Sleepless Night
City of Miami Beach
- Date Awarded
- 12/15/08
- Amount
- $150,000
- Grant Period
- 12/15/08 to 12/31/09
- Focus Areas
- Engaged Communities, Fostering the Arts
- Community
- Miami
- Initiative
- Knight Arts Challenge
Grantee Contact
- Miami Beach
- www.miamibeachfl.gov
Featured Media
Sleepless Night - Gary Farmer - (Knight Arts) from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
To continue providing artists and residents with a free, city-wide celebration of the arts by installing Sleepless Night as an annual Miami Beach tradition
Launched in 2007, Sleepless Night presents 13-hours of free cultural events, including art installations, dance, theater, music, slam poetry and acrobatics, at more than 80 venues to mark the last night of Daylight Savings Time. In its first year, more than 150,000 people attended. This grant supports continuing the festival, which the City of Miami Beach aims to offer annually with private and corporate sponsors.
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