2023

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) is proud to celebrate Women’s History Month with the first-ever FREE GOSPEL SUNDAYS GOSPELFEST, featuring an all-female lineup of Miami’s brightest gospel stars and starring Stellar Award winner and Grammy nominee Lisa Page Brooks (@lisapagebrooks). For the first time, Free Gospel Sundays is taking place on Sunday March 26, 2023 at 2 p.m. at the Little Haiti Cultural Center: 

212 NE 59 Terrace, Miami, FL 33137

Join us for a full day of inspiring music and dance performances across three stages. WPLG Local 10 Anchor Calvin Hughes and TV/ radio personality Traci Cloyd will host. 

 

Admission to FREE GOSPEL SUNDAYS GOSPELFEST is free -- RSVP here.

 

GOSPELFEST will feature three stages of music and dance. The Marketplace Stage inside the Little Haiti Cultural Center will feature smaller ensembles and solo artists including Yahsuko, Glory Shalom, Merian Terry, Lady Christina Robinson, Deana Butler Rahming and Natalie Jordan Nixon & Family. The Courtyard Stage will feature larger ensembles, including Sherry Moses & Company, Francine Ealey Murphy & Company and Lisa Page Brooks. The Liturgical Dance Stage will feature a liturgical dance workshop with Dr. Constance McIntyre, artistic director of The McIntyre Institute, a panel discussion on liturgical dance and gospel music and liturgical dance showcases from dance troupes from across Miami-Dade County. For a complete list of artist bios, click here.

 

Limited spaces are available for the liturgical dance workshop; click here to RSVP.

 

Click here to view the full performance schedule for GOSPELFEST.

 

In between performances throughout the day, audiences are invited to enjoy food trucks and shop the local vendor marketplace in the Little Haiti Cultural Center complex.

 

FREE GOSPEL SUNDAYS is made possible with the leadership support of Rodney and Michelle Adkins, as well as the generous support of the Green Family Foundation Trust, Baptist Health South Florida, The Israel, Rose, Henry and Robert Wiener Charitable Foundation, the Friends of Free Gospel Sundays, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

 

ABOUT THE ARSHT CENTER’S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS

FREE GOSPEL SUNDAYS is one of the 10 ongoing Arsht Center programs committed to community engagement and deepening the experience of the performing arts for all Miami-Dade County residents. Having served more than 105,000 people throughout its 16-year history, the programs broaden community participation and open the sights, sounds and possibilities of the world through the performing arts. New programs include:  Broadway on Biscayne, a series of pre-and post- performance experiences giving audiences a closer look at the shows; and Club Broadway which brings together a cohort of teen Broadway enthusiasts for shows and workshops. Existing programs include: Family Fest (Presenting Sponsor: Baptist Health), a season of free performances featuring the world's leading family-friendly artists; The Heritage Project(Presenting Sponsor: Bank of America), a free salon series and annual festival featuring panel discussions surrounding performing arts and social justice in the Black community; AileyCamp Miami, a full-scholarship, six-week summer dance camp which uses dance as a vehicle for the personal development of young people; CommuniTea Dance, an annual celebration honoring Miami's LGBTQ+ community; Knight Masterworks Classical Conversations, a series of free lectures which give the audience insight into the musicians, composers and history of music presented in our Knight Masterworks Classical Music series; Accessing the Arts Residencies, art workshops for children and adults with disabilities; and  Arsht on the Road(Presenting Sponsor: TD Bank), a series of free pop-up performances that bring the arts into Miami-Dade County's diverse neighborhoods.