Programs and Events
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is thrilled to offer many exciting events and programs*, in addition to daily guided tours of the historic main house. For more information, please contact 305-250-9133 or email learning.programs@vizcayamuseum.org.
Family Programs
Moonlight Garden Tours
Evening Talks and Special Tours
Performances
Contemporary Arts Project
Cool Summer Savings
* All public offerings are subject to change or cancellation and certain rooms may be closed for conservation or reinstallation.We regret any inconvenience to visitors.
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Family Programs: Viz(ual) Arts
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens welcomes families, specifically children with their adult companions, to explore the art, history and environment of James Deering's home and estate through afternoon programs. Art making programs are currently held on one Sunday of each month through the spring of 2009. Family programs are FREE with paid admission.
Facilitated by a museum educator or a guest artist, this program offers families the chance explore an aspect of Vizcaya and its collections, and create their own works of art in response. All art projects are portable and eco-friendly.
May 31, 2009: Portrait Drawing
Drop in between 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Courtyard, Main House
Using Vizcaya's European scuptures as a point of departure, participants will explore elements of portrait drawing with Arts for Learning teaching artist, Armando Droulers.
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Moonlight Garden Tours
Wander through Vizcaya’s breathtaking gardens along Biscayne Bay under the light of the full moon. Enjoy informal concerts of live music and light refreshments for sale in the Courtyard of the Main House. Vizcaya's Volunteer Guides will be on hand starting at 6:30 p.m. to answer questions and lead area tours in the gardens.
$15 per person; $10 for Students, Seniors, and Vizcayan members. Reservations not required. Note: Not all garden areas are fully wheelchair-accessible.
Moonlight Garden tours are currently finished for the season. Please check back for next season’s dates and times.
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Evening Talks and Special Tours
Hear experts in fields such as architectural history, art history, historic preservation, art conservation, Vizcaya’s history, and Miami history.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Dade Heritage Trust Annual Preservation Awards Ceremony
6:00-8:30 p.m, Courtyard
FREE
Please join us in honoring those who have excelled in preserving Miami's historic places and enjoy a special presentation by Vizcaya Executive Director Joel Hoffman on the restoration of this National Historic Landmark. Winning entries of the Dade Heritage Days Student Art and Photo Contest will be on display. Refreshments will be served. Reservations are required by calling 305-358-9572.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Preservation and Monticello
7:00 p.m., Courtyard
FREE
Vizcaya presents Susan R. Stein, the Richard Gilder Senior Curator and Vice President of Museum Programs at Monticello. Ms. Stein oversees the operation of the house, including the interpretation and curatorial departments. She is the project director of the interpretive elements of the new Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center at Monticello —four exhibitions and the film, Thomas Jefferson’s World. Ms. Stein will speak on various aspects of Jefferson and Monticello. Her research interests involve domestic life and material culture at Monticello, especially the decorative arts and art acquired by Jefferson in France.
Saturday, May 9 and Sunday (Mother's Day), May 10, 2009
National Public Gardens Day
10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
FREE with admission
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, along with more than 500 other botanical gardens, conservatories, and historical landscapes will celebrate the first National Public Gardens Day by offering guided tours of the Gardens at 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. National Public Gardens Day celebrates the role that Vizcaya and other American public gardens play in educating the public on the importance of environmental education.
A special thank you to the Double Tree Coconut Grove Hotel for providing hotel accommodations for this year’s Talks & Tours speakers.
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Performances
Friday, April 17, 2009
Baroque Concert
Presented by Vizcaya Museum and Gardens & Miami Bach Society
Courtyard, Main House
7:30 p.m.
Tickets $30, $20 for members of The Vizcayans, Volunteer Guides and the Miami Bach Society
Il Furioso, an international collaboration of musicians that specializes in early Italian Baroque music, celebrates Vizcaya's Venetian connection with a program entitled Battaglia d'amore, consisting of early 17th-century virtuosic music for voices, lutes, and harpsichord. The concert will include an unstaged 25-minute scena for three singers, string band, and continuo from Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered).
Light refreshments will be available for purchase prior to performance and during intermission. Seating is limited. Information and advanced ticket sales available ONLY through the Miami Bach Society at 305-669-1376 or www.miamibachsociety.org.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
64 Toy Pianos at Vizcaya, "Kun"
Noon-4:00 p.m.
FREE with paid admission
In collaboration with Schoenhut Toy Pianos, famed composer/toy pianist, Wendy Mae Chambers creates a meditative spectacle of 64 toy pianos, "Kun." The music, played by local musicians, will be experienced by walking through it and visiting the toy piano "stations" throughout the grounds of Vizcaya. Rain date, Sunday, May 3, 2009.
Please note that not all areas of the garden (or the program) are wheelchair accessible.
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Contemporary Arts Project
 Through this program, Vizcaya reaches out to the artist community both locally and nationally – to offer artists the opportunity to explore our resources and think about them in new ways. Two artists per year are invited by an advisory committee to immerse themselves in Vizcaya’s grounds and collections, create a work of art in response to that experience, and participate in public programs such as studio labs, demonstrations, and artist talks. The creative exchange that will result from this program will help to demonstrate Vizcaya’s contemporary relevance to our community and beyond.
Cool Summer Savings at Vizcaya!
Every Monday through Friday
June 1st – August 31st, 2009
BUY ONE – GET ONE
Buy one Miami-Dade resident admission,
get the second admission FREE.*
*Must show proof of residency and not valid with
any other discount offer.Highest priced admission
must be purchased first.
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Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is supported in part by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida , Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
  
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