Fashion + Art + Music - all night, Saturday night

FAM Night is back Saturday, October 4. Come out and enjoy all that Coconut Grove has to offer from 7 to 10 pm -- fashion, art and music, all free and open to the public.

New this month, check out the Olfactory Company. They are presenting a tasting of authentic mustards from around the world with live music. Goldie and Bazaar will host “Pretty in pink, Selfie for a Cause” as well as will be showcasing Miami’s “it” fashion blogger, Annie Vazquez of the Fashion Poet’s, new Miami inspired jewelry line. Milda Bublys, Designer of the Stitch n' Style Studio, will stage a live demonstration with her sewing machine to recreate examples of what she teaches in her Fashion Workshops: Sewing, Illustration and Portfolio Preparation at Blu Moon Art Studio. This unique performance will take place outside Revolution Bicycles in Florentina Plaza.

 The Coconut Grove Arts Festival will present multi-genre artist and cinematographer, Carlos Llerena Aguierre, who has published drawings, illustrations and woodcuts in international journals, books, magazines, and children’s books. FrameWorks is showcasing local artist, Mai Yap, who specializes in landscape paintings created intricately with palette knives. In addition, local students from Academy of Arts & Minds High School will paint live for visitors to experience. 

Returning FAM Night participant, CocoWalk, will host Bottle & Bottega, an interactive and customized art class that allow participants to mingle and paint as students follow the lead art instructor step-by-step to create their own take-home masterpiece on a 8 x 8 canvas. All the materials and supplies needed to paint will be provided. Each class will take place on the hour beginning at 7:00 pm. until 10:00 pm. Prices rage from $8.00 to $10.00 per canvas. 

 Among the arts will also be live music, which will fill the sidewalks as visitors stroll from shop to shop. The Academy of Arts & Minds will perform a mix of genres and styles such as jazz and classical hits. Miami “Folk Dub” musician, Adrian Gonzalez, is set to play at Vino’s in the Grove, where visitors will enjoy a loop base performance that blends acoustic and electronic sounds.  On Commodore Plaza, Zach Jones, a one-man indie/folk band, will be making his way South from Fort Pierce to perform a soulful set of acoustics.  At CocoWalk, catch local Miami Drummer, Chris Rod, live with his take on today’s pop and yesterday’s rock.

You may just be seeing the next big pop star live. Right here on the streets of Coconut Grove!
There is plenty of parking on the streets, garages and surface lots.

FAM Night is sponsored by the Coconut Grove BID.

Photos courtesy Coconut Grove BID