SLEEPLESS NIGHT IS COMING!!!

Save the date for one of the largest and most exciting undertakings ever by the City of Miami Beach!

The website will be up and running by September 1st- www.sleeplessnight.org so here's some info in the meantime.

I am helping out with it so if you'd like more details or are interested in partnerships/sponsorships, please contact me: rebecca.mandelman@gmail.com

On Saturday, November 3, 2007, Miami Beach will host SLEEPLESS NIGHT, an all-night, free, citywide celebration of the arts, presented by the City of Miami Beach Tourism and Cultural Development Department and Cultural Arts Council. SLEEPLESS NIGHT is a collaboration of all of the city’s major cultural institutions, theaters, galleries and arts organizations, along with hotels, shops, clubs, restaurants, and individual artists and presenters. It will include indoor and outdoor art exhibits, installations, performances, fashion shows, tours, dance, theater, music, film and other cultural offerings, all presented without admission charge. Free public transportation will connect the four major zones of activity: North Beach, Collins Park, Lincoln Road and Ocean Drive.

The idea of a sunset-to-sunrise showcase of the arts began with the first Nuit Blanche in Paris in 2002. Nuit Blanche’s continuing success (more than a million-and-a-half visitors each year) has spawned similar events in Rome, Madrid, Brussels, Toronto and other cities. SLEEPLESS NIGHT is the first time a citywide event of this type will occur in the United States. The night of November 3^rd was chosen because it marks the end of Daylight Savings Time, providing an extra hour of nighttime in the year’s only 25-hour day, and fits perfectly with the city’s “Miami Beach 25/7” marketing campaign (“Miami Beach, so much to do you need an extra hour.”)

Event Participants:

As of July 1, 2007, those eager to participate in SLEEPLESS NIGHT include Animate Objects Physical Theater, Architects of Air, Art Center/South Florida, Arts Connection, Bass Museum of Art, Books and Books, Pablo Cano, Mariangela Capuzzo, Centro Cultural Espanol, Clifton Childree and Nikki Rollason, Comedy Central, Consulate General of France in Miami, Consulate General of Japan in Miami, Dance Now! Ensemble, Dr. Muu, Chus Garcia Fraile, FundArte, GenArt, Allard van Hoorn, Barbara Hulanicki, Interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop, Jewish Museum of Florida, KCC Productions, Live Nation, Marlborough Gallery New York, Ivan Martinez, Gustavo Matamoros, Ricardo Melchior, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Miami City Ballet, Miami Design Preservation League, Miami International Film Festival, Miami Light Project, Miami World Theater Festival, Rhonda Mitrani, New World Symphony, Nela Ochoa, Rudy Perez, Nestor Prieto, Provisional Danza, Red Chemistry, Rhythm Foundation, Bert Rodriguez, Sarruga, Seraphic Fire, Magnus Sigurdarson and Ragnar Kjartansson, Spiegelworld, Tigertail Productions, Odalis Valdivieso and Eugenia Vargas-Pereira, William Morris Agency and Wolfsonian-FIU. They are proposing to present a wide variety of cultural programming, ranging from the intimate (Matamoros’ six-hour piano piece in the Miami City Ballet’s Studio Five) to the monumental (the Florida debut of Alan Parkinson’s thousand-square-meter luminarium Levity II.) A comprehensive illustrated guide to the night’s offerings will highlight each presentation and offer various suggested interest-based itineraries. A dedicated website will launch September 1st.