Programs and Events
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Bring the whole family to Miami Beach Botanical Garden, where seasonal blooms bring music, food, and activities for all ages. From kids’ crafts to live performances, every corner is alive with joy, discovery, and togetherness under the sun.
All That Remains: A Mother's Day Floral Workshop with Dahlia Dreszer
What happens when flowers begin to fade? In All That Remains, Miami-based artist Dahlia Dreszer invites you to find the beauty in impermanence — and transform it into something you can keep forever.
Join Dahlia for an intimate, hands-on floral workshop in celebration of Mother's Day. Over two hours, you'll learn the techniques she uses in her own fine art practice to dry, preserve, and give new life to flowers. From selecting the right blooms to understanding the process of transformation, Dahlia will walk you through every step — sharing her creative philosophy, the materials she works with, and what to do when your flowers start to wilt.
What you'll explore: · The art and science of flower drying and preservation · Dahlia's personal studio process and material choices · How to work with wilting flowers before it's too late · Creative applications for dried botanicals in art and home
This workshop is designed for all skill levels — no prior art experience needed. Come as you are, bring your curiosity, and leave with something beautiful.
Bring the whole family. This is a Mother's Day experience meant to be shared — mothers, daughters, friends, and family of all ages are warmly welcome.
Suggested dress code: Floral 🌸
Friends Circle Price: $65 | Regular Price: $70
Perfumer for a Day with Patrizio Santocchi
Step into the enchanting world of perfumery and discover the art—and joy—of fragrance creation. In this immersive, hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to connect scent, memory, and creativity to design a perfume or cologne that’s truly your own.
Under the guidance of Italian perfumer Patrizio Santocchi of Monteleone Miami, you’ll explore the aromatic ingredients that bring fragrances to life—from delicate florals to exotic woods and resins. Patrizio, known for blending scent and flavor in his multisensory gelato and fragrance creations, will lead you through an unforgettable journey of olfactory discovery.
What to Expect
1. Introduction to Perfumery
Gain a foundation in fragrance composition, safety, and perfumery principles. Learn what makes a scent balanced, harmonious, and memorable.
2. Build Your Olfactive Memory
Smell and evaluate a variety of raw aromatic materials. Using scented strips, note your impressions and associations—the first step in building your personal scent vocabulary.
3. Be Your Own Perfumer
With your new knowledge, blend and design your own perfume or cologne. You’ll leave with a one-of-a-kind fragrance that captures your individuality and essence.
Friends Circle price $60 | Regular price: $70
All That Remains: Artist Talk
Artist talk exploring the themes of the exhibition, All That Remains, with artist Dahlia Dreszer, moderated by PAMM Chief Curator José Carlos Diaz.
Join artist Dahlia Dreszer for a conversation about her current exhibition at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, exploring themes of preservation, memory, and technology through photography, installation, and AI.
Moderated by José Carlos Diaz, Chief Curator of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the talk will delve into Dreszer’s use of floral imagery, cultural storytelling, and her AI-generated “Clone Dahlia,” an interactive digital presence featured in TIME Magazine.
Attendees will gain insight into her creative process, influences, and the evolving relationship between art and artificial intelligence.
Dahlia Dreszer is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, installation, and AI. Her practice explores themes of diasporic identity, memory, and cultural hybridity. She has exhibited internationally, including at Green Space Miami and Pinta Panama, and her work has been featured in TIME Magazine. Dreszer integrates emerging technologies into her artistic practice, including her AI project “Clone Dahlia,” which engages audiences in interactive storytelling experiences.
Event is open to all ages.
Free to attend.
All That Remains: Flower Crown Workshop
Join artist Dahlia Dreszer for an immersive Flower Crown Workshop inspired by her exhibition All That Remains — a photographic exploration of beauty, memory, and the life cycle of flowers.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll craft your own floral crown using fresh blooms while surrounded by Dahlia’s large-format photography at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens. Whether you’re an art lover, a flower enthusiast, or simply looking for a creative afternoon, this experience is designed to connect you to the living beauty at the heart of Dahlia’s practice.What to expect:• Guided flower crown making with fresh flowers and all materials provided• An intimate look at the inspiration behind All That Remains• A beautiful, wearable creation to take home.
Organized in collaboration with Ariel Penzer. Workshop facilitated by Flowers by Ro.
Spots are limited — reserve yours today.
Friends Circle price: $65 | Regular price $70
Still Life in the Garden by Alignment Atelier
Explore creativity, somatics, art & flowers in a magical garden. Ground your nervous system, connect with yourself & others, invite in joy!
You are invited to an inspired afternoon in the garden, where art, ritual, and flowers open a field of connection. We begin with a cacao connection, then move into a guided art practice woven with breathwork and gentle somatic attunement to soften the body and awaken the senses. At a whimsical floral bar, Gina Moon guides you in working with the subtle energy of flowers.
Through meditative drawing and artist-led practices, Sharon Aluma leads a process rooted in curiosity over perfection. You are invited to deepen into your creative expression, supported by the elements around you, your inner guidance, and the subtle intelligence that moves through all things. You’ll create a painting inspired by your chosen flower and leave with your artwork, a bud vase, and an intentional gift bag. The experience is immersive and light-filled, offering permission to play and be surprised by what emerges. All materials are provided.
The experience includes:
• Cacao and a personal ritual moment
• Breathwork, meditation, and somatic attunement
• Guided meditative drawing prompts
• A whimsical floral bar and tablescape
• Fresh fruit and light refreshments
• A closing reflection to integrate the experience
An intentional gift bag
Your Guides
Sharon Aluma is a fine artist whose work is rooted in presence, material dialogue, and deep listening, where sound, ritual, and embodied awareness inform her creative process.
Gina Moon is the founder of Moon & Jai and Moon & Blossom, a transformational facilitator and floral alchemist known for her intuitive compositions that evoke presence and awe.
Together, they form Alignment Atelier, creating refined experiences rooted in creative expression, somatics, and meaningful connection. www.alignmentatelier.com
Friends Circle price: $94.35 | Regular price: $111
Earth Day Delight: A Gnome and Fairy Garden Celebration
A garden gathering inspired by connection and the beauty of our planet.
Something magical is stirring at the Garden…
As the season shifts and the days grow longer, we invite you to celebrate Spring Awakening—an enchanting experience inspired by gnomes, fairies, and the quiet wonder of new beginnings.
Wander into a world where imagination meets nature. Expect charm, creativity, and a touch of woodland mischief as we welcome the season in true Garden style.
Details are blooming soon—but trust us, you won’t want to miss this.
✨ Save the date.
🌿 Embrace the magic.
🧚 Let spring awaken.
Free to Attend
Encaustic Floral Workshop
Create an encaustic floral triptych in this immersive 1-day encaustic workshop!
This full one-day encaustic painting workshop introduces participants to creating a cohesive encaustic floral triptych using botanical imagery, encaustics and mixed media techniques. Participants will explore encaustic wax application, layering, texture, and mark-making while producing three interconnected paintings that can be displayed together or individually. Botanical imprints, and plant material used as a masking stencil will also be explored.
Participants will work on three 6” x 6” wooden panels, temporarily taped together and treated as a single composition during the painting process. Once completed, works may be displayed as a triptych or as individual paintings. Minimum age 14 years. All materials provided with additional materials fee (not included in ticket price) of $25 to be paid directly to instructor. A "QR" code will be sent upon ticket confirmation.
General Admission: $110
An Afternoon with David Haskell
Join us for an afternoon with author David Haskell for the release of his latest book, HOW FLOWERS MADE OUR WORLD.
🎟 Free & open to the public · RSVP recommended · Books will be available for purchase at the event. Can't make the event? Buy your copy here.
About The Book
An exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today
We live on a floral planet, yet flowers don’t get the credit they deserve. We admire them for their aesthetics, not their power. In this exquisite exploration of the role flowers played in creating the world we know today, David George Haskell observes, smells, and studies flowers such as magnolias, orchids, and roses, as well as fascinating but less celebrated flowers such as seagrasses and tea to show us what we’ve been missing.
Flowers are beautiful revolutionaries. When they evolved, they remade the natural world: Gorgeous petals and alluring aromas transformed former enemies into cooperative partners. Flowers reinvented plant sexuality and motherhood, bringing male and female together in the same flower and amply provisioning seeds and fruits, innovations that also feed legions of animals, ourselves included. Through radical genetic flexibility, flowers turned past environmental upheavals into opportunities for renewal. This inventiveness allowed them to build and sustain rainforests, savannahs, prairies, and even ocean shores.
Without flowers, human beings would not exist. We are a floral species. Flowers catalyzed our evolution, and we now depend on them for food and a healthy planet. When we perfume ourselves, give a loved one a bouquet, or use blooms in gardens and religious ceremonies, we honor the special bond between people and flowers. The study of flowers also shaped modern science and horticulture in ways both marvelous and, sometimes, unjust.
Looking to the future, flowers offer us lessons on resilience and creativity in the face of rapid environmental change. We need floral creativity, beauty, and joy more than ever. How Flowers Made Our World combines lyrical writing, sensual exploration, and the latest in scientific research to explore some of the most consequential life forms ever to have evolved, showing how our planet came to be and how it thrives today.
About The Author
David George Haskell is a biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. His books have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, in 2012 for The Forest Unseen and in 2022 for Sounds Wild and Broken. His 2017 book, The Songs of Trees, won the John Burroughs Medal. Other literary honors include a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a two-time finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and winner of the Acoustical Society of America’s Science Communication Award, the National Academies’ Best Book Award, the Iris Book Award, the Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. He is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim fellow, and adjunct professor of environmental sciences at Emory University. He was previously William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Haskell lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Christa’s South Seashells Photo Frame Workshop
A fun-filled Seashell Frame Workshop for everyone!
Join us for an exclusive shell frame making experience where Palm Beach meets Miami Beach - featuring the renowned Christa Wilm from Christa's South Seashells. This event offers an intimate creative afternoon where you'll craft a stunning seashell frame under guidance from a leading shell artist . 🌊✨Create your own coastal-inspired keepsake at this fun and engaging workshop! CSS will provide everything you need to design a beautiful 5” x 7” decorative frame, including a curated selection of shells, corals, and pearls to bring your vision to life. All materials—along with glue, glue guns, and step-by-step instruction—are included, so you can relax and enjoy the process. Whether you're a seasoned crafter or just looking to try something new, this hands-on experience offers an opportunity to create a unique piece you’ll love. Come ready to get creative and leave with a one-of-a-kind frame inspired by the beauty of the sea!
Closing Ceremony Inside "Moving Altar"
Closing ceremony inside Moving Altar.
Tara Benmeleh serves tea in the gallery, followed by Abundance Somatic Dance led by Ariel Pinho.
12–2 pm
A simple transition from stillness into movement.
Regular Admission: $111
Floral Alchemy in the Garden Gallery with Tara Benmeleh + Gina Moon
Explore the art of floral design with Gina Moon inside Tara Benmeleh's art exhibition in the Butterfly Gallery at Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Starting with a short grounding guided meditation and flower tea led by Tara, set your intention for this creative experience. Guests will dive into lush color, texture, and movement as they craft a stunning floral arrangement. Learn techniques and skills to allow your florals to truly come to life!
Price: $88