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🎭 Actor📘Writer
✍🏾Tips&Prompts
🍃Slow Living Inspo
I’m here for your storytelling, creative, & healing journey.👇🏾Links to Appointments, Workshops & More

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From the salt spray to the wind in our hair….what a day with @touchingmiamiwithlove and @overtownfarms. 🌊💨🌀🦀🐬🐡

Carribean tunicates 🧡 and Look down fish 👀we saw so much! And we even got some rain on the way home. 🌧️🌈

#bluescholarsinitiative #teach #outdooreducation #ocean
#BSIimpacts

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MOONSTRUCK 🌕

Monthly • Moody • Musings

Once a month, under the full moon, we start somewhere a little strange.

September’s opening line comes from our October Featured Poet, Manny @mannysaints who’ll join us Under a Haunted Moon on October 21:

Those seeds like thoughts did you bury, what bounty of dreams did you…

Read the line before yours.
Add one line.
Leave the next person somewhere to go.

Together, we’ll write the September poem one line at a time.

Stay moonstruck ✨

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#wildbloomsociety #moonstruck #poetrycommunity #southfloridapoets #poetryprompts

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💌 I Love You, STILL.
A little recap of a beautiful night filled with poetry, stories, reflection, and community. ✨
From quiet journal moments to brave open-mic shares, the room held space for the people, places, memories, and versions of ourselves that we still carry with us. 📝🫶🏽

Some things change.
Some things end.
And some things stay with us…

Until the next one, Miami. 🌴✨

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📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED: CALL FOR ARTISTS & CREATIVES

It’s not too late to submit.

BreastfeedMIAMI invites artists and creatives to submit original, display-ready work for the 2026 Art of Breastfeeding Exhibition.

This year’s theme is:

Empowering breastfeeding parents at home and at work. Breastfeeding is possible everywhere with the help and support of everyone.

Artists are encouraged to consider work connected to:

Quiet, intimate moments between mom and baby
Family support and the involvement of dads
Professional support from doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, nurses, and care providers
Returning to work and public spaces, including lactation rooms, pumping, and breast milk storage
Submissions may include painting, photography, digital art, mixed media, sculpture, poetry, music, and more.

If you already have work connected to the theme, please submit it now.

If you are creating new work for the exhibition, you are still welcome to submit. Please don’t wait until the last minute. Use the extended deadline to complete and submit your work.

Selected artwork will be featured in the 2026 Art of Breastfeeding Exhibition on Saturday, September 19, 2026, with public voting for awards.

🏆 1st Place — Ribbon + $300
🏆 2nd Place — Ribbon + $200
🏆 3rd Place — Ribbon + $100

🗓 Extended Deadline: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • 11:59 PM
🔗 Submit your work: https://form.jotform.com/261804870235154
Link in bio.

Every story feeds a legacy.

Art • Dialogue • Community
@breastfeedmiami

Curatorial support by @nikilopezcreative_
#BreastfeedMIAMI #CallForArtists #ArtOfBreastfeeding #MiamiArtists #SouthFloridaArtists

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Last night. 💛

Thank you to everyone who showed up, helped out, shared the invitation, performed, supported an artist, had a conversation, or simply spent time with the work at the opening of What We Carry.

And thank you to everyone who couldn’t be there but was with us in spirit.

Seeing the gallery filled with people moving through the work, talking with artists, laughing, reflecting, asking questions, and sharing their own stories was a reminder of why spaces like this matter.

Thirty-five artists entrusted this exhibition with pieces of what they carry. Last night, those individual stories became part of a much larger community conversation.

We had drumming and rhythm, spoken word by Gary Francis of Hints of Healing, performance by Alana DaCosta of K-r8tive Uprising, impromptu open mic moments, music, dancing, and so many conversations I wish I could have captured all at once.

Thank you to Blue Sea Lotus Studio 33 and FeminAfrika, our performers, artists, volunteers, collaborators, community partners, everyone who lent a hand behind the scenes, and DJ One Star for helping keep the music moving.

Most of all, thank you to the artists of What We Carry for sharing your work, your voices, your memories, your questions, and pieces of what you carry with all of us.

And this was only opening night.

What We Carry continues through September 10 with more opportunities to gather, create, reflect, move, and talk together.

If you attended, please take a few minutes to complete the What We Carry questionnaire. Your feedback helps What’s Your Elephant™ understand the impact of this work, strengthen future programs, and show why community-centered arts experiences matter.

Feedback:
https://form.jotform.com/262290666440155

Exhibition details, digital catalog, artist bios, available works + upcoming programs:
whatsyourelephant.org/whatwecarry

Links also in bio at @whatsyourelephant

Thank you for carrying this with us. 💛
🎨🐘🗣️
#WhatWeCarry #WhatsYourElephant #CommunityArt #ArtAndDialogue #1310Gallery

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Tonight is the night. What We Carry opens at 1310 Gallery.

Come see the work, meet the artists, and spend the evening with us inside an exhibition exploring what we inherit, what sustains us, what we survive, and what we are learning to carry differently.

Presented by What’s Your Elephant™ and curated by Niki Lopez, What We Carry brings together 35 artists whose work moves through memory, identity, grief, care, ancestry, resistance, healing, joy, belonging, and transformation.

Opening Night features drumming by Blue Sea Lotus Studio 33 in collaboration with FeminAfrika, a performance by Alana DaCosta of K-r8tive Uprising, spoken word by Gary Francis of Hints of Healing, and a musical soundscape by Dawny Gemini.

We’ll also have complimentary bites by Health Rush and a cash bar.

Friday, August 21 | 6–10 PM
1310 Gallery | Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts
1310 SW 2nd Ct, Fort Lauderdale
Free + open to the public

Come experience the art. Meet some of the people behind it. Stay for the rhythm, the performances, the stories, the conversations, and whatever the work brings up for you.

Details + RSVP: whatsyourelephant.org/whatwecarry
LINK IN BIO
🎨🐘🗣️
@whatsyourelephant
@nikilopez19
@1310gallery
@sobracollective
@nikilopezcreative_

#WhatsYourElephant #WhatWeCarry #CommunityArt #ArtAndDialogue #1310Gallery

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I LOVE YOU, STILL. ❤️‍🔥

A night of poetry, vulnerability, love, and community. Thank you to everyone who pulled up, shared space, and made the room what it was.

Hosted by Gary Francis, this was a beautiful reminder of what happens when we give people room to feel, speak, and be heard.

Until the next one. 💗

#ILoveYouStill #OvertownArts #MiamiPoetry #PoetryMiami #Overtown

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✨ Upcoming August FREE & Open to the Public events at Peach on 14th with Overtown, STILL! 🎨🤝🏾

🎒 Every Saturday | 3–5 PM
Community Days with Overtown, STILL — enjoy art, games, children’s activities, and community connection. Join us this Saturday, August 8 for a special Back-to-School Backpack & School Supplies Giveaway (first 50 families to RSVP receive a free backpack while supplies last!). ✏️📚

💌 Tuesday, August 11 | 6:30–8:30 PM
I Love You, STILL with Gary Francis — an intimate evening of poetry, storytelling, guided journaling, and reflection.

🇭🇹 Saturday, August 22 | 6–9 PM
Let’s Talk About TPS with Jennifer Estime — a community conversation centered on storytelling, education, connection, and collective support.

🖼️ Friday, August 28 | 6–9 PM
Community Memory Circle with The Black Archives — a gathering honoring family histories, neighborhood memories, and cultural traditions through shared stories and meaningful objects.

🎟️ RSVP for all events through the link in bio. We can’t wait to welcome you at Peach on 14th! 💛✨

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Our next actor showcase is coming up Aug 5th. Discover 5 new actors for your next production or see these actors in a new light

Join us free @gablescinema wed Aug 5 at noon

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The Trash in My Pocket

Sometimes we carry things for so long, we stop noticing they’re there.

A prompt.
Eleven poets.

Each poem found a new form as an ordinary object, weathered by time and meant to feel long forgotten.

Exhibited throughout the run of Burst in collaboration with @newcityplayers

Thank you to everyone who entrusted their words to this project.

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#wildbloompoetry #browardarts #fortlauderdaleartists #southfloridaevents #southfloridaartist

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A Night to Remember ✨

On July 7, 2026, we welcomed the community to the opening of Overtown, Still at Project Peach—an evening filled with powerful art, poetry, connection, and celebration. Thank you to everyone who joined us and to the incredible artists, collaborators, and sponsors who helped bring this exhibition to life.

Special thanks to:

🖼️ Frames: @workofartgallery
✍🏽 Text Vinyls: @dsigns.graphics
🛠️ Frame Installation: @emeph_group
🎤 Featured Poets: @hintsofhealing @_elysethomas
🕊️ Altar Designer: @bernie_o_o_s
✨ Event Decorator: @chefrogers
🥃 Drink Sponsor: @edmondshonorbourbon
🍽️ Food Sponsor: @lilgreenhousegrill
🍵 Drink Vendor: @thematchaeditmiami
📸 Photography: @officialleonelpavon

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate, connect, and experience Overtown, Still. If you missed opening night, we have many community event coming up through the end of the year. Follow @peach14th @overtownstill @goingovertown for the latest invites and see you all soon!

#OvertownStill #ProjectPeach #GalleryOpening #MiamiArts #Overtown

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It’s finally opening day! And it’s time for everyone to meet the amazing artists that have contributed to making this gallery as special as it is.

We cannot wait for you to see the gallery and everyone’s beautiful work. Remember to RSVP from the link on our bio.

#miamigallery #miami #overtownstill #miamiartists #overtown

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