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Miami DDA launches inaugural DWNTWN Art Days, Sept. 7-8 BY RACHEL ADLER SCHAPIRO
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orking in tandem with a variety of arts and cultural institutions, the Miami Downtown Development Authority (Miami DDA) will show its support for the area’s cultural renaissance through its inaugural DWNTWN Art Days Event, Sept. 7-8. For the first time ever, the Miami DDA, through its Cultural Advisory Group, will partner with virtually every major art and culture institution in Downtown Miami for a two-day celebration: Meet Your Neighbors: Mary Brickell, Thursday, Sept. 6, 5:30-8 p.m. Miami Art Museum: Free entrance to Rashid Johnson exhibit, Friday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m.5 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 8, noon-5 p.m. Centro Cultural Español: Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz’s exhibit “La Bestia” (The Beast), Friday, Sept. 7, 9 a.m.5 p.m. Miami Dade College Gallery at the Freedom Tower: Shutter: Selected photography and film from CINTAS Foundation Fellows Collection, Friday, Sept. 7, noon-5 p.m. Adrienne Arsht Center: Food Truck Friday, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., and tours of the center on Saturday, Sept. 8, at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m.
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Red Bull Flugtag returns to Bayfront Park in the fall
Presidents Helping Children Exhibit at MCM, Sept. 17-24 BY WOODY GRABER
Defying gravity for as long as possible is the goal of each entry in the Red Bull Flugtag. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
BY CASSADY FAIRCLOTH
hat happens before and after takeoff is optional, but landing is mandatory. Red Bull Flugtag is soaring into Miami this fall for the first time since 2010, and applications now are being accepted from avid aviators throughout the Southeast. Bayfront Park will welcome thousands of South Florida residents and visitors to its beautiful waterfront to see the flights and follies of Red Bull Flugtag on Saturday, Nov. 3. Flugtag, German for “flying day,” is a competition that dares the brave and tests the brainy to design, build and pilot homemade aircrafts off a 30-foot high ramp in hopes of achieving human-powered flight. Forty teams will be chosen to test
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their “wings” and compete in the flying spectacle that awes millions around the world. Past applicants have created crafts representing everything the imagination can bring to life, from fairy tales and comic book characters to iPhones and cheeseburgers. Entry is open through Sept. 1 and applications can be submitted online at redbullflugtagusa.com or via “snail mail.” Interested teams should draw up their blueprints of an imaginative craft and prepare to fly — at least for a few seconds. Entrants must compile a team of no more than five people— four flight crew members and one pilot — to create a unique fly-
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In partnership with Every Child Matters, the Miami Children’s Museum (MCM) will host a non-partisan public education campaign that spotlights the needs of children in 2012. The exhibit, scheduled Sept. 17-24, will include banners of past presidents and will highlight their child-friendly contributions. The exhibition also will include interactive learning through scheduled programming and a school-wide contest engaging children in Miami-Dade County to creatively express how presidents have inspired them as future leaders. The exhibit is aimed at alerting the public to the needs of children while raising awareness of the role our presidents and key policies makers have played and continue to play in the well-being of children and youth. The exhibit consists of banners displaying photographs of past presidents along with their significant contribution toward helping children. As part of hosting of the exhibit, MCM
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