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.