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The best things to do in Miami this week

Get up and out the door with our hand-picked guide to the best events in Miami this week.

Ashley Brozic
Written by Ashley Brozic
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World Cup fever has taken over Miami, and you don't need a ticket to Hard Rock Stadium to feel it. Bayfront Park is ground zero for fandom, as FIFA Fan Festival continues welcoming both international specators and locals to cheer on their teams amidst live entertainment, interactive experiences and more. Out on Miami Beach, REEFLINE has transformed Lummus Park into a beachfront installation where art and marine education collide with soccer culture (on view through June 28), while Rhythm of the Cup brings big screen game viewing to the Miami Beach Bandshell, plus a Thievery Corporation Concert on Friday. Downtown, Lost Boy Dry Goods is opening Lost Boy Clubhouse on Flagler Street, a new fan destination launching June 27 for Portugal vs. Colombia with giant screens, a pickup soccer pitch, and stadium-quality sound. Pivoting away from the fútbol frenzy, Wynwood Pride closes out its final weekend with one last round of parties and programming across the arts district, and if you need a break from crowds and noise, the museums are having a moment of their own: PAMM opens Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols on June 25, the largest presentation of the artist's work ever mounted in Florida, while Gary Nader Art Centre offers a different vantage point, pairing Basquiat with Wifredo Lam and a collection of Songye masks and figures from Central Africa.

Curated below is our guide to all the special events and happenings worth checking out over the next seven days, but should you prefer to plan your weeks in advance, here's our curated guide to everything happening in June in Miami. If you're looking specifically for what to do this weekend, we've got a guide for that, too.

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What to do in Miami this week

1. Rhythm of the Cup at Miami Beach Bandshell

  • Things to do
  • Concerts
  • North Beach
Rhythm of the Cup at Miami Beach Bandshell
Rhythm of the Cup at Miami Beach Bandshell
Photograph: Jason Koerner
Dayglo Presents and GMP Live bring us a World Cup concert and watch party series at Miami Beach Bandshell from June 20 through July 17, timed around match days throughout the tournament. The concert lineup brings Thievery Corporation on June 26, Chromeo on July 17, Poolside on July 10, and Scottish outfit High Fade on June 23 — the night before Scotland faces Brazil. The series opens June 20 with The Rock and Roll Playhouse Presents: The Music of Bad Bunny, a family-friendly show, and also includes four watch parties at the Bandshell, covering both World Cup Semi-Finals. 
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2. FIFA Fan Festival

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  • Sport events
  • Downtown
FIFA Fan Festival
FIFA Fan Festival
Photograph: Courtesy Bayfront Jazz Festival
You don't need a ticket to Hard Rock Stadium to feel like you're at the World Cup this summer. The FIFA Fan Festival takes over Bayfront Park for 23 days, turning 436,000 square feet of downtown waterfront into the city's main public gathering point for the tournament. All seven Miami matches screen live on giant LED displays, with a 10,000-capacity amphitheater hosting concerts and cultural programming in between fixtures. Expect food and drink activations, interactive installations, and a daily attendance of up to 30,000 people from every corner of the world. The festival runs June 13 through July 5 and is free to attend.
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3. 2026 FIFA World Cup

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  • Sport events
  • Miami Gardens
2026 FIFA World Cup
2026 FIFA World Cup
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The FIFA World Cup is coming to Miami this summer, and Hard Rock Stadium will host seven matches between June 15 and July 18, including four group stage games featuring Brazil, Portugal, Colombia, and Uruguay, a Round of 32, a quarterfinal, and the third-place playoff. It is the biggest sporting event the city has ever hosted, and the energy will extend well beyond the stadium. Matches at Hard Rock Stadium:   June 15: Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay, 6pm ET June 21: Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, 6pm ET June 24: Brazil vs. Scotland, 6pm ET June 27: Colombia vs. Portugal, 7:30pm ET July 3: Round of 32 July 11: Quarterfinal July 18: Third-place playoff   Fan events: FIFA Fan Festival at Bayfront Park (June 13–July 5, free): The 436,000-square-foot waterfront takeover is the city's main public gathering point for the tournament, with live match screenings on giant LED screens, a 10,000-capacity amphitheater hosting concerts and cultural programming, interactive installations, food and drink activations, and — only in Miami — water-powered jet pack demonstrations over Biscayne Bay. Free community watch parties across Miami-Dade at Little Haiti Park, Amelia Earhart Park, Tropical Park, North Beach Sand Bowl, and Palmetto Golf Course, with specific matches assigned to each location. Branded fan events will be popping up all around the city, which we'll be including in our guide to the best events in Miami, updated weekly.     

4. TYKU & Toro experience at Pubbelly Sushi

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  • South Beach
TYKU & Toro experience at Pubbelly Sushi
TYKU & Toro experience at Pubbelly Sushi
Photograph: World Red Eye
We can get behind any food holiday that involves unctuous toro and crisp sake, which is why we're marking our calendars for a weeklong celebration at Pubbelly Sushi. The Sunset Harbour restaurant has partnered with TYKU on a limited-time, five-course menu in honor of National Sushi Day (June 18). The Toro & Sake Experience pairs five dishes showcasing prized fatty tuna belly with TYKU's premium sake expressions, from Junmai and Junmai Ginjo to Junmai Daiginjo. Available June 18 through 25, the experience is priced at $150 per person. Reservations can be made online or by calling the restaurant at 786-353-2724.
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5. Pasta Making Class at Pasta

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  • Wynwood
Pasta Making Class at Pasta
Pasta Making Class at Pasta
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Every Wednesday night, Wynwood's PASTA opens its kitchen for a hands-on pasta-making class led by head chef Luis Jose. The restaurant — brought to life by acclaimed Peruvian chefs Juan Manuel Umbert and Janice Buraschi — blends traditional Italian technique with Peruvian influence, and the class reflects exactly that: you'll mix, knead and shape your own pasta before sitting down to eat what you made. A welcome cocktail, appetizer and dessert round out the evening.
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6. Wynwood International Food Festival

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  • Festivals
  • Wynwood
Wynwood International Food Festival
Wynwood International Food Festival
Photograph: Jordan Braun
The World Cup is happening in Miami, and Wynwood is fielding its own culinary teams. The Wynwood International Food Festival runs June and July alongside the tournament, turning the neighborhood into a two-month global food trail with 20-plus restaurants each representing a different nation. The entry point is a physical passport — $25, available online or at partner locations — that gets stamped at each stop, with exclusive tasting items priced at $10 or $15 per restaurant. If you upgrade to a shot glass package, you get a welcome shot everywhere you go. The lineup spans Cuba, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, France, India, Italy, Mexico, and the United States, with familiar Wynwood spots like Cerveceria la Tropical, Ghee, Lira Beirut, and Fra Diavolo among the participants. Collect every stamp and you unlock exclusive prizes, not to mention bragging rights for saying you've basically eaten your way through Wynwood. 
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7. POP AIR – Art is Inflatable

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  • Exhibitions
  • Wynwood
POP AIR – Art is Inflatable
POP AIR – Art is Inflatable
Photograph: Courtesy of Balloon Museum
The Balloon Museum's globe-trotting "Pop Air" exhibition has landed at Mana Wynwood, turning one of the neighborhood's most cavernous spaces into an entire immersive environment dedicated to inflatable art. The show has already toured Rome, Paris, New York, and LA, and the Wynwood footprint gives these installations more room than they've had anywhere. You're meant to wander, touch, and interact—through a geometric inflatable labyrinth, a suspended sphere installation that responds to movement, a room where balloons swirl in controlled tornadoes, and a massive LED-lit butterfly you can power yourself by pedaling. The standout is Hyperstudio's luminous projection-filled ecosystem of swings and shooting stars. Budget more time than you think you'll need; you'll want to stop and appreciate the scale of everything after filling your camera roll with selfies. 
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8. 200 Years of Afro-Cuban Art at the Lowe Art Museum

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  • Exhibitions
  • Coral Gables
200 Years of Afro-Cuban Art at the Lowe Art Museum
200 Years of Afro-Cuban Art at the Lowe Art Museum
Courtesy: Lowe Art Museum, Credit: Melissa Blackall
Two simultaneous exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum on the University of Miami campus make up the most comprehensive presentation of Afro-Cuban art ever mounted. El Pasado Mio/My Own Past, organized by Harvard's Afro-Latin American Research Institute and expanded for its Miami run, brings together more than 81 works by 44 Cuban artists of African descent spanning two centuries, including nine paintings by Wifredo Lam and works by eleven female artists being exhibited together for the first time. The show restores artists who were deliberately erased from the Cuban art historical record, placing obscured figures like Pastor Argudin, Maria Ariza, and Tony Ximenez alongside better-known names like Agustin Cardenas and Maria Magdalena Campos Pons. The companion exhibition, Afrocubanismo: Highlights from the Ramón and Nercys Cernuda Collection, traces the cultural movement that emerged in the 1930s, when a generation of Cuban artists began centering the country's African roots at a moment when most of Cuban society had actively suppressed them. The tension in that moment is part of what makes the show complex: some of these artists are seen as co-opting a history that wasn't theirs; others as genuinely trying to re-imagine Cuba through its African roots and Afro-religious forms. On view through September 12. General admission is free.
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9. Freedom Plane National Tour

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  • Exhibitions
  • Downtown
Freedom Plane National Tour
Freedom Plane National Tour
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Miami is one of eight cities nationwide selected to host the Freedom Plane National Tour, a traveling exhibition of original Founding-era documents from the National Archives, on view at Museum of Miami (formerly Miami History Museum) from June 20 through July 5. The collection includes the William Stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Association, oaths of allegiance signed by George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, the Treaty of Paris, and early draft printings of the Constitution—documents that rarely leave Washington, D.C. The exhibition is part of the national commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, modeled after the Bicentennial-era Freedom Train. Alongside the documents, the museum will feature a digital mural where visitors can share their desires for the future of America both onsite and from home and a public celebration on the plaza July 4th. Access to the exhibit is included with museum admission. 
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10. Wynwood Pride

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  • Festivals
  • Wynwood
Wynwood Pride
Wynwood Pride
Photograph: Gabe Marino
Now in its eighth year, Wynwood Pride takes over the arts district across all four weekends of June — Thursdays through Sundays, with something different each week. The programming runs the full range: the Miss Wynwood Pride pageant hosted by FKA Twink (June 5), the CommuniTEA Dance at the Arsht Center headlined by Alyssa Edwards (June 7), pool parties, drag brunches at Wyn Wyn (June 7 and 28), club nights, and the Big Wig Drag Fest closing out the month on June 26 at Casa Nube with 40-plus performers across three stages. Over 10,000 attendees are expected across the month. Events are spread across Wynwood venues including R House, Las Rosas, MAD Live, Domicile, and The Corner.
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