La Habana, mon amour
Zoé Valdés
Event date:
Thursday, October 29, 2015 – 7:30pm
Event address:
Congregational Church
3010 De Soto Blvd.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
La Habana, a punto de cumplir el V Centenario de su fundación, es una ciudad fascinante. Su nombre es evocador para los españoles. Una de las más afamadas escritoras cubanas, Zoé Valdés, nos cuenta su historia personal de La Habana. En sus páginas aparecen sus calles, sus tiempos, sus personajes. Todos, entre estrambóticos y sublimes, conforman un paisaje literario de alta calidad y calidez. Y desde una perspectiva especialmente sensible: la del exilio.
Disgraced
When: October 29 – 31, 2015, 8pm
GableStage
1200 Anastasia Avenue
Coral Gables , Florida
Cost: $45
Dealing with a Muslim-American attorney in New York City struggling to define his identity, it is one of the most explosive and controversial plays in the last decade!
“Terrific, turbulent, with fresh currents of dramatic electricity! Dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence”- New York Times
Room
For seven years, Ma, a young mother (Brie Larson, in a harrowingly powerful performance) has been trapped, with her five-year-old child (Jacob Tremblay), in a one-room shed. Director Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, Adam and Paul) and Emma Donoghue, adapting her best-selling novel, are astonishingly sensitive to the poetic, comic and hallucinatory resonances in the child’s view of this bizarre life experience, particularly the concept that one small, dark room is the whole universe. Though the film uses the blueprint of a thriller, it explores much richer and surprising terrain, including the mother’s desperate effort to free her child and return them to real life. Abrahamson and Donoghue make Room a shockingly effective parable about how we face the crisis of learning about the world. Larson and Tremblay will be heard from come award season. And Variety‘s Justin Chang opines this might just be “the call-your-mom-sobbing-afterward movie of 2015.”
Ben Folds
with Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra
Date:10/30/2015 8:00 PM
Festival Miami
Festival Miami
Location:UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Drive
Coral Gables , Florida 33146
1314 Miller Drive
Coral Gables , Florida 33146
Cost: $20 -40 (on waiting list)
Multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter and pianist Ben Foldsperforms his critically acclaimed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Frost School of Music’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. Composed in 2013 and since performed to sold-out audiences with symphony orchestras around the globe, the fresh and appealing work is featured on his new album, So There, slated for release in September 2015.
Halloween at Hogwarts and Beyond!
Family Concert with Orchestra
Date:10/31/2015 3:00 PM
Festival Miami
Festival Miami
Location:UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Drive
Coral Gables , Florida 33146
1314 Miller Drive
Coral Gables , Florida 33146
Cost: $10 -15
The Frost Symphony Orchestra presents Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Children’s Suite for Orchestra by John Williams, along with Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns and Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky. Broomsticks and wands are welcome but may require checking at the door! All children are invited to dress in Halloween costumes and enjoy healthy post-concert treats courtesy of Wholefoods Market Coral Gables.
Halloween on the Mile
Date:10/ 31st – 2:00 PM
Cost:Free
Location:
Miracle Mile
Coral Gables, Florida 33134
Miracle Mile
Coral Gables, Florida 33134
Some of the spooky festivities for children and families include:• Read to Learn Reading Circle at Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, 2 p.m.
• Doggie Costume Contest at the Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Avenue, 3 p.m.
• Halloween Fun Photobooth at Leica Store Miami, 372 Miracle Mile, 3:30-5 p.m.
• Songs and Dances from “High Flying” Disney Broadway Musicals Aladdin & Tarzan! at Actors’ Playhouse, 280 Miracle Mile, 4:30 p.m.
• Kiddie Costume Contest at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, 5 p.m. (limited to the first 100 kids)
• Balloon Artist & Face Painting at Nini & Loli, 2300 Salzedo Street, 3-5 p.m.
• Doggie Costume Contest at the Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Avenue, 3 p.m.
• Halloween Fun Photobooth at Leica Store Miami, 372 Miracle Mile, 3:30-5 p.m.
• Songs and Dances from “High Flying” Disney Broadway Musicals Aladdin & Tarzan! at Actors’ Playhouse, 280 Miracle Mile, 4:30 p.m.
• Kiddie Costume Contest at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, 5 p.m. (limited to the first 100 kids)
• Balloon Artist & Face Painting at Nini & Loli, 2300 Salzedo Street, 3-5 p.m.
HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST
Event date:
Saturday, October 31, 2015 9:00pm
Event address:
Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Join Nelson O and drag queen Bibi Mask for a fun night of music, dancing, costume-watching and a chance to win prizes!
The Thing
260 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL 33134-5008
Starts: 10/30
Starts: 10/30
Date: 10/31st -11:30PM
Cost: $7:00
The Gables Cinema and the Secret Celluloid Society present John Carpenter’sThe Thing, the first film in our special Halloween Up All Nite celebration during our After Hours series on 35mm! With writers Bill Lancaster and John W. Campbell Jr., Carpenter’s sci-fi horror cult classic follows the story of a group of American scientists exploring Antarctica. When the group stumbles upon an abandoned dog, they learn the animal is able to mutate into other life forms, including humans, and it only gets worse. This alien life-form possesses a maniacal thirst for killing and can replicate the appearance of anyone, taking doubt and suspicion among the team members to extreme heights. Helicopter pilot J.R. MacReady (Kurt Russell) does his best to save the men in this 1980’s Carpenter classic.
Black Violin—Classical Hip-Hop Duo
Date:11/1/2015 4:00 PM
Festival Miami
Festival Miami
Location:UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Drive
Coral Gables , Florida 33146
1314 Miller Drive
Coral Gables , Florida 33146
Cost: $20 -40 (on Waiting List)
Black Violin, an exhilarating violin/viola hip-hop duo, wows audiences with their unique take on classical music. Their newest recording, Stereotypes (Universal Music Classics) incorporates their many musical influences from classical, R&B, and soul to rock and beyond. Audiences and rappers alike are amazed when Kev Marcus on violin and Wil B on viola play over beats solo and strum like guitarists and use rock distortion effects. Named one of the hottest bands at South by Southwest, they’ve performed with Alicia Keys, Kanye West, and Jay-Z.
