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Special Events Deco Weekend, festival for the preservation and celebration of Art Deco (website: www.artdecoweekend.com), Jan, South Beach Coconut Grove Arts Festival, multimedia arts event (website: www.coconutgroveartsfest.com), President’s Day weekend, Feb, Coconut Grove Miami International Film Festival, 10-day festival featuring Hollywood and International independent films and celebrity parties in the Design District (website: www.miamifilmfestival.com), early Feb, Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, downtown Miami, and other venues South Beach Wine & Food Festival, culinary festival featuring world-class wine and food tasting, gourmet dinners, and culinary demonstrations (website: www.sobewineandfoodfest.com), late Feb, various venues Ford Championship, golf tournament, late Feb-early Mar, Doral Golf Resort and Spa Florida Derby, horseracing (website: www.gulfstreampark.com), Apr, Gulfstream Park Carnaval Miami, a nine-day festival, with parades and entertainment (website: www.carnavalmiami.com), leading up to Calle Ocho Festival, early Mar, Little Havana Calle Ocho Festival, the largest one-day Cuban-American festival and street party in America, early Mar, Little Havana NASDAQ-100 Open, ATP tour tennis competition (website: www.nasdaq-100open.com), late Mar-early Apr, Crandon Park Tennis Center, Key Biscayne Miami/Bahamas Goombay Festival, three-day Caribbean entertainment and food festival (website: www.goombayfestival.com), first weekend in Jun, Coconut Grove Fourth of July, rides, parade, food stalls and fireworks, 4 Jul, Bayfront Park and Key Biscayne Hispanic Heritage Festival, the oldest Hispanic cultural festival in America, with food fair and entertainment for a month, leading up to a street party, Festival of the Americas (website: www.hispanicfestival.com), Oct, various venues Festival Miami, four-week international music festival featuring world premieres, concerts, chamber music and jazz (website: www.music.miami.edu/festivalmiami), Oct, various venues Junior Orange Bowl Festival, the world’s largest arts, culture and sports festival for youth; an accompanying parade takes place between Christmas and New Year’s (website: www.jrorangebowl.com), Oct-Jan, various venues South Miami Art Festival, a juried festival and fair of artists and craftspeople, first weekend in Nov, Sunset Drive Miami Book Fair International, night readings, lectures and workshops with top authors, book fair, mid-Nov, leading up to Thanksgiving (website: www.miamibookfair.com), downtown Wolfson campus of Miami-Dade Community College and other venues Annual Winternational Thanksgiving Day Parade, fourth Thurs in Nov, starts at the Orange Bowl King Mango Strut Parade, a quarter-century old tradition, the parade parodies traditional holiday parades and spoofs national figures and current events, Dec 26, Coconut Grove Fed Ex Orange Bowl Parade and Big Orange New Year’s Eve Celebration, football season events, 31 Dec, downtown Miami |