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EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
The Center provide
arts and design education and community programming, and its facilities will
offer equal opportunities for children, young people, families, adults, and
educators from throughout the area to learn about and experience the arts and
design. In creating this program, the center will be committed to working with
the community colleges and public schools around the area, the community
centers, and the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Department.
First, the Center
will seek to bring young people and adults into the building to experience the
various arts and design forms represented here.
Second, EKA
will
extend the reach of the Center to schools and community organizations through
special performances, lectures, seminars, workshops and classes.
THE BISCAYNE BOULEVARD SOLUTION
Each year 9 million
people attend performances, cultural festivals and events in Miami-Dade County.
The arts are already a vigorous sector of greater Miami’s economy with current
cultural activity estimated to have more than a $350 million impact annually.
Recent experiences
in important cities around the country; demonstrate that the arts are a key
element in revitalizing downtown America. Strategically located near public
transportation, EKA is a pioneer project within the Miami-Dade empowerment zone,
enabling the arts and design to grow and flourish in the district – A long
waited necessity.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
EKA
will be
promoting its schedule of events on a weekly basis through the calendar section
of the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and the New Times Magazine, the most
broadly read newspapers in the city. Press releases, direct mail and personal
contacts will also be many of tools to reach the community in an immediate and
personalized way. By using its public relations, EKA will seek promotion of the
Center and its activities through the radio, and television.
OVERVIEW
EKA
will be a one
of a kind cultural committed to working with the emerging and growing community
of the City of Miami by promoting the arts and design. Occupying a 12,000
square two story Art Deco building, EKA’s Center is at its most optimal
location. On the well-known Biscayne Boulevard, on 29th street, the
center will be in the heart of a heavily redeveloping project for the revival of
the international business center, tourism, sports and cultural entertainment in
the city of Miami. Centrally located between the new thriving restored New
Design District and the multi-million dollar Miami development of the Performing
Art Center.EKA
is also at walking distance from the International Fine Arts
College Community College’s main campus, The Technology Center of The
Americas, The American Airlines Arena and Bayside Open Market; a few miles off
the I-95 interstate highway; and, right in between the three main connecting
roadways to the beaches, the Julia Tuttle, the Venetian, and the McArthur
Causeways.
FACILITIES
A 4,000 sq. ft. 200-seats flexible space for cultural, educational and
entertainment events.
An adjoining 700 sq. ft.40-seats space designed as a coffee and a
souvenir shop with a reading room for seminars and conferences.
A 2,000 sq. ft. 14 feet ceilings art gallery that will house its own
workshop for the service of custom framing
8 offices/studios for lease to artists, designers and architects – from
300 sq. ft. to 500 sq. ft.
A 1,000 sq. ft. alternative space for exhibit.
Lower level and parking are handicapped accessible.
25 parking spaces at the rear secured with an electric closing gate, and
the access to rent an extra parking lot with 50 parking spaces located across
from the Center’s parking lot.
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is open to collectors and the public.
