Celebrate Miami’s African-American heritage with a showcase of local artists that represent our community’s African diaspora. For its fourth edition, The Arsht Center’s 2023 Heritage Fest takes on the Black History Month theme of Black Resistance, recognizing the African-American community’s strength and perseverence in the face of historic and ongoing oppression.

This year’s festival returns to the Arsht Center’s Thompson Plaza of the Arts for an afternoon of free, family-friendly activities that include a dance workshop, children’s book readings, vendor marketplace, community mural painting and performances by the Rev. Melvin Dawson & The Genesis Fellowship Delegation and Victoria Blue. DJ Nickymix will also be hosting the event as well as serving the jams.

Festival Schedule

3:00 PM Paint With Faith Community Mural

3:15 PM Free Gospel Sundays Pop-Up Performance
Rev. Melvin Dawson & The Genesis Fellowship Delegation

3:15 PM Children’s Book Reading
M.J. Fièvre

3:30 PM Welcome From the Arsht Center

3:30 PM Afro Theory Dance Workshop
Kerine Jean-Pierre

4:15 PM Children’s Book Reading
Michael A. Woodward, Jr.

4:45 PM Children’s Book Reading
Ja’Nia Harden

4:45 PM Percussion Class
South Florida Center for the Percussive Arts

5:15 PM Children’s Book Reading
Michael A. Woodward, Jr.

6:00 PM Performance by Victoria Blue

Art of Black Miami - Black History Month