11 Can’t-Miss Black History Month Events Around South Florida

Celebrate throughout the month of February and beyond.

February isBlack History Month , a prison term to immortalize and speculate on the past , present , and hereafter of theBlack community . All around the nation , there are celebration featuring fine art , music , nutrient , interactive panels , and more . In South Florida , museums , hotels , andrestaurantsare honoring Black History Month by hosting a ten thousand of event . Here are the ones you do n’t desire to miss .

Museum of Contemporary Art highlights Haitian culture

February 1 - 28North MiamiThroughout Black History Month , theMuseum of Contemporary Art , North Miamiwill offer a series of educational and public programing . These events include film covering , dialog box discussions , quilt making classes , concerts , and art workshops . Additionally , MOCA has two new exhibition , “ Didier William : Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè , ” which translates to “ We ’ve Left That All Behind ” and Leah Gordon ’s “ Kanaval ” which document twenty years of Carnival in Haiti . Cost:$10

Feast on specialty menus at Red Rooster Overtown

February 1 - 28OvertownEach workweek in February , Red Rooster Overtown will fete the food traditions of the African diaspora , starting with West and Central Africa , the Caribbean , New Orleans , and the South Carolina / Georgia low country . In addition to the unconstipated menu , node can expect special cup of tea like Carolina - style smoke pulled whole pig , Goat & Chicken Jollof Rice , Seafood Gumbo , and Bajan Salt Pisces Cakes & Pumpkin Fritters . Cost : Varies

Check out art at Kimpton EPIC Hotel

February 1 - 28DowntownAs part of Kimpton EPIC Hotel ’s ongoingEPIC Art syllabus , this calendar month will feature local artistNate Dee . Influenced by his Haitian screen background and its colourful aesthetic , his pop surrealist art will be on show throughout the hotel ’s sixteenth floor foyer . All of it is for sale and 100 % of the sales go straightaway to the artist . monetary value : loose

Visit Kathia St. Hilaire’s first solo museum exhibition at NSU Art Museum

on-going through April 23Fort LauderdaleTitled " Kathia St. Hilaire : Immaterial Being , " this exhibit direct her personal transcultural experience and how she experiments with art - make technique . St. Hilaire take with materials through weaving , cutting , collaging , and painting . On view at the NSU Art Museum through April 2023 , her show confronts and memorializes complex issue from the artist ’s ancestral past as she run across it within her own urban surround via her cultural identification and innate opinion — refusing to shy away from imagery that may be controversial , political or historic , all of which is filtered through portrayals of everyday living in the neo - diaspora . Cost:$12 or free the first Thursday of the month

Arsht Center to host Heritage Fest 2023: Black Resistance

February 4DowntownThis indoor / outdoor event will feature an Afro - theory dance shop run by Show Stopper Dance Studio’sKerine Jean - Pierre , a gospel pop - up operation by Rev. Melvin Dawson & theGenesis Fellowship Delegation , and more . Free to the populace , you’re able to RSVPhere . Additionally , the Arsht Center will host an array of event throughout the month let in jazz concert , book reading , Sunday gospel , and dance carrying out . Cost : liberal

Make your way to Downtown West Palm Beach’s Black History Month Kickoff

February 4West Palm Beach“See What I Can Be , ” presented by Rohi ’s Readery and The Office of African and African American Studies , is the first issue for the Second Annual Black History Month jubilation at The Square . Taking office from 8:30 am to 3 pm , the event will include a group SoulCycle ‘ origins of hip - hop ’ themed ride , a yoga category , live melodious performances , fry cooking and gardening place , local artisan market , educatee panel , family and pedagogue workshops , children ’s author meter reading , dance and music stratum , and more . It ’s free to the world . Reserve a place onEventbrite . price : Free

Get dressed up for a Black History Gala: “Loving The Culture”

February 10North Miami BeachGet bedeck out for this upscale dark of dining and saltation put together by The Creative Spot in North Miami Beach . Tickets cost $ 60 and can be purchased onEventbrite . Cost:$60

Attend the 10th Anniversary Party of Art + Soul

February 11DowntownArt + Soulat the Pérez Art Museum Miami ( PAMM ) is keep its tenth anniversary this month with a gala hosted by The PAMM Fund for Black Art . The eve include cocktails , a seated dinner , and dancing under the star with live amusement . This year will boast worker and activist Jesse Williams as its honoree and a new piece of oeuvre for the accumulation will be revealed . Cost : ticket start at $ 1,500

Enjoy a free screening of Hidden Figures

February 17Miami BeachHead over to Miami Beach Regional Library for a 3 necropsy sieve ofHidden Figures . The Oscar - make headway film stars Taraji P. Henson , Octavia Spencer , and Janelle Monáe , who represent three glorious Black distaff NASA mathematician who serve as the brains behind one of the great operations in account — the launch of spaceman John Glenn into reach . Cost : liberal

Melton Mustafa Jazz Festival

February 23 - 26OvertownOver the last weekend of the month , Melton Mustafa Jazz Festival Weekendis accept over the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater in Overtown . feature professional jazz instrumentalist that are joined by music pupil as youthful as 11 years honest-to-goodness , this year ’s festival will celebrate the outside ladies of jazz . It ’s designed to expose center shoal , gamy school , and college student to the educational component of jazz and will include execution from over a dozen creative person . Cost:$25 - $ 225

Attend the Third Annual Afro-Carib Festival

February 25MiramarThis festival , host by the City of Miramar , honors both Black History Month and Reggae Month . Blending the cultures that evolve through their shared African origins , this year will feature reggae , afrobeats , reggaeton , salsa , and other melodious genres from the Caribbean and African Diaspora . Catch Grammy Award - acquire Reggae artistKoffee , as well asTekno , Jacob Forever , J. Perry , Alexander Star , andYung Wylinat Miramar Regional Park Amphitheater from 5 phase modulation to 11 pm . Cost:$20 - $ 125

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