From Venice with Love: An Evening of Music, Art & Conversation

Live jazz, Caribbean cultural memory and visual art come together across two Miami Beach locations during a free evening program connected to Edouard Duval-Carrié’s From Venice with Love. The program takes place Sunday, August 23, beginning with a performance by trumpeter, percussionist and composer Etienne Charles from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Lummus Park as part of the Ocean Drive Promenade Music Series. A conversation between cultural producer Nuria Richards and Miami-based Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié follows from 8 to 9 p.m. at B Bar inside The Betsy - South Beach.

Born in Trinidad, Charles draws on jazz and Caribbean musical traditions in work shaped by research into migration, history and diasporic culture. A Guggenheim Fellow and Creative Capital Award recipient, he is also an associate professor of studio music and jazz at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music.

The evening is part of From Venice with Love, a retrospective and public humanities project celebrating Duval-Carrié’s work following his participation in the 61st Venice Biennale. On view at The Betsy from August 1 through November 15, the project includes works in The Betsy Gallery, nightly video projections on the Betsy Orb during August and 26 light boxes in B Bar. Duval-Carrié’s paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works often engage Haitian history, migration, Vodou symbolism and cultural ties between Haiti, Africa and the wider Caribbean.

Presented by The Betsy Writers Room and FIU’s Public Humanities Lab with support from the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation CreARTE Grant, the program is part of a broader series of free public events, conversations and performances connected to the exhibition. Both portions of the evening are free and open to the public.