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Home My WebLink AboutCRA-R-05-0030 Back-up DocumentationMIAMI PERFORMING ARTS CENTER July 11, 2005 Mr. Frank Rollason, Executive Director City of Miami CRA 49 NW 5th Street Miami, FL 33128 Re: Lighting the House and OMNIART-Miami 1!! Dear Mr. Rollason: Miami Performing Arts Center and OMNIART are working in collaboration to produce and market two complimentary arts events in the Omni area. Scheduled in conjunction with Art Basel, on December 2, 2005, Lighting the House and OMNIART-Miami IN will mark the completion of the Miami Performing Arts Center (MPAC) exterior and celebrate the Omni neighborhood. Lighting the House and OMNIART-Miami 111 will involve hundreds of people — volunteers, neighborhood children, world-renowned local and international artists, professional performers, visitors, residents, and civic leaders - who will come together to create a "sound and action zone" within the Omni neighborhood. The evening will include a parade that will feature 200 local children from MPAC's Walking Tall Circus; a multi -media extravaganza that will be projected on the Center's exterior walls; several warehouses converted to galleries to exhibit local and international artists and an outdoor visual arts festival along NE 13th Street and Miami Court. Both community events will attract Miami residents and a large number of national and international visitors who will be visiting the City to attend Art Basel. Thousands are expected to attend Lighting the House and OMNIART-Miami !!I; surrounding hotels, restaurants and parking garages will be positively impacted. The events will have extraordinary performance and visual art components and are free and open to the public. Lighting the House and OMNIART-Miami Ill will present the Miami Performing Arts Center and the Omni neighborhood to a global audience. 1444 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 202 > Miami FL 33132 USA , Tel +1 (305) 579.-7611 ., Fax +1 1305) 372-7655 > www.miamipac.org Page 2 of 2 Enclosed are detailed event descriptions and budgets for both events. MPAC and The Miart Foundation are arts organizations which not only share a neighborhood, but also a mission to become educational and cultural resources for the community. We are grateful for your generous support. Sincerely, Michael C. Hardy President and CEO Miami Performing Arts Center Dorothy Long Chairman The Miart Foundation Enclosure Miami Performing Arts Center (MPAC) Presents Lighting the House MPAC seeks to broaden its partnership with the City of Miami CRA because of the CRA's demonstrated interest in changing visitor perceptions and, more importantly, the economic reality of our surrounding neighborhoods. We would like to express our deep appreciation for the CRA's 2004 grant for the Miami Performing Arts Center/MIT digital media charette. Many of the innovative ideas developed within Lighting the House were inspired by the students who participated in that project. Miami CRA has made community and economic development of the Overtown and Omni neighborhoods a top priority and Lighting the House will help fulfill this commitment. The production costs for Lighting the House will exceed $250,000, MPAC is respectfully requesting funding from the CRA in the amount of $75,000 to support this extraordinary event and community effort. MPAC is aggressively pursing several sponsors from the private sector and has discussed the event's concept with a major utility company. Project Description Lighting the House will involve children, world-renowned artists, community volunteers, professional performers, visitors, residents and MPAC staff who will come together to create a "sound and action zone" within the Omni and Overtown area to produce four major performance outcomes: • A sound, light and video show projected on the granite Performing Arts Center facade; • Continuous street theater performances by MPAC's resident physical theater troupe Urban Disturbance; • Motorized jumbo-tron TVs and larger -than -life video projected swimming fish; and; • A stilt -walking circus parade with over 200 children from Miami - Dade County and a giant 45 foot alligator animated by our performers. Lighting the House will kick off with a 40-minute sound, light and video performance projected on the Center's beautiful Ziff Ballet Opera House and Carnival Concert Hall, and continue with a three-hour integrated video installation. MPAC has commissioned a group of internationally acclaimed artists to transform this neighborhood into the largest and most dynamic visual arts "theater" in the United States. Miami -based video artist Charles Recher; Venezuelan -born Miami -based composer and sound artist Gustavo Matamoros, and lighting designer Mike O'Brien will collaborate on the multi -media production. The show will use potent images of civilization and nature to create a multimedia extravaganza that will speak to everyone in the newly emerging heart of Miami. The multi -media show will be a performance of phenomenal scale. The artists will use the MPAC building facades as mirrors, projecting visual imagery toward the East and West. The artists will craft a multi -channel, multi -level sound system to create a kaleidoscopic effect for the audience. Each person will see a unique performance, rooted in the time and place within the zone where they are standing. Two robotic jumbo=tron TVs will move through the streets, interacting with one another and the audience. The cars on the screens will become real, driving up Biscayne Boulevard magically transformed as musical instruments: starting their engines, blowing horns, using their lights and windshield wipers in a complex choreography of sound. A school of gigantic remote -controlled fish will appear and disappear, swimming through and around the crowd. Performers in hypersonic costumes will stroll through the crowd, shooting focused music out into the whirling hurricane of the soundscape. The complex interplay of sounds, lights, and movement will swell and envelop the crowd, transporting them to a world where they can see music and hear color. Depending on the interaction between the environment, the crowd, and the technology, this will be a once -in -a -lifetime experience that will be impossible for the artists to duplicate. It will be a historic event for the city of Miami performed on a global stage. As the multi -media show winds to a close, the Walking Tall Circus stiltwalkers will begin stomping through the neighborhood in a parade. Light sticks and glowing beads passed out to the crowd will create a constantly moving landscape of light framing the parade. The stiltwalkers will be led by David Clarkson, the founder of Australia's Stalker Theater Company and the chief stilt trainer, choreographer and performer of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Clarkson is also MPAC's artistic counsel for physical theater. The parade will feature two hundred local children from MPAC's Walking Tall Circus; a physical theater and circus skills training program for children in resource poor communities throughout Miami -Dade. MPAC's physical theater troupe, Urban Disturbance, will be performing throughout the evening. Community Partnerships MPAC's artistic team, led by Justin MacDonnell, is working hard to establish vibrant and innovative programming and is scheduling a lineup of compelling performances, events and educational offerings of exceptional quality and artistic excellence. Many of these programs will be products of innovative cross -disciplinary partnerships between the arts and a variety of business, civic, social and educational organizations. For Lighting the House, MPAC plans to partner with the Omni and Overtown NET offices and gain their assistance with local volunteer recruitment, management and event cleanup. Two hundred of the stilt walkers participating in the parade are members of MPAC's Walking Tall Circus. The Walking Tall program began in 2003 with twenty children at Rafael Penalver Clinic in East Little Havana. Walking Tall participants also come from El Centro Campesino in Homestead, Community Partnership for the Homeless and Overtown Youth Center, the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, and City of North Miami Parks and Recreation Department. Plans are in place to expand Walking Tall in the Fall of 2005. MPAC will add twenty additional classes at community centers throughout Miami -Dade. The stilts program gives local children the opportunity to participate in creative, organized physical activity during out -of -school time. MPAC has ongoing programming partnerships with more than a dozen local, national, and international cultural institutions. Among our Miami -based partners are: Miami Light Project, Jubilate, Rhythm Foundation, SoundArtWorks/South Florida Composers Alliance, Arts For Learning and Miami -Dade County Public Schools. C:IDocuments and Settingslfrollason\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK2401Combined budget of Lighting the House.xls BUDGET FOR LIGHTING THE HOUSE ITEM FEES Alligator Schmalligator Parade MPAC Staff Additional staffing. iii•iFi11�.Fir•�i3J11d11111 Director Director's Per Diem Assistant Director PRODUCTION LOH (General) Alligator.Schmalligator Parade MARKETING Video Audio Electric' from PACB CASH EXPENSE $ 12,000.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 630.00 $ 1,500.00 IN KIND $ 102,320.00 2,000 $ 10,000.00 $ 10,000.00 EMMEN NOTES Pro•rammin•/Marketin•/0•erations staff 1 sm/pa * 9 wks •a 25 & 1 sm/pa *3 wks •+ 25 Nikki & Cliff David Clarkson $30 per da 2 bands •r 1000 each ADA toilet facili Toilet facilities VIP toilet facilities Tent Tables Communication/radios EMS & Fire Police Barracades Day of event petty cash 200 Stilt -walkers program Alli•ator materials $ 4,973.50 $ 840.00 $ 3,000.00 1,950.00 600.00 $ 60.00 45.00 $ 3,600.00 $ 3,600.00 1,500.00 $ instruments & creatin• Mike O'Brien Lighting $ 2,000.00 $ 155,000.00 $ 2,500.00 $ 52,000.00 40*$14*7hrs &8*$16*7hrs&1*22.5*7hrs 12 standard porta • 60/120 delive 800f•r t.ii- &150•-I' Tent = 30X 50 with lights , delive & instal. 10 60 FF&E estimate 400 per radio) 10 ems • 30/hr * 12 hrs 10 police 0 30/hr * 12 hrs On -site Stilt-walkin• •ro• b MPAC Seat 04/05 & Fall fy 05/06 paint, fabric, st ro, wood, aluminum includes Ii•htin• retainer Page 1 Revised as of 7/13/2005 at 6:36 AM TRAVEL/ HOUSING/ HOSPITALITY /TRANSPORT TOTAL Page 2 C:IDocuments and SettingslfrollasonlLocal Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK2401Combined budget of Lighting the House.xls Advertising Direct Mail Collateral Production/Other LOH (General LOH (General) Newspaper $ 9,306.00 Radio $ 4,150.00 Printing $ 3,000.00 500.00 Postage Lists/Services 500.00 Services $ 500.00 List acquisition $ 500.00 Large Posters Palm Cards $ 500.00 $ 250.00 Street Banners $ 2,000.00 Design Poster/Flyer Distribution PR photo/distribution ex•enses Directors' Accomodations Directors' Local Transportation Local kids transportation Car Rental Day of event Food & beverage/hospitality Catenn. for .ubiic Insurance Permits Legal Ticketing/wrist bands Parking Street Closures 2,000.00 $ 200.00 300.00 $ 2,050.00 $ 500.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 50.00 $ 5,000.00 $ 2,500.00 $ 50.00 $ 1,000.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 5,000.00 264,654.50 $ 157,320.00 artists, volunteers, press, vip, kids, staff (approx 600 people Sponsoshi ? application fee from website rent a lot for staff/volunteers/participants included in various items above this is a contingent Revised as of 7/13/2005 at 6:36 AM