ArchiTalk Radio article in Residential Architect Online

http://www.residentialarchitect.com/architects/southern-florida-architects--radio-show-talks-best-practices.aspx?rssLink=Southern+Florida+Architects%E2%80%99+Radio+Show+Talks+Best+Practices

Miami Center for Architecture design workshop - June 30, 2012 at UMiami

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AIA Miami - Office crawl 6/21/12

Fighting for Heritage Preservation - Miami and France. Lecture 5/1/12

GASC Family night - May 19th, 6 pm to 9:30

Please join the German American Social Club of Greater Miami on May 19th for Family Nihgt. See flyer below for more information.

Coral Gables Earth Fest - April 22, 2012

Epoch - Vanguard Tastes + Sights + Beats 4/7/12 Miami

UM lecture - Southern Vernacular by Andrew Cogar. 4/3/12 @ 6 pm.

The University of Miami School of Architecture
invites you to a lecture by

ANDREW COGAR
Architect with Historical Concepts, Atlanta

“Past Meets Present: Applying the Southern Vernacular
Precedent of Yesterday to the Designs of Today”

Andrew Cogar, University of Miami School of Architecture alumnus and partner with Historical Concepts, an Atlanta-based traditional architecture firm, delves into the pages of the firm's new book, Coming Home: the Southern Vernacular House. He will take you into new and restored homes, from simple cottages to gracious estates, and explain how the rich architectural heritage of the south has helped define his firm’s architectural vocabulary and distinct aesthetic style. He will explore architectural patterns of the past and discuss how they have diverged into unique local and regional interpretations ranging from the Low Country to the Treasure Coast.

Mr. Cogar graduated from the School of Architecture in 1996 and joined Historical Concepts in 1999. Since that time he has achieved the distinction of being one of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 under 40,” highlighting Atlanta’s rising business leaders. During his tenure with Historical Concepts, he has won numerous awards, including those from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), Period Homes magazine, and Southern Living Home Awards. He is on the national board of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and is a founding member of the Atlanta chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He has lectured and served as a guest critic at the University of Miami and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and has received the University of Miami School of Architecture Award for Alumni Service.

LECTURE: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 6:00 p.m.
Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall
1215 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables Campus
Free and open to the public. For information, visit www.arc.miami.edu.

ArchiTalk to air on Monday 4/2/2012 on 880 AM The Biz

Tune in for the first ever show of ArchiTalk.
Sebastian Eilert, AIA and Jane Decker, AIA bring you ArchiTalk.

Two friends. One Profession. Different viewpoints. Sebastian Eilert, The German Architect and Jane Decker, The Grove Architect, have come together to give you ArchiTalk. Listen to what's happening in the South Florida architecture world and beyond, keep up with what’s happening around town and when the time is right, know who to turn to, to bring your project to life…with a sustainable touch. ArchiTalk. Mondays at 11 am on 880 the Biz. Make sure to follow us on Facebook at ArchiTalkRadio and send us your questions for upcoming episodes.

DHT - Architectural Heritage and Historic Preservation Workshop for Educators - 3/30/2012

Dade Heritage Trust
Architectural Heritage and Historic Preservation Workshop for Educators
Friday, March 30, 2012, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Miami City Hall

8:30 a.m. Registration opens

9:00 a.m. Welcome
Becky Matkov, CEO, Dade Heritage Trust
Mayor Tomas Regalado, City of Miami
Miami-Dade County School Board Member Raquel Regalado
Alex Adams, City of Miami Preservation Officer

9:30 a.m. The Power of Preservation Education
William Cary/Debbie Tackett

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Overview of Miami’s Architectural Heritage – Panel (20 min each)
Ellen Uguccioni (early Miami/Vernacular/Bungalow/Spanish Med)
Teri D’Amico (Art Deco/MiMo)
Sebastian Eilert (Why Preservation is “Green”)

11:45 a.m. Lunch (Scotty’s Landing)

1:00 p.m. Preservation Education – Panel (7 minutes each)
Charles Kropke--Giving Miami’s history an international appeal Ruth Jacobs --Engaging students with tours
RoseMarie Wolfson --Engaging students with comparative
architectural projects
Yvonne Moyer --Engaging students with advocacy
Beth Goldstein—Engaging students with art competitions
Seth Bramson –Engaging students of all ages with memorabilia

2:00 p.m. Break

2:15 p.m. Bus Tour: William Jennings Bryan Heritage Sites
Tour Guide: Lois Randall
4:30 p.m. Return to City Hall

Dade Heritage Trust thanks the following for their generous support:
The Villagers, Inc.
City of Miami
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners

We’ve Always Done It That Way!

How often have you heard the phrase, ‘we’ve always done it that way’? It is a secure answer for things in our lives we may not want to change.
When I hear the phrase ‘we always done it that way’, the story about ‘the ham and the pan’ comes to mind.

One day a young girl was helping her mother bake a ham. In preparing to put the ham in the baking pan, the mother cut off the edges. The young girl asked her mom, ‘why did you do that’. Her mother replied, ‘I don’t know, this is what I was taught’.
Together they called the young girls grandmother and asked the question; but got the same answer, ‘‘I don’t know, this is what I was taught’. So they pressed on and called the young girls great grandmother.

They asked the great grandmother the question of ‘why do you trim the edges off the ham before putting it in the baking pan’. Great grandmother had a reason…know what it was? Her pan was too small!!
So for generations, her daughter, and her grand daughter were trimming the edges off the ham, without knowing why!

Now in their defense, maybe the ham they were making was also too big for their pan (I know some of you may be thinking that, especially Robert), but the point is, they didn’t know why they were doing it.
So what’s the application?

In each of our personal and corporate lives, there are things we are doing, because ‘we’ve always done it that way’. There was a valid reason at one time, but we have not taken a step back to see if something needs to change.
Here’s the exercise…

1. Identify an activity or process in your company that is critical to the success of the organization
2. Write down the entire process – each and every step
3. Have a team question each step for the purpose of understanding the reason for each action
4. Ask the all-important question, ‘why are we doing it that way?’ or ‘is there a better way to be doing this?’
5. Redefine the process and document the new step by step procedure
6. Implement for a couple of weeks
7. Monitor the progress and effectiveness of the new way of doing things
8. Make changes if necessary
9. Repeat the process in a year
10. Pick another activity and start at number 1

Let me know your experience and your personal story with how this exercise works for you.
Some maybe thinking, we need help to get this done! We’re not process thinkers or would like an outside opinion to help us improve!

The team at Barbar Financial is available to assist you as needed. Call John at 561.302.6304 to see how the team at BFS can help!
Live Passionately!

(Contribution by John Barbar, learn more about Barbar Financial HERE)

RELAX @ Element - USGBC SFL - 29 Mar 2012 5:30 PM

Upcoming event information:
RELAX @ Element - A Program Presented by the Miami-Dade Branch of the USGBC South Florida Chapter Element Miami Airport Hotel, 3525 NW 25th Street, Miami, FL 33142
Date: 29 Mar 2012 5:30 PM
RELAX @ Element Program Presented by the Emerging Professionals of the USGBC South Florida Chapter
RELAX @ Element! Brought to you by the USGBC SF Miami-Dade Branch’s Hospitality Committee. Receive an educational tour of the NEW Element Miami Airport Hotel – Certified LEED Silver and then RELAX: the brand’s signature spin on the quintessential “happy hour.” Enjoy the complimentary 90 minute reception featuring carefully selected food and beverage pairings.
Tour Starts @ 5:30pm
Limited space is available (max 25-30ppl)

Special Thanks to Our Sponsor: Element Miami Airport Hote

To learn more about this unique program, check back here or spend some time going through the Miami-Dade Branch's e-newsletter.
In addition to a top-shelf green-building education program, the event will feature:
• Delectable edibles
• Exceptional networking opportunities
• An outstanding venue
• Great camaraderie and fun
Our Branch programs are FREE to USGBC members, and non-members are charged a nominal $10 admission fee to help cover meeting costs. To join the USGBC South Florida Chapter, click here or you can join prior to the program.
Please come out and join in ... and bring a friend! The more you get involved with the Branch's activities, the greater the wealth of contacts, resources and information that are available to you, including workshops and webinars tied to securing LEED accreditation.
As a program sponsor, you have direct access to like-minded professionals and individuals who share your interest in sustainability and green building. If your company is interested in sponsoring future programs put on by our nonprofit organization and receiving some of the best marketing exposure available in South Florida, contact Stephen Chang, Victor Caban Diaz or Jesse Rittenhouse
If you have any questions regarding the Miami-Dade Branch or this month's program, and if would like to participate in future presentations or have a wonderful experience as a member of our volunteer family, please contact Stephen Chang,Victor Caban Diaz or Denaye Hinds

More information and online registration: RELAX @ Element - A Program Presented by the Miami-Dade Branch of the USGBC South Florida Chapter

Thank you for your support,
USGBC South Florida Chapter

UM Exhibition - March 19- April 20, 2012

UM Classical Cuba LEcture, March 21, 2012, 6pm

CLASSICAL CUBA LECTURE BY
MADELINE DE LA CARIDAD MENENDEZ GARCIA
WEDNESDAY THE 21ST AT SOA

Dear Faculty and Staff:

A special visitor will join us tomorrow afternoon to lecture on The House in Habana: Domestic Typologies in the Historic Center.

Dr. Madeline Menendez, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana Colegio Universitario San Geronimo, will speak to faculty, students and staff of the School of Architecture Wednesday, March 21 in Glasgow Hall from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The event is being sponsored by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, Florida Chapter; St. Augustine Baracoa Friendship Association; the American Institute of Architects; Fundacion Amistad; Flagler College; and the University of Miami School of Architecture.

Dr. Menendez, who has been involved as an architect in conservation efforts in La Habana with both the CENCREM as well as the Office of the Historian of the City of La Habana and is presently a professor at the Colegio Universitario de San Geronimo, will lecture on Neo-Classical Architecture in Habana in the XIX and XX Centuries. From the end of the 1700’s to the early republic in the first half of the XX Century, Neo-Classical Architecture was perhaps the predominant architectural style in Cuba and would yield excellent examples in the related fields of Urban Design, Interior Design, Craftsmanship and Landscape Architecture. In the XX Century, Neo Classical Architecture in Cuba parallels architecture practice in the United States, in the work of such offices as McKim Mead and White and Schutze and Weaver for instance, and is a living testimony of a shared cultural patrimony between our two countries.

Evening sith the Stars - March 31, 2012. Special Olympics 8th Annual Inspire Greatness Awards.

10 Green Initiatives to Take for St. Paddy’s Day

some good tips for this weekend:

http://www.onlinecertificateprograms.org/blog/2012/10-green-initiatives-to-take-for-st-paddys-day/

Fox's South Miami - 65th Anniversary Party! 3/15/2012 @ 6 pm

For 65 years FOX'S has been serving 'em up in South Miami.

Join SOMI Magazine and Chamber South at FOX'S
tomorrow evening to celebrate their 65th anniversary.

Complimentary hors d'oeuvre, canapes & beverages,
and the sounds of Van Gogh Listens!

Play "Pin the Tail on the Fox" game and your chance to win a FOX-y prize!

It's not too late to let us know you're coming....
Call 305.661.1621 or email: info@chambersouth.com

NEWH Sustainable Hospitality Luncheon 3-27-12

click HERE to register

Natural Talent Design Competition 2012

Natural Talent Design Competition 2012
“LEED”ing Luxury: Green Resorts & Hotels

The USGBC South Florida Emerging Professionals would like to announce the 2012 Natural Talent Design Competition. This year’s local competition incorporates not only elements of sustainability, but partners with the USGBC Hospitality committee, but with key players in the green movement in our local community. Such partners include Cambean Hospitality (co-sponsor), Greater Miami & the Beaches Hotel Association, Miami-Dade Office of Sustainability, and Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce.

South Florida’s tourism industry was one of the hardest hit in the recent recession. One of the ways to revitalize the industry and stimulate our local economy is to attract more corporate clientele. This year’s competition is called “LEED”ing Luxury: Green Resorts & Hotels. We aim to restructure the LEED Rating System to be more accommodating to new and construction and renovations of hotels and resorts in South Florida. We are also looking to have participants help with the renovation of one of the classic boutique hotels – The Carlton Hotel, which is undergoing a major LEED renovation later this year.

We have gone above and beyond any prizes we have ever offered for the local competition this year.
• Third place prize is dinner and a one-night stay for each team member and a guest at one of Cambean Hopitality’s premier hotels.
• Second place prize is registration costs to attend USGBC Greenbuild , our international conference and expo for sustainability, in San Francisco in November 2012.
• Overall prize is a chance to present at Greenbuild, have your new LEED rating system submitted to USGBC national for credits to be considered in the launch of LEED 2015, and $5,000!!!!

Deadline to register for the competition is March 30th, 2012. Submission deadlines are in May and September. The Notice-to-Compete document, the Request for Proposals, and other resources can be found on our website at www.usgbcsf.org/ep/ntdc . Please also check out our promotion video at https://vimeo.com/37020488

Please e-mail David Truong at dtruong@usgbc.org with any questions. Let’s take a stand for sustainability and help “LEED” the charge for sustainable hospitality. Thank you.

Sundays on The Green - March 25, 2012

Tomorrow's House - University of Miami lecture by Alexander Gorlin - 3/7/12 6pm

Alhambra Orchestra @ German American Social Club Miami - 3/31/2012

Please join the German American Social Club on March 31, 2012 for an amazing performance by the Alhambra Orchestra.
Doors open at 6:30, concert starts at 7: 30 (German time). $15 entry.

DINNER HONORING JACK MEYER ENGINEER, MIAMI MARINE STADIUM 2/29/12

DINNER HONORING JACK MEYER
ENGINEER, MIAMI MARINE STADIUM

Wednesday, February 29 6:00 PM Cash Bar
7:00 PM Program and Dinner
Biscayne Bay Yacht Club
2540 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove

Jack Meyer, former Commodore of Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, was the project engineer for the construction of the Ralph Middleton Munroe Marine Stadium from its inception in 1961 through completion in 1963.

While at Dignum Engineers, Jack considered the Marine Stadium the most difficult project of his career. All of the other engineers refused to work on this assignment.

When the Marine Stadium was built, it was considered the longest span of cantilevered concrete in the world. Due to Jack's brilliant effort, the Stadium has withstood almost half century of neglect and is now destined for restoration.

The event is co-sponsored by the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club.

Cost: $40 per person, includes full buffet dinner with both Prime Rib and Salmon.

Tickets MUST be purchased before Monday, February 27. We expect to sell out so we recommend that you purchase tickets by Friday, Feb. 24. Call 800-838-3006 and ask for "The Jack Meyer event February 29" or click here

Renowned Architect and Urban Planner Andres Duany will lecture at the SOA on March 5, 2012

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On Monday, March 5, 2012, the School of Architecture’s Center for Urban & Community Design (CUCD) will present a lecture by Andres Duany, renowned architect and urban planner, on the subject of Classicism. The title of the lecture is Heterodoxia Architectonica which explores the future of Classicism.

Here is an excerpt from Mr. Duany’s remarks on Classicism on the occasion of he and UM SOA Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk receiving the Driehaus Prize in 2008:
“Will this generation bore deeper into refinement and elitism, or will it endeavor to spread classical architecture outwards to a broad, democratic, indeed populist, future? Will they continue reprinting ever more esoteric treatises, or will they write new ones conceived to serve, not the 16th or even the 20th century, but the future which is upon us? To explain what I mean, please permit me a rudimentary example. How can there be a viable canon of architecture that is incapable of producing an opening wider than it is high… I would propose a new ethos – one no longer dedicated to the polishing of the classical canon of Vitruvius, Palladio and Vignola, but to supplementing that canon. Because this process cannot be allowed to devolve into neo-postmodernist dissipation, it should still be based on the authority of masters and masterpieces. First, we must transcend the closed historic treatises, to rescue that which was discarded in the reductive process of writing them. Then we must recover to our side those transitional 19th- and 20th century architects who have been assigned to the modernist camp — where they reside as the foundation of their authority — when they are, in fact, the last great flowering of classicism. An expanded canon would include newly drawn plates alongside Vignola’s: the Orders of masters such as Gilly, Soane, Thompson, Garnier, Perret, Hoffman, Loos, Asplund, Piacentini, Terragni, Stern, Graves, Porphyrios and Rob Krier. This treatise would claim an enormous amount of new territory for classicism. We are almost there. We have only to climb one last Everest.”

Andres Duany received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University and a Master’s of architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. Duany was co-founder of the Miami firm Arquitectonica, and in 1980, Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk founded Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). Duany is a co-founder and emeritus board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) since 1993. In 2001, he and Plater-Zyberk were awarded the Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum and in 2008 the Richard H. Driehaus Prize. Mr. Duany has co-authored several books including: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream; The New Civic Art; and Garden Cities: Theory & Practice of Agrarian Urbanism.

The lecture on Monday, March 5, will be from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon in the University of Miami School of Architecture Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, 1215 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

Miami Beach Botanical Garden - The 11th Annual Tour of Private Miami Beach Gardens

Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Presents:
The 11th Annual Tour of Private Miami Beach Gardens

Saturday, March 17, 2012

A once-a-year opportunity to visit six outstanding residential gardens that include private island properties, a tortoise habitat and edible garden created at a waterfront estate, and elegant personal retreats designed by several of South Florida's leading landscape architects















Photo by Robin Hill

The tour is self-guided: drive yourself or bicycle.
Gardens are open 10 a.m. to 3a.m.

Tour tickets: $25 advance/ $30 day of tour

Tickets online at www.mbgarden.org
Telephone: 305-673-7256 ext. 206
E-mail lajamieson@mbgarden.org

Sale of orchids, plants, books, souvenirs, jewelry, housewares and
gems & junque throughout the day at 2000 Convention Center Drive
Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day at our public garden.
Free admission all day at Miami Beach Botanical Garden

On March 17 only, 11AM to 4PM, the Garden hosts the Truck Stop
with Miami's trendy food trucks serving fast and fun lunches and snacks.

Featuring:
Latin Burger
The Fish Box
Gastropod
SugarYummyMama

Like us on Facebook
For more information: www.mbgarden.org

Miami Center for Architecture & Design Design Charette - 2/25/2012

Miami Marine Stadium Update

MEDIA ADVISORY

Contact: Don Worth
305-742-9238 dontonton@gmail.com

Miami Marine Stadium Update

WHAT: Local and National Leaders Gather to Show Support for
Restoration of Miami Marine Stadium

WHEN: Friday, February 17, 2012, 10:00 AM
Press Conference at 10:15 AM. Tour of Miami Marine Stadium at 10:45

WHERE: Miami Rowing and Watersport Center
3601 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, 33149

WHO: Elected Officials including Tomas Regalado, Mayor of Miami; Miami City Commissioners Marc Sarnoff, Francis Suarez, Willy Gort; Franklin Caplan, Mayor of Key Biscayne; Xavier Suarez, Commissioner, Miami-Dade County, Raquel Regalado, Miami-Dade School Board

Guests Including: Hilario Candela, architect of the Marine Stadium; Bonnie Burnham, Executive Director, World Monuments Fund; Robert Hammond, Co-Founder, Friends of The High Line (NYC); Philip Aarons, Founding Chair, Friends of The High Line; Tony Goldman, Goldman Properties; Senior Officials, National Trust For Historic Preservation; Becky Roper Matkov, Executive Director, Dade Heritage Trust; Greg Bush, Virginia Key Planning Coalition

BACKGROUND: On January, 24, the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority (MSEA) approved a Resolution and Memorandum of Understanding between Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, the Miami City Commission and MSEA. This legislation now represents a first step to the creation of a partnership which will lead to the restoration and operation the Marine Stadium. The matter is now before the Miami City Commission and approval is expected shortly.

The Marine Stadium initiative, which started in 2008, has now attracted national and international support. The leaders above will discuss the importance of the Marine Stadium and next steps in the plans for restoration.

Photo Opportunities: Interior and exteriors of Miami Marine Stadium and Basin
High Resolution images and digital media kit available

More information at: www.marinestadium.org

Artecology Expands to Coconut Grove

Artecology is proud to announce the re-location of the all day "Enviro- Art" concept making its debut in the heart of Miami’s bohemian tapestry, Coconut Grove thanks to such overwhelming interest and response. After working with the production power behind Rockaz MVMT and most recently One Love Nutrifest, Iraklis Kalamenios, the founder of Artecology Organization, has confirmed Artecology’s presence at the 2nd annual Miami Reggae Festival encompassing every piece of green and shade throughout the larger and more spacious Peacock Park on Saturday April 28th 2012.

The two pro-culture platforms are guaranteed to have an impact on Miami’s forward-thinking momentum currently taking shape over Miami’s masses. It will be a day of art, celebration, music, and plenty of local goods and grub to keep you and your little ones, smiling and swaying throughout the day.

The event will be divided into these areas:
Arts & Crafts, Kids Area in conjunction with Big Blue & You Foundation and Fertile Earth Foundation, Local Food Court, 305Green Village, and a Women’s Wellness and Yoga Center.

Each area is being spearheaded by local community based organizations to ensure the local aesthetic is properly represented. According to Iraklis Kalamenios, Artecology’s mission is to use the power of music, art and culture including performing, digital and visual arts, to provide awareness to the environment in a unique way.

All participants will have the opportunity to represent their craft and/or specialty among other like-minded, equally earth conscious individuals in a relaxed outside music-making setting.

From now until the end of February there are reduces rates for vendor spaces.
Reserve your space now!

Prices are as follows:
Handmade Arts and Crafts $125 (end february) - $150 (March 1 - April 10) - after April 10 = 175$
Retail and Businesses $225 (end february) - $250 (March 1 - April 10) - after April 10 = $275

For more information please visit artecologyweb.com or email artecologyweb@gmail.com.

Join us for the USGBC South Florida's Miami-Dade Branch GREENWORKING event at the Brickell Irish Pub!

Come unwind with the Miami-Dade Branch and enjoy an an evening of GREENworking at the Brickell Irish Pub. Expand your network while you mingle and meet with other branch and chapter members in a casual, fun atmosphere.

This is a free event and open to everyone.

Our networking events are always highly attended so be sure to rsvp!

Complimentary cocktails from 7-8PM

Suggested $10 donation (tax-deductible)

Business Casual Attire

Educational Presentation: Brickell Green Space



Special Thanks to our Sponsors & Affiliates:

Urban Land Institute

Miami Downtown Development Authority

City of Miami Office of Sustainable Initiatives

Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce

Brickell Green Space

Miami Urbanist

Environmental News & Views

Miami New Times

Zahn Development

Tsao Design Group

Cervera Real Estate

Megacity Events


REGISTER HERE

Wynwood Green - Sundays on the Green 2/26/2012

Bringing our community together in Wynwood for events that inspire our minds to think green and experience something new. Working in collaboration with 305Green, I Am Your Villain, Ground Up Collective and WVUM we will be doing monthly events with Farmer's Markets, half-pipes, educational presentations about environmentally friendly ways to live and most of all will include fun things to do for the whole family in Miami...and it's OUTSIDE!
Vendors interested please email info@wynwoodgreen.org

http://www.wynwoodgreen.org/

GASC Family night February 24, 2012

Please join the German American Social Club for our monthly Family Night - fun and games for all ages. The bar will be open and food will be served!

February 24, 2012 - 6:30 doors open until 11 pm... See you There!

University of Miam - Architecture Lecture 1/30/3012 - The Brazil Lecture

Miami Beach Botanical Garden - Jan 29 - Music in the Beautiful Spaces

Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Presents:

Sunday,
January 29
at 6:00 PM

Admission in
advance: www.sobechamberensemble.org
$20 adults,
$10 students and seniors
Buy Tickets Online
Admission
at the door: $25 adults, $15 students and seniors

South Beach
Chamber Ensemble, Inc.
1135 Euclid
Avenue, Suite #1
Miami Beach,
Florida 33139

305.673.2183
mandrews17@mindspring.com
www.sobechamberensemble.org

International Artecology Festival

International Artecology Festival
15 april 2012
Coral Gables, Fl / Ponce de Leon & Alhambra plaza

A FREE Public Event For Arts, Crafts & Music Lovers, Families, and Green Enthusiasts.
International green vendors, artists and educators coming together to raise environmental awareness, and to promote sustainability in a practical and entertaining manner.
The International Artecology Festival uses the power of music, arts, and culture including performing, digital and visual arts, to provide awareness of its cause in a unique way. The Festival includes an array of environmentally focused events throughout the City of Coral Gables, including concerts featuring internationally acclaimed jazz, fusion, and world music artists.
This multidimensional event has been hugely successful in Europe since 2005. It is produced by Artecology, a European based not-for profit organization dedicated to promoting environmental awareness, plus green technology and products, by using the entertaining and transforming power of music, arts & culture.
The International Artecology Festival is designed to accommodate 120 tents and booths of national and international green vendors, artists and non-profit organizations.
For more information on festival participants, pricing, sponsorships and how to get involved, contact Iraklis Kalamenios artecologyweb@gmail.com.

THE FESTIVAL…
Over 120 artists from all over the world will exhibit and perform to celebrate and support the green movement at the International Artecology Festival 2012. Original artwork from all over the world will be offered, including: painting, ceramics, photography, crafts, jewelry and sculpture at the Arts and Crafts booths. International LIVE musical entertainment will appear on the Main Stage and will be provided throughout the course of the festival along with a Kid’s Corner with green education & activities just for the kids. Vendors with organic and natural food offerings and beverages will be sold at the International Food court. Businesses promoting Eco-tourism to international destinations and Eco friendly products will be displayed in the City Green Life Area. You can experience Yoga, Wellness speakers and sample organic products at the Women’s Wellness & Yoga center. This event marks the start of an ongoing and new sustainable future.

THE CHARACTER…
The Artecology Festival is a multidimensional FREE event which embraces and highlights each location with their own individual characteristics to help promote Eco-sustainability and environmental awareness. By using the transforming power of music and the arts, we take a practical approach to educate the community on how we can help protect and sustain our world for generations to come.

THE HISTORY…
First started in Greece in 2005 where the festival established itself as an annual event then later was organized every year in different cities, as the festival’s popularity grew.For 2012 the festival will be produced also in Spain and Germany, and will cross the Atlantic to be hosted for first time in the USA by the city of Coral Gables, FL.

WHO’S ATTENDING…
Music, Arts and Crafts lovers of all ages. Eco-friendly, nature and health minded individuals, families and kids.
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click here for VENDOR info
click here for SPONSORSHIP LEVELS info
To reserve a space and receive the application form (no application fees) send as please your website link, or images about your art, business, non profit to mailto:artecologyweb@gmail.com
Your generous support enables us to bring live music, arts, crafts, exhibitions and environmental awareness to festival attendees and promote the local community. Don’t miss this great opportunity to have your products and services showcased locally and worldwide through the International Artecology Festival.

REASONS TO PARTICIPATE & SPONSOR
Local & Worldwide Exposure for your businesses.
Support the fine Arts.
Support the excellent cause: environmental awareness.
Tap into the fastest growing sector in today’s economy, the ecology and sustainability movement.

Emails Needed to help Save the Everglades - Friday Jan 27th Deadline

We need your help now to protect the Everglades.
Miami-Dade Expressway Authority is planning to expand the 836 Dolphin Expressway west toward Krome Avenue and then south to Tamiami Airport. This project would accelerate westward development, threaten agriculture, and threaten Everglades restoration.
Please email written comments to tgarcia@mdxway.com by this Friday, January 27, 2012.

Here's a sample comment to cut and paste or put in your own words.

I ask the MDX board to remove the 836/Dolphin Expressway Southwest Extension (project 83618) from its 5-year plan. I question the necessity of the this project and am concerned about the impacts to residents, agriculture and America's Everglades.

I believe this road is unnecessary and will actually will increase, not alleviate, congestion on SR 836. Commuters currently have the option of taking several highways into downtown Miami. The existing 836, the Florida Turnpike, the 874, the 878 and the 826. Most of these roads have been or are currently being rebuilt to handle greater capacity. Future and existing toll revenues should be used to maintain these roads and provide for public transit alternatives, not to build new roads into environmentally sensitive areas.

The project will threaten Everglades National Park and nearby federally-protected wetlands. A new layer of highway extending away from the city will fuel sprawl because of its proximity to the Urban Development Boundary. This highway would attract development of agricultural and wild lands buffering the Everglades and pose a direct threat to the $12 billion federal-state Everglades restoration project.

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UEL Miami - Open Space: New Visions. Saturday January 28, 2012. 10 am - Noon

UM School fo Architecture - 1st Lecture of 2012 - Rojo 1/25/2012 @6pm

GASC Family night - January 20, 2012. 6:30 - 11:00 pm

Come join the German American Social Club for our monthly Family night – a night of fun and games for all ages! Please see flyer attached for details.

MiaGreen Expo & Conference - January 26th & 27th

Germany vs. Greece - Soccer at the GASC - Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 11:00am

Please join the local German team taking on their Greek colleagues for a friendly game of soccer this weekend at the German American Social Club...

Wynwood Green Launches - a cultural hub

Wynwood Green is proud to present a ‘new’ one-of –kind outdoor daytime experience in the artery of Miami’s artistic community. In association with Armory Studios, I Am Your Villain, Ground-Up Collective, 305Green, WVUM and Gab Studios comes an organic monthly outdoor space in Wynwood that will harness creativity and showcase the best locally owned businesses, organizations and people that Miami has to offer.
Wynwood Green will be the cultural hub for the local community through environmental presentations, pop-up demonstrations, workshops and fitness.

WHAT : Sundays on the Green is an organic, evolving outdoor space that will harness creativity and inspire minds to think green and support our local artists, businesses and community.

WHEN : Monthly Series Every Last Sunday of the month beginning January 29th noon-7pm, with a LIVE show in the Armory Studios after every event at 7pm.

WHERE : On the green adjacent to Armory Studios in the heart of Wynwood. 572 NW 23rd Street.

DETAILS : Visit wynwoodgreen.org or email info@wynwoodgreen.com.

ABOUT WYNWOOD GREEN : Wynwood Green is an organic, evolving outdoor space that will harness creativity and inspire minds to think green and support our local community.

WHAT TO EXPECT : Monthly Market featuring Music, Pop-Up Demonstrations, Fitness, Local Vendors, Workshops, Skateboarding and Environmental Presentations.
Wynwood Green is a Bike-Friendly, Pet-Friendly, Recycle-Friendly Outdoor Space.
Think Local. Choose Responsibly.