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The best things to do in Miami this week

Get up and out the door with our hand-picked guide to the best events in Miami this week.

Ashley Brozic
Written by Ashley Brozic
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Can you feel the stillness? It's the calm before the FIFA World Cup storm! Sure, you could stay home and collect yourself before the city becomes awash with fan fests and watch parties, but then you'd miss out on all the local pop-ups and community events that make Miami summers so rich under the surface. This particular summer is also one for interesting museum exhibitions, from 200 years of Afro Cuban art at the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum to an exploration of American cults and sexuality at the Museum of Sex. Both Frost Science and PAMM are taking a deep dive into the sporting world, with a highly interactive and immersive exploration of how our bodies take on extreme sports and a retrospective on how competition and sporting culture affects our collective memory. It's also your last chance to check out From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana at ICA. While you're there, don't miss Harmony Korine's first U.S. museum survey, which takes up the entire third floor of the museum. 

Curated below is our guide to all the special events and happenings worth checking out over the next seven days, but should you prefer to plan your weeks in advance, here's our curated guide to everything happening in May in Miami. And if you're looking specifically for what to do this weekend, we've got a guide for that, too.

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What to do in Miami this week

1. An Evening with Dr. Jill Biden

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  • Literary events
  • Pinecrest
An Evening with Dr. Jill Biden
An Evening with Dr. Jill Biden
Courtesy Dr. Jill Biden
Former First Lady Jill Biden comes to Miami on June 6 for a live conversation about her new memoir, View from the East Wing, at The Hub at Temple Beth Am. In conversation with The View's Ana Navarro, Biden discusses her four years in the White House, balancing her role as First Lady with her career as a community college professor, behind-the-scenes moments from Camp David and Air Force One, and what she witnessed leading up to President Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 race. Tickets are $40 and include a bookplate-signed copy of the memoir from Books & Books.
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2. Bayskate

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  • Coconut Grove
Bayskate
Bayskate
Rendering: Courtesy of Bayskate
Bayskate is back, taking over the Historic Pan Am Hangar at Regatta Harbour in Coconut Grove for six weeks of roller skating, live DJs, cocktails, and outdoor lounges. You'll be gliding and grapevining around a 20,000-square-foot rink, with a gargantuan disco ball lighting up a place where some of America's first international flights began. This is, of course, a Miami-fied skating experience, with a cocktail program by Bayshore Club, with a rotating nighly soundtrack taht includes Latin tropibass, disco and, of course, Miami bass. The rink is open Thursdays through Sundays through June 14th, with daytime family sessions on weekends at lower admission prices. Groups can book rinkside table reservations, and season passes are available for unlimited access through the run. Skate rentals are available onsite, though you can bring your own Moxis or Impalas for extra style.
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3. Muerto de Risa

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  • Ludlam / Tropical Park
Muerto de Risa
Muerto de Risa
Photograph: Courtesy of Loud & Live
If you grew up in a Cuban household in Miami, Álvarez Guedes was probably playing in the background. The comedian who became the Godfather of Latin Comedy through 30-plus albums of distinctly Cuban storytelling is getting the immersive treatment this spring. Debuting April 30 inside a custom-built venue at Tropical Park, Muerto de Risa is a three-hour cabaret-style production that moves guests through themed spaces — El Bar, El Cabaret, El Patio — as stand-up, live music and theatrical storytelling unfold around them. Less traditional theater, more like stepping into a night out at a classic Havana club. Learn more here. 
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4. Pasta Making Class at Pasta

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  • Wynwood
Pasta Making Class at Pasta
Pasta Making Class at Pasta
Courtesy Pasta
Every Wednesday night, Wynwood's PASTA opens its kitchen for a hands-on pasta-making class led by head chef Luis Jose. The restaurant — brought to life by acclaimed Peruvian chefs Juan Manuel Umbert and Janice Buraschi — blends traditional Italian technique with Peruvian influence, and the class reflects exactly that: you'll mix, knead and shape your own pasta before sitting down to eat what you made. A welcome cocktail, appetizer and dessert round out the evening.
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5. From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana

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  • Design District
From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana
From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana
Courtesy Dolce&Gabbana/Mark Blower
After sell-out runs in Paris, Rome, and Milan, From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana arrives in Miami, opening February 6 at ICA Miami and running through June 14, 2026. The exhibition offers a rare look inside the creative universe of designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, tracing how their ideas move from inspiration to execution—all by hand. Curated by Florence Müller and produced by MARI, the show brings together more than 300 Alta Moda pieces, set within immersive installations and shown alongside works by contemporary artists, celebrating the artisanry, excess, and exuberance of Italian aesthetics. 
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6. POP AIR – Art is Inflatable

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  • Wynwood
POP AIR – Art is Inflatable
POP AIR – Art is Inflatable
Photograph: Courtesy of Balloon Museum
The Balloon Museum's globe-trotting "Pop Air" exhibition has landed at Mana Wynwood, turning one of the neighborhood's most cavernous spaces into an entire immersive environment dedicated to inflatable art. The show has already toured Rome, Paris, New York, and LA, and the Wynwood footprint gives these installations more room than they've had anywhere. You're meant to wander, touch, and interact—through a geometric inflatable labyrinth, a suspended sphere installation that responds to movement, a room where balloons swirl in controlled tornadoes, and a massive LED-lit butterfly you can power yourself by pedaling. The standout is Hyperstudio's luminous projection-filled ecosystem of swings and shooting stars. Budget more time than you think you'll need; you'll want to stop and appreciate the scale of everything after filling your camera roll with selfies. 
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7. 200 Years of Afro-Cuban Art at the Lowe Art Museum

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  • Coral Gables
200 Years of Afro-Cuban Art at the Lowe Art Museum
200 Years of Afro-Cuban Art at the Lowe Art Museum
Courtesy: Lowe Art Museum, Credit: Melissa Blackall
Two simultaneous exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum on the University of Miami campus make up the most comprehensive presentation of Afro-Cuban art ever mounted. El Pasado Mio/My Own Past, organized by Harvard's Afro-Latin American Research Institute and expanded for its Miami run, brings together more than 81 works by 44 Cuban artists of African descent spanning two centuries, including nine paintings by Wifredo Lam and works by eleven female artists being exhibited together for the first time. The show restores artists who were deliberately erased from the Cuban art historical record, placing obscured figures like Pastor Argudin, Maria Ariza, and Tony Ximenez alongside better-known names like Agustin Cardenas and Maria Magdalena Campos Pons. The companion exhibition, Afrocubanismo: Highlights from the Ramón and Nercys Cernuda Collection, traces the cultural movement that emerged in the 1930s, when a generation of Cuban artists began centering the country's African roots at a moment when most of Cuban society had actively suppressed them. The tension in that moment is part of what makes the show complex: some of these artists are seen as co-opting a history that wasn't theirs; others as genuinely trying to re-imagine Cuba through its African roots and Afro-religious forms. On view through September 12. General admission is free.
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8. Wynwood International Food Festival

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  • Festivals
  • Wynwood
Wynwood International Food Festival
Wynwood International Food Festival
Photograph: Jordan Braun
The World Cup is happening in Miami, and Wynwood is fielding its own culinary teams. The Wynwood International Food Festival runs June and July alongside the tournament, turning the neighborhood into a two-month global food trail with 20-plus restaurants each representing a different nation. The entry point is a physical passport — $25, available online or at partner locations — that gets stamped at each stop, with exclusive tasting items priced at $10 or $15 per restaurant. If you upgrade to a shot glass package, you get a welcome shot everywhere you go. The lineup spans Cuba, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, France, India, Italy, Mexico, and the United States, with familiar Wynwood spots like Cerveceria la Tropical, Ghee, Lira Beirut, and Fra Diavolo among the participants. Collect every stamp and you unlock exclusive prizes, not to mention bragging rights for saying you've basically eaten your way through Wynwood. 
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9. OBSESSION

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  • Miami Beach
OBSESSION
OBSESSION
Photograph: Faena Miami Beach
Gilded and crimson-draped Faena Theater is the ideal venue to experience OBSESSION, a new original production presented by Faena Live in collaboration with the Quixotic performance art collective. Nestled in Mid-Beach, the cabaret-style show blends live vocals, choreography and cinematic storytelling to take guests on a seductive 1.5-hour journey complete with lasers, projected visuals and plenty of theatrical haze. Helmed by emcee Sophia Bollman—whose credits include a stint on NBC's The Voice as part of Team Miley Cyrus and backup singing in Beyoncé's iconic Coachella performances—Faena Theater's 2026 headlining production also features the energetic stylings of Principal Violin and Musical Lead Kostia Lucky. Tickets start at $100 per person and include show admission only (food and beverages sold separately). Guests must be 18 or older, with a valid ID required upon arrival.
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10. Sepia Vernacular: Overtown’s Photographic Journey, 1920–1950

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  • Overtown
Sepia Vernacular: Overtown’s Photographic Journey, 1920–1950
Sepia Vernacular: Overtown’s Photographic Journey, 1920–1950
Courtesy SEOPW CRA
Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency presents Sepia Vernacular, an exhibition that places Overtown’s past back into public view. Drawn from the City of Miami Planning Department archives, the show features more than 80 rare photographs from the 1920s–1950s, including selections from Max Waldman’s 1947 Color Town series, documenting daily life across the streets, businesses, families, and social spaces that seldom make it into Miami’s official histories. The exhibition will be taking place at the newly restored Lawson E. Thomas Building, which once served as the office of Miami-Dade County’s first Black judge and a central figure in the city’s civil rights movement. A newly commissioned mural by Anthony Mojo Reed II adds contemporary context which, together with the archival photo exhibition, frames Overtown as essential to understanding Miami, not peripheral to it.
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