Gato Gomez, Mariana Kojšova and others. Furthermore, Dimitry Saïd Chamy  transforms live orchids into robotic drawings and virtual orchid AR arrangements as an artist in residence for the festival in his CybOrchiDraw installation. Participants can help scan the live orchids and aid the robot with the drawing of the orchids. Throughout the weekend.

Saturday, May 4:

1PM: At the entrance. The Orchid Adventure: Tell Me Who You Are. Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

1:10PM: At the Japanese Garden. Million Orchid Seeds. Andrea Labbee, dance solo. Pioneer Winter Collective

1:30PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: José Hernández Sánchez: Bee’s Piece, Chawin Temsittichok: Artificial Intimacy

2PM: The Banyan Room Patio: The Orchid Adventure: Orchid is a Music Score. Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

2:30PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: FEME Orchid Music: Brassia caudata

3PM: The Eucalyptus Alley: The Orchid Adventure: Many Orchids, Muchas, Muchas! Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

3:30PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Joo Won Park: Singaporean Crosswalk  

Sunday, May 5:

1PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: José Hernández Sánchez: Bee’s Piece, Chawin Temsittichok: Artificial Intimacy

1:30PM: At the entrance. The Orchid Adventure: Tell Me Who You Are. Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

1:40PM: At the Japanese Garden. Million Orchid Seeds. Andrea Labbee, dance solo

2PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: FEME Orchid Music: Brassia caudata

2:30PM: The Banyan Room Patio: The Orchid Adventure: Orchid is a Music Score. Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

3PM: At the Fountain: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Joo Won Park: Singaporean Crosswalk  

3:30PM: The Eucalyptus Alley: The Orchid Adventure: Many Orchids, Muchas, Muchas! Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer

Orchid Vendors on the lawn:

Soroa Orchids, Orchid Eros (Hawaii), So Orchids, Florida Orchid House, Jim-N-I Orchids, Mac’s Orchids, Orchids in Bloom, Quest Orchids

Orchid-related vendors

OFE International: Orchid Supplies, Kawaii Universe: orchid clothing, Orchidabilia and Ingram’s Better Orchid Books, The Branch: Imaginative Orchid Mounts, Glasshouse Creations: Orchid Decor

Orchid Bench Exhibit. Throughout the weekend.

Banyan Room Patio: Talks on various orchid topics by orchid experts.

Saturday, May 4:

11AM-11:50AM: Growing Tips by Carlos Cahiz (OFE International)

12PM-12:50PM: Intro to Orchid Culture by Melana Davison (Jim-N-I Orchids)

Sunday, May 5:

11AM-11:50AM: Growing Tips by Carlos Cahiz (OFE International)

12PM-12:50PM: Cattleya Culture by Lou Lodyga (An esteemed American Orchid Society judge)

PUBLIC INVITATION: 

Bring your show stopping orchid on Thursday, May 2, 2-4PM or Friday, May 3, 9-11AM to be a part of the show throughout the weekend and be possibly judged by the AOS committee.

Friday, May 3,  11AM-3PM: American Orchid Society (AOS) judging. PUBLIC

With the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Meet the Artist series features Troy Rogers and his Weaving the Mesh artist talk.

Monday, February 12, 8-9 pm EST on Zoom

With support from the FETA Foundation and a 2023 McKnight Composer Fellowship, Rogers recently completed a six-week artist residency in Miami. His artist talk, “Weaving the mesh” will touch upon various ways in which his work designs, fabricates, and tends to mesh networks of several types, from a 3d-printed body suit and interspecies music making with dolphins, both of which were aspects of his residency, to HEXAS (Hexagonal Exta-territorial Aquautonomous State), a standardized series of regular hexagonal floating platforms stitched together by community members to create a floating stage and platform for research in underwater music making—a subproject of the underwater music festival SubSuperior, which weaves together artistic communities in Duluth, Miami, Detroit, and beyond.

Join us and ask questions. Discover and engage!

Get your free ticket here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-artist-troy-rogers-tickets-827007731387

About Troy Rogers:

Troy Rogers (Duluth, MN) is deeply involved in the creation, performance, and dissemination of early 21st century semi-nomadic robot herder’s music. His Robot Rickshaw was a human-driven cart full of musical robots designed for all-terrain performance scenarios ranging from guerrilla drive-by rapid-fire black-MIDI-burst-spewing dadaist street interventions to extended duration post-human dronecore therapy sessions. His instruments and performances joyfully teeter between mind-bending wonder and catastrophic failure, underscoring both a skepticism for the chances of contemporary civilization surviving its technological adolescence, and yet an unwavering belief in the power and potential in humans as amplifiers of low probabilistic states.

More about Troy Rogers: https://www.instagram.com/robotrickshaw/

Feta Foundation: https://www.fetafoundation.com/

Poster Photo credit: Paul Lundgren, Perfect Duluth Day

With the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

FETA and The Bridge Miami

present

REMNANT MIAMI

Jaap Blonk (The Netherlands) and Benjamin Shahoulian (Miami) with friends

Poetry and Electronic Sound

Saturday, October 28, 2023

7PM-12AM

The Bridge Miami: 4220 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127

Admission (includes a grilled cheese):

$15 pre-sale on Eventbrite: https://remnantmiami.eventbrite.com

$20 at the door

The iconic Dutch poet, performer and electronic musician Jaap Blonk visits Miami. He is joined with a troupe of Miami-based poets and performers curated by Benjamin Shahoulian. The opening DJ set will feature Miami own Jose Hernandez Sanchez.

As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of structure. He has performed around the world, on all continents, including Miami several times. With the use of live electronics and interactive visuals the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable extension.

Jaap Blonk will introduce his work, placing it in the context of its roots: sound poetry, improvisation and new music. He will present both historic sound poetry and his own work, in the form of snippets of live performance, projection of texts and scores, sound examples, including his work with other musicians and / or with electronics, and video fragments. Jaap will then present his set Dr. Voxoid’s Next Move filled with poetry and electronics.

Benjamin Shahoulian is a poet, comedian, mc and event host from Miami Florida. He is a high caliber spoken word artist of many talents and has an eclectic approach to his craft. He touches upon the great poetic movements of history and reinterprets forms, concepts, and syntax through a modern, sometimes romantic and often ridiculous lens. He has produced events and collaborated with Miami’s most treasured creatives for many years and will introduce some of them at this event. He himself will be reciting brain breaking poems and spitting tongue twisting rhymes over mind boggling beats.

With the support of the The Bridge Miami and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

FETA

presents

Closer Encounters activities and panel

and

A talk by Gustavo Matamoros, the 2018 FETA Prize in Sound Art Judge

Saturday, September 23, 2018 at 7PM

Ballet Flamenco La Rosa aka Mango Theater Studio

74 NE 150^th Street, Miami, FL 33161

                    Free Admission

FETA invites you to experience a set of activities and discussion about Juraj Kojš and Pi Winter’s Knight Challenge Award project Closer Encounters. The project aims to rediscover, reclaim and nurture our sense of intimacy and connectiveness in the post-pandemic era. In our activities segment, we will explore real-time sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes) in music and movement making environments. Then, the panel discussion about three 2023 performances of Closer Encounters will follow, featuring Juraj Kojš, Pioneer Winter, Laura Merisier (Miami Sound Space) Betzaida Ferrer and Dimitry Chamy. After a short break Gustavo Matamoros, the 2018 FETA Prize in Sound Art Judge will present his talk “Sound: audible manifestation of change” about his recent art practices. The FETA Prize in Sound Art was established in 2013 to promote a broad range of contemporary American sound and installation artists and ran for 7 years. The digital archive of the winners, finalists and judges are posted on https://fetafoundation.com/feta-sound-prize-virtual-archives/

Supported by FETA Foundation, Knight Foundation and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

FETA workshop and performance at Underwater Music Festival

Friday, July 7, 2023 6-8PM

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration

24244 Overseas Highway
Summerland Key, FL 33042

—

Music for Dolphins

July 8, 2023 10AM-2PM

Looe Key Reef

Free admission

Join Nicole Martinez, Troy Rogers and Juraj Kojs for the second edition of music making and listening under water. Fantastical sonic ecologies emerge through a singular access, unveiling primordial experiences.

We are joining the forces of this year’s Underwater Music Festival 2023.  Our workshop will happen on July 7, 2023 from 6-8PM at the Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration on Summerland Key, Fl. The trio will share their newest underwater technology-based explorations and engagements with the water.

Then on July 8, 10AM-2PM, the trio will perform underwater close to the Looe Key Reef their new production Music for the Dolphins via the underwater speaker system. Join the pod and flotilla, and hear the music yourself.

Water-friendly attire encouraged.

With the support of the The Bridge Miami, Harold Golen Gallery  and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

The Bridge Miami and FETA invite you to participate in

If I only had a garden…

People, plants, and the opossum play.

An exploratory collaborative art and garden-making experience.

March 17, 2023: 8PM-midnight

March 18, 2023 : 2-7PM

 

The Bridge Miami: 4220 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127

Spring is in the air: FETA and the Bridge Miami keep fantasizing about a shared experience in which everybody participates. We begin with a night of electronic music featuring Rat Bastard, Black Mayonnaise, Ghost Flower, Nicole Martinez and Juraj Kojs on Friday, March 17 (8PM-midnight).

Then, we reconvene at the Bridge on Saturday, March 18 to revisit the garden we began creating last year, an outdoor place in which plants, arts and technologies grow together intertwined by collective dynamic imagination. Dream it. Make it. Together.=

From 2-7PM, we work with plants, explore movement engagement, do a meditation, brew a sun tea and jam at the sunset, focusing on the interaction between emergence, passing and sustainability through the lens of the plantological exploration.

Participate. Learn. Play.

With the support of the The Bridge, Harold Golen Gallery  and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Adventures of the Multicultural Nomadic Piano

PLEASE POST YOUR IMPRESSIONS @fetafoundation & @bridge4220

Experience the multicultural traveling piano

November 30-December 4, 2022

The Bridge Miami

4220 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127

AND

Temporary spots around Miami

Admission by donation

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adventures-of-a-nomadic-piano-tickets-474710220047

https://fb.me/e/2QY0nkBaF

 

 

FETA in collaboration with The Bridge Miami present a festival of participatory experiences in which the Multicultural Nomadic Piano requests your presence as a creator of its physical and sonic pathways. You will construct, create, perform and observe.

Once upon a time, there manifested a piano navigating outdoor spaces over land, under water and in the air. This summer, Troy Rogers engineered a platform with an upright piano for The Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojs) to perform while floating on the Lake Superior during the exquisite Sub Superior Fest in Duluth, MN. During the performance, the piano wished to be partially submerged, bathed and celebrated.

On December 2, 3 and 4, the Multicultural Nomadic Piano designed by Rachel Weiss is beginning its travel on land. Developed by Rogers, a wheeled platform will carry the piano to its desired destinations. The Committed Duo and friends will co-voice a serenading odyssey Allapattah, Wynwood and Miami Beach neighborhoods.

But first: on November 30 (1-5PM), Troy Rogers will lead an outdoor platform construction workshop, including mechanical and electronic designs at the Bridge Miami.

On Friday, December 2, you are invited to a full day multidisciplinary experience in which you will create for and with the Multicultural Nomadic Piano. During the day, you will be guided by the piano and mentors from a variety of disciplines: Rubens Sales and Da Jin Kim (pianists), Troy Rogers (music and electronics), Rachel Weiss (voice), Nicole Martinez and Juraj Kojs (audio-visual electronics and the garden), Rodrigo Arcaya (visuals) and Pioneer Winter (movement). Whether individual or group project, the fresh creations will be presented at the event at 8PM. Includes music by Tim Watson, Craig Peaslee, Edward Shilts, Armando Torrealba and Joshua Muetzel. Water and snacks will be provided to the participants. Water and snacks will be provided to the participants.

Then, on Saturday, December 3, the Multicultural Nomadic Piano will travel with music through Allapattah and Wynwood in the afternoon led by the Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojš). Meet us at the Bridge Miami at 2PM, or catch us when on a move.

The same night, from 8PM till midnight, the Multicultural Nomadic Piano will be sounding new music pieces composed by the Frost Electronic Music Ensemble (Alvin Phan, Da Jin Kim, Rubens Salles, Dallas Howard, Edward Shilts, Joshua Muetzel, Rodrigo Castro) conducted by Rachel Weiss at the Bridge Miami. Performances by Rat Bastard, Black Mayonnaise, Dialogues (Dion Kerr and Tim Watson) and Nicole Martinez will follow. Join the epic final jam.

On Sunday, December 4, the Multicultural Nomadic Piano asked for a trip to Miami Beach. It will be led by the Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojš).

The piano will return to the Bridge to be ceremonially placed in the garden where it will await the future poets.

Daily schedule:

Wednesday, November 30, 1-5PM at the Bridge: Traveling piano construction and design workshop with Troy Rogers

Friday, December 2, 10AM-6PM at the Bridge: Multidisciplinary workshop: collaborate with the piano on a multidisciplinary creation. Mentors: Rubens Sales and Da Jin Kim (pianists), Troy Rogers (music and electronics), Rachel Weiss (voice), Nicole Martinez and Juraj Kojs (audio-visual electronics and the garden), Rodrigo Arcaya (visuals) and Pioneer Winter (movement). Projects to be presented at an 8PM event.

Saturday, December 3, 2-5PM at multiple locations: The piano travels to serenade the neighbors. Led by the Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojš). Meet us at the Bridge at 2PM

Saturday, December 3, 8PM-12AM: Evening of works for the piano and electronics, including FEME Laptop Ensemble, Rat Bastard, Black Mayonnaise, Dialogues (Dion Kerr and Tim Watson) and Nicole Martinez.

Sunday, December 4, 3-8PM: The piano travels to Miami Beach. Led by the Committed Duo (Jennifer Beattie and Juraj Kojš).

With the support of The Bridge Miami, Harold Golen Gallery and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.