Sleepless Night Miami Beach Awakens on November 7

Oct. 9, 2009 - PRLog -- Miami Beach will host the ultimate cultural all-nighter. Sleepless Night 2009 will no doubt be the largest multi-genre arts and cultural event of the year this country has ever experienced. The free, 13-hour arts and entertainment extravaganza will awaken on Saturday, November 7, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. and stimulate your senses through the next morning at 7:00 a.m.

This year it will feature virtual reality live animation performances, digital nightscape graffiti, interactive three-screen manipulated films, musical marionettes, a pajama run, helium-balloon acrobats, a flash mob dance, and much more. Street spectacles, acrobatics, film, comedy, dance, indoor and outdoor installations and more will be offered for free. More than 130 events in more than 100 locations spread throughout four zones, from Ocean Drive to Normandy Fountain.

Free shuttle buses with onboard artistic programming will connect the various zones of activity. From north to south, there will be something for every audience to enjoy and be awed, amazed and amused throughout the sleepless night.

Sleepless Night is patterned after White Nights (Nuit Blanche) cultural series held across Europe (Paris, Rome, Madrid, and Brussels) and Toronto.

Title sponsor: Audi of America, Inc.; presenting sponsor: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Knight Foundation and Miami Arts Initiative Fund at Dade Community Foundation; host sponsor: City of Miami Beach and Cultural Arts Council.

Other sponsors: the National Endowment for the Arts; the Miami Beach Visitors and Convention Authority; the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau; the Ocean Drive Association; Classical South Florida; Community Sponsor Comcast Cable Communications; Red Bull; Whole Foods Market South Beach; and Café Bustelo.  

Other funding in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Official host hotel: Catalina Hotel and Beach Club.

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City of Miami Beach is committed to providing excellent public service and safety to all who live, work and play in our vibrant, tropical, historic community. Miami Beach, a 7.2 square mile tropical, urban island city, is home to the Art Deco Historic District , North Shore Historic District and the Normandy Isles Historic District.