Join teacher Silvia Salinas, AP for Tai Chi in the Garden. The class takes place weekly from 10:00 am - 11:00 am in the Banyan Ballroom or on the patio/lawn (weather permitting).

Designed for beginners, but also enjoyable for long-time practitioners, this class focuses on the foundation of the movements. The health benefits of Tai Chi include improved flexibility, strength, and balance. Through its fluid movements Tai Chi stimulates deep breathing and blood circulation, without straining the heart and other muscles, making it safe for all physical levels.

Price: $15

Explore orchids in a new way at Miami Beach Orchid Society’s Orchid Painting Workshop. All participants will get to take home an 8x10 canvas that you paint during the session.

Guided by artist, Gloria Hernando from Latin for Glory, you’ll learn about a special orchid and translate their colors, patterns, and shapes onto canvas.

This hands-on session supports Miami Beach Orchid Society’s mission of orchid appreciation, cultivation, and conservation. No painting experience is required, just curiosity and a willingness to look closely at these remarkable plants.

All materials and refreshments are provided.

Price: $40

Join teacher Silvia Salinas, AP for Tai Chi in the Garden. The class takes place weekly from 10:00 am - 11:00 am in the Banyan Ballroom or on the patio/lawn (weather permitting).

Designed for beginners, but also enjoyable for long-time practitioners, this class focuses on the foundation of the movements. The health benefits of Tai Chi include improved flexibility, strength, and balance. Through its fluid movements Tai Chi stimulates deep breathing and blood circulation, without straining the heart and other muscles, making it safe for all physical levels.

Price: $15

Join us for an informative presentation about Florida's unique water resources, the importance of protecting our aquifers, and how harvesting rainwater can help conserve our drinking water supply while reducing stormwater runoff and pollution.

Led by Solina Rulfs, Urban Horticulture Program Specialist with UF/IFAS Extension in Miami-Dade County, you’ll discover how a rain barrel captures rainwater which would otherwise flow into storm drains, allowing you to reuse it to water plants, gardens, and landscapes.

Attendees who complete this educational presentation will qualify to receive a $50 rebate toward the purchase of a rain barrel for installation at their home.

Limit: Two rebates per household.

FREE PROGRAM

Join us for this family-friendly concert that supports the mission of the Jazz Education Community Coalition.

The J.E.C.C. creates a community-based artistic network available to all young people interested in learning jazz.

Performances by:

• JECC Jazz Bootcamp Ensemble

• South Florida Center for Percussive Arts

• New World School for the Arts

FREE PROGRAM

Join teacher Silvia Salinas, AP for Tai Chi in the Garden. The class takes place weekly from 10:00 am - 11:00 am in the Banyan Ballroom or on the patio/lawn (weather permitting).

Designed for beginners, but also enjoyable for long-time practitioners, this class focuses on the foundation of the movements. The health benefits of Tai Chi include improved flexibility, strength, and balance. Through its fluid movements Tai Chi stimulates deep breathing and blood circulation, without straining the heart and other muscles, making it safe for all physical levels.

Price: $15

Join teacher Silvia Salinas, AP for Tai Chi in the Garden. The class takes place weekly from 10:00 am - 11:00 am in the Banyan Ballroom or on the patio/lawn (weather permitting).

Designed for beginners, but also enjoyable for long-time practitioners, this class focuses on the foundation of the movements. The health benefits of Tai Chi include improved flexibility, strength, and balance. Through its fluid movements Tai Chi stimulates deep breathing and blood circulation, without straining the heart and other muscles, making it safe for all physical levels.

Price: $15

Discover the chromatic potential of hibiscus through natural dyeing and shibori techniques while creating your own 100% silk scarf.

Led by textile artist Isabel Infante, participants will create resist patterns on a 100% silk scarf. Through this process, you’ll discover the expressive possibilities of plant-based color and create a unique textile piece to take home.

Designed as a relaxed and approachable experience, the workshop invites participants to slow down, engage with natural materials, and enjoy the quiet pleasure of working by hand. No previous textile or dyeing experience is required.

Instructor Bio:

Isabel Infante is a textile artist and Textile Naturalist whose practice explores the relationships between textiles, nature, and cultural knowledge. Working with natural fibers, plant-based dyes, weaving, and other textile techniques, she investigates the material and expressive possibilities of natural resources. Isabel has extensive experience teaching textile techniques through workshops and educational programs, creating accessible and engaging experiences that connect participants with nature and the process of making by hand.

Important info:

• All material fees are included in the ticket price; supplies will be provided by the instructor.

• What to wear: Comfortable clothing suitable for hands-on making.

• Minimum age: 16 with adult

Price: $100 non-members / $90 members

Join The Lazy Bakers Club to learn the easiest way to make homemade sourdough loaves. You'll take home your own starter and supplies.

This class is perfect for anyone who wants to bake gut-healthy, naturally fermented bread loaves but are afraid it might be too complicated. It's not!

In this class, you'll learn everything you need to be a successful sourdough baker at home, taste test lots of sourdough loaves, and leave class with your own starter and enough dough to bake your loaf at home. No baking experience necessary! This is a hands-on, highly interactive class.

During class you learn:

• How to prep dough for your loaf

• How to take care of your starter

• How to shape your dough for its second proofing

• How to bake a classic sourdough loaf

• How to bake a focaccia

During class you receive to take home:

• sourdough starter

• spatula

• ⁠bowl

• ⁠flour towel

• ⁠enough dough for a loaf to be baked at home

• An invitation to our WhatsApp Community to continue learning and connecting with other lazy bakers

• Printed and digital resources and recipes

You’ll need at home:

• a kitchen scale

• ⁠something to bake in (typically a Dutch oven, alternatively a shallow baking pan or cookie sheet)

• a proofing or banneton basket (this is optional but helpful)

Instructor biography

Laura Rodriguez-Costacamps is the founder and creator of the lazy baker method of sourdough baking, a process that developed from months of experimenting with the simplest way to bake homemade bread. After 15+ years working in science, technology, health, and adult education, Laura became a stay-at-home mom. But the call to educate and experiment persisted and that's how The Lazy Bakers Club was born. Spreading the word of how simple sourdough really is and creating community around experimentation and learning.

Price: $125 non-members / $110 members

As darkness falls, the Miami Beach Botanical Garden transforms into a curious and unconventional night garden where forgotten histories, strange ideas, art, and the otherworldly come to life.

Join us for this FREE evening featuring:

• Wander the illuminated garden and explore dark art, oddities, and unexpected treasures.

• “Old Florida” ghost stories from author Thomas Smith, author of The Ghosts of the Florida Atlantic Coast in partnership with Books & Books.

• Live music by Bruno Esposito of Lone Wolf One Man Band.

• A site-specific shadow puppet performance created by Christina Pettersson.

• Vintage Halloween footage and haunted South Florida stories from Miami Dade College’s Florida Moving Image Archives.

• Astrology and tarot readings by Aida the Energy Witch.

• Personalized poetry by the Biscayne Poet

• Our spooky Boo-tanical Bar, food, vendors and more!

Celebrate The Hunter’s Full Moon with a one-of-a-kind immersive sound and light experience.

Led by The South Beach Sound Healing Orchestra, and joined by visionary media sculptor dNASAb, the Miami Beach Botanical Garden transforms into a living field of resonance—where cinematic projection, live music and sound healing merge with the natural environment to create a powerful shared meditation.

This multi-sensory experience invites you to slow down, reconnect, and experience the Garden as an active collaborator through vibration, imagery, and collective presence. 

Early Bird Admission & Member Price: $45

General Admission Price: $55