Orchids & Arts Festival

Sunday, May 5 • 10am–4pm

Orchids & Arts Festival

The Miami Beach Orchid Society, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, and Foundation for Emerging Technologies invite you to experience the inaugural Orchids & Arts Festival at the Garden. Our two-day festival will celebrate all things orchids and will highlight our Florida native orchid species, aiming to raise awareness about our beautiful, yet fragile ecosystems.

The weekend will include:

Premium orchid growers market
Soroa Orchids • Orchid Eros (Hawaii) • So Orchids • Florida Orchid House • Jim-N-I Orchids • Mac’s Orchids • Orchids in Bloom • Quest Orchids

Orchid related vendor market
OFE International: Orchid Supplies • Kawaii Universe: orchid clothing • Orchidabilia and Ingram’s Better Orchid Books • The Branch: Imaginative Orchid Mounts • Glasshouse Creations: Orchid Decor

Orchid Bench Exhibit
American Orchid Society (AOS) judging will take place on Friday afternoon and festival visitors will view the winners all weekend.

Public invitation: Bring your show stopping orchid on Thursday, May 2, 2-4PM or Friday, May 3, 9-11AM to be a part of the show throughout the weekend and be possibly judged by the AOS committee.

Arts presentations & performances
• Harold Golen Gallery features orchid paintings by El Gato Gomez, Mariana Kojšova and others

• Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts presents:Orchid Adventure by Juraj Kojš will be a series of short music, dance and storytelling performance activations about the Florida native Butterfly Orchid Encyclia tampensis featuring Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer.
• Orchid Music: A sound installation presenting sonifications of 15 Florida native orchid species DNA by Juraj Kojš. Throughout the weekend, at the entrance.
• FEME: The University of Miami’s Frost Electronic Music Ensemble will perform orchid-inspired electronic music on laptops. Throughout the weekend, at the fountain.
• Rachel Joy Weiss will present a meditative and educational Augmented Reality Installation on Israeli orchid species in the garden’s Gazebo. Throughout the weekend, at the gazebo.

Orchid lectures – Sunday, May 5
11AM-11:50AM: Growing Tips by Carlos Cahiz (OFE International)
12PM-12:50PM: Cattleya Culture by Lou Lodyga (Esteemed American Orchid Society judge)

Event Schedule – Sunday, May 5
1:00PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Orchid Jam (Fountain)
1:30PM: The Orchid Adventure: Tell Me Who You Are (Entrance)
1:40PM: Million Orchid Seeds. Andrea Labbee, dance solo (Japanese Garden)
2:00PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble (Fountain)
2:30PM: Orchid Adventure: Orchid is a Music Score (Banyan Patio)
3:00PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Orchid Jam (Fountain)
3:30PM: Orchid Adventure: Many Orchids, Muchas, Muchas! (Eucalyptus Alley)

Tickets: General Admission $5 • VIP $25 includes 2 cocktails

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