Posted by: The arrival of May means we're almost halfway through the year and summer is coming soon. There's also a long weekend with Memorial Day Weekend toward the end of month.
Here are some fun and free things to do around Miami throughout the month of May! Click on the links in the headlines for full details.
(Photo courtesy of Little Haiti Book Festival)
Sunday, May 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Learn about the Haitian diaspora during this Miami Book Fair-sponsored all-day event for the entire family. The event will be at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, which will come alive with a poetry workshop in the gallery, hands-on activities and storytelling in Children's Alley, dance and theater workshops along with yoga in the dance studio and live music and dance performances. Plus, there will be plenty of free books for kids!
City Place Doral summer art installation
May 15 through Aug. 16
The summer art installation “Summer Lovin' features 186 custom-made overhead hearts above the boulevard in a mix of red, pink, yellow and purple hues and an Instagram-worthy photo opportunity in front of an oversized heart-shaped lock. Additionally, The Oasis experience in the Center’s Fountain Plaza will be adorned with a custom-built structure with four walkable bridges and a center platform, each bridge side panel finished in a different color to mirror the hearts overhead. Fencing along each panel provides visitors to hang their own love locks, creating a living, ever-growing display that builds throughout the summer.
Courtesy, ArchCreekTrust.org
All day Saturday, May 16
Get outside and enjoy one of our many Miami-Dade County and City of Miami Parks on National Kids to Parks Day. Walk a nature trail, bike ride through the park, swing away the day or pack a picnic and just enjoy a day outdoors at the park to commemorate the day. Parks may also schedule special events on this day.
Jazz in The Betsy Hotel Lobby. Photo by Carl Juste
Nightly throughout the month
Miami's boutique arts hotel, The Betsy Hotel, is a stately yet understated beauty on the quieter side of Ocean Drive, on 14th Street. For decades, the hotel has presented live music, art exhibitions, literary events and of those three the musical performances are the nightly mainstay. Jazz at The Betsy features a different performer each night in the hotel's lovely lobby.
Final Doc Thomas House Tours of the season
Saturday, May 2, at 1 and 3 p.m.
Take in the final tour of the historic Coral Gables Home. The Tropical Audubon Society hosts tours of the 1932 cottage where you can see the surrounding native woods and its oolitic limestone features.
Saturday, May 16 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Aragon Avenue in the heart of Downtown Coral Gables comes alive every second Saturday of the month. The Coral Gables Museum hosts the event with interactive kids' art activities an exhibition-themed scavenger hunt and a special performance by the Miami Symphony Orchestra.
There are several other monthly events not to be missed:
The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami has events all month long as does the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in Downtown Miami
Check out The Underline, Miami's open-air urban linear park that runs under the Metromover, they have events throughout the month.
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