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Viernes Culturales (Cultural Fridays): Little Havana's Free Art & Cultural Event
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JustForArtists.com on 03/10/2009 00:04:00
 
The last Friday of each month "Viernes Culturales" take place and the artists'
studios and art galleries are opened until 10 pm. Also, the City of Miami
sponsors singers and musical groups at a stand usually set up at the
intersection of 14th avenue, next to the "Parque del Domino" (Dominoes' Park)
where old friends have been gathering to play dominoes since they arrived from
Cuba in the sixties.
Miami's Little Havana has become well known over the past four decades as
Florida's Ellis Island. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Cuba and emigres
from Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and other Spanish-speaking countries first
stopped in this neighborhood.
Little Havana and Calle Ocho (southwest Eighth Street), its main artery, bustle
with a pedestrian life seen in few other places in Greater Miami. The human
scale of its old structures, glitzy restaurants with their surfeit of blinking
lights and ubiquitous outdoor coffee counters, and the animated conversations of
men and women (fueled with pungently sweet cups or "thimbles" of cafe) over the
latest events and conditions in Cuba help set it apart.
With its many Spanish-speaking nationalities, Little Havana is anything but
monochromatic. It is a quarter of political protest, marches, shrines, and
museums, and vendors selling produce and flowers. The quarter's parks are
popular gathering places for viejos, or elderly men, who play dominoes, as well
as for young mothers pushing little children in strollers. Little Havana is
exotic, flamboyant, and ever evolving as new residents pour into America's New
Ellis Island.
Below please find a listing of Dinning, Entertainment and Shopping in the Little
Havana area.
DINNING & ENTERTAINMENT
Oriental Restaurant
1642 SW 8 St
Casa Panza Restaurant
1620 SW 8 St.
El Buen Sabor Cafeteria Bakery
1610 SW 8 St
I Love Calle Ocho Cafe & Shop
1547 SW 8 St.
El Cristo Restaurant & Cafeteria
1543 SW 8 St.
Kimbara Cumbara (Dancing)
2212 SW 8 Street
Hoy Como Ayer (Dancing)
1644 SW 8 Street
El Pub Restaurant
1543 SW 8 St.
El Exquisito Restaurant
1510 SW 8 St.
Domino Park
1444 SW 8 St.
Little Havana Cultural Plaza
SW 8 St and 15 Ave
Romo- Restaurant
1444 SW 8 St
Cafeteria Guardabarranco
1388 SW 8 St.
Con Tutto - Pizza a la Pala
1380 SW 8 St  SHOPPING
Surprise Ena Jewels
1650 SW 8 St.
Alfaro's Guayaberas
1604 SW 8 St.
Old Cuba The Collection
1602 SW 8 St
Verizzi Footwear
1520 SW 8 St.
Azœcar Para El Espiritu (Books)
1561 SW 8 St.
Marakka 2000 (Records)
1551 SW 8 St.
Little Havana To Go
1442 SW 8 St.
Pepe Fashions
1421 SW 8 St
Lily's Records
1419 SW 8 St.
CIGARS
La Luna Cigars
1638 SW 8 St
Miami Havana Cigars, Inc
1644 SW 8 St.
Tabacos Pio VI
1638 SW 8 St.
Cuba Tobacco Trading, Inc
1528 SW 8 St.
Galleries:
Latin Art Core | Maxoly cuban fine art
1600 SW 8th St | 305 631 0025
Molina Art Gallery
1634 SW 8 St. Miami, Fl 33135 | 305 642 0444
Zu Galeria
2248 SW 8th St. Miami Fl 33135 | 786 443 5872
For more information please visit http://www.viernesculturales.com