Orchids & Arts Festival

The Miami Beach Orchid Society, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, and Foundation for Emerging Technologies invite you to experience the inaugural Orchids & Arts Festival at the Garden. Our two-day festival will celebrate all things orchids and will highlight our Florida native orchid species, aiming to raise awareness about our beautiful, yet fragile ecosystems.

Miami Beach Botanical Garden

2000 Convention Center Dr Miami Beach, FL 33139

The weekend will include:

Premium orchid growers’ market
Soroa Orchids • Orchid Eros (Hawaii) • So Orchids • Florida Orchid House • Jim-N-I Orchids • Mac’s Orchids • Orchids in Bloom • Quest Orchids

Orchid-related vendor market
OFE International: Orchid Supplies • Kawaii Universe: orchid clothing • Orchidabilia and Ingram’s Better Orchid Books • The Branch: Imaginative Orchid Mounts • Glasshouse Creations: Orchid Decor

Orchid Bench Exhibit
American Orchid Society (AOS) judging will take place on Friday afternoon and festival visitors will view the winners all weekend.

Public invitation: Bring your show-stopping orchid on Thursday, May 2, 2-4 PM or Friday, May 3, 9-11 AM to be a part of the show throughout the weekend and be possibly judged by the AOS committee.

Arts presentations & performances
• Harold Golen Gallery features orchid paintings by El Gato Gomez, Mariana Kojšova and others

• Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts presents: Orchid Adventure by Juraj Kojš will be a series of short music, dance and storytelling performance activations about the Florida native Butterfly Orchid Encyclia tampensis featuring Pioneer Winter Collective, Miami Sound Choir and Betzaida Ferrer.

• At the entrance
Orchid Music: A sound installation presenting the sonification of 15 Florida native orchid species DNA by Juraj Kojš. Throughout the weekend.

• At the fountain
FEME: The University of Miami’s Frost Electronic Music Ensemble will perform orchid-inspired electronic music on laptops.

• At the Gazebo
Rachel Joy Weiss will present a meditative and educational Augmented Reality Installation on Israeli orchid species in the garden’s Gazebo, throughout the weekend.

Orchid lectures
Saturday
11AM-11:50AM: Growing Tips by Carlos Cahiz (OFE International)
12PM-12:50PM: Intro to Orchid Culture by Melana Davison (Jim-N-I Orchids)

Sunday
11AM-11:50AM: Growing Tips by Carlos Cahiz (OFE International)
12PM-12:50PM: Cattleya Culture by Lou Lodyga (Esteemed American Orchid Society judge)

Event Schedule
Saturday, May 4
1:00PM: The Orchid Adventure: Tell Me Who You Are (Entrance)
1:10PM: Million Orchid Seeds. Andrea Labbee, dance solo (Japanese Garden)
1:30PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Orchid Jam (Fountain)
2:00PM: Orchid Adventure: Orchid is a Music Score (Banyan Patio)
2:30PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Orchid Jam (Fountain)
3:00PM: Orchid Adventure: Many Orchids, Muchas, Muchas! (Eucalyptus Alley)
3:30PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Orchid Jam (Fountain)

Sunday, May 5
1:00PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Orchid Jam (Fountain)
1:30PM: The Orchid Adventure: Tell Me Who You Are (Entrance)
1:40PM: Million Orchid Seeds. Andrea Labbee, dance solo (Japanese Garden)
2:00PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble (Fountain)
2:30PM: Orchid Adventure: Orchid is a Music Score (Banyan Patio)
3:00PM: Frost Electronic Music Ensemble: Orchid Jam (Fountain)
3:30PM: Orchid Adventure: Many Orchids, Muchas, Muchas! (Eucalyptus Alley)

Tickets: General Admission $5 • VIP $25 includes 2 cocktails

For information about parking, please click here.