Camposition | ONE ONE TWO - Imagine Miami Reborn

One-One-Two: Imagine Miami Reborn
Miami’s irreverent birthday bash is now
"officially" unofficial

On Saturday, July 26, Camposition’s, Artistic Director Octavio Campos, Ralph de la Portilla host One-One-Two: Imagine Miami Reborn, a fiercely irreverent birthday homage to the City of Miami, a city that has tormented and tantalized artists for over a century. This event is a benefit for Camposition, Miami’s most progressive and innovative producer of hybrid performances. One-One-Two will feature performances and exhibits by a cutting-edge Who’s Who of Miami artists.

Last years One One One celebration was so raucous that the City of Miami’s commissioner Joe Sanchez, could not help but notice what was happening at the Jose Marti Building in Little Havana. As a result, this year’s One-One-Two event has been endorsed as the City of Miami’s “official” unofficial birthday bash and has been granted a Salute from City Hall!

One-One-Two is a party celebrating the birth of Miami 112 years ago when the city charter was adopted. The party takes as its theme Miami’s underground and cutting edge performance and visual art scene —all those cultural curiosities that have spontaneously emerged from the region’s melting pot and made this metropolis such a fascinating place.

The celebration is being sponsored by Miami New Times, My Space Latino, Tinta y Café, Publix and Camposition including performances, visual art, and installations that re-imagine the history of the metropolis on the occasion of its 112th birthday. The roster of over 60 artists participating includes: BLOWFLY, Clarence Reid, Otto von Schirach, La Fortuna, Tumbao, Chongalicious Girls, Michelle Riu, Circ X, Mano Santa, Rudi Goblen and The Flip Side Kings, Teresa "Boogie" Barcelo, Xavier Cortada, Susan Pfeffer, Bill Spring, Arnaldo Simon, Mayra Marrero, Arthur Curtis, Becky Flowers, Bear 9, Michelle Riu, Nereida Garcia-Ferraz, Angela Valella, Rachael Rendon, Jennifer Smith-De Castroverde, Rosie Herrera, Pedro Portal, Belaxis Buil, Karen Rifas, Frank Monteavaro, Ana Miranda, Eva Ruiz, NFRomero, DJ Snow White, Celeste Fraser- Delgado, Claudio Marcotulli, Alex Garay “El Metido”, Charles Meads, Jose Ramirez “El Negro”, Theresa Amandi and Octavio Campos a.o.

The event will take place The Jose Marti Building, 801 SW 3rd Avenue, Miami, FL, 33130, home of 801 Projects. This party is a benefit for Camposition’s 2008-2009 Season and 801 Projects. The festivities commence at 9:00 pm and the cover charge is $10.00.

On July 28*,1896, the City of Miami was incorporated on a site almost exactly 1,112 yards from the site of the festivities. On that day, 344 residents voted to incorporate (largely as a measure to help abolish public nudity and excrement in the streets). As part of the One-One-Two celebration, 344 select Miamians will be asked to re-enact that vote—at the exact hour (shortly after 10:00pm) of the original vote 112 years earlier. This “re-incorporation vote” will affirm faith in the Miami vision for another year…until the One-One-Three celebration the following year and every year thereafter in perpetuity.

• A portion of the proceeds of this event will be donated to The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation in their effort to create a nation that respects the diversity of human expression and identity and creates opportunity for all.

The host and creator of One-One-Two is native Miamian Ralph de la Portilla, best known as co-creator of Fuacata! in Little Havana, USA.

See what you missed last year....ONE ONE ONE

One-One-Two: Imagine Miami Reborn
Saturday July 26 at 9:00 pm
The Jose Marti Building, 801 SW 3rd Avenue, Miami, FL 33130
Cover charge: $10.00

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