January 18 – 20 – Miami Design Preservation League, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach

Celebrating the the era in Florida’s quintessential.  Art Deco Weekend sees world-famous Ocean Drive even more energized with 300,000 visitors, checking out the local establishments and hundreds of vendors exhibiting their wares. Hosted by the Miami Design Preservation League.  Whether artists, craftsmen, chefs, bartenders, car collectors, or any variety of Art Deco retailers, all showing the best they have to offer. All highlighted by Friday’s always-popular Art Deco parade. Throughout the weekend the Leslie Hotel facade, as it did in 2012, will serve as a screen for a 30-minute 3D Mapping Project (“Faces of the Decade”) by Alternative Media International (AMI). Four Art Deco related movies will be shown on the lawn in Lummus Park at 8th Street. Scheduled for this year’s Art Deco Film Festival are: “Some Like it Hot” (1959), “The Artist” (2011), “The Great Gatsby” (1949), and “Midnight in Paris” (2011).   SEE THE FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS