April brings some of the most diverse things to do in Miami as you’ll read including Miami Art Zine this weekend. Read on for Miami Events April 2026!

The Miami Zine Fair returns this weekend, on Saturday, April 4, 2026, from 12–5 PM to Paradise Plaza in Miami’s Design District. Free and open to the public the fair brings together 150+ artists, writers, illustrators, activists, and poets from Miami and beyond. The event features a dynamic mix of zine exhibitors, performances, site-specific artworks, demonstrations, podcasts, workshops, and interactive programming—creating an environment that is energetic, inclusive, and deeply community-driven. For more information including a list of exhibitors and reservations, click here.

Congrats to the Miami Children’s Museum (MCM) that continues to come up with fun new interactive exhibits for families. The latest is the debut of its brand-new Playful Putters mini golf course with a range of  hands on activities to match.

Families are invited to design a mini golf course in a box, customize their own golf ball, and put their creativity into action on the course. This interactive mini golf experience is designed to blend creativity, physical activity, and family fun.

Beyond putting, the museum will host hands-on activities, including:

• Design Your Own Course: A “mini golf in a box” crafting station where kids can engineer their own imaginative holes to take home.
• Customize Your Ball: A chance for young golfers to personalize their very own golf ball before taking on the course.
• The new Playful Putters course will remain open to the public as a permanent exhibit, offering a new attraction for visitors.

For more information, visit https://www.miamichildrensmuseum.org/. Miami Children’s Museum – 980 MacArthur Cswy, Miami, FL 33132 (On-site parking available)

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is another one that’s always coming up with new ideas to entertain and engage. Next up is Boots & Blooms on Saturday, April 11, and yes, it is exactly what it sounds like: a full country night, live music from The Back Country Boys a country-rock band that has shared stages with artists like Jake Owen, alongside Southern bites, lawn games, bourbon flights, and boot-stomping choreography, inside one of Miami’s most beautiful outdoor spaces.

What to expect:

• live music by the Back Country Boys,
• line dancing throughout the Garden,
• classic country-style competitions and lawn games,
• southern-inspired bites from local food trucks,
• mini moonshine and bourbon flights,
• Curated picnic baskets,
• and a lively country theme atmosphere.

The event is 6 to 9:30 p.m. https://fairchildgarden.org/

April brings a special event for wellness lovers –WELLNXT MIAMI x FEST 2026
Dates: April 18 & 19, 2026 (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.) at The Sacred Space Miami; 105 NE 24th St, Miami, FL 33137

This highly curated, two-day wellness festival will bring together founders, creators, athletes, executives, and leading brands shaping the future of the $10T global wellness economy.

Participating brands and partners include:
iHeartRadio, Farmasi, Celsius, Clean Simple Eats, Dr. Barbara Sturm, SWEAT440, 54D, YVO, Knosis Health, and others across fitness, longevity, recovery, and beauty.

Newly announced speakers and talent include:
Jillian Turecki, Tony Thomas, Alexandra Sheth (Modern ŌM), Maria Berry (YVO), Ryan Hawell (SWEAT440), Stevi Gable Carr (WellNXT), Ashley Arguello (CanWe App), Devin Hoffmann (Women Who Move), Sharon Schuster (54D), Jacqueline Rangel (Miami Ice Club), and more.

Guests can expect:

• Expert-led panels and conversations across longevity, beauty, performance, and mental wellness
• Immersive workouts, recovery experiences, and brand activations
• A curated mix of innovators, founders, creators, and a global community of forward-thinkers

For more information go to: https://www.wellnxtfest.com/miami

More Miami Events April 2026

Here’s a different kind of movie –Poetry City – a Cinematic Love Letter to Miami’s Literary Soul that will premiere at the Miami Film Festival April 18 at 5:30 p.m. 

Directed by Aaron Glickman, Poetry City offers an intimate and sweeping exploration of Miami-Dade County’s literary landscape. Also known as the Biscayne Poet,  Oscar Fuentes serves as a guide into a community that is often overshadowed by parties, loud music and bright lights to reveal a bubbling underside of ideas and meaning. For thirty years Fuentes, with his manual typewriter, has been seen all over town writing poems that capture Miami in words and rhythm, and that offer insight and illumination into the city beyond its perceived glamor.

Poetry City, the  film captures a multi-faceted view of Miami’s poetry scene.

From intimate interviews, readings and performances by several of Miami’s poets-  Caridad Moro-Gronlier, 2024-25 Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate; Richard Blanco, Miami-Dade County first Poet Laureate and Presidential Inaugural Poet; Mitchell Kaplan, owner, Books & Books and co-founder with Dr. Eduardo Padrón of Miami Book Fair; Nicole Tallman, Miami-Dade County Poetry Ambassador; Campbell McGrath, Pulitzer Prize finalist and MacArthur Fellow; performance and spoken word artists Arsimmer McCoy and Darius Daughtry, among many others- the film also captures the coming together of poets at a community-wide photoshoot, a vivid conversation between poets, a celebration.

Poetry City, a film by Aaron Glickman. Executive Producer Lisa B. Palley and producers Meme Ferré and Alec Jerome Kreisberg.

Where: Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami, FL 33135

Information: https://miamifilmfestival.com

Tickets: https://miamifilmfestival.com/attend/ticketing/

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 Can’t wait to go to this one– The Global Champions Arabians Tour (GCAT), the world’s premier Arabian horse championship series, returns to Miami Beach this month. Set to be one of the season’s most prestigious and exhilarating equestrian events, Global Champions Arabians Tour Miami Beach will once again showcase the unrivaled beauty, power, and grace of the world’s finest Arabian horses against Miami Beach’s iconic, beachfront backdrop.

From April 9-11, 2026, the shores of Miami Beach will transform into a world-class equestrian arena where elite Arabian horses and their expert handlers will vie for championship titles and earn crucial points in the overall Tour standings. With over $2.7 million in prize money for the GCAT Americas circuit, this three-day event will offer a thrilling mix of top-tier sport, hospitality, and quintessential Miami lifestyle experience.

As part of the 2026 Global Champions Arabians Tour, the Miami Beach stage marks a pivotal moment in the Tour’s expansion across the Americas. It follows the season opener in Scottsdale, Arizona, and precedes the final GCAT Americas stage in Las Vegas, Nevada, before the ultimate showdown at the World Arabian Horse Championship Supreme in Paris, France.

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The VIP hospitality experience, exclusively curated by Major Food Group, will offer a culinary journey throughout the three-day event. Guests will indulge in dishes from restaurants such as ZZ’s, Carbone, and Sadelle’s. Enhancing the immersive atmosphere, a dynamic interactive village will serve as the heart of the event, offering food, beverage, and shops that pay homage to Miami.

Complimentary general admission will be available to the public. For admissions information, premium hospitality packages, and the latest event updates, follow @arabianstour on Instagram or visit www.gcarabianstour.com.

As part of its recognition of art by women exhibition series’ decennial anniversary, The Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach is hosting  a survey exhibition of paintings by the American painter Danielle Mckinney. Titled Danielle Mckinney: Shelter, the exhibition  presents approximately 40 paintings and five watercolors spanning the last five years of the artist’s practice, marking her most comprehensive museum exhibition to date. The exhibition will be on view from now to October 4, 2026.

In celebration of the series’ decennial anniversary, the Norton is also presenting  a concurrent group exhibition, Recognition of Art by Women: In Retrospect, bringing together works by the nine artists previously exhibited through the RAW series for the first time. The exhibition will reflect on the RAW series’ impact on the Norton and the breadth of talent brought forward. The exhibition  celebrates each individual artist’s contributions and the indelible marks they each left on the South Florida community and beyond. The exhibition is on view now to September 27, 2026. For more information click here.

Rounding out the Miami events April 2026 –Honoring the 100th Anniversary of the University of Miami and the Frost School of Music will be a special concert on April 19 at 4 p.m. Miami’s own internationally renowned Frost Chorale creates a dynamic one hundredth anniversary celebration of the Frost School of Music and the Chorale itself. Great classic choral masterworks through Irving Berlin to modern award-winning compositions by Frost faculty and alumni. Renowned soprano Sandra Lopez joins Conductor Matthew Donald Brady and the entire Chorale plus instrumentalists, in an afternoon to be remembered and treasured.  3220 NW 7th Avenue. For tickets go to marthamaryconcerts.org.