The Dwell Guide to Events in Your City

Wednesday, April 16

Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey – the seed of Stanley Kubrick’s famed film adaptation – passed away this year. Tonight, Cinema Paradiso celebrates his legacy with an evening of discussion and film. 5:30 p.m.; Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE 6th St, (954) 525-3456; http://fliff.com/film.asp?filmID=1983&catID=9

Thursday, April 17

The Miami Art Museum keeps its doors open late for Jam at MAM, an artful happy hour with gallery tours, live DJs, and a martini lounge, to boot. 5-8:30 p.m.; Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St.; (305) 375-3000; www.miamiartmuseum.org

Friday, April 18

The documentary film In Marjorie’s Wake retraces the seven-day journey described by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings in her novel Cross Creek. 7 p.m.; Wolfsonian - FIU, 1001 Washington Ave.; (305) 531-1001; www.wolfsonian.org

Jesse Millner, Mia Leonin, Campbell McGrath, and other prized local poets celebrate National Poetry Month with this late-night reading at one of the Stiltsville houses, the 1930s homes in the midst of the Biscayne Channel. 7–11 p.m.; Shake-a-Leg Miami, 2620 S Bayshore Dr.; (305) 858-5550; www.dadeheritagetrust.org

Sunday, April 20

Miami is one of eight cities celebrating Earth Day with a Green Apple Festival. But down south, it's Puerto Rican boy band Menudo and hip hop group Arrested Development headlining. 1 p.m.; Bicentennial Park, 1075 Biscayne Blvd.; (305) 358-7550; www.greenapplemusicfestival.com

Though Jake Shimabukuro owes some of his celebrity to YouTube, the rest is well-deserved: This man can really make a ukulele sing. And with Béla Fleck’s percussionist Furureman opening the show, you can’t go wrong. Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Ave.; (954) 462-0222; www.browardcenter.org

Tuesday, April 22

Nicolae Harsanyi, a rare books specialist, discusses Viennese modernism at the 20th century’s turn. 7 p.m.; Shake-a-Leg Miami (2620 S Bayshore Dr, 305.858.5550; www.dadeheritagetrust.org

The traveling Piag Museum wheels into town with the exhibition Earth & Water, Our Planet, Our Life in tow. 4 p.m.; Miami Dade Cultural Center Plaza Cascade, 101 West Flagler St.; (305) 443-0770; www.piagmuseum.org

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