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CommuniTEA Dance
The Arsht Center’s LGBTQ+ Pride celebration returns for its sixth year, June 4, with festivities on the Thomson Plaza for the Arts. CommuniTEA Dance is a free event featuring South Florida’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community with performances and deejays in the heart of Downtown Miami.
From 1 to 3 p.m., guests of all ages are encouraged to explore the event’s Pride Marketplace which spotlights local organizations, artisans, creatives and small businesses. Attendees also will enjoy family-friendly performances, activities for children, storytelling and sing-alongs. Community partners such as Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science will be on-site with free art-making kits and interactive presentations.
After 3 p.m., the event will transform into an 18-and-over tea dance, emceed by 99JAMZ’s She-J Hercules, featuring tunes by Deejay Smeejay (DJ at Sky Sundays at Esme Hotel, OUTShine Film Festival, Miami Beach Pride), a marketplace, performances by local artists and a rousing show headlined by Martha Wash, the original Weather Girl, platinum-selling recording artist and two-time Grammy Award nominee.
Ms. Wash, also known as “The Queen of Clubland” and lauded for her distinctive and dramatic voice, will delight fans with megawatt hits such as You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), It’s Raining Men, Strike It Up, Everybody Everybody and C+C Music Factory’s Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now), which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Join in to enjoy happy-hour food and drinks, express yourself with the arts and learn from our community partners and vendors!
Pride anthems
Join in to celebrate Pride Month on June 18, 7 p.m., in the Knight Concert Hall, with a journey through the past 50 years of Pride anthems.
From Donna Summer to Queen, George Michael, Erasure, Madonna, Lady Gaga and many others, these essential songs take us from disco to the present day. The story of the fight for LGBTQ+ equality is linked to this music, which evokes the struggles, heartache and liberation of queer lives then and now.
Pride Anthems creates a vibrant musical experience that celebrates, inspires and commemorates the legacy and power of the Stonewall Riots. Starring Natalie Joy Johnson, Kevin Smith Kirkwood and Jon-Michael Reese, with musical director Brian J. Nash, Pride Anthems is a show for all ages to come together in song and celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and how far it has come since Stonewall.
Pride Anthems is produced in partnership with Pride Live. A portion of the proceeds for Pride Anthems will be donated to Pride Live and the Stonewall National Monument Visitors Center, which will open in June 2024.
Tickets are $25-$65.
To learn more about Pride Live, visit pridelive.org.
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