How to choose what Miami cultural events to attend — dance company, music, theater performance or art exhibit to see ? Happily, there are lots to choose from! I thought you might find a list of the ones selected for awards by the Funding Arts Network (FAN), a leading non-profit organization, helpful in your planning for the 2025-2026 season. The list is of visual and performing arts groups that received a grant award. See below the works of winners by category, and at the end you can read more about FAN, of which I’m proud to be a member.

DANCE

• Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida – Polovtsian Dance
• Dimensions Dance Theatre – Summer Dances 2025
• Miami City Ballet – Celebrating Legacy and Innovation
• Peter London Global Dance Company – Everglades: Divine Water

MUSIC

• Adrienne Arsht Center – Knight Masterworks Series
• Florida Grand Opera – Positive Resonance
• Hued Songs – Negritude: Music of the Black Diaspora
• New World Symphony – Manfred Honeck and Julia Bullock
• Nu Deco Ensemble – Michael League
• Seraphic Fire – Jason Max Ferdinand
• Wertheim School of Music – FIU – Wertheim Chamber Music Series

Miami Cultural Events

THEATER

• GableStage – Prayer for the French Republic
• M Ensemble – Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
• Miami New Drama – English Only
• Zoetic Stage – Merrily We Roll Along

VISUAL ARTS

• Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education – 29th Annual Jewish Film Festival
• Locust Projects – Tara Long: La Esquinita (Little Corner)
• Lowe Art Museum – Petah Coyne: How Much a Heart Can Hold
• Miami Film Festival – MDC – Miami Film Festival 2026
• Miami short Film Festival – 24th Annual Miami short Film Festival
• Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum – FIU – Hiromi Moneyhun: Floating Worlds

About FAN: The Funding Arts Network (FAN), a leading non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the arts and cultural community, gave 21 grant awards of $10,000 each this year to support programs by a diverse group of arts organizations. FAN also awarded four organizations that use the arts in powerful ways to engage underserved communities, awards of $5,000 each: GableStage, Miami City Ballet, Museum of Contemporary Art, and New World Symphony.This brings the total amount of funds awarded by FAN since its founding in 1997 to over $6.1 million.

• For more information about the Funding Arts Network and its grant programs, please visit fundingartsnetwork.org. Money for grants comes from the dues of its 200+ members.