Week in Coral Gables 1/28/16

Don’t Stop the Music BBC

Date:
Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 7:00PM
Location:
Weeks Center for Recording and Performance, Clarke Hall
5501 San Amaro Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Tickets: Free, Required

This award-winning BBC film—soon to be versioned for US television—explores the importance of music education for children, and the perilous state it’s in. Don’t Stop the Music will provide not just knowledge, but fun as well, with star-studded “musical awakenings” that will energize students and the community to enjoy music, learn about its importance and discover all that music provides.

Frost Concert Jazz Band
Huracándombe

Date:
January 28, 2016 @ 8:00 PM
Location:
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Tickets: $16.00

The Frost Concert Jazz Band, directed by John Daversa, presents “Huracándombe: an exploration of Afro-Uruguayan music and culture,” a world-premiere of new works for jazz ensemble and cuerda de candombe (Uruguayan drumming ensemble), featuring Uruguayan guest musicians Manuel Contrera, Juan Pablo Chapital, Álvaro Salas, and Federico Britos. The Frost Faculty Jazz Sextet will open the concert.

Blow-Out

Date:

January 29th to February 4th.
Times: http://www.gablescinema.com/events/blow-out/
Location:
Gables Cinema
260 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL 33134-5008
Cost: $13

One of Brian De Palma’s greatest films and one of the great American films of the 1980s, Blow Out is such a hallucinatory, emotionally and visually commanding experience that the term “thriller” seems insufficient. De Palma takes a variety of elements – the Kennedy assassination; Chappaquiddick; Antonioni’s Blow Up; the slasher genre that was then in full flower; elements of Detective Bob Leuci’s experience working undercover for the Knapp Commission; the harshness and sadness of American life; and, as ever, Hitchcock’s Vertigo – and swirls and mixes them into a film that builds to a truly shattering conclusion.

Gigantic Gourmet Garage Sale

Date:
JANUARY 30 @ 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location:
Coral Gables Museum
285 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134 United

Cost: Free

An “Everything-but-the-Kitchen-Sink” event to benefit women in need! Les Dames D’Escoffier Miami Chapter offers gently used Kitchen items for sale: pots and pans, dishes and glassware, linens, baskets, appliances, serving dishes and trays. Specialty food items for sale as well as fruits and vegetables from South Florida Farms. Les Dames d’Escoffier Miami is comprised of female food, farming, hospitality and wine professionals dedicated to funding annual culinary and/or agriculture scholarships for exceptional underprivileged South Florida.

West Side Story

Date:

January 27-February 21, 2016
Location:
Actors’ Playhouse
280 Miracle Mile
Coral Gables, Florida 33134

Tickets: $42 -$70

West Side Story returns to Actors’ Playhouse almost 20 years since it won our Regional Theatre’s Carbonell Award for “Best Production of a Musical”, this time in an all-new exciting 21st Century Production. West Side Story is considered by many to be one of the greatest creations in American Musical Theatre history. The Jets and the Sharks are back, along with the incomparable Bernstein score, Romeo and Juliet style romance, and the infamous Jerome Robbins’ based choreography. West Side Story will explode onto the Miracle Theatre’s Stage as our featured large-scale musical of the season, with classic reverence and contemporary heat.

It’s Only a Play

Date:
January 23 – February 21, 2016
Thursday to Saturday 8:00 pm
Sunday 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Location:
Gables Stage
1200 Anastasia Avenue
Coral Gables, Florida 33134
Tickets: $45.00

It’s Opening Night on Broadway – and playwright Peter Austin, his career on the line, anxiously awaits reviews at a private party. This riotous comedy by the 4-time Tony Award Winner — and author of last Season’s Mothers and Sons — is a celebration of theatre at its best… and theatre people behaving their not-so-best!

JOAN SORIANO
The Duke of Bachata!

Date:
Friday, January 29 at 8pm (doors 7:30)
Location:
Koubek Center
2705 SW 3rd St Miami 33135
Tickets: $10.00

His family band bring old-school charm and modern sensibility to the genre, creating an irresistibly danceable sound that is as gritty as it is romantic. Dance the night away in the Koubek Center gardens in the heart of Little Havana, and enjoy a pre-concert bachata dance lesson, DJ set, live show, specialty food and cocktail vendors & more.

Coral Gables Farmers

Date:
Saturday Jan 30, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm
Location:
In Front of Coral Gables City Hall
Coral Gables, Florida 33134
Cost:Free
http://www.coralgables.com/index.aspx?page=1183

Browse through and enjoy fresh-picked produce, baked goods, specialty items, gourmet dishes, flowers & plants and much more! The market will also feature live music, cooking demonstrations, arts & crafts, gardening tips and other free activities for all Market shoppers. Bring the whole family and enjoy the great weather, find your choice of fresh fruits and vegetables and experience yet another reason that makes Downtown Coral Gables great!

14th Annual International Orchid Festival

Date:
Saturday, January 30, 2016 7:30 AM to Sunday, January 31st, 2016 4:30 PM
Location:
Fairchild Tropical Garden
10901 Old Cutler Road
Coral Gables, FL 33156
Tickets: $25.00, Members Free

Be sure to bring your family and friends to Fairchild to enjoy a truly tropical display of rare orchids, in the widest variety of species and colors you’ll find anywhere. The Simons Rainforest features a colorwheel of beautiful orchids from around the world. Over two acres of rainforest and orchids in a beautiful display of nature’s magic.

VIERNES CULTURALES/CULTURAL FRIDAYS

Date:
Last Friday of every month, from 7 to 11 pm
Location:
SW 8th Street (Calle Ocho) between 13th and 17th Avenues

Viernes Culturales/Cultural Fridays, Inc. is a nonprofit organization which coordinates the popular Viernes Culturales/Cultural Fridays art, music and culture festival. Our events are held on the last Friday of every month in the heart of Little Havana, on Calle Ocho between 13th and 17th Avenues, from 7-11 pm.

WATERWAY CANOE TOUR

Date:
January 31, 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Location:
Coral Gables Museum
285 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134 United
Tickets: $40 (Advance Registration Required)

Enjoy a day out on the Coral Gables Waterway, a man-made system of canals that added 40 miles of waterfront to the City from Biscayne Bay through the residential section to the grand golf course at the Biltmore Hotel. This is a leisure canoeing experience led by EcoAdventure and Coral Gables Museum staff that encompasses both nature and history in a delightful blend of unique natural vistas and historic landmarks.