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1616-16 Various Miami Beach ♦ mh01 MANY LOCAL ARTS EVENTS STILL SCHEDULED 11/03/2001 THE MIAMI HERALD Copyright (c) 2001, The Miami Herald DATE: Saturday, November 3, 2001 EDITION: Final SECTION: Front PAGE: 2A LENGTH: 39 lines SOURCE/CREDIT LINE: By GAIL MEADOWS, gmeadows@herald.com MANY LOCAL ARTS EVENTS STILL SCHEDULED Organizers were unco-rtain Friday how many ancillary activities would be canceled in light o rt Basel decision to postpone its South Florida fair. But the Miami Beach u tural Arts Council, which had planned several events to raise money for local cultural organizations, said its shows will go on. We ' re canceling nothing, " said David Whitman, the council ' s executive director. An exhibition showcasing 61 South Florida artists, scheduled at the Bass Museum of Art, will open Dec . 12 as planned, museum director Diane Camber said Friday. Second Thursday, the night when galleries, shops and cultural organizations invite the public to shuttle around, free, to special events on the Beach, will be " ' sensational " Dec. 13, Whitman said. A concert by the New World Symphony at the Lincoln Theater on Dec. 14, with a reception, outdoor entertainment and a special tribute to outgoing Beach Mayor Neisen Kasdin, will go on. And an evening of Cuban rhythm, with several dance bands participating, will still be held at the Beach' s Paris Theater on Dec. 15 . What you ' re going to see is the cultural community as the safety net of Miami Beach, " said Pauline Winick, the Cultural Council ' s chairwoman. " It ' ll be a strong reaffirmation of the importance of the arts. " In Miami ' s Design District, Craig Robins, head of Dacra Development, said " 15 major exhibitions " were planned in the galleries and design showrooms that have proliferated there in the last couple of years . "We ' ll have to readjust what we planned to do, " Robins said Friday. " It ' s a very sad comment on our times. " Robins, Norman Braman and other members of the Art Basel host committee planned to entertain 500 Basel VIPs at a welcoming dinner under a tent in the Design District Dec. 13, then throw a street party for " several thousand" the next evening, he said. Now, he continued, "we' ll downscale our efforts and make sure that those who do come [to Miami Dec. 13-16] have an incredible time. " KEYWORDS : TAG: 0111060264 Reinstate Beach' s full arts budget Editor: We are greatly encouraged by the attention and commitment the cultural arts are receiving from all candidates for public office in Miami Beach. The cultural arts has a $568 million economic impact in Miami-Dade County. The nationally recognized arts organizations in Miami Beach substantially contribute to this. More than 75 , 000 Miami Beach residents regularly attend performances of the New World Symphony, the Miami City Ballet and the Concert Association of South Florida. They visit the Bass, Wolfsonian and Ziff museums, take a class at the ArtCenter South Florida and participate in or attend performances by one. of 71 organizations that receive funds from the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council. In recent weeks, members of the Cultural Arts Council have been receiving questions from these 71 organizations as to why their recently awarded grants are being cut by 20 percent. Cultural tourism and our community' s participation in the performing and visual arts need only your verbal support, but also your financial support. Please consider the following: Miami-Dade ' s Department of Cultural Affairs will receive $11 million in the coming year, our $1 million budget has been cut by 29 percent or $290, 000 . The Cultural Arts Council is your appointed front line, making Art Basel/Miami Beach one of the most exciting international events ever to come to Miami Beach; our 2nd Thursdays program is receiving wide support from all of South Florida and is nationally recognized as a positive factor, increasing audience base for the arts. The arts are a —bridge over troubled waters " in these days of America' s recent terrible tragedies . On behalf of all the residents of Miami Beach, we are requesting that the Miami Beach City Commission reinstate our original grant monies and Cultural Arts Council ' s budget. PAULINE WINICK Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council This letter was also signed by Stephen A. Sauls, Roger Abramson, Roland Kohen, Diane Star Heller, Ada Llerandi, Nancy Wolcott and Kathryn Orosz . Information: 305-572-9900 . S-A-L-U-T-E At the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council, Pauline Winick has been elected to an unprecedented third term as chair. Long dedicated to community involvement, Winick is associate vice president of marketing at Florida International University, where she oversees the FIU-Miami Film Festival, among other things. Before that, she was executive vice president of the Miami Heat and director of communications for Miami-Dade County. Elected as vice chair was Nancy Wolcott, associate provost of Miami ' s New World School of the Arts. For the last three years, she has served as chair of the grants committee of the Beach arts council.