Performance Series •
An Evening With Friends
May 17, 2025
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7:00 pm
Dear Friends,
Welcome to An Evening With Friends! Tonight, we gather to celebrate the power of the arts to build community, inspire change, and ignite joy. Your presence and support help make our year-round programs, performances, residencies, film screenings and education initiatives possible. Thank you for being part of our creative family.
Peace & Love,
MLP Team
Schedule
☆ 7:00 PM • Cocktails & Cunlinary Delights in The Light Box Studio, fueled by DJ Esta’s sonic magic
☆ 8:30 PM • Procession to the Theater (expect the unexpected)
☆ 8:45 PM • MLP Performance Experience—a journey of dance, theater, and pure spectacle
☆ 9:30 PM • AFROBETA Dance Party On Stage—because the night is young, and the dance floor is calling
MLP Performance Experience
- DJ Esta
- Natasha Tsakos – Video Interaction
- Katie Stirman – Halo
- Randy Valdes – Raison D’Etre
- Liony Garcia – Fantasy Punctured
- Zest Collective – Lonely House
- Cecilia Benitez & Stephanie Perez – Manteca
- Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre – Untitled
- Afrobeta
Program subject to change.
Levels of Support
Sponsor • $10,000
Knight Foundation
Host Committee • $1,500
Beth Boone
Joe Pena
Maggi Realty Group
Nancy & Ron Gelles
Rhonda Mitrani & Todd Buchman
Roberto Saco
Shaun Rogers & Nadine Davey Rogers
Turkel Resource Foundation
Thank You to Our Sponsors & Partners
Gourmet Station
In The Cru
LGC Floral
Knight Foundation
Maggi Realty Group
Miami Theater Center
Pink Blender Films
About Miami Light Project
Founded in 1989, Miami Light Project is a not-for-profit cultural organization, which commissions and presents artists from all over the world and throughout Miami. We support the vanguard in contemporary performance – dance, music, theater and multimedia artists who are internationally recognized for risk-taking innovation, technical virtuosity and thought-provoking content. Our programmatic vision has led the way in establishing Miami as an internationally recognized center for art and culture, with a vibrant locally based artistic community. Miami Light Project’s artistic programs focus on issues of relevance to our community within the context of an evolving global field of art and culture.
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