About Us
Live Arts Miami is one of the city’s oldest and boldest performing arts series
An action-driven, people-centered platform for powerful performances, impactful community programs and learning experiences that spark dialogue, raise awareness around pressing issues, and open minds and hearts in all who take part. A place for artists, audiences, and students to come together as one.
Mission
Our mission is to empower artists, audiences, and students to cultivate change in our community through transformative programs and performances in the live arts.
Vision
Our vision is an equitable and democratic creative culture in our community. A thriving and fenceless garden where art is more than a delicate and precious rosebush cared for by expert gardeners; it is a wild and native grass made nourishing and ubiquitous through open collaborations, cultural cross-pollinations, and artful disruptions of the status quo. An artistic community that bears witness to injustice while bearing the fruits of the future, one where ‘artist’ is just another word for ‘person’ and the creative process is synonymous with freedom.
Core values
Cultural Sustainability:
Organizational and creative practices that promote resilience and restore balance and connection to our communities and the planet we inhabit.
Creative Change-making:
Art that fosters transformation and advances local and global struggles for justice, equity, and freedom. A culture not just unfettered and free, but one that frees and empowers people to actively participate in the (re)creation of our collective future.
Cultural Democracy and Creative Freedom:
A local arts environment that is accessible, fair, anti-racist, and inclusive. Performing art programs, policies and practices that serve to uplift, strengthen, and unify people and celebrates the rich complexity of our multicultural city.
Arts-based Learning and Exploration:
Cultural programs and activities that broaden the local horizon of possibilities by empowering working artists, local students and the next generation of arts audiences to create Miami’s brightest future through vibrant and edifying exchange and collaboration across differences.
A Fair Cultural Economy:
Cultural work is real work. We recognize artists and cultural producers as essential laborers and strive to sustain practices that promote fair compensation and treatment while equipping emerging and established artists to advance in their careers.
