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	Golden Ticket Guide Contact Info: Call 786.331.5375 to request a Golden Ticket Arts Guide. WHAT IS THE GOLDEN TICKET ARTS GUIDE? Free tickets to the arts for seniors of Miami-DadeCounty! The Golden Ticket Arts Guide features an amazing array of FREE fine arts offerings for Miami-DadeCounty senior residents ages 62 and over. Seniors can enjoy everything included in the Golden Ticket Arts Guide FREE. In addition, upon visiting one of the offerings in the guide and handing in a Golden Ticket, participants will be entered into a monthly drawing to win a gift certificate to a local bookstore to use on anything they’d like. All they have to do is clip a Golden Ticket from the guide, fill it out and present it at the venue entrance with ID showing proof of age and residency when visiting a participating Golden Ticket partner.* * Note: Many events have a limited number of Golden Tickets available and require advance reservations to reserve seating. Check each listing for specific information. Organizations or large groups wishing to attend a Golden Ticket event must contact the participating Golden Ticket Arts Partner in advance to make special arrangements. To order a Golden Ticket Arts Guide, call (786) 331-5375 or print a copy of the request form, fill it out and send to the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, 111 NW 1st Street, Ste. 625, Miami,FL 33128. Seniors can feel FREE to have FUN and experience Miami-Dade’s FINEST arts programs all throughout the year!


	The Impact of the Arts in Miami-Dade County: Creating a New Global Center This newly-released publication reports on the role of the arts in energizing Miami-Dade County’s local economy, providing accessible entertainment experiences and enhancing the quality of education for children. Recent studies conducted by the nation’s leading arts service organization Americans for the Arts, based in Washington, D.C., and The Beacon Council, Miami-Dade’s economic development agency in partnership with the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs provide compelling new evidence that nonprofit arts and culture are a significant industry in Miami-Dade County--one that generates an impressive $922 million in local economic activity. The findings of these insightful studies are highlighted in this easy-to-read brochure. For more information or to request printed copies, please contact Ms. Kelly Allocco, Department of Cultural Affairs at 305-375-4634 or kellya@miamidade.gov.


	The Greater Miami and the Beaches Calendar of Events The Greater Miami and the Beaches Calendar of Events is a joint project of the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. The Events Calendar is available online. To request a printed copy, contact us at 305-375-4634 or e-mail culture@miamidade.gov. To have your activities listed, email your event information/schedule to calendar@MiamiandBeaches.com


	Business and the Arts Report “The Business and The Arts Report” A study conducted by The Beacon Council in partnership with the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs In March 2008, The Beacon Council, Miami-Dade’s official economic development organization, in partnership with the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, unveiled the results of the Business and The Arts survey. The 2007 survey gathered information from the corporate community about their involvement in the arts sector. “Among the next steps of South Florida’s economic future is to understand how an integrated business and cultural arts community impacts the development and expectations of Miami-Dade County. Ours is an evolving global community that includes an emerging business and cultural arts investment center,” said Frank Nero, President & CEO of The Beacon Council. “It is important that a dialogue begins for the purposes of integrating, promoting and leveraging these two segments. To accomplish this, we must better understand the strategy of how decisions are made by businesses and cultural arts organizations, as well as the impact of those decisions upon our community.” The survey is the first step of a Beacon Council Arts Initiative to gain insight as to how better integrate the corporate and cultural communities in order to give Miami-Dade County’s economic viability a competitive edge in the global marketplace. The goals of this initiative are to: 1) better understand how and why local corporations (small or large) support arts organizations; 2) develop a more integrated business and arts sector; 3) promote the arts and cultural assets of Miami-Dade County as a major aspect of the quality of life when attracting companies to Miami; and 4) grow this sector by strengthening cultural and arts entities. “One of the great assets that contribute to the exceptional quality of life in Miami-Dade County is our arts and cultural community,” said Michael Spring, Director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. “We are enthusiastic partners with The Beacon Council on the Arts Initiative. It is an ideal opportunity to collaborate on developing a strategy that capitalizes on the competitive edge that culture and the arts provide to successful economic development. It demonstrates the remarkable return on investment that culture and the arts deliver to contributing local companies.”


	Selections from the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Collection Selections from the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Collection is designed to provide citizens and visitors with a guide highlighting public art works throughout the County. The 60-page booklet features many of the program’s most prominent and popular works of public art, including pieces located at the Port of Miami, Miami International Airport, Adrienne Arscht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, Downtown Miami and locations throughout Miami-Dade County. Elegant and user-friendly, Selections from the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Collection features locator maps and addresses of public art projects, brief descriptions of the works and full color images. The brochure provides residents and visitors the opportunity to conduct self-guided tours of the collection and to learn more about our county-wide “museum” of art, created by Miami-Dade-based artists and by artists from all over the world.


	Culture Shock Miami Audience Research Student preferences in terms of information sources demonstrate that the Internet is gradually replacing traditional sources of information such as TV, radio and newspapers. 55% of college students and 56% of high school students use Internet for information.; 30% of college students and 40% of high schools students rely exclusively on Internet for news and information. As some students mentioned in the focus groups, Internet provides “on demand” information which is accessible at any time. Students use a combination of search engines to obtain information, with most popular being Google, followed by Yahoo and Wikipedia. The overwhelming majority of both college (85%) and high school students (91%) report using Google as their search engine, usually in combination with other search engines.


	Culture Shock Miami Audience Research (Powerpoint) The Metropolitan Center conducted surveys of high school and college students for the Department of Cultural Affairs in order to assist the Department in improving the visibility and interest in its Culture Shock program. In addition, the surveys were followed by focus groups with college and high schools students, high school teachers and parents of high school and college students in the ages 13 to 22. The results of this extensive research are intended to guide the Cultural Affairs Department in designing strategies for reaching out to Miami’s youth and engaging them in cultural events.


	2010-2011 Grants Programs and Technical Assistance Workshops Guide for Organizations Contains an outline of information on all competitive grants programs offered to organizations in Miami-Dade County. Each program is designed to address specific areas of cultural development ranging from the renovation of neighborhood cultural facilities to the support of exemplary programs by the community’s largest non-profit cultural organizations. Please consult the program specific guidelines for additional information. Contact us at 305-375-4634 or culture@miamidade.gov to request a printed copy of the brochure. (File size 3 MB) The guide is also available in Spanish and Creole.


	2010 State of the Arts in Miami-Dade County On Monday, April 19, 2010, Adolfo Henriques, chairman of the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council delivered "The State of the Arts in Miami-Dade County." Click here for the Cultural Fact Sheet.


	Culture Shocked Culture Shocked is a short created by Ground Up & Rising with assistance from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and its CultureShockMiami.com student ticketing program - which works in partnership with nearly 100 arts organizations, museums and more to provide students 13-22 performance information, discounted tickets for just $5, and special engagement announcements. The 20-minute film features characters such as “Texting Tyra” and “Emo Edward” - who don’t know how to enjoy a performance or what appropriate audience behavior is. Throughout the film, the audience follows the journey of protagonist “Slick Shawn” as he opens his eyes to new things, while a conscious voice narrator introduces him to the work, spirit and diversity that create art, music, dance and theater. Culture Shocked is a great supplemental lesson plan tool for teachers seeking to promote an awareness and appreciation of the arts, as well as illustrate an awareness of the consequences associated with a lack of exposure to the arts. Culture Shocked and an excerpt entitled “Top 10 Rudest Things NOT to Do at a Cultural Event” can be viewed online. For a copy of the film, please contact Gerry Landreth at (305) 375-4987.

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