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 including orchid and art exhibits, music and dance performances, educational activities, and a vendors market. The festival will also be highlighting our Florida native orchid species, aiming to raise awareness about our beautiful, yet fragile ecosystems. invite you to experience the inaugural Orchids & Arts Festival at the Garden. Our two-day festival will celebrate all things orchids including orchid and art exhibits, music and dance performances, educational activities, and a vendors market. The festival will also be highlighting our Florida native orchid species, aiming to raise awareness about our beautiful, yet fragile ecosystems.

The weekend will include:

Orchid Exhibit
Have a show-stopping orchid? Bring it to the Garden on Thursday, May 2 (2pm–4pm) or Friday, May 3 (9am–11am) to enter it for display in our Orchid Exhibit. American Orchid Society (AOS) judging will take place on Friday afternoon and weekend festival visitors will view the winners.

Arts presentations & performances
• The Harold Golen Gallery will be featuring orchid paintings by El Gato Gomez

• The Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts presents Orchid Adventure by Juraj Kojš – 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 on the hour (1pm, 2pm and 3pm daily)

• Frost Electronic Music Ensemble (FEME) will perform orchid-inspired computer music at 1:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:30pm daily

• Rachel Weiss will present a meditative and educational Augmented Reality Installation in the Garden's gazebo

Market featuring orchids & related vendors
Soroa Orchids • Orchid Eros (Hawaii) • So Orchids • Florida Orchid House • Jim-N-I Orchids • Mac's Orchids • Orchids in Bloom • Quest Orchids • OFE International Orchid Supplies • Kawaii Universe Orchid-themed Clothing • Orchidabilia and Ingram's Better Orchid Books • The Branch

Orchid lectures
Talks on various orchid topics will be presented (speakers TBA)

Tickets $5 per day

Host or Publisher Miami Beach Botanical Garden